We've updated our Content Authoring and Management interface and we can't wait for you to explore! Watch the video below for an introduction to the updates.
Below are key takeaways from this redesign. There are two areas we've updated:
Overview & Scope
Authoring Redesign
- The focus of this redesign is authoring settings so the course outline/page editing experience remains the same.
- This redesign touches all content types and includes site and panorama authoring.
- All functionality and settings have been maintained but may be moved to a new location or restyled.
Layout
Authoring Redesign
01
Header
- Title shown is the session title
- Tabs vary by content type
- Tab labels and location of settings are relatively consistent across content types
- ILTs/VILTs have an additional ‘Event’ tab
- Learning Paths have a ‘Milestone’ tab instead of a ‘Content’ tab
- Preview Course by clicking on the thumbnail
- Dot color besides Title indicates release status:
- Unreleased: grey
- Pending: orange
- Released: green
- Click on X to close and return to content list
- Save button is located on the right side of the header
Note
Exceptions to the Save button location:
- Content Tab: Save remains the same as production, which is in a sticky bar at the bottom of the page.
- Release Tab: There is no save button in the header because the Summary is read-only. Save buttons only exist inside the modals found within that tab.
02
Content Tab
- Contains course outline and page editing (no change in behavior)
- Utilities modal
- Currently these are called ‘Sidebar & Tools’ settings
- Utilities impact learner display and course interaction
- Resource Library modal
- The existing Resource Library and Downloadable Files (now called ‘Course Files’) can now be accessed from one button but live in two separate tabs
03
Design Tab
- Basic Settings
- Edit Session Title
- Catalog Settings modal
- Edit Course Group Title, custom fields, tags, catalog, detail page, SEO settings
- This modal contains all settings that are shared across all sessions in the course
- Appearance
- Edit Font, colors, logo etc.
- Custom CSS
- Session Custom Fields
- Extra tab displays in ‘Design’ if the ‘Session Level Custom Fields’ flag is enabled
04
Completion Tab
- Completion Criteria
- Awards
- Extra tab displays in ‘Completion’ if the ‘Award Claiming’ flag is enabled
- Certificates
05
Enrollment Tab
- Groups settings related to making content available for learners to enroll
- Access
- No change to settings
- Ecommerce
- No change to settings
06
Release Tab
- This tab is new in the redesign and includes existing functionality plus a new Summary ‘Release’ tab will now show to users with the “Edit Content” permission.
- Within this tab, these users see:
- Release button
- Summary
- Testimonials
- Summary
- This is meant to be a snapshot of the key settings that have been configured so far so users can make sure information looks correct before releasing.
- It’s view-only so users must go back to the other tabs to make updates.
- Settings reflected in the Summary vary by content type
- Other existing permissions will be maintained to control functionality found in this tab, including:
- Copy
- Create New Session
- Archive
- Email Learners
- Testimonials
- Reporting
- SCORM Connect (flagged)
- For users without the ‘Edit Content’ permission, they will not see the ‘Release’ tab. However, they can still access existing functionality (e.g. Reporting, Email Learners, etc) from individual modals, which are made available from the content list actions menu.
Panorama
Authoring Redesign
- Changes to site-level authoring have been matched within panorama authoring in this project
- Since there is no release functionality within panorama, client roles will see the “Release” tab labelled as “Manage” instead
- Client content creators [behind ‘Panorama Content Creation (BETA)’ flag] will have an improved user flow to provision content to sublicenses
- When these users have the ‘Edit Licenses’ permission, they will see an “Assign” button within the Manage tab. This button will direct them to the sublicenses page where they can provision the content.
Overview & Scope
Content List Redesign
- We updated the styling of the content list to use our new table component and made improvements to session management and filtering
- Impacts site level and panorama content lists
- Table columns remain the same, except we removed the ‘Created’ date column
- Users can still see a content’s created date within the authoring UI under the new ‘Release’ tab.
Filters
Content List Redesign
- Moved from the sidebar to the header
- Can expand or collapse the filter component
- Some filters display by default
- Status, Type, Tag
- Users can add/remove additional filters from the menu
- Users can search within filter dropdowns to quickly find a filter value
Actions
Content List Redesign
- From the All Content List > click Title
- For most content types, this launches the authoring UI to edit the content
- For Courses/ILTs/VILTs with multiple sessions--this opens the session management UI
- From the All Content List > click Actions Menu
- Actions menu (three dots) is accessed at the end of each row of content
- Actions menu displays for all content---except for Courses/ILTs/VILTs with multiple sessions (see behavior in Session Management notes below)
- Available actions in the dropdown depend on the content type and user permissions
- Clicking on an option from the dropdown will trigger a modal to open on top of the content list
- New quick actions available from the content list:
- Copy
- Create Session
- Archive
Session Management/Content Drawer
Content List Redesign
- Content Drawer Slides open and close from the left side of the content list
- It acts as a secondary navigation where users can access the ‘All Content’ list and switch between other lists of content
- Archived content
- Switch between the active and archived content lists, using the toggle at the bottom of the content drawer
- Session Management UI
- ‘All Content’ list > Click on title for Courses/ILTs/VILTs with multiple sessions
- A new course tab opens in the content drawer, displaying the session management UI
- Up to 5 courses tabs can be opened in the drawer at the same time
- All sessions of the course display
- See the release status of each session
- For ILT/VILTs, see the (first) meeting date in each session
- Click on the title to open the authoring UI
- Access the actions menu at the end of each row
- Under the gear icon in the header
- Release all sessions of the course
- Edit catalog settings (which are shared across all sessions of the course)
Panorama
Content List Redesign
- The content list in panorama will be restyled to match the site-level redesign
- A new column for ‘Content Type’ is displayed
- Since there is no session management within panorama, there will be no content drawer on a panorama’s content list
- By default, the panorama content list can now be filtered by ‘Type’ and ‘Tag’
- There are no additional filter options besides these