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Creating a PDF Viewer Page

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PDFs provide an easy way to store and distribute course materials securely. If you are looking to incorporate PDFs within your course, Thought Industries has a page type to accommodate.

Use Case Information

The PDF Viewer page allows you to share and display a PDF file directly on a course page. PDF files will appear within a frame on the page and have optional security settings to disable file download, print, and search within the PDF.

Learner View:
PDFViewerPage_LearnerView.png

How to Configure the PDF Viewer Page Into a Course

Below, please find the steps to include this Content Page Type into your course:

  1. From your homepage, select Courses > All Courses.
  2. Click the Content Title for to the course you want to alter.
  3. Within the course outline, go to the lesson where you'd like to add a PDF viewer page. 

  4. Click the plus sign in your course outline > hover over the Add Page icon and click.
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  5. Choose the PDF viewer page type.
    CreatingPDFViewer_PageType_AdminView.png
  6. Add a page title.
  7. Click Save.
  8. You can now upload a PDF file. Note that the maximum file size is 25mb.
  9. There are optional security settings. If you would like to enable them, toggle each setting to "Yes".
    • Disabling File Download: The download icon will disappear and learners will not be able to download the PDF.
    • Disabling Print: The print icon will disappear and learners will not be able to print the PDF.
    • Disabling Search: The search icon will disappear and learners will not be able to search or select text on the PDF.

      CreatingPDFViewerPage_AdminView.png
  10. You can also find the following options under Advanced Settings:
    • Unlocking for editing by children? - This offers Panorama roles, who have the permission, to edit this page in your course.
    • Indentation Level -

      The Indentation Level is behind a feature flag.

      This allows for the syllabus in the course menu to be indented. When enabled, you can nest pages under each other.

    • # of seconds required for completion - Number of seconds required to mark this page as complete. If set, the learner must remain on the page (without refreshing or going to another page) for the number of seconds specified in order to be marked complete.
    • Audio Narration File - Although it is not system functionality to record audio in the platform, you can upload audio files.
  11.  Click Save.

Note

Searching within a course (if enabled) cannot crawl PDF documents uploaded to a PDF Viewer page.

Tip

A text block editor (WYSIWYG) is available on the top and bottom of all page types in the native course authoring tool to provide even more information to your learners.

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