Adding and Using Tags in Courses and Course Items

Learn how to add, manage, and use tags in your course items so learners can easily filter content based on topics, difficulty, or custom labels.

Tags help instructors categorize and organize both their courses and course items more effectively. By assigning tags such as “Web Development”, “DSA”, or “Design” to an entire course, you can group related content and make it easier for learners to browse by category when visiting your school website.

Similarly, tags can be applied to individual course items like videos, quizzes, or assignments to help students filter and find the most relevant materials. For example, you can label lessons by difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard, or by topic: Frontend, Backend, Databases, allowing learners to quickly navigate through large course syllabi.

In the following sections, you will learn how we can apply tags to courses and individual course items.

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Applying tags to a course

Tags help categorize your courses so visitors can quickly find content by category when they browse your school website. You can apply tags to each course to improve discoverability and make it easier for new users to filter courses by topic or interest.

1. Go to Courses

   Head over to the Courses page in your dashboard.

2. Add a tag

   Click the Add Tag button next to the respective course.

3. Add tag name

   Add a suitable value for the tag name. Make sure to add the same tag name as other courses of same category so that all the items are grouped together.

4. Make the tag public

   Open the tag Settings by clicking on the tag label Click Make tag public. This ensures the tag is displayed on your school website. You can also remove the tag from the course here.

5. Attach the tag

   Save your changes. The tag will now be attached to the course.

Once attached, visitors can search and filter courses by this tag on your school site, making it easier to find courses by category.

Applying tags to course items

Follow these steps to add or edit tags for any item in your course syllabus.

1. Open the course builder

   Head over to the Courses section and open the Product Builder for the course you want to manage.

2. Access the syllabus section

   Navigate to the Syllabus section of the course.

3. Manage tags for a course item

   Click the ⋮ (three vertical dots) next to any course item and select Manage Tags.

4. Use the manage tags panel

   You’ll now see the Manage Tags panel, which lets you:

   • Add, or remove tags for this specific course item.
   • Create new tags and choose a color for each tag using the color picker or enter a custom hex code.
   • View a preview of how your tag will appear in the learner’s view.
   • You can also select from existing tags you have created before in that particular course. Just click on the previously created tag and it will be attached to your course item.

   

5. Save your changes

   Once you’ve added or updated the tags, click Save Changes.
   The new tags will now be associated with that specific course item and visible to learners.

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How learners can use tags for course items

From a learner’s perspective, tags make course navigation simpler and more intuitive by allowing students to easily filter by clicking on the tag and discover content based on their learning preferences or current progress. For example, if lessons are categorized by difficulty, learners can start with Easy lessons to build a strong foundation and then gradually move on to Medium or Hard tagged lessons as they advance through the course. Similarly, topic-based tags like JavaScript, React, or Backend let learners focus on areas that interest them the most.

By effectively using tags, instructors create a more personalized and accessible learning experience for everyone.