Course authoring tools allow you to create specialised courses and sessions that can include an array of content options, activities, assessment and built-in leadership guides.
Authoring module is composed of two main components i.e.
- Course Management
- Session Management
Purchased tab under the content will display all the purchased courses and sessions. The courses and sessions, which you have created can be viewed under custom and Drafts tab will bring out all the unpublished courses and sessions.
Course Management
Course management is the used to create, edit or delete the course. To create a session/course, you must be a Group Admin (role) and have access to the Group Admin features.
Creating a Course
To create new course, you need to follow below steps:
Click ‘Content’ in the Group Administrator tool bar and click (+) add course on your left had side to select new course tab.
Select “New Course” from the list displayed
Enter the title of the course on the pop-up and click ‘GO’ button.
Note: You can edit the title of the course later also.
Add course description and / or learning outcomes as required in “Course Description” text area. This is not mandatory but recommended.
Click “UPLOAD A FILE” to add an image to be associated with the course.
After adding the required course information, you can add session details (modules).
Sessions
To create a new or existing session, click add (+) button on your left side under course information.
- Create New will allow you to create a new session, that will be only available to this course.
- Add Existing allows you to add existing session.
Create New
Creating new will allow you create a new session that will be available to this course. You can create a new session here or directly from ‘Content’ page by selecting creating new session tab.
For creating new session, please refer to article "Create a Session" in the where it is explained in detail.
Add Existing
You can add existing session available. Follow below steps to add session
Click “Add Existing” and it will display the list of sessions. Select the one to be added.
The selected sessions will be displayed in left column, under Course Information.
Note: You can sort the session by clicking and dragging them to their respective position.
Publishing
Publishing is how you take a session or course from a Draft to finished item, that can be scheduled. For more information on Publishing, please refer to article "Publishing" section to Publishing a Course.
Editing
Once the session is created and published it can be modified as well. For more information on this, please refer to article "Editing" section to edit a session or course.