What are Learning Modules?

Learning modules are an effective and student friendly way to group content and set the pace of your course.

You can use learning modules in your course as containers for organized collections of content. For example, learning modules can be organized to support a course objective, concept, theme, or unit.

Alternatively, you can allow students to explore the content in a learning module at their own pace and in any order.

How to Create a Learning Module:

You can add learning modules directly on the Course Content page:

Select the purple plus button to add a learning module wherever you want on your Content Page

In the menu, select Create to open the Create Item panel.

Select the Learning module.

You can also drag existing content into modules or use the plus icon to add new content directly.

You can add these items to a learning module:

Documents

Files

Tests and assignments

Folders

Multimedia

Links to websites, discussions, and journals

Customize your learning module’s appearance by adding a photo

Adding an image to your learning modules enhances engagement, improves comprehension, and can make complex information easier to grasp. Images can also help students visualize abstract concepts and remember information more effectively.

Select the three dots to the right of the learning module on your course content page.
Select Edit to bring up the learning module editing panel.
Select an engaging and relevant image for your learning module.
Select the image icon in the edit panel. You can now upload an image. JPEG and PNG formats are supported.

5. A preview of the image appears. Select Next to continue.
You can select the trash icon to cancel the upload instead.

6. Position the image. You can adjust the zoom of the image using a slider and select and drag the parts of the image that you want to include in the learning module.

Select Save to continue.

7. The image is uploaded to your learning module.

The image may take a few seconds to load, depending on your internet connection speed.

8. Learning module images are automatically marked as decorative, which hides the banner for students using assistive technologies.

If you want all students to know the content of the image, uncheck Mark the image as decorative.

Enter a description of the image in the Alternative text field.

9. Select ‘Save‘ to enable the image for your learning module.

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