The Course Menu appears on the left side of a course and contains links to materials and tools within the course. The Instructor can customize the appearance of the Course Menu and the content and tools available to users.
Two views may be made available to users; if both views are available users may toggle between them:
Quick View – Displays top-level of course materials. Links may be displayed as buttons or text.
Detail View – Displays course materials as seen in the Course Map. This view expands to show the hierarchy of course navigation.
A Tools Panel appears as part of the Course Menu. This box may contain links to the Course Map, Communication tools and/or Course Tools. Links to tools may also be added to the main part of the Course Menu so they appear in the Detail View or the Course Map.
The size of the Course Menu frame may be adjusted. Hold the mouse over the border that marks the right side of the Course Menu, an arrow pointer appears. Use the mouse to drag this border and expand or contract the frame.
Information about when the Course Menu was last refreshed is also available in the Course Menu. Hold the mouse over the Refresh icon to view the date and time the menu was last refreshed. In the Detail View the date and time information appears at the bottom.
When content is added to the Course Menu or the Course Map it takes 20 minutes for it to cache; this means that new content in the Course Menu and Course Map does not appear for 20 minutes. To view content within the first 20 minutes it has been added click Refresh.
The Instructor can make the Quick View and/or the Detail View available within a course. Follow the steps below to change the view:
Select Course Design on the Control Panel.
Select Manage on the Course Design page.
Select a default view for the Course Menu.
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Note: Administrators control the default of the Course Menu for the entire system. This does not limit the Instructors ability to make changes within their courses; it only dictates the appearance of the default Course Menu. |
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Note: The Course Map may appear with a different color scheme when accessed from Quick View. When Quick View uses text links (not buttons) the color of the links may be modified. If the color is modified, the color of items in the Course Map will appear the same as the text links. |
The Tools Panel may be set to display links to Course Tools, Communication tools, and/or the Course Map. The display of the Tools Panel is managed separately for the Detail View and the Quick View. This allows Instructors to set up the Tools Panel differently in the two separate views.
Follow the steps below to set up the Tools Panel display for the Quick View:
Select Course Design on the Control Panel
Select Manage Tool Panel on the Course Design page.
Select Quick View Tool Panel Options or Detail View Tool Panel Options on the Manage Tool Panel page.
Select which links to display in the box and enter a name to appear in the header. If no options are selected, the Tools Panel does not appear in the Course Menu. If Header Name is left blank, no header appears in the Tools panel. The background and text color for the header may also be selected.