Creating a simple e-briefing

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A bold brag? Have a go yourself with these simple steps to build content from scratch.

But first, a little context.

Scenario:

You’ve created an important document, which may be part of your people onboarding programme or a critical Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) designed to protect your business. You need to distribute it ASAP and assess whether your message has been received.

What you’re going to achieve in the next few minutes is to create a company-branded course requiring the learner to read a PDF document and then to acknowledge that they’ve read it.

Creating your content…

Press + Create Course and give your course a title and code; press Create

Important Note:

Your course code:

Add a module (you can have multiple modules within a course)

Let’s add some content, and the first step is to give your module a name e.g. “What you need to know”. This will activate + Add content:

Already it’s starting to look like something great!

Create a section:

Give your section a name (so you can navigate to it in the sidebar if you need to get to it quickly), pick a background colour and add this section to your module:

Next, choose a layout and to help you, we’ve created a selection for you to pick from. You can create your own if you’d like to, but we're on a deadline here, so choose Content with image left and press Add layout:

Let’s add an image that reflects our company brand. Press Add image:

… and the Media Library will prompt you to search for an image (click and then pick from your device) or you can just drag and drop it from your device:

Use the image resizing handles to fine-tune your image and press Save:

One last thing before we add some more content is to help any screen readers (e.g. for the visually impaired) by adding in some “Alt text” (which just means “Alternative text”). “Describe” your image in words before you press Use image.

Remember that “Type something...” area in this section?

Go on then, type something fabulous as your “large heading”:

Underneath is another “Type something...” area where you can add some meaningful on-screen text. And to be massively efficient about all this, we’re going to show you something particularly useful, which is how to link to a document at the same time!

Enter something wonderfully informative, highlight a particular word or phrase that you want the learner to click on, and then pick the “Link to document” button:

This opens up our old friend the Media Library, where you can go and find (or drag and drop) your PDF document for your learners to read and inwardly digest:

When you’re happy you’ve got the right document, press Use document:

Okay, so we’re rocking now! Let’s have a quick look at what this course will look like for real. Press Preview:

This is just plain old helpful, and you can have a quick peek at how fabulous your course will look whenever you want to, just hit Exit to get back to creating more content:

Well done for sticking with it thus far. We’ve now done the “create a company-branded course requiring the learner to read a PDF document” bit, so onwards to the “and then to acknowledge that they’ve read it” bit, and our final section, the “acknowledgement” …

Next up is a quick Save (always a good idea), add a new section, call it something brilliant and press Add section:

Pick the “Quiz” layout and press Add layout:

Press Add Quiz Content, pick Mastery Quiz (because you want to track that they’ve done it) and then press Continue:

The quiz is made up of three parts:

1. Setup

2. Questions

3. Results Feedback

And the quickest way to create a quiz is to complete each part and then press Save.

The Setup part gives the quiz:

Pick Questions and Add Question:

The Questions part enables you to add:

When you’ve added all of your answers, ticked the ones that are correct answers (it’ll assume the answer is incorrect unless you tick it), you can save your question by pressing Add question:

Feel free to pop back in and edit anything you like in the Setup and Questions parts, but our time on this planet is short, and there’s much to do, so let’s move on to the final part of creating a quiz, Results Feedback. Here you can add:

… and then press Save.

We now have our simple e-briefing in place, so we should test our quiz to make sure it’s what we intended. Back into Module Preview and press Start Quiz:

Now you can work through the quiz and test all of your questions, and there’s a really cool feature that allows you to test the feedback they’ll get if they got the answer right or wrong. This means you can publish this course with confidence (instead of having to deploy the course, assign it to yourself, test it, make any changes, redeploy and test, etc), so this will save you a lot of time!

Now you can Exit the module preview. You’re ready to publish this course!

There are three main areas to understand about publishing a course:

We’ve covered Content Editor, as you now have a shiny new (and previewed) course!

Next up is Course details. Here you’ll check that you’ve got the right information for this course before you publish it:

… before you press Save.

And finally, Appearance. This is where you put the final touches to your course:

Use the Upload file or drag and drop facility to upload, crop and Save your course icon:

… and do the same for your Cover image. Your course is now ready to publish:

Your course is now looking fabulous, and it’ll stay that way without anyone knowing about it until you press Publish:

Just one more thing to do, and this is to help you once you get into the wonderful world of course revisions (and we’ll save that for another time, I think!), is to add a brief note about what was special or different about this particular revision

To help prevent any mis-published content you’ll need to type the name of your learning platform - so just type what it tells you to type and then press Publish!

Congratulations!, you are the proud creator of a fabulous piece of content that’ll help your teams shine.