Developing Your Course Outline

As you develop your course, you work primarily in the LP+ADOPT Studio course outline. This section includes the following information about working with the course outline.

Open the Course Outline

To view the course outline, follow these steps.

  1. Sign in to LP+ADOPT Studio.
  2. On the My Courses page, select the course you want to develop.

The course outline opens by default when you open a course.

To open the outline when you are working in a course, from the Content menu, select Outline.

The first time you view an outline for a course, it contains no content. The following message is visible.

You haven’t added any content to this course yet.

Understanding a Course Outline

Course authors build a course outline on the Course Outline page in Studio. Learners see this course outline in the LMS.

To view the course outline in the LMS, go to the Course Outline page in Studio, and then select either Preview or View Live.

In the following image, the Studio view of the course outline.

Course Outline

Below is the view of the course outline in the LMS.

LMS Course outline view

In Studio, you navigate the course outline by expanding and collapsing sections and subsections. Use the “drop-down” icon next to a section or subsection name to expand or collapse its contents.

Outline Expand

When you expand a subsection, all units in the subsection are visible.

Add Content in the Course Outline

You can add content in the course outline by creating a new section, subsection, or unit, or by duplicating an existing unit, subsection, or section.

Note: If you want to require an entrance exam for your course, you also create the exam in the course outline. Before you can create an exam, you must set your course to require an entrance exam in Studio.

Modify Settings for Objects in the Course Outline

You modify settings for sections, subsections, and units in the course outline. Specifically, you can complete the following tasks.

  • Set a Section Release Date
  • Hide a Section from Learners
  • Set a Subsection Release Date
  • Set the Assignment Type and Due Date for a Subsection
  • Hiding a Subsection from Learners
  • Hide a Unit from Learners

To modify settings for a section, subsection, or unit, select the Configure icon for that object. In the following example, the Configure icon is circled for a section, a subsection, and two units.

Settings icon

Publish Content from the Course Outline

You can publish new and changed units for an entire section or subsection. You can also publish individual units.

To publish new and changed units, select the Publish icon for a section, subsection, or unit. In the following example, the Publish icon is circled for a section, subsection, and unit.

Publish

Reorganize the Course Outline

You can reorganize your course content by dragging and dropping sections, subsections, and units to new locations in the outline.

You can reorganize components by dragging and dropping them within the same unit, or by moving them from one unit to another unit.

To drag a section, subsection, or unit to another position in the course outline, move your cursor over the handle on the right of the object’s box until the cursor changes to a four-headed arrow.

Reorganize content

Then, select and drag the object to the location that you want.

If you expanded the section or subsection you are moving the object to, when you move the object, a blue line indicates where the object will land when you release the mouse button

new location

If you did not expand the section or subsection you are moving the object to, the outline of that section or subsection turns blue when you have moved the object to a valid location. You can then release the mouse button.

Delete Content in the Course Outline

You delete sections, subsections, and units from the course outline.

Warning: You cannot restore course content after you delete it. To ensure you do not delete content you may need later, you can move any unused content to a section in your course that you set to never release.

Select the Delete icon in the box for the object you want to delete.

Delete

You are prompted to confirm the deletion.

Confirm delete

Note: When you delete an object, all objects that it contains are deleted. For example, when you delete a subsection, all units in that subsection are deleted.