You can add course content exactly where you want it in a Learn Ultra course shell.
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Add Course Content
You can create content items to combine a variety of materials, including text, media, links, and tools. You can even drag and drop files and folders to begin developing your course content.
Drag and drop or click the + plus sign wherever you want to add course content.
Click the ā¦ellipsis for more options, here you can import, copy, and batch edit content.
Create learning modules, documents, links, folders, assignments, tests, discussions, and journals.
Copy Content from any of the courses you teach.
Upload files from your computer.
Cloud Storage allows you to connect to your web apps such as Google Drive and OneDrive.
Content Market allows you to connect to external content and institution tools.
Content Collection allows you to reuse shared content or files stored in other courses.
Batch Edit visibility and dates.
Import Content package or files.
Copy Items from other courses.
Export a Course Package to archive or import content.
Course Tasks and Logs display the status of course copy, conversion, archive, export, and import.
Drag and drop content
Drag and drop files and folders directly into your Course Content area.
Create Content Items
Create learning modules, folders, documents, and links to organize content in your course.
- Learning Module: Use learning modules as containers to organize your content. Students can navigate from one item to the next without extra clicks. You can force sequence for a learning module. You can also add folders to a learning module to further organize content.
- Folder: You can create two levels of folders to organize your content. Students can easily navigate and don't have to search for course materials. You can also expand or create a folder or learning module and add a document.
- Document: You can create documents using a variety of content presented together on one page. You can add text, embed multimedia, and attach files such as introductory text for a lesson, an audio file of a lecture, and a link or attachment for an image. Students see the content just as you see it, without the editing options.
Embedded media can be added anywhere the text editor appears, such as in Documents, Discussions, Assignments (both creation and student submissions).
- Links: You can add a link to a website you want students to access. You can also create a course link to other content in your course, such as in a unit folder or learning module. Course Links are shortcuts to an existing area, tool, or item in your course.
- Teaching tools with LTI connection: You can use the Content Market to access learning materials from third party content providers.
- SCORM package: You can add a Sharable Content Object Reference Model packaged in a compressed ZIP file.
Recommendation: Provide multiple ways to access course content in a variety of formats and explain the relationship to course requirements, competencies, and objectives. Example: Link your Syllabus, Goals, and Rubrics to instructional materials, activities, assignments, and assessments.
Organize content
You can easily view, reorder, edit, and delete content.
Expand content: Click the arrow icon to view the content in a learning module or folder.
Reorder content: Hover to reveal and select theĀ MoveĀ icon to drag and drop content to a new location. You can move a folder or document into an expanded folder or learning module (max: two levels).
Edit or delete content: Click the ā¦ellipsis icon in an item row to EditĀ orĀ Delete content. You can also make changes to the title and description. Additional features depend on the type of content.
Click the Settings icon when available for additional setting options.
Course links
A course link is a shortcut to an existing area, tool, or item in a course. When you create a course link, it appears on theĀ Course ContentĀ page as a link icon layered over the target itemās icon. For example, a course link to a learning module will appear on the page with the link icon layered over the learning module icon.
To add a link, selectĀ CreateĀ by selecting the plus option on theĀ Course ContentĀ page where you want your link to appear. This opens theĀ Create ItemĀ panel. Select theĀ LinkĀ option.
This opens a New Link page with two tabs:
- Create Web Link (for linking to websitesĀ external to a course)
- Create Course Link (for linking to content within a course)
Select theĀ Create Course LinkĀ tab to add a course link.
To search for the target content item, type a keyword. You can also select one or more checkboxes in theĀ CategoriesĀ list. When you add a course link at the root or top level of theĀ Course ContentĀ page, you can add course links to any content item, includingĀ Document,Ā Assessments (all types),Ā SCORM,Ā File,Ā Journal,Ā Folder, andĀ Learning Module. When you add a course link to nested content, the option to add course links to folders and learning modules is hidden.
SelectĀ SearchĀ to view search results. Select a content item from the list displayed. Once an item is selected, you can editĀ Display Name. If your target item has a description, it's included here. You can edit or add a description. Changing the display name or description on this page doesn't affect the target itemās display name or description.
You can edit release conditions and whether or not students can see the content by selecting the student visibility menu under the display title.
The context menu for a course link to an item provides these options:
- Edit Course Link
- Edit Linked Item
- Delete Course Link
Users can expand a course link to a folder or learning module as they would for a folder or learning module. This allows the user to view the nested contents of the target folder or learning module. The contents displayed are read only. To modify nested content displayed in the expanded course link, it must be modified in the target folder or learning module.
When you make changes to the nested contents of a folder or learning module, the changes will appear for any related, expanded course link.
You can create course links for most course materials and activities. Keep in mind these exceptions:
- You canāt create course links for discussions and web links.
- You can't move into another folder or learning module a course link to a folder or learning module. A warning message displays if youĀ tryĀ to move a course link in this way.
- You canāt use course links with learning modules where force sequence is enabled. This would allow users access to content they shouldn't yet access.
- If a course link exists in a learning module, it's not possible to enable force sequence.
- You canāt copy course links for third-party content (LTI).
- When copying or converting a Learn Original course to a Learn Ultra course, the copy process excludes course links for folders, learning modules, and web links.Ā The conversion report includes an exception for course links and explains their removal.
- You can't copy into another folder or learning module a course link to a folder or learning module. The option to copy course links to folders and learning modules is hidden if youĀ selectĀ the Copy Content option from the + menu while inside a folder or learning module.
Student access to content
New content is Hidden from students by default. You make individual items Visible to students or Batch Edit visibility and dates.
- Hidden from students
- Visible to students
- Release conditions
Release Conditions
You can also choose one or more conditions before the content is released:
- Select members
- All members
- Specific members or groups
- Set additional conditions
- Date/Time to Show/Hide
- Performance/Grade requirement
