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Getting Started with Kenii Catalog

Applies to 2.7.0 and later

Create a Catalog Editor account and build your first program, credential, and course from scratch

Getting Started with Kenii Catalog

Kenii Catalog is where your college’s programs, credentials, and courses live. In this tutorial you’ll set up a staff account, then build one small piece of the catalog from scratch: a program area, a program, a credential, and a course. By the end, all four will be live on your website.

What you’ll achieve

  • A Catalog Editor account for catalog staff, separate from a full WordPress administrator account.
  • One program area (a group like “Public Safety” or “Healthcare”).
  • One program inside that area, with one credential attached to it.
  • One course.
  • All four visible on your live site.

Prerequisites

  • Someone with WordPress Administrator access to your Kenii site (this is usually done once, by whoever set up the site).
  • Your website already has pages for the Programs directory and for single program, credential, and course pages, built with the Kenii shortcodes. A developer sets this up once when Kenii Catalog is installed. See the shortcode reference.

Step 1: Create a Catalog Editor account

Catalog staff manage the catalog through a Catalog Editor account, not a full WordPress administrator account. A Catalog Editor can create and edit everything in the catalog, but can’t touch the rest of WordPress.

  1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Users → Add New.
  2. Fill in the username and email for the staff member who’ll manage the catalog.
  3. Set Role to Catalog Editor.
  4. Click Add New User.

When that person logs in, they land straight on the Kenii dashboard. They won’t see the regular WordPress menu or admin toolbar, just the catalog tools they need.

Step 2: Log in and look around

Log in as the Catalog Editor you just created (or stay logged in as an administrator: administrators can do everything a Catalog Editor can).

You’ll land on the Overview page. Notice the stat cards across the top: Programs, Credentials, Courses, Policies, and a Catalog Completeness bar underneath. Right now most of these are at zero. You’re about to change that.

Step 3: Create a program area

Program areas group related programs together, like “Public Safety” or “Healthcare.”

  1. In the sidebar, open Catalog → Programs.
  2. Click Manage Areas.
  3. Under Add Program Area, type a name, for example Public Safety.
  4. Click Add Area.

Your new area appears in the table below, with a Programs count of 0.

Step 4: Create a program in that area

  1. Click Back to Programs.
  2. Click Add Program.
  3. Under Program Name, type a name, for example Criminal Justice Technology.
  4. Under Program Type, use the + Add Type dropdown and choose Curriculum.
  5. Under Program Areas, use the + Add Area dropdown and choose the area you created in Step 3.
  6. Click Save.

A toast confirms Program created, and a View ↗ link appears at the top of the page. That link opens your new program’s live page.

Step 5: Add a credential to the program

A program needs at least one credential: the certificate, diploma, or degree a student actually earns.

  1. Still in your program, click the Credentials tab.
  2. Click + Add Credential.
  3. Choose a credential type, for example Certificate.
  4. Enter a number of Credits, for example 12.
  5. Click Create.

Your credential appears as a card under the Credentials tab, with fields for State Code and Credits.

Step 6: Create a course

  1. In the sidebar, open Catalog → Courses.
  2. Click Add Course.
  3. Under Course Code, type a code, for example CJC-111.
  4. Under Course Title, type a title, for example Introduction to Criminal Justice.
  5. Leave Course Type set to Curriculum.
  6. Under Credits, type a number, for example 3.
  7. Click Save.

A toast confirms the course was saved, and a View ↗ link appears.

Step 7: View your work on the live site

Open the View ↗ link from your program (Step 4) and from your course (Step 6). Each opens in a new tab, showing the published page a student would see.

You’ve now created a program area, a program, a credential, and a course, and confirmed all of it is live. From here: