Our authoring tools let you create engaging readings to place within your course lessons. Readings allow a host of features including:
- Inline discussions and notes
- Highlights
- View Definitions
- Embed videos, images, code blocks
- Image markup
- and more!
Create and Place Reading
Described below are two methods to create a reading. One is optimized for immediate placement in a lesson, and the other is optimized to create a reading to place later.
Create & Place in Lesson
- Navigate to the Lessons page.
- Click “Start Editing” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- While in Edit Mode, click on “+Add Content” in the section you’d like to place your reading.
- Select “Reading” in the “Choose a content type” window.
- Click “Create Content” in the upper left-hand corner.
- Add a title, author (optional), and description (optional) for your reading. You may also add a thumbnail to your reading by clicking on the blue thumbnail button. This is the image that will display on your lessons page.
- Click “Add to Lesson.” This will now navigate you into the reading editing view.
- Create your reading.
- Select the “Publish” state button in the bottom left-hand corner. Select Publish once more.
Create and Place Later
- Navigate to the Lessons page.
- Click “Start Editing” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Select the “Resources” folder at the bottom left-hand corner.
- Note: A list view of your created readings will display. You can search for readings by name in the search field above, and view the publish state and the last modified date.
- Note: A list view of your created readings will display. You can search for readings by name in the search field above, and view the publish state and the last modified date.
- Click on “Create” in the upper right-hand corner.
- Create your reading.
- Choose to publish or leave in draft.
- Select the blue “Publish” button in the bottom right-hand corner to open the publish state flyout. Then, select “Publish” in the flyout in order to publish the text and make it available for placement within a lesson.
- Or, navigate away from the reading without publishing to save it as a draft to return to later. You can find all drafted readings in your Resources folder.
Warning: Publishing a reading only makes it available to place in a lesson. Learners cannot view the reading until it is placed within a lesson.
Place Reading
- Navigate to the Lessons page.
- Click “Start Editing” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- While in Edit Mode, click on “+Add Content” in the section you want to place the reading.
- Click “Reading” in the “Choose a content type” window.
- Select a reading and click “Select” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Note: If readings are faded and unclickable, it is still in “Draft.” You must publish the reading in order to place it in a lesson.
- Note: If readings are faded and unclickable, it is still in “Draft.” You must publish the reading in order to place it in a lesson.
- Add information that learners can see about the reading.
- Reading title (required)
- Reading author (optional)
- Reading description (optional)
- Reading thumbnail image (optional)
- Click “Add to Lesson” to add the reading to the lesson.
Edit Reading
In order to edit the thumbnail, title, author, or description:
- Navigate to the “Lessons” tab and to the lesson with the reading.
- Click on the “Start Editing” button in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Click the “Edit” button for the reading you want to change.
- Make changes. In the Edit Flyout, you can change:
- The section where the reading is placed
- The relative position of the reading within the section
- Change the file that is uploaded and displayed
- Reading title (required information)
- Reading author (optional)
- Reading description (optional)
- Reading thumbnail image
- You can remove a reading from its section, but you cannot undo this deletion. It is a permanent action. (Please note: the reading itself will still be available for placement from within your course files.)
- Click “Save” to save your changes.
In order to edit the content of your readings:
- Navigate to the “Lessons” tab.
- Click on the “Start Editing” button in the bottom right-hand corner.
- In Edit Mode, click on the Resources folder in the bottom left-hand corner.
- Locate your reading within the list or search to find it.
- Click “Edit” located to the far right of the reading title.
- Edit your reading.
- Click “Publish Changes” and “Publish” to publish your changes.
- Note: If you have not yet published, this button will say “Publish.” Click it to publish your reading.
- Note: If you have not yet published, this button will say “Publish.” Click it to publish your reading.
Delete Reading
To remove readings from a lesson:
- Navigate to the “Lessons” tab.
- Click on the “Start Editing” button in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Click on the “x” button on the content.
- Confirm removal.
To permanently delete readings:
- Navigate to the Lessons page.
- Click “Start Editing” in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Select the “Resources” folder at the bottom left-hand corner.
- Select “Edit” next to the reading you wish to delete.
- Click on the blue “Publish Changes” button and select “Delete.”
- Confirm deletion.