Organising scenarios using collections

Collections group your scenarios so learners can find them, work through them in a set order, and see them presented as a course rather than a list.


Creating a collection


  1. Go to Scenarios → Collections in the sidebar
  2. Select Create collection
  3. Add a title and description
  4. Save your collection


The title and description are visible to learners. The description is a good place for instructions, for example "Please work through these 5 history taking stations in order".


Creating a new collection


Choosing who can see a collection


Every collection has its own access setting, under Who can access this collection:


  • Everyone in the organisation - all learners can see the collection
  • Specific cohorts - only learners in the selected cohorts can see it, along with learners in any sub-cohorts beneath them


This controls who sees the collection itself. It does not change who can open the scenarios inside it - that is set on each scenario. See Previewing, publishing and managing scenarios.


You can change the setting when creating or editing a collection, or from the collections list using Manage access.


If a collection's audience doesn't match the scenarios inside it - for example a collection open to everyone that contains cohort-restricted scenarios - SimChat flags the mismatch on the collection page so you can fix it. Learners also don't see collections that contain nothing they can run.


If your organisation has Only show assigned content turned on, collections do more than organise. An assigned collection becomes the only way organisation-wide content reaches learners. See How staff access to content works.


Adding scenarios to a collection


  1. Go to Scenarios
  2. Open the scenario you want to add
  3. Select Add to collection and choose the collection


A scenario can belong to more than one collection. You can also set a scenario's collections in the Settings step of the scenario editor.


Add a scenario to a collection


Ordering scenarios


Open the collection and reorder the scenarios so learners work through them in the sequence you want.


Making learners work through a collection in order


When editing a collection you can tick Require users to work through the scenarios in this collection in order. Learners then have to complete each scenario before the next one unlocks, which is useful for a structured course or a progressive case series.


With that on, a second option appears: Allow students to restart the collection from the beginning once completed. Turn it on if learners should be able to run through the whole sequence again.


Removing scenarios from a collection


  1. Open the collection
  2. Find the scenario in the list
  3. Select Remove


This doesn't delete the scenario - it stays in your scenario list and in any other collections it belongs to.


Remove a scenario from a collection


Sharing a collection


Each collection has its own unique URL. Share this link with learners so they can go straight to the collection page without searching for it.


Learners can only open the collection if your access settings allow it.


Who can create collections


Owners, administrators, assistant administrators and cohort leads can always create collections. Authors can too, unless an administrator has turned off Authors can create collections under Organisation settings → Policies. See How staff access to content works.

Updated on: 07/09/2026

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