This procedure is available only to Site Admins and Content Curators.

1. From the Admin menu, select CONTENT > Custom Channels. The Custom Channels page displays.
2. Click Add Custom Channel. The Create Channel page displays.
3. Enter a Title and Description for the channel, and select a background image.
4. Select your area and subject (for library placement) from the Subject drop-down list.
5. Click Save and add content.
6. Add content to the channel. For details about this step, see Add content to the channel.
7. At the bottom of the Create Channel page, in the Audience section, click Select audiences. The Select Audiences page displays.
8. Use the search to locate the audiences you want to associate to the custom channel and click  next to all audiences you wish to include.
Note: If you do not select an audience, the custom channel displays to all learners via the All users audience. If a learner is not entitled to content in the custom channel, an error message displays to him instead of the asset. To avoid this, select one or more audiences associated to the license pool in which the channel's content is included.
9. Click Done. The Create Channel page displays again.
10. Click Publish.

Your channel publishes to Percipio and is available to the learners in your selected audiences.

This procedure is available only to Site Admins and Content Curators. See the Important information about associating custom channels and audiences section above to view potential learner impacts.

1. From the Admin menu, select CONTENT > Custom Channels. The Custom Channels page displays.
2. Locate the channel you wish to associate to an audience.
3. Click  >  Edit. The Edit Custom Channel page displays.
4. In the Audience section, click Select audiences. The Select Audiences page displays.
Note: If you do not select an audience, the custom channel displays to all learners via the All users audience. If a learner is not entitled to content in the custom channel, an error message displays to him instead of the asset. To avoid this, select one or more audiences associated to the license pool in which the channel's content is included.
5. Use the search to locate the audiences you want to associate to the custom channel and click  next to all audiences you wish to include.
6. Click Done. The Create Channel page displays again.
7. Click Publish.

Your channel publishes to Percipio and is available to the learners in your selected audiences.

This procedure is available only to Site Admins.

1. From the Admin menu, click USERS > Audience Management.
2. Click Create Audience. The Create Audience page displays.
3.  Enter the audience details.
4. Define your audience by specifying user attributes, adding individual users, or both.
5. In the Content association section, click Associate custom channels.
6. Either browse the list or enter a search term to locate the custom channel you want to associate to your audience.
7. Click  for each custom channel you wish to associate to your audience.
8. Click Associate to audience. The Create Audience page displays again.
9. Click Create Audience.The audience displays in the audience list and is associated to the custom channel(s).

This procedure is available only to Site Admins.

1. From the Admin menu, click USERS > Audience Management.
2. Locate the audience you wish to associate with the custom channel.
3. Click  >  Edit. The Edit Audience page displays.
4. In the Content association section, click Associate custom channels.
5. Either browse the list or enter a search term to locate the custom channel.
6. Click  for each custom channel you wish to associate to your audience.
7. Click Associate to audience.
Note about Assignments: If a learner is removed from an associated audience and content within the custom channel is included in one or more of their assignments, the assignment remains on the Assignments page only if it is in an In Progress or Completed status, or if it contains content entitled to them via another audience association. Any content within the assignment that they are no longer entitled to displays as unavailable, and the assignment cannot be completed.

8. Click Update Audience.
9. Repeat steps 2 - 7 for additional audiences you want to associate to the custom channel