The lesson library

Your organization's Lessons tab is the single list of lessons you can put into a course. It answers one question — what do we have? — and the course builder's "Add a lesson" picker reads the very same list, so the two can never disagree.

One lesson, one owner

A lesson belongs to exactly one organization. That ownership is the whole permission model:

• Every instructor or admin of the owning org can open, edit, delete and use it. There is no separate "shared with me" list to reconcile, and no per-person ownership — a colleague's lesson is as much your org's as your own.
• Whoever authored it is recorded for attribution only. It grants no extra rights, and it takes none away when they leave.
• Saving a lesson in an organization is publishing it to that organization. There is no second "add to library" step, and no private-draft state to forget about.

Putting a lesson in front of students

That happens in the course, not the library — open the course, go to its Build tab, and use Add a lesson. The picker lists your organization's own lessons and the Theta lesson bank, so everything you could reach from the library is reachable from there.

It works this way on purpose. Adding a lesson to a course is never just "add" — the same lesson can be a relaxed practice item in one course and a timed exam in another, and mode, attempt limit, availability window, time limit, prerequisite gating, technique flags and position in the curriculum all live on the course. A button in the library could only ever do half of that, and would publish a half-configured item to enrolled learners in the meantime. So the library has no such button.

Lock results on a course item is enforced by Theta, not just hidden on the learner's screens: a learner can't fetch the breakdown, the full PDF or the answer key of a locked attempt, or reopen it in the simulator. Staff always see everything.

You can add the same lesson to as many courses as you like. Removing it from a course removes that one placement; the lesson itself stays in your library.

The Theta lesson bank

Theta publishes a bank of ready-made lessons that every organization can draw on. These are the only lessons that reach you from outside your org — there is no organization-to-organization sharing.

There are two ways to teach one, and the difference matters:

Adding it to a course is the right choice most of the time: your learners get Theta's maintained version, and improvements arrive without you doing anything. You never need to copy a lesson just to teach it.

Copy puts the lesson into your organization. From that moment it's an ordinary lesson of yours — edit any element, rename it, change its clinical settings — but it has left Theta's maintenance stream. Copies are labelled with the lesson they came from, so you can always tell where one started.

When you copy, you choose what settings the copy carries:

• Keep the authored settings — the copy plays exactly as Theta designed it.
• Use my organization's preset — the copy is re-skinned to your org's default element preset once, at copy time: audiogram symbols, interaural attenuation and masking rules, tympanometric normal ranges, and the speech protocol. The designed thresholds, tympanogram and scores are kept; whatever those settings imply (masking levels, the expected tympanogram type, presentation levels) is recomputed to match. From then on the copy is an ordinary lesson of yours — later edits to the preset don't reach it, the same as any lesson you author. The option is off until your org has chosen a default preset.

Lessons that belong to a paid Theta course can't be copied; their rows say so, and they stay addable to a course by reference.

Copying doesn't use the lesson up. The original stays in the bank, marked Copied so you know you've been here, and stays addable to a course by reference. You can copy the same lesson twice — to compare two variants, or to start over — and the second copy is named "… (copy)" so the two are easy to tell apart in your Lessons list.

Finding a lesson

The library is a table, because a real one gets long. Above it you can:

• Search — matches the lesson name and the author.
• Contains — narrow to lessons that include a particular test (audiometry, tympanometry, otoscopy…). Usually the fastest way to find the one you mean.
• Course — show only the lessons in a particular course. It also offers Not in a course, which is how you spot work that never got assigned.
• Columns — hide any column you don't use.

Every column header sorts, so "what did I touch last?" is one click on Updated. Filters and search apply to the whole library, not just the page you're looking at.

What a row tells you

• The lesson name, and the Edit button, open it in the Designer.
• Published — this lesson of yours is in the Theta lesson bank, so other organizations can teach or copy it. Only Theta's own staff can publish.
• Copied from "…" — this lesson began as a copy of another.
• Contains — one icon per kind of element in the lesson, then how many elements it holds in total.
• In courses — the course it's in, or a count when it's in several. Hover the count to see the names; click to jump to any of those courses' Build tabs.
• The ⋯ menu holds the rest — publish, delete, and View submissions, which opens your organization's Submissions tab narrowed to that lesson: the attempts made in your own courses.

To clear out several lessons at once, tick them and press Delete in the bar that appears. The box in the header ticks every lesson matching your search and filters, not just the page you're on — so the Course filter's Not in a course, then that box, then Delete, removes a whole set of leftovers (say, the lessons left behind after you delete a course you copied). The confirmation says how many are in courses or published before anything goes. A lesson an exam still holds — a Skill Assessment's earlier exam cases, which read "Not in a course" — is never deleted: it's kept, and named in a note afterwards, because past exam attempts depend on it.

On a lesson-bank row there is one action, Copy to my lessons, because copying is the only thing a library can do with a lesson it doesn't own. Copy from Theta at the top of the tab is the fuller door: it lists both the published lesson bank and the lessons inside Intro to Theta and the topics published in the Theta Library, with the settings choice up front. Expand a course to copy one lesson out of it without taking the course. Theta's other courses aren't offered — not its sold courses (the masking course, Comprehensive Hearing Testing), and not its Skill Assessment, neither its Monthly Ranking nor its Certified Exam, as a course or lesson by lesson: their cases are the exams their takers meet.

At a glance

• A lesson belongs to one organization; all of that org's staff manage it.
• Saving a lesson in an org puts it in that org's library — there's no publish step.
• Curriculum is built in the course's Build tab, never from the library.
• The same lesson can be in many courses, with different settings in each.
• A lesson from the Theta bank is either added to a course (by reference, stays current) or copied (your editable version, no longer updated).
• To change how a referenced lesson behaves, apply a standard to the course.