Rearranging course items

When you are building the course in the editor, you would probably try out many things in terms of grouping the lessons and tests in the modules, hierarchy of the modules and topics before finalizing. And course editor makes it easy to move things around to make this moving/shifting easily using drag and drop. At present multiple drag drop (multi select) is not supported, and the drag drop operation doesn't work in Internet Explorer but we are working on finding a solution for it.

Moving at the same level

To move the modules, topics, lessons, scorms or tests in the course up or down at the same level (within same parent), use the arrow icons in the toolbar

Moving from one to another module or topic

Drag Drop method (for moving single item - lesson, quiz, topic, course)

You can click on the icon of the module/topic/lesson/test/scorm and hold for a second, then keep holding the mouse and drag the item and drop it on the parent item (module, topic or course itself) where you want it to get moved.

Moving Multiple Selected Items

You can hold SHIFT button and click on lesson(s) and quiz(zes) to select multiple items anywhere, and then right click on the module or topic where you want to move them to and select Move Here from the menu,

Moving Lessons/Tests from one module to another at specific place

To move lesson from one to another module before a specific lesson in the destination module, you can drop the dragged lesson on any specific lesson before which you want to insert the dragged one. This also applies to dragging and dropping tests.

Resequencing multiple files within a lesson

To move multiple files in same lesson, you can go to files tab when the lesson is selected, and as you move your mouse over to the files, you would see an arrow icon to click, for moving the file up or down in the same lesson.

Moving modules / topics

To move modules and topics, first double click on the icon to collapse it, then use drag drop to move to desired place. You can double click again to expand it. You can also use the Arrow buttons in toolbar to move modules/topics up or down within the same parent item.

Bulk Deletion of Lessons or Tests

You can right click on any module or topic and use Delete Tests or Delete Lessons to delete all lessons/tests from that module or topic

A confirmation dialog would appear before the actual deletion occur in the editor to avoid accidental deletion.

Show / Hide Lessons

In case you need to temporarily hide a lesson without deleting it, you can right click on the lesson and use Hide / Unhide options from the context menu.

Saving

Nothing gets saved to server after the result of rearranging, until you click the Save button on the toolbar, so in case you did something wrong, just clicking the refresh button or reloading the editor would revert back everything.

Undoing all the edits

At any point, you can revert all the edits, by clicking on Refresh button in the toolbar. Only unsaved changes would be undone.

Effect on Existing Course Sessions

The edits you do in editor would be visible in the course sessions, so it is advised that you analyze the impact before doing it if you already have course sessions using the course. Otherwise, you can make another course and import items from the previous into it, and rearrange them in the second course