A Built-In Partner LMS: Create Training Courses Inside Your Partner Portal

PartnerPortal — a partner relationship management (PRM) platform — now includes a built-in partner LMS. You can create training courses directly in your portal, organize them into ordered lessons, control who sees what with partner groups, and track each partner’s progress and completion — without bolting on a separate learning platform or stitching one together with webhooks.

Why partner training belongs in your PRM

Enabling partners is one of the most important jobs of any partner program, and training is where most programs quietly fall down. The content ends up scattered across shared drives, recorded calls, and one-off PDFs, and there’s no way to tell who has actually been trained.

Most PRMs don’t solve this — they leave you to run a standalone LMS on the side, then reconcile “who’s certified” by hand. Putting courses inside the same portal your partners already log into means training lives next to the leads, resources, and deals partners are working — and completion data lives in the same place as the rest of your partner program. For the full picture on this, see our guide to partner training software — what it is, what to train partners on, and when a dedicated LMS is actually worth it.

What the partner LMS does

Courses are built on the same content and access system as our Resource Center, so if you already publish resources, this will feel familiar. The additions are lesson ordering, a dedicated course player, and completion tracking.

Here’s what you get:

• Courses and lessons. A course is an ordered set of lessons. Each lesson is a rich post — text, embedded images and video, in-app links, and downloadable attachments like PDFs and slide decks. A single piece of content can be a lesson in a course, a resource in a category, both, or neither.

• Access by partner group. Assign one or more partner groups to a course, and every partner in those groups gets access to the course and all of its lessons. To train different partners on different material, split it into separate courses with different group assignments.

• A dedicated course player. When a partner opens a course, they get a progress bar, a numbered lesson sidebar with checkmarks for completed lessons, the lesson content in the main area, and Previous / Next navigation. They can even share a link to a specific lesson.

• Progress and completion tracking. Partners mark each lesson complete as they work through it. Every course shows a progress bar (“3 of 5 lessons complete”), and when a partner finishes every lesson, the course is recorded as completed for them.

• Engagement history. Each lesson records which partner organizations and users have viewed and completed it, so you can see how partners are progressing across your program.

Setting up a course

Setting up training takes three steps:

1. Go to Courses → Manage and create a course — give it a name and an optional description.
2. Add lessons to the course and put them in the order you want partners to work through them.
3. Assign the partner groups that should have access.

That’s it. Partners in those groups will see the course the next time they log in, and can start working through it in the course player.

For the full walkthrough — lesson content, ordering, display settings, and engagement history — see the Courses documentation.

Where this is headed

This is the first release of the partner LMS, and it’s deliberately focused: courses, lessons, access, and completion tracking. We’re building on it from here — certifications and quizzes are next, so completion can drive things like partner tiers and certification badges. If there’s a specific training workflow you need, we want to hear about it.

Getting started

If you’re already a customer, open Courses → Manage in your portal to build your first course. If you’re evaluating PartnerPortal as the PRM for your partner program, you can launch a free portal at partnerportal.io and explore Courses alongside everything else — every feature is included on every plan.