Creating Course Content
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
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Advanced Features
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
Designing an Accessible Course
These are the recommendations from D2L/Brightspace, the makers of OAKS. For more information, visit CofC’s Disability Services Office.
Administering a 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
Monitoring a Course
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
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