Use the Content tool to access course materials, complete required activities, and monitor your completion progress on topics contained within each course module.
Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that information about course expectations, course syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates display to users clearly.
Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, CaptureCast presentations, URL links, and existing course activities. You can add release conditions, grade items, and learning objectives to topics to ensure users navigate through course materials while fulfilling specific course requirements and learning expectations.
You can also monitor class and user progress as students work through course content by setting automatic (determined by the system) or manual (determined by the student) completion tracking.
Click Content on the navbar.
If you work through course content online within the Content tool, you can access bookmarked content and follow course events from Bookmarks and Upcoming Events areas.
The Table of Contents link enables you to browse course materials and assignments and keep track of your progress, since the number beside a module indicates how many topics within the module you need to complete. The number decreases as you work through course materials.
Use the Table of Contents panel to view a specific module or sub-module directly.
The Content tool has four main areas:
You can search within a course's Content tool for modules and topics by title and description.
If you click on a .doc, .docx, .rtf, .rtfx, or .pdf file topic , you can preview it in a document viewer on the topic's page.
You can access content through a smaller version of the Table of Contents within a topic by opening the collapsible side panel, which only shows the contents of one module at a time. Click or swipe the side tab handle to open the side panel.
Note The swipe-to-open action for the collapsible side panel is not available on the Nexus 7 device.
Browse through modules by clicking the Previous module or Next module, or click the Go to Table of Contents icon to return to the Table of Contents page.
You can sign up to receive immediate text or email notifications when content items are updated. See Setting your notifications [38] for more information.
Click on a topic, then click Submit Feedback from the topic's context menu to rate the quality of the content topic from 1 to 5 and leave a comment. You can choose to submit your feedback anonymously or include your name.
You can update your feedback submission by resubmitting feedback to the same topic, but only your newest comments and rating appear to instructors and course administrators. Resubmitted feedback overwrites previously submitted feedback regardless of whether you change your user status from anonymous to your user name (or from your user name to anonymous user).
If you have the appropriate permissions, you can download individual topics or whole modules from the Content tool. You can also download all modules and topics in your course from the Table of Contents page in the Content tool. Downloading content to your computer is useful for viewing content offline. Your content downloads as zipped files and folders.
To send course content to your iPad, do one of the following:
When users access a course's Content tool for the first time, the first page they land on is the Overview. Use the Overview page to orient users to the course, content materials, and course expectations. You can insert course overview information using the HTML Editor beneath the Overview title, and you can add a file attachment by dragging a file from your computer onto the upload target, or by clicking Add an attachment from the Overview context menu.
Note If you decide not to add anything to the Overview, the Overview link and page is hidden from student view.
See Adding and uploading course files as new Content topics [13] for compatible file types available when adding to Overview.
Topics you bookmark appear in a list on the Bookmarks page. Click the Add Bookmark icon while viewing a topic to add it to your bookmarks list. The number beside the Bookmarks link indicates how many bookmarks you have.
The Upcoming Events page lists course material due dates, start dates, end dates, and other course events for the next seven days. If you set availability dates or a due date for a course object, it appears in the Upcoming Events page and the Agenda view in the Calendar tool.
The dates listed on this page are not exclusive to Content topics; upcoming events include all events within the course from the Calendar tool. Click Course Schedule to view all past, current, and future course events. The number beside the Upcoming Events link indicates how many upcoming events you have.
The Table of Contents panel lists all modules available in your course. Click on a listed module to view and manage its details, topics, and sub-modules. You can also stay on the Table of Contents page to view and manage all modules and topics. Click on the Table of Contents link to access the Table of Contents page. This page enables you to view and manage all modules and topics. You can add new topics to existing modules by dragging and dropping files from your computer onto upload targets on the Table of Contents page, and you can also rearrange course materials by dragging and dropping topics between modules. See Creating and arranging your course content using drag and drop [14] for more information.
The number beside each module name in the Table of Contents panel listing indicates the number of topics you have set completion tracking [33] for. The number beside the Table of Contents link indicates the total number of topics you have set completion tracking for. Use the number totals to determine the task load being put on students per module.
You must create a module before you can add topics. You can create sub-modules (modules within existing modules) to establish a deeper hierarchy.
If you want to keep your course content hidden while you are building it, set the status of your modules and/or topics as Draft.
Note If your course is SCORM 2004-compliant, any new modules you create are outside the sequencing and navigation built into the SCORM package.
Tip If you create a Create a File, you can choose to Browse for a Template. This enables you to work from an existing template and ensure consistency across topics. See Using HTML document templates in Content [15] for more information.
Browse your Manage Files area to create topics from existing files. You can use the following types of files as topics:
Extension | File Type |
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HTM, HTML, MHT, MHTML | Web Document |
RTF, PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPTX, XML, XLS, TXT, WPD | Text Document |
JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TIFF | Image |
SWF, MPG, MPEG, RM, MP3, MP4*, M4V*, M4A*, AVI, WAV, RAM, ASF, MOV, RA | Media |
You can also upload all of these file formats from your desktop directly into the Content tool.
In the Content tool, drop and upload targets indicate where you can drag a particular file, module, or topic.
If you drag a file over an upload target, that area appears green or orange to indicate you can drop it there. Upload targets contain the text "Drag and drop files here to create and update topics." Drag files from your computer into a module's upload target to add or update topics (the files will save in the Manage Files tool).
You can also drop files from your computer directly into modules in the Table of Contents panel and into a topic's collapsible side panel.
Note Internet Explorer 9 and older currently do not support dragging and dropping files from your desktop into Learning Environment.
Note The collapsible side panel is a compact version of the Table of Contents. It only lists the topics within a single module.
Dragging to drop targets is a quick way of reorganizing modules and topics. If you drag a module or topic above or below other modules and topics, a gray line appears to indicate you can drop the module or topic there. If you drag a module or topic over another module, the module appears orange to indicate you can drop it there.
If you do not remember where you recently moved a module or topic, use the Content tool's Search field to find them.
You can automatically update your existing files by dragging the newest version of your file from your computer into the appropriate module.
You can create a new HTML document based on any existing HTML file. If you set up a path to a directory containing HTML templates in Manage Files, these template choices appear in a drop-down list when you create a new document. All links to assets such as images, CSS, and JS files are maintained when you create a new HTML document from a template in Content.
Therefore, you can build many documents from one central template housed in the template directory, with standard styles and images already included.
If you have already created an entirely new HTML document, you can save it in your template directory for other documents.
Tip Normally, a course has its own template directory in Course Offering Files. However, if you want the template directory to be available for all courses and you have the necessary access permissions, set the template directory to a folder in Shared Files. It will be available to all courses within the organization.
Note If you decide to save a draft based on an HTML template to a different file path, all links to images, css, or js assets are retained.
The following file extensions are not supported by Learning Environment:
Restricted Upload Extensions | |||
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ASP | ASHX | JSL | VB |
ASPX | ASMX | LICX | VBPROJ |
EXE | AXD | REM | VJSPROJ |
BAT | CDX | RESOURCES | VSDISCO |
DLL | CER | RESX | WEBINFO |
COM | CONFIG | SHTM | INI |
ASA | IDC | SHTML | |
ASAX | CS | SOAP | |
ASCX | CSPROJ | STM |
< title >
tag and text within that tag from user created web documents.
You can change how course content appears in the Content tool by selecting your viewing preferences in the Content Settings area.
Click Settings in the Content tool. From here, you can do the following:
Once you finish customizing your Content settings, click Save.
If you select to arrange course content by Content Type from the Content Arrangement drop-down list, each module will appear in the following content type groups:
If you set a module's status as Draft, the module and all its topics are hidden from students.
Tip As you build your course content, set your modules as drafts to keep them hidden from your students until they are complete and ready for viewing.
You can notify students when updating or changing a topic in Content. They receive an Update alert notification in their minibar; clicking the alert brings them to the updated topic.
Note Except for date restriction changes, most changes save automatically.
Note Deleting a module deletes all topics within that module.
Start and end dates specify when students can access a module.
Note If you set availability dates or a due date for a module, the module appears on the Upcoming Events page and the Agenda view in the Calendar tool.
You can associate topics with learning objectives directly from the Content tool, but you must have existing learning objectives in the Competencies tool before you can create these associations.
If you use SCORM for your course, you must import an existing package as a zip file to Learning Environment. The SCORM package includes all the Sharable Content Objects (SCOs) and associated Sharable Content Assets (SCAs). Sequencing and navigation are also part of the package. See Importing course components from a file [46] for detailed information about importing content.
You can edit SCORM packages with the same options that are available when you create content topics. Although you can add a grade item to a SCORM object, completing a quiz included in a SCORM package automatically generates a grade item in the grades list, populated with the quiz results.
You can remove the sequencing and navigation rules from a SCORM package if you want to use some of the modules or topics in another course, or reorder modules and topics in the current course.
Removing sequencing and navigation from a SCORM package resets progress tracking for those topics.
If your course is based on SCORM, or uses SCOs as part of the course content, you have access to additional activity reports for each SCORM object and user. The reports track the activity on a topic and individuals’ progress with meeting defined objectives, and in defined interactions with the course content.
Note The data in these reports depends on the data communicated to Learning Environment by your SCOs. For example, if the SCO does not set values for objectives, then no objective information is available in the SCORM reports for that SCO.
You can export SCORM statistics; however, unlike non-SCORM courses, you cannot reset the statistics.
For each SCORM object, Learning Environment records:
You can also view details on user attempts, objectives, and interactions for each item.
For each user of SCORM content, Learning Environment records:
You can also access details on a user's progress, status, scores, attempts, time spent, date last accessed, objective details, and interaction details.
Completion tracking enables instructors to set the method of completion for an activity and provides progress indicators for students as they complete course activities.
Note Changing an automatically tracked topic to manual completion resets completion tracking for that topic. This means that users might have to return to the topic to mark it complete; users do not need to resubmit files or assessment activities.
Each topic contains a Completion Summary with student completion tracking results that you can view directly in the Content interface.
The types of completion results depend on what the topic is: for example, completion tracking results for a dropbox folder indicate whether a student has submitted anything, while results for a file topic indicate whether a student has viewed the topic or not.
In addition to the existing "Completed" and "Incomplete" filters, you can also filter users in the Completion Summary by the groups or sections you created within your course. For information about creating a group or section within your course, see Creating a group [47] or Creating sections [48].
In the topic's Completion Summary, click the user's name. You can access the results of a user's Quiz, Survey, or Dropbox submission directly from Content.
Note This option is only available if the user has made a submission to this topic.
Course statistics can display the total number of users, the number of users who visited course content, and the average time users spent viewing content. You can view overall course content statistics, and specific statistics for individual topics.
You can export statistics to a CSV file for use in a spreadsheet or database.
Feedback shows the ratings and comments users submit about specific course content. Users can submit ratings and comments anonymously or include their user names.
You can also view general information about completion tracking for all users from the Class Progress page, or the details of a user's completion tracking from the User Progress page, both located in the User Progress tool. See User Progress [49] for more information.
If you click Content in the Reports area on the User Progress page, you can track how many visits a user makes to the Content tool, how much time is spent viewing course material, and how many topics were visited. Expand the report details under each module to find a further breakdown of a user's actions. The expanded details show all topics and sub-modules within the module, how many visits the user made for each topic, and how much time was spent in each topic. Clicking on the module or topic's name brings you to that module or topic in the Content tool.
Note The Progress Summary page displays overall user progress results for the current course, not just the topic.
Links:
[1] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/accessing-content
[2] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/content-user-interface
[3] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/searching-for-module-topic-in-content
[4] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/viewing-content
[5] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/enabling-notifications-in-content
[6] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/printing-from-content
[7] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/submitting-feedback-in-content
[8] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/downloading-content
[9] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/sending-content-to-mobile-device-via-binder
[10] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/understanding-organization-of-content
[11] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-modules-sub-modules-in-content
[12] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-new-topic-in-content
[13] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/adding-uploading-course-files-as-new-content-topics
[14] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-arranging-content-using-drag-and-drop
[15] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/using-html-document-templates-in-content
[16] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/restricted-file-extensions
[17] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/content-display-settings
[18] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/changing-module-topic-status-to-draft-or-published-in-content
[19] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/notifying-students-about-updated-course-content
[20] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/editing-module-topic-title-in-content
[21] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/bulk-editing-modules-topics-in-content
[22] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/moving-reordering-module-topic-in-content
[23] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/deleting-modules-topics-in-content
[24] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/adding-editing-availability-due-dates-in-content
[25] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/adding-editing-release-conditions-in-content
[26] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/adding-learning-object-to-module
[27] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/associating-topics-with-learning-objectives-in-content
[28] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/adding-existing-course-object-activity-to-content
[29] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/importing-scorm-package
[30] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-editing-scorm-package
[31] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/removing-simple-sequencing-from-scorm-package
[32] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/viewing-scorm-reports-on-objects-users
[33] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/using-completion-tracking-in-content
[34] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/course-content-statistics
[35] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/course-content-feedback
[36] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/viewing-class-user-progress-in-content
[37] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/taxonomy/term/3
[38] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/setting-your-notifications
[39] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/taxonomy/term/2
[40] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/managing-dropbox-folder-submission-handling
[41] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/Release%20Conditions
[42] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/node/867
[43] http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download
[44] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/HTML%20Editor
[45] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/Competencies
[46] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/importing-course-components-from-file
[47] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-a-group
[48] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/creating-sections
[49] http://staging.docs.d2l/en/user-progress