Plan Course Content and Structure

Before you begin building content on the platform, you'll want to create a thorough course outline. This outline should prioritize:

• Articulating strong learning objectives.
• Organizing primary course content into modules, submodules, and slides.
  • Determining which specific content pieces are required to complete a given slide, submodule, module, and course.
• Linking primary course content to secondary course content, such as assessments, blog posts, forums, and live events.

Often, our partners don't have all content ready before they start to build. That's fine! You should, however, have a very solid understanding of your learning objectives, how the course content, structure, and activities will meet those objectives, and how you'll assess course completion.

Click here more information on completion tracking.

Build Course Content

Once your course has been created by the course administrator, you can start building out course content.

You can easily access your course in two ways:

• Navigate to the course session page through the admin dashboard and click the link to the session's slug, found below the session's name in the top left.
• Navigate to the session's direct URL. Generally, the course session's URL follows this pattern: https:// [your-domain-name].course.tc / [session-slug]
  • For more information on session slugs, refer back to the Create a New Course Session section here.

To Build Course Content:

1. Review the course content structure outlined below.
2. Plan course content and structure.
3. Enable completion tracking.
4. Build primary course content.
   1. Modules
   2. Submodules
   3. Slides
   4. Content
5. Build secondary course content.

Course Content Structure

Primary Course Content

Modules, submodules, and slides provide structure for primary course content. This section generally includes the bulk of instructional materials for the course and is available on the course content page. Primary course content can include a variety of different media types, such as readings, links, videos, and more.

Primary course content follows the organization scheme below:

• Modules: indicate broad divisions in course content. You should decide where to divide module content based on the structure of your course. For example:
  • If you are running a facilitated course with new content each week, each week's content would likely fit best in a different module.
  • If you are running a self-paced course, you may want to divide content into module based on theme.
• Submodules: indicate divisions within module or submodule content.
• Slides: are the most basic level of structure and contain instructional material. Slides are contained within submodules.

Each module can have a submodule, and each submodule can be divided into a further submodule. It is not currently possible to go beyond two levels of submodules.

Secondary Course Content

Secondary course content often consists of instructional material that supports primary course content. It is not available on the course content page. Secondary course content includes:

• Events
• Calendar
• Discussion
• Forms
• Quizzes
• Activity Feed