Content

course content is a powerful feature in ampeducator that helps instructors organize their courses in a structured and interactive way this feature allows you to create a detailed course outline, manage units and sections, and add resources such as documents, videos, quizzes, and more by using course content, you can create an engaging, organized learning environment for your students enabling lms content to begin using course content, navigate to the lms tab of your course and enable course content once activated, a new content tab will appear in the course settings, where you can start building and organizing your course structure engagement tracking in course content when you enable course content , a section appears underneath with engagement tracking settings this feature helps measure how students interact with lms content, making it easier to monitor progress in asynchronous or self paced courses engagement period this setting defines how long a student must actively engage with course content before that engagement is recorded for example, if it's set to 5, the system will only track engagement once the student has been active for a full 5 minutes engagement idle this setting defines how long a student can be inactive before the system stops tracking engagement time if there's no interaction within the set number of minutes, a popup will appear asking the student if they are still there at that point engagement tracking pauses the student must confirm they are still present by clicking ok once confirmed, engagement tracking resets and begins again this helps ensure that progress is only recorded when the student is actively engaging with course content, rather than leaving the window open and unattended course content totals below the engagement settings, you’ll see real time stats showing how many content units are available, how many have been started or completed, and overall progress percentages across all enrolled students you can manually refresh these totals at any time by clicking recalculate totals course content settings to access your course content settings, go to the content tab, click the menu next to outline , and select settings from here, you can configure options that control how students engage with your course content flow control options the flow control settings determine how students progress through your course units you can choose from the following options none no controls; students can access all content freely date students can access units only on specified dates instructor the instructor manually determines when students can access units progress students must complete one unit before moving on to the next declaration students must declare they've completed each unit before they can move on progress threshold % when using progress , you can set a minimum percentage that a student must complete within a unit before they can access the next one show progress option you can enable the show progress feature, which allows students to see their progress through the course content this visual indicator helps students track their completion numbering options you can also customize how units, sections, and resources are numbered choose from the following formats none no numbering decimal a standard number format (e g , 1 1, 1 2) alpha use letters (a, b, c) roman use roman numerals (i, ii, iii) adding units and sections units form the core structure of your course, with each unit containing multiple sections to organize your content further creating new units to create a new unit, click the dropdown menu next to outline and select new unit then, enter a name for the unit and provide a description if you have enabled flow control, additional options will appear, allowing you to set how students progress through the content within this unit creating new sections once you've created a unit, you can easily add sections to it to do so, click the dropdown menu next to the unit and select add new section give the section a title and, if necessary, add a description you also have the option to enable a quiz for the section; however, you can always add a quiz later if preferred adding resources once your sections are set up, you can add resources like documents, links, text, and videos to do so, click the dropdown menu next to the section title and select the resource type each resource offers customization options to suit your course needs documents upload files for students to download or view inline documents can also be made available in the course documents section resource links add external urls, such as articles, websites, or additional materials, directly to your course text insert instructional content or additional course information in text format videos add video resources, which students must watch before progressing or marking the section as complete adding quizzes quizzes in ampeducator are a great way to assess student understanding and engagement throughout your course you can easily add quizzes to the sections of units and choose from a variety of question types, including multiple choice, multiple select, fill in the blanks, and matching to create a quiz, simply enable the quiz when creating a new section if the section already exists, you can edit the section to enable the quiz once enabled, the quiz will appear at the bottom of the section from there, you can click on the dropdown menu next to the quiz to add questions and make any customizations course content video guide the video below walks you through the entire process of creating and organizing course content in ampeducator it covers how to add units, sections, resources, and quizzes, as well as how to customize each element to suit your course needs