Importing from Course Cartridges
This chapter describes how to use the Course Content Import feature (or CCI feature), which lets you import material from 1EdTech Common Cartridge files into your course context.
Key Concepts
The CCI feature lets you integrate course cartridge materials into other features in your course. You can also use the CCI feature to simply browse the contents of a cartridge.
The CCI feature works with 1EdTech Common Cartridge versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.
As a point of reference, v1.1 files and higher have an .imscc extension and v1.0 files have a .zip extension. However, note that not all .zip files are supported by the CCI feature, because not all .zip files are compliant with the v1.0 standard.
The default template for course contexts does not include an instance of the CCI feature, so you may need to add the feature to a page. However, before you add an instance of the feature to your site, note the following:
If you want to import content directly from the CCI feature to a feature within your course context (this is probably the most common use of the feature), then the CCI feature must be placed somewhere within that course context.
If you do not want students to be able to view the course materials you upload to your CCI feature instance, you should place it on a page that students do not have access to. Note that the CCI feature instance has a browse view that lets users see password-protected items.
The CCI feature can be used to do either of the following:
Integrate material into other features
Host content that users can browse
The CCI feature lets you integrate content into any of the following feature types:
Announcements
Coursework
File Cabinet
Forums
Learning Tools
Resources
Integrating material into your feature instances is a two-part process that involves bringing the material into a CCI feature instance, then moving it to its destination, as follows:
You can set up a CCI feature instance to be a place where other users browse the material of a course cartridge. To do this, you complete the following tasks:
The material loaded into each CCI feature instance is specific to that instance alone. So, if you load a course cartridge into a particular CCI feature instance, the cartridge is available only in that instance, and not in any others.
Similarly, the ability of a user to manage content within CCI is specific to each instance of the feature. There are no global permissions (global feature operations) for the CCI feature.
Every instance of the CCI feature will always let you import from your File Cabinet.