The Visual Table of Contents (TOC) widget displays each course module’s title, image, description, and progress.
The Visual TOC also acts as a progress tracker, displaying the number of topics learners have completed out of the total available. To view the description of a module or unit, click the Show Description (?) icon. Click on a tile to navigate directly to that module or unit or click on the Next Topic icon to navigate directly to the next unfinished topic in that module or unit.
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Important: If you want to manage custom language terms for the Visual TOC widget, you must contact your administrator and ask them to navigate to Admin Tools > Language Management and select the WebComponentsTool Package and homepage-widget-expansion-pack Collection. For more information, refer to Customize language terms.
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Figure: Use the Visual TOC widget to view all modules or units in your course, as well as show the progress of topics completed, and link directly to course content.
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Note: The Visual TOC widget respects all Release Conditions applied to topics. For example, if a user is not allowed to view a topic until a specific date, then the topic is not available in the widget until that date. The Visual TOC widget shows users the same topics that they can access in the Content tool. |
Set default tile image
The Visual TOC widget displays the first image from a module or unit's content Description field on its tile. If no image is found in a module’s description, a default image is displayed instead. You can set the default image for a module or unit from the Course Settings tab of the widget.
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Important: To set a new default image, you must upload a Default Tile Image
to Organization Files at the course level (/content/ResDev/VIDS/2017/custom_widgets/visual_toc/), or Public Files (at the organization level (/shared/custom_widgets/visual_toc/). For more information, refer to About Manage Files.
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To set how a module appears in the Visual TOC widget
- In the Visual TOC widget, click the Actions icon (arrow) and select Configure this widget.
- To change the default image for all modules, do one of the following:
- From the Course Settings tab, enter a Default Tile Image.
- From the Organization Settings tab, enter a Default Tile Image.
Figure: Enter the exact file name that is uploaded to Organization Files or Public Files.
- To show the progress meter, select Display progress meter.
- To show the module description, select Display module description.
- Click Save.
Display progress meter or module descriptions
You can select whether to display or hide the progress meter or module description on each module tile of the Visual TOC widget.
To display progress meter and module description
- In the Visual TOC widget, click the Actions icon (arrow) and select Configure this widget.
- To display the progress meter or module descriptions, do one of the following:
- Click the Course Settings tab.
- Click the Organization Settings tab.
- To show the progress meter, select Display progress meter.
- To show the module description, select Display module description.
- Click Save.
Exclude modules from display
You can exclude modules from the Visual TOC widget display.
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Important: If you want to exclude more than one module, you must ensure that all modules include the key word or key phrase defined in the Exclude Modules from Display field. For example, if you want to exclude two modules, Sunspots and The Sun, you must enter the common string Sun to exclude both.
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To exclude modules
- In the Visual TOC widget, click the Actions icon (arrow) and select Configure this widget.
- To exclude modules, do one of the following:
- Click the Course Settings tab.
- Click the Organization Settings tab.
- Enter a keyword or key phrase that is shared among all modules that you want to exclude under Exclude Modules from Display.
Figure: In this example, any module name that contains the keyword Sun is excluded from display.
- Click Save.
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Note: The default keyword is set to ***. Any module name that contains the keyword *** is excluded by default, unless otherwise specified. |