How to edit the course sections and description

    When you want to edit different aspects of your course, you need to have role permissions of a Category (User) Manager or Course Manager. 
    You always start editing by turning “Edit mode” on at the top of your course page. 

     

    Your course view will now look differently. For the tiles format like this: 

        

    You can click on the (+) sign to add an activity or resource to a section, click on the pencil icon to change the name of a section and click on the three dots to edit the whole section. 

       

    In the course that is initially set up for you by the atingi team, there are already five sections available: Introduction, Module 1, Module 2, Assessment, and Course Certificate. You can also always add more sections by clicking on “Add section” at the bottom of all sections.  

     

    It is also possible to move sections and/or activities/resources by clicking on the three dots and selecting "move":. 

    You can then rearrange the sections from this pop-up window. 


     

    Next, you will learn more about how to edit your text description. 

    Text Editor 

    For every activity or resource that you set up, you will see a “Description” box where you can enter a text description to display in addition to your content.   

     

    You can also decide if you want this description to be displayed on the course page directly or only when entering the activity. 

     

    Entering plain text is straightforward, but to make your content more interesting you can include much more: 


      

    Basic functions, from left to right: 

    • “B”: Bold  

    • “I”: Italic  

    • Insert image (via URL or upload)  

    • Insert video (via URL or upload)  

    • Record audio  

    • Record video  

    • Insert H5P  

    • Embed link  

    • Unlink  

    • Full screen 

    • Align left 

    • Align centre 

    • Align right 

    • LTR (left-to-right) directionality 

    • RTL (right-to-left) directionality 

    • Increase indent 

    • Decrease indent 

    • Bullets list 

    • Numbered list 

    • Equation editor 

    Advanced functions, from left to right: 

    • Edit 

    • View 

    • Insert 

    • Format 

    • Tools 

    • Table 

     

    HTML

    For editing the HTML, the path should be "View" or "Tools" => Source code. "Code" in "Format" is only for formatting a piece of text as code and is relevant when you want to display a code snippet / code sample. 

    If you are experienced in HTML coding, you can customize the text/images displayed here even more. There is for example the option to have a multilingual course description:  

    For example, to add English text, you need to add <span class="multilang"lang="en_wp"> before the start of the English text and at the end of the text close with </span>. Now you do the same, e.g., for Portuguese text, where you add: <span class="multilang"lang="pt_br_wp">before the start of the text and again close with </span>. 

    Embedding a YouTube Video in the course description 

    To make your course description more interesting, you can not only embed pictures, but also videos by inserting their HTML code. First, you need to go to the video you wish to insert from YouTube. 

     

    Click on the “Share” Button below the video. 

     

    Next, choose “Embed” from the sharing options and copy the HTML code. 

     

     Then, go to your course on atingi, where you want to insert the video in the description. 

    With editing turned on, go to the text editor of your course description and under Display,  click "Source code". 

    You now see your text in HTML. Paste the code where you want the video to appear: 

     

    Click on “Save ” on the bottom of the page and you are done! 


    Comprehensive documentation on the full functionality of the text editor can be found here. 

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