Administrator Documentation

LeaP Input: Content

At a minimum, each learning objective in your learning path should have 2-3 content pages. The more content you can associate with a learning objective, the better able learners are to master the objective. LeaP accesses content provided in the Content tool and supports the following content types:

Content Type	What LeaP does to the content
Text-based files including PDF, Microsoft Office Suite files including Word and PowerPoint.	LeaP analyzes the plain-text representation of the document (including the presenter notes for PowerPoint). No special handling is required.
Videos, images, and sound	LeaP cannot parse text from video, images, or sound files; only the file name can be parsed by LeaP. Embed the video/image/sound file into an HTML page containing a textual description to provide LeaP with additional context.
Websites that prevent rendering in iFrames	LeaP cannot display the content in the Brightspace LMS iFrame; rather, you can open the LeaP path as an external resource. Alternatively, you can create a web page in your course and include a link to the website on the page. Note: Include context information on the course web page that LeaP can use for its semantic matching.
Brightspace LOR	LeaP can display LOR content if the learner has appropriate permissions and trusts to access the LOR material. When building the path, LeaP parses the LOR object's title, keywords, and description metadata fields.
Dynamic web content (such as JavaScript)	LeaP cannot analyze the content, but it can be displayed.
SCORM packages	SCORM packages are essentially the opposite of LeaP because SCORM requires learner consume the material in a prescribed sequence. LeaP, rather, builds adaptive and personalized learning paths for students.

Note: Files that are saved in the Manage Files repository but are not linked into existing Content are not accessible to LeaP.

I've added new content, but it does not appear in the LeaP path. How can I get LeaP to use the new material?

Every day, LeaP automatically looks for and adds new content, but it doesn't automatically recalculate learning paths when new content is added. It can take up to 24 hours for the new content to appear in the learning paths. To manually force LeaP to recalculate a path, administrators or instructors can create a new LeaP path anywhere in the course offering. When you create the new LeaP path, it forces all paths in the offering to recalculate, and you can then see the new content displayed. Once you verify the content is visible, you can delete the newly created path.

Using relevance weighting on content

The single, highest-rated piece of content is shown for a learning objective. The remainder of the content appears as Recommended Reading.

Removing unwanted content from a learning path

You can remove content from a learning path in two ways:

If you need to remove the content from the specific learning objective, use the Content Alignment tool. Select the learning objective and set the content item value to 0%.
If you need to completely remove the content from learning path, including learning objectives and search results, in the course, browse to Edit Learning Path > Content Repositories > This Course. Find the content you want to remove from the learning path from the list of all content in the course, then click the Visible toggle to hide the content.

If you delete pages from the course offering, you may encounter a Page Not Found error in the learning path. Deleted content is not auto-detected by LeaP; it may be preferable to manually hide the content to avoid the error. Learners may also encounter Page Not Found errors if the learners do not have the same permissions to view pieces of content that the instructor can access. To troubleshoot this error message:

Ensure that the content is published (rather than being in a draft or unpublished state)
Ensure that the content is from the D2L LOR
Verify that the learners have proper trusts to view the content.

Including hidden text for LeaP's semantic matching

You may want to include hidden text in your content that is not visible to learners, but is available for LeaP's semantic matching. To achieve this, use the HTML style attribute in the following format:

<p style=”display:none;”>This is hidden content.</p>

How can LeaP use external web pages (including videos)

There are 4 possible ways to submit external web pages and videos to LeaP:

Embed the URL into the HTML course content pages

You can explicitly set the metadata LeaP uses for the pages by including it in the HTML page content (optionally hiding it using the style=”display:none;” attribute).
You can change this metadata at any time, although you’ll need to recreate the learning path for the new metadata to be read by LeaP.
LeaP does not crawl the external web page for metadata.
For videos, the learner sees a thumbnail of the video in the page.

For example:

<p style="display: none;">Average Velocity: Students will understand that average velocity is displacement divided by time.</p>

Include the URL links in the course content

LeaP crawls the external web page for metadata.
You cannot specify additional or replacement metadata for LeaP to use for the page.

Submit URLs to LeaP in the wizard interface > Content Repositories > User Contributed Content

LeaP crawls the external web page for metadata.
You cannot specify additional or replacement metadata for LeaP to use for the page.

Submit URLs to LeaP using a CSV file

You can specify the metadata or allow LeaP to crawl the external web page for metadata
If you specify the metadata, you cannot subsequently view or modify that metadata., To use new metadata, you must hide the original URL, slightly change the URL (for example, by adding a question mark to the end of the URL), and then re-upload the URL with new metadata.

The window displaying LeaP content is too small. Is there a way to break it out of the content frame?

You can open the learning path as an external resource to display the content in a new browser window. In the Path Properties dialog, click the Open as External Resource check box.

Why do I sometimes see 2 learning paths for a single objective in the Content Alignment tab?

LeaP is intended to show a single piece of content for each learning objective in a path. This means that if a single piece of content is the best match for two or more learning objectives, then LeaP needs to display the best AND second best (and possibly additional best) matches in the path in order to preserve the cardinality of the number of learning objectives to the number of content items. In the Content Alignment tab, this manifests as multiple learning paths for an objective.

How does LeaP determine the level of mastery for a set of learning objectives. Can the faculty change this level?

LeaP considers a concept to be mastered when the learner correctly answers the number of test questions defined by the Number of Questions per Learning Objective value in the wizard. You can change the Number of Questions per Learning Objective value in the LeaP path settings.