Set Up and Deliver an OAKS Course

Instructors can create course content with the following tools:

• Create course content with the Content tool
• Format HTML course content with the HTML Editor tool
• Add URL links to a course with the Links tool
• Create a custom learning path in a course with the Release Conditions tool
• Notify learners about updated course content
• Add availability and due dates in Content
• Evaluate assignment submissions from Content

Visit Creating Course Content

Instructors can create course content with the following tools:

• Automatically personalize your course with Replacement Strings
• Find course activity that matches certain criteria with Intelligent Agents
• Insert Third Party content (ex. YouTube, Flickr, other OAKS Tools, Publisher’s Packs)
• Create a course homepage and widgets
• Create a course navbar and theme

These are the recommendations from D2L/Brightspace, the makers of OAKS.  For more information, visit CofC’s Disability Services Office.

• Adding an accessible template package to your course files
• Meeting web content accessibility standards
• Accessibility considerations when organizing your course
• Directing learners to accessibility resources
• Scenarios for creating release conditions to increase accessibility in courses

Visit Design an Accessible Course

Instructors can administer a course with the following tools:

• Managing course components and copying components to a new course
• Course checklists
• Bulk managing course dates
• Managing course events in the calendar
• Tracking attendance

Instructors can monitor a course the following ways:

• Track activity and user progress on SCORM objects – THIS IS NOT USED OFTEN
• About tracking content completion and participation
• Manage completion tracking settings for a topic
• Check completion tracking for a content topic
• Checking course content statistics
• Check course content feedback
• Change content display settings
• View user progress in Content

Visit Monitoring a course