The Social Share Cards page type, designed to enable your learners to share information you've curated in a course with their social media networks, has been retired. If it's already part of your course, you'll find support below. For a similar experience moving forward, explore the alternative solutions provided in this article.
Use Case Information
Social share cards allow you to include shareable content (e.g., images, quotes) within your course. Learners can easily share the cards on social media sites and/or download them to their devices. For each card, you can specify a title and description that will also be shared on social media.
How To Configure the Social Share Cards Page Into a Course
Below, please find the steps to include this interactive page into your course:
- From your homepage, select Courses > All Courses.
- Click the Content Title for to the course you want to alter.
- Within the course outline, go to the lesson where you'd like to add a Social Share Cards page.
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Click the plus sign in your course outline > hover over the Add Page icon and click.
- Choose the Social Share Cards page type.
- Add a page title.
- Click Save.
- Click Add Image Card.
- Add Card Title and Card Description.
- Drag an image or click in the box to upload one. Once the image has been uploaded, you can resize it. Be sure to click Crop & Select Image.
- Click Save Card.
- Repeat steps 7-10 until all of your cards have been added.
- Lastly, add a sidebar title and description for your social share cards page. Or, toggle Hide sidebar? to "Yes".
- 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.
- Click Save.
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.
Notes, Tips, and Considerations
- Social Share Card images are required to be 340 x 340 pixels.
- If someone comes across a shared card on a social site, there will be a link to the appropriate course detail page where they can learn about the course.