Adding Course Content

• About Content Module
• Adding Course Content
• Customizing Content Module Appearance
• Deleting Course Content
• Editing the Table of Contents and Action Menu
• Updating Student View

What do you want to do?

• add a heading to your course
• add files of content to your course
• create and edit an HTML file
• edit a file of content
• edit the content page titles
• add a quiz to the Content Module

Adding a heading | Top

Use Add heading to create a new heading or subheading in the Table of Contents. You can specify where you want the heading to be added.

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. Click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
3. From the Table of Contents, select the element after which you want the new heading to appear.
4. Under Options: Table of Contents, click Add heading. The Add Heading screen appears.
5. In the Title text box, enter the new heading, and click Add. The Content Module screen appears and the Table of Contents is updated. Note: You can now add content under your heading with Add file or Create and edit HTML File.

Note: You can create a subheading by indenting a heading under another heading. For more information, see Organizing the Table of Contents.

Adding files | Top

Use Add files to add course content to headings and subheadings in the Table of Contents. Files in any file format can be added to the Content Module including:.doc, .txt, .html, .htm, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .jpg, and .gif. You can add a file multiple times under more than one heading. Files that already exist in the Content Module are indicated by an asterisk.

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. Click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
3. From the Table of Contents, select the element after which you want the new file to appear.
4. Under Options: Table of Contents, click Add files. The Add Files screen appears, displaying only HTML files that have been uploaded to the My-Files folder. To display all files, select Show all files in the My-Files folder in Manage Files.
   • If the file is displayed in the Filenames selection box, you can add it the Content Module by doing the following:
     1. Select the file(s) you want to add. Tip: To select multiple files, hold the CTRL key while selecting the files. For Mac users, hold the Apple key.
     2. Click Add. The file(s) are added and the updated Table of Contents appears.
   • If the file is not displayed in the Filenames selection box, you must upload the file to the My-Files folder before you can add it to the Content Module.

   1. To search for and upload the file, click Browse. The WebCT Browser appears.
   2. From the Filenames selection box, select the uploaded file.

5. Click Add. The Content Module screen appears and the file is added to the Table of Contents.

Note: To edit the title of the file that appears in the Table of Contents, see Editing content page titles.

Creating and editing an HTML file | Top

Course content HTML files are normally created outside of WebCT and are uploaded with Manage Files. Through Content Module, WebCT also provides you with the ability to create HTML files while you are building your course content. You can add an HTML file to your course folder, and edit it at the same time.

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. Click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
3. From the Table of Contents, select the element after which you want the new file to appear.
4. Under Options: Table of Contents, click Create and edit HTML file. The Create and Edit HTML File screen appears.
5. In the Filename text box, enter a name for the new file. Filenames can contain any of the following: a–z, A–Z, 0–9, comma, space, _, &, ( ), –, ., and ~. The following cannot be used as the first character in the filename: dash (-), tilde (~), and space. The following cannot be used as the last character in the filename: period (.) and space. Note: Do not enter the .html extension.
6. From the Folder drop-down list, select a folder in which to save the file.
7. Add content to the file using one of the following methods:
   • In the File content text box, enter the content of the file. You can add HTML tags to format the text.
   • To enter and format the text using an editor, click HTML editor. For more information, see HTML Editor. Note: Depending on administrator settings, the HTML editor may not be available.
8. To resize the File content text box:
   1. From the Width and Height drop-down lists, select new values.
   2. Click Resize. The Create and Edit HTML File screen refreshes and the text box is resized. Note: Adjusting the size of the text box has no effect on the file's content.
9. To create or import an equation to the file, click Equation editor. For more information, see WebEQ (Windows) or WebEQ (Macintosh). Note: Depending on administrator settings, the Equation editor may not be available.
10. Click Add. The Content Module screen appears and the file is added to the Table of Contents.

Editing a file of content | Top

You can only edit .html, .htm and .txt files that are part of your course content. Steps to do so are provided in Editing a content page. To edit other file formats, download them to your computer, edit them in the applicable program and then upload them again to your Content Module. For more information, see Manage Files.

Editing content page titles | Top

You can edit the titles you assigned to each page of content in the Table of Contents. You can also edit a heading title.

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. Click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
3. Under Options: Table of Contents, click Edit titles. The Edit Content Page Titles screen appears.
4. In the text box for each title you want to change, edit the text.
5. Click Update. The Content Module screen appears and the Table of Contents is updated.

Use Add Quiz to add an existing quiz or a survey to the Content Module. Note: To create a new quiz, from the Course Menu, click Quiz.

1. From the Course Menu, click Content Module. The Content Module screen appears.
2. Click the Designer Options tab if it is not already selected.
3. From the Table of Contents, select the element after which you want the quiz to appear.
4. Under Options: Table of Contents, click Add Quiz. The Add Quiz screen appears and displays the quizzes which are available in your course.
5. From the Quiz name selection list, select a quiz.
6. In the Quiz title text box, enter a title that will appear in the Table of Contents.
7. Click Preview if you want to view the quiz before you add it to the course.
8. Click Add. The Content Module screen appears and quiz is added to the Table of Contents.
   

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