Taking Notes in a Course

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.

Inline Note Taking is an enhanced learner experience which allows the learner to add contextual notes on text pages within the platform.  By highlighting a section of copy, the learner can add a note attached to the highlighted section. The note is indexed for the user to access at anytime for review, editing, or deleting from within the course.

Where do I find this?

Default Notes within a course:

Content > Actions > View > Left Course Navigation Menu

To enable Inline Note Taking:

Settings > Content > Organization & Display > Learner Display section

How do I do this?

1. From your homepage, go to Settings and then Content. 
2. Click Organization & Display and find the Learner Display section. 
3. Toggle "Enable Inline Note-taking?" to "Yes".
   
   
4. Click Save.

1. 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 > Actions > View. 
2. From the learner dashboard, jump into a course. 
3. In the course, go to the Notes tab on the left course navigation menu.
4. You will land in the Section notes for whichever Section you were currently in inside of the course.
5. Add a Note and click Save.
   • If taking a note under "All Notes", associate the note with whichever section is appropriate before clicking Save.
     
     

1. 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 > Actions > View. 
2. From the learner dashboard, jump into a course. 
3. In the course, navigate to the page you'd like to take a note on.
4. Highlight the text and click the "Add Note" pop-up near the text. 
5. Add a comment.
6. Click Save.
   
   

1. 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. 
   
   
4. The other option is to 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 (the section depends on the page the note was taken on).
     
     

What else do I need to know?

• This feature is only available on Text Pages and within Text Blocks of pages in Course Content Types.
• 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 (e.g. <p>).