CREATE A NEW PAGE IN A COURSE

As an instructor, you can create a new page in a course. When creating a page, you can set page permissions regarding who can edit the page. You can also add the page to the student To Do list.

Step 1

Open Pages

In Course Navigation, click the Pages link.

Step 2

View Pages

Pages is designed to open to the front page for the course, if there is a front page selected. To select a page from the Pages Index, click the View All Pages button.

Step 3

Add Page

Click the Add Page button.

Step 4

Add Content

Enter a name for your page [1].

Add links, files, images, and other content using the Rich Content Editor [2]. The Rich Content Editor includes a word count display below the bottom-right corner of the text box.

Step 5

Edit Page Settings

You can determine who can edit the page by clicking the Users allowed to edit this page drop-down menu [1]. Options include only teachers, teachers and students, or anyone. The anyone option only applies to users who are enrolled in the course.

You can add the page to the student To Do list by clicking the Add to student to-do checkbox [2]. Items added to the student To Do list also display on the course calendar and students' course sidebar To Do list.

You can schedule when a page will be published. Enter a date and time in the Publish At field [3]. Your page must be unpublished to schedule a publication date.

You can also notify users that content on the page has changed by clicking the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox [4].

Note: If users have Course Content notifications turned off, then they are not notified of page updates.

Step 6

Save and Publish

If you are ready to publish your page, then click the Save & Publish button [1]. If you want to create a draft of your page, then click the Save button [2].

Note: If you try to navigate away from a page without saving, then you will generate a pop-up warning.

When your page is saved in a draft state, you can return to the page and publish it at any time by clicking the Publish button [1]. The button will change from gray to green [2].

Step 7

View Scheduled Page Publication

When your page is saved for scheduled publication, you can return to the page and manage the publishing of it at any time by clicking the Will publish on... button [1].

You can choose between publishing the page, unpublishing the page, or scheduling the page for publication.

Step 8

View Page

View the page that you created for your course.

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