Adding the course home page elements
You will need to add the following to your course home page:
- Course and banner images and theme colour (see also Collection banner image if you need a Collection for your courses)
- Add a course description
Optional: Adding Video or images to the course description - Add Learning Outcomes
2. Add a course description
2.1. Adding Video or images to the course description
In the course description on the course home page you can also add video or other images, such as logos. You add this in the course description or in a label.
To add video:
- In the course description, click on 'Edit' then 'Edit section'.
- Click on the embed media button. The embed media box will appear.
- Enter the URL address of the content you wish to embed within the text e.g. youtube video. Content from the website will be shown in a preview and can then be inserted into the text.
- You can also add a short description (this is optional, though helpful for accessibility reasons) and alignment.
- Save the content. The video should now appear. It is good practice to provide a transcript of the video for accessibility purposes. Upload this as a PDF to the course, then provide a link to the PDF just below the video in the course description. Don't forget to add attribution information about the video (in the acknowledgements of the course or just below the video).
To add an image, such as a logo to the course description:
- In the existing course description, click on 'Edit' then 'Edit section'.
- Click on the image button. The image upload box will appear.
- Click on browse repositories to find the image in your files (using the browse button in the popup screen which appears)
- Complete the information about the image such as the author and the licence
- Click on 'upload this file' button
- Complete the image properties box, including providing a short description of the image for accessibility purposes (for someone who cannot see it - their screen reader software will read this), such as '[organisation] logo', choose the size and alignment of the image.
- Click on 'Save image' and the image will appear in the label. Don't forget to add attribution information about the image (in the acknowledgements of the course or just below the image)