Content (New Content Experience)

Introduction

The Content tool is used to create and organize course content.

Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, URL links, and existing course activities.

You can also monitor class and user progress as learners work through course content by setting automatic (determined by the system) or manual (determined by the learner) completion tracking.

Table of Contents

Check out a demonstration of the new content experience:

How to Access Content

Click the Content option in the navigation bar of the course home page.

DCConnect Course Navigation Menu - Content

Overview

Introduction

The New Content Experience (NCE) focuses on clean visual presentation of content for educators and learners with a minimalist design. It is a simplified experience for organizing content and managing the availability of course materials. Modules and submodules have been redesigned as units, lessons, and folders to help conceptualize organization and prevent over-modularization. The user interface is streamlined to make it easier to create and edit material as well as to navigate to content and activities. This simplified organization allows instructors to focus on teaching rather than learning how to design a course website.
The Content of a DC Connect course is organized using Units, Lessons, and Topics.

Units are used to organize course content (Lessons and Topics) in a meaningfully way, either chronologically (e.g. Week 1, Week 2, etc.) or by subject matter (e.g. Unit 1 – The Cardiovascular System).

Lessons are used to organize materials within a unit. Think of them as the first level of subfolders of the Unit. Lessons can have Folders added to them to further organize course materials within the Lesson.

Topics can be course files (created with the HTML Editor, or documents uploaded to the course from your computer), activities (created using other DC Connect tools such as Assignments, Quizzes, or Discussion), or links to external resources.

Note

A topic cannot be created without first creating a Unit.

Creating & Managing Content

The following tutorials are located on the D2L Brightspace Help Site.

Print A Quiz

Printed quizzes support all native Brightspace quiz question types, shuffling and randomization options, question pools, multiple versions, and an Answer Key.

To print a quiz

You can print quizzes for offline use.

  1. From the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down beside the quiz name and select the Print option.
  2. On the Print Quiz page, set the following:
    • Choose the number of versions you want to generate.
    • Set your formatting preferences to include fields Name, Student ID, and Date for learners to fill in on the printed quiz.
  3. Select a version tab. Click New Version to regenerate it as many times as needed.
    Increasing the Number of Versions generates different sets of randomly selected questions from the pools for each version.
  4. Print the selected version.

Quiz Question options supported in printed quizzes

The Print Quiz functionality supports a variety of quiz question options:

  1. All native Brightspace question types are supported.
  2. Question Pools are supported.
    •  When you select Print, questions are randomly pulled from question pools (similar to what happens when a quiz attempt is generated).
    •  Increasing the Number of Versions generates different sets of randomly selected questions from the pools for each version.
    • Selecting new randomization or a specific New Version (for example, Version A) triggers a new random set of questions from the pools.
  3. The following Shuffling Options are supported when printing a quiz or multiple versions of a quiz:
    • When creating or editing a quiz, in the Timing & Display section of the quiz settings, select Shuffle Quiz to randomize the order of questions and sections within the quiz.
    • When creating or editing a quiz section, select Shuffle questions in this section to randomize questions, sections, and pools within the section.
    • Randomize answer order is supported when printing a quiz or multiple versions of a quiz. When creating a multiple-choice or multi-select question, select Randomize answer order to present answer choices in a different order.

Refer to Create and configure a quiz for more information about these settings.

Use an Answer Key for grading a printed quiz

You can use the Answer Key provided for each quiz version to quickly and easily grade printed quizzes taken offline. This Answer Key includes the correct answers and, where applicable, the grading method.

To use an Answer Key for grading a printed quiz

  1. From the Manage Quizzes page, click the drop-down beside the quiz name and select the Print option.
  2. On the Print Quiz page, under Answer Key, select Show correct answers.
  3. Choose the version tab for the version of the quiz that you want to grade.
  4. Click Print [Version].

Video: Print a Quiz

This content is adapted from D2L Solutions by Eastern Illinois University and licensed under CC BY 4.0