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3. Understanding course pages

  1. Start with learning outcomes
  2. Setting up your course modules
  3. Understanding course pages
  4. Adding content and resources
  5. Designing great activities
  6. Setting up your course homepage
  7. How do I use page templates and learning design patterns?

 


For example, in our example Sustainable Thinking course, Module 4: Sustainable Living might cover the following topics:

  • Clothing
  • Products and Services
  • Plastic Packaging and Rubbish
  • Water and Electricity Consumption
  • Calculate your ecological footprint

 Each of these topics within the module would then be fleshed out with relevant content, resources and activities.


The topics within a module would become Pages in OpenLearning. Pages are containers that allow you to add and arrange content, media, and activities. They are the main building blocks of courses. 

Follow the steps below to set up pages within your modules.

Go to Course Design Content editor.

Scroll down to the module you want to create or add a page in.

To add an existing page, type in the name and select it from the dropdown.

 To create a new page, type in the page name and press Enter.

(Page names are limited to 100 characters)

 

By default, "Count Towards Progress" is checked, meaning that this page's progress contributes to the course progress.

 You will see a pie chart on each page tracking the page's progress.

If you do not want the content and activities in this page to be part of the course progress, uncheck "Count Towards Progress."

Learners can check their overall progress on the Learner's Progress page. Please refer to the article "What is a learner's progress page?"


Each page that is created is visible to learners from the Learning Activities tab.

Once you have created your page, it's important to add a page thumbnail, otherwise, your course will look like it is still a work in progress.

 

To add a page thumbnail, click on Edit to bring the page into edit mode.

Next, click on the thumbnail space and upload your thumbnail in the pop up form. 

Alternatively, you can utilize our AI feature to generate one for you! For more details, please refer to the article here: OpenLearning AI Assistant - AI Thumbnails Generator

 

Next: Adding content and resources

19 replies

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    • Bronwyn_Cron
    • 6 yrs ago
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    How do I move pages to a different module?

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Bronwyn Cron Hi! Just start typing the name of the page in the Add a page box of the module you want the page to move to, and in a few moments, the page name(s) will appear and you'll be able to add it to the that module.

      • Bronwyn_Cron
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Alenka Prezelj Thanks.  I have done that, but it looks like they still appear in the original module as well.  I chose link rather than copy page, not sure if that matters...

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Bronwyn Cron You can remove them from the original module by clicking on X  in the top right corner.  

    • Bariah_Ahmad
    • 6 yrs ago
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    I moved my pages around, but the navigation (prev/next) seems to be the old ones? Getting confused here :D

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Bariah Ahmad Hi, can you share the link to the course so we can take a look?

      • Bariah_Ahmad
      • 6 yrs ago
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      Alenka Prezelj Hi Alenka, For now I can't share the course.. I moved the pages to a newly created module/module set. Within the module is fine. But the first & last pages still go to the 'old' module/module set.

    • Hunt_Country_Health_Serv
    • 5 yrs ago
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    How do I add a test to the course?

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Hunt Country Health Services Hi there! That depends on the purpose of the test. If it's just for practice, you can simply create it by using the Quiz widgets. However, if you would like to assess your students, you'd need to set up an assessment. Please visit this page, and if you have any further questions, let us know.

    • Long_Li
    • 5 yrs ago
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    I deleted a page after being reassured that it could be recovered. But now I am having trouble finding out how to recover the deleted page. 

      • Technical Specialist
      • Suriavarman
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Hi Long Li ! Thanks for getting in touch! Can you please let us know how you deleted the page? Is it via the page settings or from the Course Setup > Content or Appearance tab?
      Also, do you still have the page URL or title so we can check this from our end? Thanks in advance.

      • Long_Li
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Suriavarman Thank you! I deleted through: Page > Settings > Advanced. No I don't think I still have the URL. 

      • Technical Specialist
      • Suriavarman
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Thanks for your reply! Can you share with us the course link instead, we'll see if we can recover it from our end.

      • Long_Li
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Suriavarman  Thank you Suria. I've sent you an email about this. We need this page to be available to students by Sunday. 

      • Long_Li
      • 5 yrs ago
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      Long Li What happened was that I copied the page, and then tried to delete the duplicate, but the original got deleted as well. 

    • Andrea_MontgomerieWilli
    • 4 yrs ago
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    Where can I find guidelines on using multiple pages within a topic? One of our topics within one of the modules has a series of individual videos - should these all be placed in the one page or separate pages?  How do the pages flow from one to the next is it seamless or another "step" for the learner? Thanks

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 4 yrs ago
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      Andrea Montgomerie-Williams Hi Andrea, I'm not sure I understand your query. What you mean by "topic"? In general, there can be multiple pages inside a module. You simply keep on adding them in Course setup > Content

       

      Within the course page, you can add as many widgets as you like - different types, or the same type - for example several videos, if you need to, you just keep adding them to the page.

       

      Does that help? 

      • Customer Success & Onboarding Team Leader at OpenLearning
      • Alenka_Prezelj
      • 4 yrs ago
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      As for the flow from page to page, there are Next buttons on the right bottom of each page.

       

    • megat_faizul_khairi
    • 1 yr ago
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    I'll try understand the content more later

Content aside

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