Managing course content
  • 24 Feb 2022
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Managing course content


Article Summary

Editing activities and resources

There are lots of ways you can quickly edit resources and activities to your preferences, including changing settings, renaming, and moving the activity or resource within your course. 

If course editing is enabled, when you click Edit next to an activity a shortcut menu with common actions will appear. The options are:

  • Edit settings: Access the settings for the activity or resource
  • Move right: Indent the activity or resource on the course page
  • Move left: This is available after using Move right to reverse the indentation
  • Hide: Make the activity or resource invisible to users without show hidden activity capabilities (Learners by default)
  • Duplicate: Copy the activity or resource and its associated settings
  • Assign roles: Assign people to roles for the selected activity or resource
  • Delete: This will permanently delete the activity or resource, you will be asked to confirm the deletion

If you want to quickly rename an item you can do this by following these steps:

  1. Click the edit icon (Name edit icon) immediately next to the item's name.
  2. Type the new name.
  3. Press the enter/return key on your keyboard.

Quick editing an activity name.

Rearranging content

You can use the crosshairs (Move icon) to drag and drop an item to a different topic on the page.

  1. Hover your mouse over the crosshairs (Move icon) for the item you wish to move.
  2. Left-click and hold on your mouse.
  3. Drag the item to where you want it to go.
  4. Release the left mouse key to place the item. 

You will see a washed out version of the item where it would be placed if you released the mouse key to place it. 

Drag and drop to move an item.

Group settings

If the course has groups enabled on it then you can quickly edit the group mode for any applicable activities by clicking the icon alongside the Edit menu. Cycle through the options until you get the one you want.

  • No groups (No groups icon.)
  • Visible groups (Visible groups icon.)
  • Separate groups (Separate groups icon.)

Completion settings

You cannot edit the completion settings without going into the activity settings but you can quickly see what the settings are if they are set. If activity completion is set to none then there will be no icon. 

  • Manual activity completion: Manual activity completion icon.
  • System activity completion (after meeting criteria): System activity completion icon.

Read more in the activity completion documentation.

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