{"id":3443,"date":"2025-08-05T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=knowledge_base&#038;p=3443"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:26:57","slug":"authoring-basics-publishing-paths-to-author-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/authoring-basics-publishing-paths-to-author-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoring Basics: Publishing Paths to Author Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you have completed authoring a StepStone Path in the Path Builder, the Path can be &#8220;published&#8221; to the account&#8217;s <b>Author Pool<\/b>. Once published, a Path can be added to any Courses in that Author Pool. All accounts in the Author Pool have access to all of the published Paths within the shared Pool, as well as any Courses assembled within that Pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <b>Path Builder<\/b>, navigate to the <b>Manage<\/b> tab and select a Path.  The Path does NOT need to be loaded into <i>Edit<\/i> mode in order to be published. Click the <b>Publish<\/b> button on the selected Path, which will reveal the confirmation dialog for publishing the Path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub01-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub01-1.png 780w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub01-1-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub01-1-768x657.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub01-1-710x607.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter a unique Path ID for the published Path, as instructed in the dialog.  This published Path ID is NOT learner-facing (Paths added to a Course display their respective titles as provided in the Path&#8217;s Parameters set in the Path Builder &#8212; Path IDs are only seen at the authoring level), and can be identical to the Path&#8217;s current ID within the Path Builder. After supplying a unique published Path ID, click the <b>Publish<\/b> button in the dialog. If successful, the dialog will close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub02-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub02-1.png 780w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub02-1-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub02-1-768x657.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub02-1-710x607.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a Path with the entered ID value has already been published to the account&#8217;s parent Author Pool, the dialog will flash a warning, indicating that this Path ID either already exists in the Pool, or is otherwise invalid. Change the Path ID (for example, if publishing subsequent &#8220;versions&#8221; of a Path, you may add an incrementing number to the end, etc.) and click <b>Publish<\/b> again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pathPub03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3455\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After successful publishing, use the Course Packager to add the published Paths to new or existing Courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/publishing-a-course-in-stepstone-using-the-course-packager\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2597\">View a tutorial video for more information on these topics.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have completed authoring a StepStone Path in the Path Builder, the Path can be &#8220;published&#8221; to the account&#8217;s Author Pool. Once published, a Path can be added to any Courses in that Author Pool. All accounts in the Author Pool have access to all of the published Paths within the shared Pool, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}