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Note Taking & Inline Notes

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  2. Use Case Information
  3. Notes Utility Tab
  4. Enabling Inline Note Taking
  5. Creating an Inline Note
  6. Viewing an Inline Note
  7. Notes, Tips and Considerations

 

Use Case Information

By default, each course has note taking as an available feature to the learner. Learners can take notes by navigating to the Notes tab in the left course navigation menu.However, The Notes tab is a specific area, if you wish to to take notes while viewing certain pages use Inline Note Taking. Inline Note Taking is an enhanced learner experience which allows the learner to add contextual notes on text pages within the platform.

When configured you can control the following:

  • Learners can take notes, view notes and edit note from the Notes Utility Tab
  • Learners can highlight text and take notes on pages
  • Learners can review notes highlighted

Tip

If internest in the notebook page type please visit the article Creating a Notebook Page

Notes Utility Tab

Tip

It is recommended to log in as a learner in order to see this behavior effectively. If that's not an option, you can preview the course as an Admin by going to Content > Manage Content > Actions Menu > Preview.

  1. As a Learner, From the learner dashboard, enter into a course. 
  2. In the course, go to the Notes tab on the left course navigation menu.
  3. You will land in the Section notes for whichever Section you were currently in inside of the course.
  4. Add a Note and click Save.NoteTaking_DefaultGIF_LearnerView.gif

Tip

If taking a note under "All Notes", associate the note with whichever section is appropriate before clicking Save.

Enabling Inline Note Taking

  1. As an Admin, from your homepage, go to Settings and then Content. 
  2. Click Organization & Display and scroll down to find the Learner Display section. 
  3. Enable the toggle Enable Inline Note-taking?. NoteTaking_InlineToggleCloseUp_AdminView.png
  4. Click Save.

Creating an Inline Note

Note

Inline Note Taking is only available on Text Pages and within the Text Blocks of pages in Course Content Types

  1. As a learner, from the learner dashboard, enter into a course. 
  2. In the course, navigate to the page you'd like to take a note on.
  3. Highlight the text and click the Add Note pop-up near the text. 
  4. Add a comment.
  5. Click Save. NoteTaking_InlineGIF_LearnerView.gif

Viewing an Inline Note

  1. As a Learner, after saving the inline note, the text will display highlighted to the learner going forward indicating that they've taken a note on that text. 
  2. Hover over the highlighted text and click the View Note pop up. 
  3. View the note in the course page.  NoteTaking_InlineViewGIF_LearnerView.gif
  4. The other option is to use the Notes tab in the left Course Navigation Menu.

Note

To view all inline notes at once, use the Notes tab in the left Course Navigation Menu. Inline notes will appear in All Notes as well as the section the note is associated with.

Notes, Tips and Considerations

  • If a learner revisits a page they took an inline note on, and the page has been changed, then the learner will see no highlighted text. However, the inline note will still display in the utility under its section. This will be the case if an admin changes anything to alter highlighted phrases' start position or within the highlighted phrase itself.
  • If a page has been deleted, the “View on page in course” link is hidden from the learner.
  • Notes are not saved for admin interface review or reporting purposes.
  • The character limit for highlighted text is 500 characters. Any character highlighted over 500, the “Add Note” popup will not appear.
  • The ability to add a note is disabled, if the text selected includes a HTML block-level element.NoteTaking_InlineNotesTabGIF_LearnerView.gif

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