# Open Course Catalog

By default, learners are only shown courses which have been assigned to them in their learner dashboard and experiences. However, you can enable optional access to the course catalog to allow learners to browse any course which your organization has access. This allows learners to browse subject matters they are interested in, even outside of the mandatory trainings.

<figure><img src="/files/YJFT7WpPrqoinWY7uN0f" alt=""><figcaption><p>Learners will see "Other Available Courses" when enabled.</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/dw3EZqjNswceA9uMDVz2" alt=""><figcaption><p>And they will have a link to the preview version.</p></figcaption></figure>

#### Enabling the Course Catalog

<figure><img src="/files/mDPQ8GkUhjGTkVjwioNn" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

As an admin navigate to your admin dashboard and then the Settings page. Then click on the Training Settings tab. You will find your organizations training settings, which includes the checkbox for enabling or disabling the course catalog view.

#### Combined with Assigned Courses

If a learner is assigned a course which is not yet complete, that course will not show up in the additional courses section available for them to preview. Instead, they will only have the link to take the assigned course from their dashboard or training list view.

#### Tracking Consideration

Courses which are browsed by learners from the course catalog are not tracked for progress and completion. Only courses which have been assigned by organization admins come with tracking and completion monitoring.

Learners taking these other courses on their own are just for self-study purposes.


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