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Building Course Content

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Watch it icon Customizing Modules on Course Home page
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Add modules
    • Arrange modules
    • Remove modules

 

Watch it icon Editing the Course Homepage
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Add a module
    • Remove a Module
    • Rename the Homepage

 

Watch it icon Adding Content Areas
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create a content area
    • Create an item
    • Select options

 

Watch it icon Creating a Course Link
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 1 min. 56 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create a course link
    • Set course link options
Watch it icon Adding Multimedia in a Content Item
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Time: 3 min. 05 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Add multimedia file in Text Editor
    • Add link to external multimedia
Watch it icon Adding a Glossary Term
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Add a new term to a glossary
    • Enter the definition

 

Watch it icon Adding a URL
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create a URL
    • Enter the web address for the link

 

Watch it icon Using the Text Editor
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Insert an image
    • Format text
    • Insert a link
Watch it icon Building a Learning Module
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 3 min. 00 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Open learning module
    • Add a file
    • Set options
    • Organize table of contents

 

Watch it icon Creating a Lesson Plan
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • View a completed Lesson Plan
    • Create a Lesson Plan
    • Add a new section
    • Add curriculum resources
    • Share the Lesson Plan with students

 

Watch it icon Creating a Blank Page
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create a blank page
    • Set blank page options

 

Watch it icon Creating a Tool Link
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 3 min. 09 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create a tool link on the course menu
    • Create a tool link on the content area

 

Watch it icon Creating a Mashup
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Add a mashup to an existing content area
    • Search for outside content
    • Add outside content to a content area

 

Watch it icon Creating Multiple Rules to Release a Content Item
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Create multiple rules
    • Set criteria

 

Watch it icon Making Your Course Available
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 1 min. 35 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • Access Customization settings
    • Make the course available

 

Watch it icon Tour the Course File Feature
  • Level: Basic
  • Time: 7 min. 10 sec.
  • Learning goals:
    • How course files work
    • Organize course files
    • Upload files
    • Link content