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title: "Adding and editing learning objectives"
slug: "adding-and-editing-learning-objectives"
tags: ["admin"]
updated: 2026-05-28T11:15:09Z
published: 2026-05-28T11:15:09Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cirrusassessment.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Adding and editing Learning Objectives

### **Importing Learning Objectives in Cirrus using an Excel source file**

Please note that when manually adding Learning Objectives to a repository you will need to provide a required / mandatory ID for each Learning Objective. This is OK if you are adding the odd individual Learning Objective, if you need to add more we recommend using the [import of Learning Objectives](/v1/docs/importing-learning-objectives).

### **Manually creating or editing Learning Objectives**

- Go to Admin > Learning Objectives
- Here you will see an overview of repositories with Learning Objectives for your environment:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/cdfc20c8-6721-4154-b0a1-9f49f139d107/Images/Documentation/LO-Overview(1).png)

### **Learning Objective management on the Learning Objective repository overview**

1. Click 'Add repository' if you want to create a new one
2. Learning Objective repositories are listed by
  - **Title** - click this to open an existing learning objective repository
  - **Description** - a short description stating what is inside
  - **Hierarchy** - By connecting the learning objective repositories to certain hierarchies you can control who has access to these repositories.
  - **Published** - determines if the repository is visible to the people in the hierarchy. Once the status has been set to Unpublished, the repository will not be visible for the authors.

**Tip**: you can [read more about the working with Learning Objectives](/v1/docs/working-with-learning-objectives) in Cirrus and the way Learning Objectives are structured.

**Working on a learning objective repository / manually adding Learning Objectives**

- Click on the title to select the repository you want to manually add Learning Objectives
- A screen with two columns opens:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/cdfc20c8-6721-4154-b0a1-9f49f139d107/Images/Documentation/LO-detailed.png)

**The learning objective repository detailed overview**:

1. In the left column you can see an overview of folders (optional), subjects and learning objectives. Also see our article on the [structure for Learning Objectives in Cirrus](/v1/docs/working-with-learning-objectives). Use the tree / click on the +-signs to browse.
2. In the right column you can click '**Add learning objective**' to manually create a new learning objective.
3. Select a for example a subject in the left column and click the [...]-button > 'Edit' to edit the Title, ID and description of your repository
4. Hover over an item in the list and click on the pencil-icon that appears on the right hand side to edit the Title, ID and description of the item listed.
5. **To publish/ unpublish a learning objective repository** go to the root level ('Learning Objectives for training' in the left column in the example above and click on 'unpublish' in the right column.

**Please note:**

- Once a Learning Objective has been used in an assessment, you can no longer delete it.
- Learning Objectives are connected to Collections at the repository level. This means authors working on a collection will only see this repository by default if it is published and the author is connected to that repository.
- Subjects and Learning Objectives are listed alphabetically. Tip: you can use prefixes to manipulate the order. For example: 010 ... comes before 020 ...