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.. _Organizing Your Course Content:
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Organizing Your Course Content
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.. _How a Course is Organized:
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How a Course is Organized
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You organize your course in the following hierarchy:
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- :ref:`Sections`, which contain
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- :ref:`subsections`, which contain
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- :ref:`units`, which contain
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- :ref:`components`, which contain your actual course content.
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Studio provides you with flexibility when organizing your course. A common course model is for sections to correspond to weeks or chapters, and for subsections to correspond to lessons.
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.. note:: We recommend that you review :ref:`Guidelines for Creating Accessible Content` before developing content for your course.
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The Course Outline
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In Studio, you view your course organization through the course outline.
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To open the course outline, on the **Content** menu, click **Outline**.
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The following image shows the different elements of a course outline:
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.. image:: Images/Course_Outline.gif
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The following image shows the way this course content appears in the LMS:
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.. image:: Images/Course_Outline_LMS.gif
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.. _Sections:
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Sections
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A section is the topmost category in your course. A section can represent a time period in your course, a chapter, or another organizing principle. A section contains one or more subsections.
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To create a section:
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#. In the course outline, click **New Section**.
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#. In the field that opens at the top of the outline, enter the new section name.
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#. Click **Save**.
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The new, empty section appears at the bottom of the course outline.
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You can now add subsections to the section.
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Whether or not students see the new section depends on the release date.
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See :ref:`Publishing Your Course` for more information.
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.. _Subsections:
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Subsections
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Sections are divided into subsections, which in turn contain one or more units. A subsection may represent a topic in your course, or another organizing principle. Subsections are sometimes called "lessons" or "learning sequences."
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To create a subsection:
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#. On the **Course Outline** page, under the name of the section that you want, click **New Subsection**.
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#. In the field that opens at the bottom of the section, enter the new subsection name.
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#. Click **Save**.
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The new, empty subsection appears at the bottom of the section. You can then add units to the subsection.
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Edit a Subsection
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You add and delete subsections from the **Course Outline** page. You edit a subsection's settings on the page for that subsection. To open the page for a subsection, click the name of the subsection on the **Course Outline** page.
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On the page for the subsection, you can see all the units in the subsection.
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.. image:: Images/Subsection.gif
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You can also do the following.
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- Change the subsection name
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- Add or delete a unit
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- Set the subsection release date and time
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- Set the subsection to be an assignment type
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- Set a due date for the exercises in the subsection (if you set the assignment type of the subsection)
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- Preview a draft of the subsection
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- View the live version of your course
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Whether students can see a subsection depends on its release date. For more information, see :ref:`Publishing Your Course`.
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For more information about setting assignment types, see :ref:`Establish a Grading Policy`.
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For more information about viewing drafts or the current version of your course, see :ref:`Preview Your Course` and :ref:`View Your Live Course`.
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.. _Units:
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Units
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Subsections are divided into units. A unit, in turn, contains one or more components.
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In the LMS, each unit in the subsection appears as a link on the course ribbon at the top of the page. The following image shows a subsection that has eight units:
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.. image:: Images/Units_LMS.gif
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You can create a unit from the course outline or the subsection page. To create a unit, click **New Unit** within the subsection that you want.
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When you create a new unit, a page opens for that unit. On the unit page, you can do the following.
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- Specify the name that you want students to see. To do this, enter the name that you want in the **Display Name** field.
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- Create components in the unit.
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- Change the visibility of the unit. By default, the unit visibility is set to **Private**, so students will not be able to see the unit.Unless you want students to see the unit immediately, leave this setting as-is. For more information, see :ref:`Publishing Your Course`.
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- Preview a draft of the unit.
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- If a unit has been published, view the live version of the unit.
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After you create a new unit, you can create components in the unit.
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.. warning::
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Studio does not have versioning and does not automatically update your browser between refreshes. Versioning is planned for future
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releases, but, in the meantime, only one author should edit a unit, in one
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browser, on only one tab. If a unit is open for editing in multiple browser
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sessions, the session that saves last will overwrite any previously saved
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content without displaying a warning. Also, older browser sessions can overwrite
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more recent content, so you should refresh your browser before you start working every time
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you work with a private unit or edit a draft of a public unit.
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.. _Components:
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Components
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A component is the part of a unit that contains your actual course content. A unit can contain one or more components.
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A student can view the name of all components in a unit by hovering over the unit in the ribbon at the top of the page.
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.. image:: Images/ComponentNames_CourseRibbon.gif
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By default, Studio includes four types of components.
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- **Discussion components** provide discussion spaces in the body of your course. Students can explore ideas about a lesson with their peers in a discussion space.
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- **HTML components** allow you to add text, images, and some types of learning tools to your course. Content in HTML components is formatted as HTML.
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- **Problem components** enable you to add many different types of exercises and problems to you course, from simple multiple choice problems to complex circuit schematic exercises.
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- **Video components** contain the videos that you want to include in your course.
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To add a component to the unit, click the component type that you want under **Add New Component**.
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.. image:: Images/AddNewComponent.gif
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For more information, see the documentation for the specific component type that you want:
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- :ref:`Working with Discussion Components`
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- :ref:`Working with HTML Components`
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- :ref:`Working with Problem Components`
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- :ref:`Working with Video Components`
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.. _Reorganize Your Course:
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Reorganize Your Course
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You can reorganize your course by dragging and dropping sections, subsections, units, and components. You can move elements on the **Course Outline** page or on an individual unit page.
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To move an element, hover over the element handle on the right side of the screen until the mouse pointer changes to a four-headed arrow. Then, click and drag the element to the location that you want.
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.. image:: Images/DragAndDrop.gif
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When you move an element, a blue line indicates where the element will land when you release the mouse.
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.. image:: Images/DragAndDrop_BlueLine.gif |