Adding & Managing Course Units
Who is this article for?Administrators adding and managing course units.
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Adding course units is a straightforward process, allowing you to create engaging content quickly. You can efficiently manage and organise these units to deliver a seamless user experience for your learners.
1. Adding Units
To add a new unit to your course, you have two options:
- Select the Add Unit option from the Add Content drop-down list.
- You can also add a unit by simply dragging and dropping a file into the course dashboard. See Adding URLs & Files to Units for details.
- When naming the unit, make sure the name accurately describes the unit's content so that learners have a clear understanding of what it is about.
- The unit name can be up to 255 characters long. If you use the drag and drop method to add a unit, the name will be automatically populated with the file name.
- You can specify how the unit should be marked as completed in the course by choosing one of the following options:
- With a button: Requires learners to click a Complete button to mark the unit as complete.
- After a period: Specify the number of seconds it takes for the unit to be marked as complete.
- Automatic: The unit will be marked as complete as soon as the learner opens it.
- None: This option is used when uploading SCORM/TinCan content.
- You can also select the source of the content for the unit. The available options include:
- If you want the unit to be a sub-unit of another unit, you can select its parent unit from the drop-down list by clicking the Parent Unit option.
2. Editor
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Select Editor as the content source to manually add your content in the Content field. The toolbar provides formatting options, and allows you to insert images, videos, tables, and hyperlinks.
2. HP5 Editor
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If you choose the H5P Editor, you'll see a dropdown list of available interactive H5P content types in the content area. Select the type you need, and a corresponding template will be provided for you to start building your content.
Important: Ideagen does not support the H5P editor. For tutorials and help on creating H5P content, visit h5p.org.
H5P Content Type | Description |
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Arithmetic Quiz | Create time-based arithmetic quizzes. |
Audio | Audio recorder, useful for open-ended questions and language courses (note, this content type has limited browser support). |
Board game | Create an interactive board game. |
Dialog cards | Create dialog cards to help learners memorize information. |
Drag text | Create textual expressions with missing pieces of text. The learner drags a missing piece of text to its correct place to complete. |
Drag and drop | Create drag and drop questions using both text and images as draggable alternatives using either one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many options. |
Fill in the blanks | Create textual expressions with missing pieces of text. The learner types the missing words in to complete. |
Find the hotspot | Upload an image and define a hotspot corresponding to details or sections of the image. The learner clicks the correct place (hotspot) on the image to complete. |
Guess the answer | Upload an image and add a suitable description. The learner can guess the answer and press the bar below the image to reveal the correct answer. |
Image hotspots | Upload an image and define multiple interactive hotspots. When the learner clicks a hotspot, a popup containing text or video is displayed. |
Impressive presentation | Images, text and other H5P content can be combined to create presentations with 3D transitions between steps (note, this content type has limited browser support). |
Interactive video | Create a video with interactions such as explanations, extra pictures, tables, and multiple-choice questions. |
Mark the words | Create textual expressions with a defined set of correct words. The learner highlights words according to the task description and is given a score. |
Multiple choice | Create questions where the learner needs to identify one or more correct choices. |
Question set | Create quizzes with various question types (or combination of) such as multiple choice, fill in the blanks, drag the words, mark the words, and drag and drop. Also supports video to be played at the end of the question set. |
Single choice set | Create question sets with one correct answer. |
Summary | Create tasks with a list of statements where the learner is to choose between statements and build the correct summary. Summaries can be presented in text, video or presentation. |
Timeline | Create a timeline of events whereby the learner has to place a sequence of events in a chronological order. Event can be added as text, images or multimedia assets from Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps and others. |