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The course elements are structuring primitives dedicated to contents.
In order to give a good unity of form, and to allow learners to clearly identify the educational demand, they allow a fast implementation of the contents, texts and messages. Some of them have added functionalities.
The teacher only cares about the local formatting of his message, without worrying about the visual “integration” of his message.
There are 5 types of course elements with different functionalities:
Special Features Generic elements Elements of structures Meta Elements Educational elements