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Non-CE Courses ​

Onboarding series, compliance training, staff education, a paid course that carries no accreditation — LecturePanda runs all of it. The setup is the same as an accredited course with one field left blank, plus one step people reasonably assume they can skip.

Credits aren't only for CE ​

The word credit is misleading here. A credit is the unit a learner claims on completion — it's what triggers the certificate, records the completion, and satisfies a prerequisite. Reporting to an accreditor is an optional extra bolted on top.

So a non-CE course still needs a credit. Leave Accreditation & Reporting blank on it and nothing gets reported anywhere; everything else works exactly as it does on an accredited course.

A course with no credit never completes

This is the one that catches people. Skip the Credits tab entirely and learners can watch every video and still never reach a completed state — so no certificate is issued, and any course that lists this one as a prerequisite keeps rejecting them with an unmet-prerequisite error.

If you've set up a home-study module as a prerequisite for a live session and learners can't register for the second course, this is almost certainly why. Add a credit to the first course and it resolves.

Building a completion-only course ​

  1. Add the registration types you need. Under Organization Settings → Course Configuration, create types that match your audience — Nurse, APP, Student, Staff, whatever fits. They work exactly like the pharmacist and technician types.
  2. Design a certificate of completion. Under Certificate Templates, build a plain completion certificate rather than a statement of credit. Designing a Certificate Template covers the editor.
  3. Create the credit and leave the accreditation blank. On the course's Credits tab, add a credit and skip Accreditation & Reporting. Without an accreditation attached, the course asks for no NABP e-Profile ID, no date of birth, and no UAN.
  4. Attach the certificate and the audience. Set Certificate Template to your completion certificate, and use This Credit is Offered To to pick which registration types can claim it.

Learners complete the course, claim the credit, and download your certificate. Nothing leaves LecturePanda.

Mixed audiences on one course ​

You don't need a separate course to serve accredited and non-accredited learners side by side. Put two credits on the same course:

Accredited creditCompletion credit
Accreditation & ReportingACPE (or CE Broker, PARS…)Blank
Certificate TemplateStatement of creditCertificate of completion
Offered ToPharmacist, TechnicianNurse, APP, Student

Everyone watches the same material. At the Credits step each learner sees only the credit their registration type is offered, claims it, and gets the matching certificate. Only the accredited side reports outward.

Nurses can claim ACPE credit

If you'd rather a non-pharmacist claim the accredited credit itself, that's allowed — RNs can generally apply ACPE-accredited hours to their own requirements. Add their registration type to the course's Details tab and to the credit's This Credit is Offered To list, and have the learner set that type on their profile. They'll skip NABP validation, and nothing reports to CPE Monitor; the certificate is their proof.

If they've already registered under the wrong type, add the new type to the credits they already selected rather than moving them, so their existing progress still counts.

What learners see either way ​

The course flow is fixed at four steps — Materials, Credits, Evaluations, Complete — regardless of what the course contains.

That means the Evaluations step appears even with no quizzes attached, and learners click straight past an empty step. There's no setting to hide it today. If you'd rather they saw something there, a short ungraded survey in survey mode turns the empty step into useful feedback.