Create a Course Module

Course Module — Defined package of content and supplementary content that can be redistributed to other Möbius users.

A Course Module compacts several pieces of content into one sharable file to ease the exchange of course material between classes and users.

Once you've created a Course Module, you can then add your selected content to it (check out Relocate content) and then export it as a .zip file that can be distributed (check out Export content).

A Course Module is ideal if you want to package up a large amount of content. Example — You might want to send all questions within the Questions pane of your Content Repository to another instructor who uses Möbius at a different university.

NOTE: All content and supplementary content can be added to a Course Module. However, you can't add a Course Module to another Course Module.

NOTE: Once a Course Module is exported and then imported by a recipient, its content is no longer associated with the parent content that was used to build the Course Module. This means that when a recipient imports the Course Module into their Content repository, their imported content won't automatically update to reflect changes made to the original content by the content author. This is in contrast to sharing content where a recipient of shared content will automatically receive content changes when changes are made to the original content by the content author (unless the recipient has cloned the shared content).

NOTE: Creating a Course Module and then adding content will preserve the following content components:

  • Relative paths to resources (Example — images and other files that are referenced by your content).
  • All question types (including those requiring outside resources).
  • Activity behaviors and policies.

To create a Course Module

To create a Course Module that you can add content to and then distribute to others:

  1. Click Content Repository on the Class Homepage.

The content repository menu option is the third option of the instructor main navigation menu.

  1. Click Create New from the main Content Repository menu.

The Create New button is the first button at the top of the Content Repository.

TIP: An alternative way to create a Course Module is to:

  1. Click Course Modules in the supplementary content list of your class.

Course Modules is the twelfth option in the Current Class pane.

  1. Click Create New in the Course Modules pane.

The Create New button is at the bottom of the Course Modules pane.

  1. Click Course Module.

Click Course Module in the popup menu after clicking the Create New button.

  1. Resume at step 4 of To create a Course Module.

  1. Click Course Module.

Click on the Course Module menu option, at the bottom of the Create New button menu.

  1. Define a name for your new Course Module.

In the Add Course Module dialog box, there is a Course Module Name text entry field.

  1. Click Add Course Module.

In the Add Course Module dialog box, click on the Add Course Module button at the bottom right.

  1. Your new Course Module now appears listed in the Course Modules pane. You can now add content to your new Course Module.

A new course module is listed in the Course Modules pane.

TIP: Check out Relocate content to manage the content contained within your Course Module. Use the Add to function to put content into your Course Module. Use the Remove function to withdraw content from your Course Module.

What's next?

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