Careers and Promotions

Chamilo includes a career management system that lets you define training paths and track learner progression through structured programs.

Careers

The careers list showing defined career paths with name and description

A career represents a structured training path — a sequence of training steps that a learner follows to achieve a professional goal.

Creating a Career

1. From the administration panel, navigate to Careers

2. Click Create a career

3. Enter a name and description

4. Save

Promotions

A promotion represents a cohort or batch of learners progressing through a career. Think of it as a group of people going through the same career path at the same time.

Linking to Sessions

After creating a promotion, you link sessions to it. This defines the sequence of training a learner must complete.

You can later replicate promotions to help creating the next promotion with copies of the same sessions, so your next promotion can be built in an instant.

Creating a Promotion

1. Navigate to Promotions

2. Click Create a promotion

3. Enter a name and description

4. Link it to a career

5. Assign sessions to the promotion

6. Save

How It Fits Together

• A career defines the path (e.g., "Junior Developer Certification")

• A promotion represents a cohort (e.g., "Class of March 2026")

• Sessions within the promotion deliver the actual training content

Tips

• Use for structured programs — Careers and promotions are most useful for multi-stage training programs where learners progress through a defined sequence

• Track completion — Use the reporting tools to monitor how promotions are progressing through their career paths