Find out how to set up your Academy domain, and the options available to you.
As an admin, you have two options available for setting up your Academy domain. You can either use an easy-lms.com path, or you can set up your own subdomain. Go to Academy > Settings, and you'll see the radio button options in the Academy domain section. Let's take a look at each in turn.
An easy-lms.com path
This is the default setting when your Academy is set up. Your desired path can simply be entered in the URL name field, before hitting Save.
This is the admin view in the dashboard:
Which will appear to your participants like this:
Your own domain
In order to provide your participants with a known and trusted environment, it is also possible to link your Academy to your own subdomain. To make this work, three steps need be taken.
1. Choose the subdomain to use
You can point your Academy to any subdomain, but that does not mean that any link can be made to work with our system. It means you can choose anything before the .com, .net, .co.uk etc. There cannot be anything after that.
Possible examples:
https://learning.my-own-brand-name.com/
https://www.my-own-brand-name.com/
https://alternative-brand-name.net/
Impossible examples:
https://www.my-own-brand-name.com/anything-after-the-slash
https://alternative-brand-name.net/anything-after-the-slash
In this article, we will set up staging-academy.easy-lms.com as our custom subdomain.
2. Point your subdomain to Easy LMS
So that when users navigate to that website, we receive the browser requests.
For this step, you need to configure the DNS for your subdomain. If you don’t know how to do this, you might want to ask your system administrator for help.
The pointing from your subdomain to our domain is done by adding a CNAME record, and the entry needs to be as follows:
In our example, this would be:
3. Configure Easy LMS for use with your subdomain
Tell our system that your chosen domain belongs to your Academy, so that when we receive a request from your subdomain, we know what to do with it.
Go to Academy > Settings > My own domain and enter your subdomain name in the field provided. This should be without the 'https://' and the final ‘/’. Don't forget to hit Save!
This is the admin view in the dashboard:
Which will appear to your participants like this:
It is not possible to use a top level domain (TLD) with CNAME. Only subdomains can be used.
www. is also a subdomain.
As an admin, you have two options available for setting up your Academy domain. You can either use an easy-lms.com path, or you can set up your own subdomain. Go to Academy > Settings, and you'll see the radio button options in the Academy domain section. Let's take a look at each in turn.
An easy-lms.com path
This is the default setting when your Academy is set up. Your desired path can simply be entered in the URL name field, before hitting Save.
This is the admin view in the dashboard:
Which will appear to your participants like this:
Your own domain
In order to provide your participants with a known and trusted environment, it is also possible to link your Academy to your own subdomain. To make this work, three steps need be taken.
1. Choose the subdomain to use
You can point your Academy to any subdomain, but that does not mean that any link can be made to work with our system. It means you can choose anything before the .com, .net, .co.uk etc. There cannot be anything after that.
Possible examples:
https://learning.my-own-brand-name.com/
https://www.my-own-brand-name.com/
https://alternative-brand-name.net/
Impossible examples:
https://www.my-own-brand-name.com/anything-after-the-slash
https://alternative-brand-name.net/anything-after-the-slash
In this article, we will set up staging-academy.easy-lms.com as our custom subdomain.
2. Point your subdomain to Easy LMS
So that when users navigate to that website, we receive the browser requests.
For this step, you need to configure the DNS for your subdomain. If you don’t know how to do this, you might want to ask your system administrator for help.
The pointing from your subdomain to our domain is done by adding a CNAME record, and the entry needs to be as follows:
In our example, this would be:
3. Configure Easy LMS for use with your subdomain
Tell our system that your chosen domain belongs to your Academy, so that when we receive a request from your subdomain, we know what to do with it.
Go to Academy > Settings > My own domain and enter your subdomain name in the field provided. This should be without the 'https://' and the final ‘/’. Don't forget to hit Save!
This is the admin view in the dashboard:
Which will appear to your participants like this:
It is not possible to use a top level domain (TLD) with CNAME. Only subdomains can be used.
www. is also a subdomain.