Building a simple e-briefing - adding images, text and media

A quick recap if you need it.

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.

We’ve split this up into smaller, more easily digestible chunks for you:

Adding images, text and media …

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 let’s crack on with the next part in this mini-series.