User guide

Course Elements

Introduction

General presentation of the course elements

Meta elements

Former two element are generaly used in top section or cover page of a course. Latter two elements are used to help coordination between course assessors or designers.

Information about course

Information about authors

Pedagogic advice

Authoring note

Structural Elements

Those elements structurates the visual organization of the course page content. they are essentially intended to render as titles. They are provided here in a usual hierarchical order, but we experienced sometime some alternate semantic ordering of the levels. This is not impacting the element concept in itself.

Course heading

Section header

Sequence header

Content unit header

Generic Elements

Comment box

Important !

Simple text (2 reading levels)

Pedagogic elements

These elements are content pedagogic bricks and allow a nice unity of the course content with clear markers.

Key points

Work to do

Definition

Example

Fundamental knowledge

Information

Method

Local goals

Question

Remind

Soluce

Theorema

Tips and tricks

See also

Special elements

Those elements cannot fit into any of the preceding categories.

Course Classifier

Vertical column spacing (page format related)

Contact point

Standard way of adding a course element into the course

Switch the course in editing mode

Click on an “Add an activity or resource” link

Choose “Customlabel” in the resource choice list

When entering in the configuration form for the resource instance, choose the element subtype in the first top setting, and let the form reload to presnet you the specific settings for this type.

Configuring the plugin instance

You will examine the specific settings for some course element subtypes, each one can have a distinct set of settings.

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