Create course content with the Content tool
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Change content display settings
You can customize your content by changing your content display settings. To change content display settings in the Classic content experience From your course navbar, click Content. Figure: The Content button in the Course Home. On the Content menu, click Settings. Figure: The Settings button. Customize the following…
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Add and organize learning materials in the Classic Content experience
You can create modules, sub-modules, and topics for your course in the Classic Content experience. You can then add and organize your learning materials within this structure as part of Content. Video: Create course content Create a new module and sub-module You must create a new module before you can add topics. You can…
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Add and organize learning materials in the New Content Experience (Lessons)
Use the New Content Experience (Lessons) to create, add, and arrange learning materials for your course. Create a new unit in the New Content Experience (Lessons) The first step in adding and organizing learning materials is to create a new unit in your course. To create a new unit From your course navbar, click Content.…
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Associate course content with Standards
Use Standards to associate course content with learning expectations and to add value to your learners' coursework. Edit standards alignment for a course From the content area, select a unit or an item of course material. From the (...) Options menu, select View Standards. Click Edit Standards Alignments and select check…
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Set a course timeframe
To help keep instructors on track with their course materials, pacing (previously known as scheduling) suggests when to start teaching different course materials in chronologically sequenced content units. When you pace a course, you define a start and end date for pacing content units evenly within the specified date…
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Hide Content topics, modules, and downloads
Hide content topics and modules Open the context menu of the topic or module you want to hide. Select Hide from Users. OR Select the visibility icon for the topic or module. A visibility toggle appears to allow you to change between Visible and Hidden. The visibility status of a topic appears when the topic is not visible,…
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ReadSpeaker integrations for Lessons
The Lessons tool supports the following ReadSpeaker integrations: * The ReadSpeaker HTML content integration solution automatically enables ReadSpeaker online text-to-speech technology for HTML content in the Lessons tool. Any learner can hear their HTML course content spoken aloud or download it as an MP3 using their…
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Add availability and due dates in Content
Start and end dates specify when learners can access a topic or module. If you set a start, end, or due date for a topic or module, it appears on the Upcoming Events page and the Agenda view in the Calendar tool. Setting an end date later than the due date for a topic enables learners to access and complete the topic from…
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Improve navigation in multi-page content topics
To provide seamless navigation in multi-page content topics, course designers can add a D2L JavaScript solution to HTML content topics containing links to multiple HTML pages. With this JavaScript, when a learner navigates to a multi-page content topic, the links to the HTML pages are hidden in the multi-page content…
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Add a Release Condition to Content
Add a release condition in the New Content Experience Navigate to Content. In the module where you want to add release conditions, click Options (...) > View Release Conditions. Figure: The Options (...) drop-down menu showing the View Release Conditions option. In the Release Conditions dialog, do one of the following:…