All about Course, Lesson & Quiz

The SCALE IT plan users of funnelbuild3r.com has the freedom to create courses.

To create a course from backend you need to browse to Dashboard > Course > Courses > Add New.

The Basics

You’ll find it very easy to create a course with Course. All the task can be done in one place. There’s this Course Builder section which will take care of creating topics, lessons, quizzes, assignments, and questions. Mostly everything that is accessible to a student once they enroll in a course. The rest of the sections control the data that will be put on the Course overview page. First thing first, lets set up the Course overview page.

Course Title: This is where you type in the name of the course. Try to keep it brief and precise.

Description: Your complete course description goes to the Description field. Here you highlight why the course should be taken and who is the appropriate audience for the course.

Choose Categories: For a better understanding and easier navigation, it’s better to assign the course to a category. Note: Only the admin can create a course category.

Course Type: You can define if your course will be free or you are going to charge for the course. Please read this knowledge base if you plan to sell the course Selling Course.

Course Level: This is the general categorization of all the courses. Defining difficulty level here would provide a better user experience.

Feature Image: It’s basically the banner image for the course. It will appear either as the course thumbnail or as the banner image in the respective pages.

Video

This section lets you add and control the settings of the introduction video which typically appears on the course overview page.

Course Intro Video: You can select the introduction video from three sources: HTML5, YouTube, Vimeo, and External URL. Choosing HTML5 will let you upload mp4 video on your site.

Video Poster: You can upload a custom poster (thumbnail) for the video using this functionality.

Additional Data

This section controls the little yet important details about a course. All the data given here will be shown on the course overview page.

Total Course Duration: It is the ideal duration of how long it will normally take to finish the course.

Level: The users will have an idea on the difficulty of this course by seeing the level.

Benefits of this course: You should put some oneliners here on how the course can benefit the ones who take it.

Requirements/Instructions: You should put some oneliners to help better understand what are the requirements for this course.

Targeted Audience: You should put a few one-line sentences on who are the people that can be most benefited from this course.

Materials include: These are one-liners too. You can write down what are the materials you’d be providing on this course.

Making Announcements

The announcements are like the notice boards. All students in the course will see the announcement when you make one. You can take advantage of the available variable {user_display_name} to make it more personalized, like the one shown in the screenshot. Doing so will enable each individual to see their own name on the announcement. Hit the “Add Announcement” button to publish it.

Now that we’ve set up almost all the necessary fields, its time to set up the most crucial section which is the Course Builder that controls everything related to course lessons and quizzes.

Course Builder

The course builder section is like an index for the course. You can create topics to create and decorate your lessons & quizzes. It will help the users to navigate through the course properly.

A course is normally divided by chapters or weeks, the lessons and quizzes are typically assigned to those chapters or weeks. A topic helps you to organize the course in that manner. Clicking the “Add new topic” button will open up its respective fields.

Creating a Lesson

After the topic is created, a lesson or a quiz can be added to that topic. Let’s see the available settings for a lesson.

Clicking the “Add new lesson” will popup a screen where you can add all the necessary details for creating a lesson.

Once you’ve put the contents of the lesson, click on the “Update Lesson” button to complete the process.

Creating a Quiz

A quiz is generally a collection of a few questions. There’s no limitation on how many questions can be created in a quiz. Let’s being the quiz setup procedure.

Once a topic is created, a lesson or a quiz can be added to that topic. To create a quiz click on the “Add Topic Quiz”.

The only required field here is the Quiz title, you can leave the description field blank if you want to. But it’s advice to fill it in. Once you’ve done that click Save & Next to start setting up questions.

When you’re on the Questions tab, you’ll see an “Add Question” button, clicking on it will present you with the above screen. The options are pretty self-explanatory, you need to type in the question, set its mark, add a description if needed, then choose the answer type and click on “Add An Option” to add your answer. Be sure to define the correct answer from the list.

Question Types

To bring diversity in a quiz and make it more interactive, Tutor offers 10 question types.

True False: It’s like the typical true or false question type, you can define whether the answer is true or false.

Single Choice: It’s more like the MCQ question type, here multiple answers are given for the question but only one is correct.

Multiple Choice: When your question might have more than one possible answer, use this question type.

Open Ended/Essay: This question type best fits when you need to take feedback from the students.

Short Answer: It’s more like the same as open ended type, the difference is here the character limit is 200 ideally.

Fill in the Gaps: As the name suggests, students need to type in a word or two in the black filed. You need to define the correct response while creating the question. Type in “{dash}” in the question title (you can use it more than once in a question) to create the dash field and in the answer field, type in the correct response. Use “|” to differentiate your answers if you have more than one. Like the following

Matching: This question type comes in handy when you need to set up word matching questions. You need to type in the matching word or phrase alongside the answer and you’re all set. You can also setup image as well as word to this matching type.

Image Matching: As the name suggests, this question type allows you to create image matching questions. You need to upload an image along with its word or phrase answer to setup this question.

Image Answering: Unlike image matching type question, here a student needs to write down the answer by observing the image. The answer is defined by the instructor (in small letter).

Ordering: This question type is suitable to create re-arranging type question. It’s the best fit for taking quiz regarding precedence, step verification or pipeline.

Quiz Settings

Now that we’ve created questions for our quiz, we need to know the settings to set up the quiz the way we want to. Browse to the Settings tab.

Time Limit: You can determine the quiz duration using this function. You can even hide the quiz time if needed. In case you don’t want to put a time limitation, then set the limit to 0.

Attempts Allowed: If you want a fixed number of attempts to be allowed for taking the quiz, then you can set it from here. For instance: if you set the limit to 5, that means a student can attempt to take the quiz for 5 times at best.

Passing Grade: As the name suggests, a student has to obtain this mark in order to pass the quiz. For instance: 70% means they need to score 70 out of 100 to pass the quiz.

Max Questions Allowed To Answer: It’s a bit tricky. This feature is introduced to randomise questions in a quiz. The purpose of this function would be more clear with an example. Say you have 50 questions in a quiz, if you put 50 here, a student will have to answer all the 50 questions in order to complete the quiz. But if you put 10 here, the student will have to answer only 10 questions out of the 50 and these 10 questions will appear randomly. No student will get the same set of questions.

Quiz Advanced Options

There are a few additional settings to give you access to more advanced options.

Quiz Auto Start: Enabling this feature will make the quiz to start automatically when a student enters to the quiz page.

Question Layout: You can control how the questions will appear in the quiz using this function.

Hide Question Number: Turning it on will put a serial number in front of every question.

Short Answer Characters Limit: You can define the character limit for the “Short Answer” question type from here.

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N.B. For organizing the lessons and quizzes in a course, you can just drag and drop them to their suitable position.