Ultra Content Presentation Best Practices Guide

This guide pertains to Ultra Course View.

If your course is in Original Course View, see the Original Course View tutorial collection.

 

Consider these best practices in creating content within your Ultra Course:

  • Learning Modules are the Course Structure:  Modules are the basis of navigation within an Ultra course.  They provide the visual cues needed to guide a student through content and readily identify where information is housed.  Think of modules as the replacement for the left-side course menu panel from Original course view. 

 

CONSIDER

Guide the Course Experience with “Force Sequence”:  If it's important students don’t overlook information or proceed through the content in sequential order, turn on Force Sequence. This requires students first review the content provided before proceeding onto another module.  Before using Force Sequence, be sure to understand how it functions and impacts a student’s ability to access materials.

 

  • Keep Naming Conventions Brief and Clear:  Title names should be short and concise, keeping in mind longer titles become truncated on mobile devices (maximum of 19 characters for mobile-device friendliness). 
     
  • Drag & Drop Content:  use the drag and drop feature to relocate content to the sequential order desired or to move folders and other content items to be housed within a folder or module.  
     
  • Create Documents with Understanding:  Creating a content item as a document is a great way to present a variety of items on a particular topic within one location; however, the Progress Tracking tool only tracks if the document itself has been accessed, not the individual content items within it.  If this document is overlooked, the multitude of content housed within this document is also missed. If it’s important to confirm student accessed all items within a document, build these instead as individual items, allowing them to be monitored by Progress Tracking.
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