Components of the Course Organizer
The following subsections explain the components that appear in the Course Organizer by default. The section after that, Customizing the Course Organizer, explains how to customize the information that appears on this page.
Course Overview
The Course Overview section of the Course Organizer shows basic information pertinent to the viewer, regardless of which unit is being viewed. It can show the latest news (from any Blog page and aggregates only within the course context), the next event from the course calendar, and (to students) the next due date and current course grade.
The Course Overview section includes the following information:
Component | Description |
|---|---|
Course Status | Shows a student's current grade from the grade sheet, a snapshot of attendance and the latest comment from the faculty on a student's grade sheet. |
Next Event | Contains details on the next event on any calendar within the course that the current user can see. |
Latest News | Contains a snippet of the latest blog post from within the course. |
Next due date | Contains the next assignment due in the course, regardless of unit, which is visible to the current user. |
Unit in Detail
The Unit in detail shows the content relevant to a given unit. This lets students see the content they are interested in at a glance in a single location. Generally, you will display all of these, but if you aren't using one or more of these types of content in your course, you can turn them off.
The Unit in detail section includes the following information:
Component | Description |
|---|---|
Unit Content | Shows a block of free-form content unique to each unit. This content, unlike the unit description, will not show within the Coursework or Resources features. For more information, see Add Unit Content. |
Calendar | Shows events from the course calendar during the date range of the unit. Past events, if included in the calendar data, display in italics. |
Coursework | Shows the assignments that are a part of the unit, as set up on the Coursework page. |
Resources | Shows the files and links that are flagged as part of this unit, from all Resources pages in the course. To show up here, be sure the files or links are saved in the special set that corresponds to the eLearning unit and the students can see the page that the resource is on. |
News & Discussions | Shows posts from any Blog feature within the date range of the selected unit, as well as any discussion threads from any Forums pages during the date range of the unit. |