Preconditions: The best role to edit a course is the role of Course Manager. However, the Course Designer has editing rights as well. Of course, you can also enter and edit your courses as a Category (User) Manager.
Under “Settings” in the pink top bar you can edit the name of your course, the course image and description as well as other general course settings.
General
The General settings include the name of your course, which will be shown to your learners. You also need to give your course a short name for internal reporting processes.
Your course category is usually already linked here as a path and the visibility is set to “Hide” as long as your course has not been published in the atingi course library.
Course Full Name – this is the name that will appear at the top of each page in the course, in the Content Library and on the dashboard of learners enrolled in the course. This is a mandatory field.
Course Short Name - this is displayed in the navigation “breadcrumbs”, in the subject line of course e-mail messages and it is also used when enrolling users into a course. The course name needs to be self-explanatory. This is a mandatory field.
Course Category – this will be pre-filled with the name of your team category (which is the same as the Course Category) and should not be changed.Course Start and End dates – these (optional) dates can be used to control availability of the course, but normally these dates can be left unchanged.
Course-ID – this is an optional field that is only required if you need to interface with external systems – usually left blank.
Course Description
Your course description should contain a brief summary of the course in 2-3 sentences. This description is the first information potential learners will see about your course.
Course Image
The image added here will be displayed on the learner’s course overview, along with the course full name and the course summary:
For course images .gif, .jpg and .png files can be used, and should be uploaded (not linked) in size 16:9 (e.g., 447x252 pixels) and not be bigger than 1 MB - ideally less than 500KB.
Furthermore, the course image should correlate to course content and target group, is easy to understand in meaning even when seen on small mobile screen and contains no to little text.
To upload the image, simply drag and drop it in the course image box.
Course Format
There are different formats to choose from to display your course contents. We recommend using the tile format (modern look).
The tiles format additionally allows for colour customization, adding different images or icons to the tiles and giving them titles.
This is how the tiles look with the first tile being opened to show the activities behind it:
If you have chosen the “tiles format” for your course format, you need to enter the course description into two places: the general settings and also on the course page.
To add the description to the course page, go to “Course”, turn “Edit mode” on and click on the three dots on the right. Here, choose “Edit section” and enter the description into the text field.
After you have saved the changes, the description will be visible in the course.
Course Information
Course information & Filtering options also need to be filled in completely before publishing your course. Please learn more here.
All other course settings can be left at their default values. After having adjusted the course settings, click on the pink Save and Display button to get back to your course. You can now start adding activities and resources for your learners.