The first step in content administration is designing and creating the content structure for your online courses. Creating a content structure involves creating a hierarchy of folders and sub folders and grouping the learning objects and tests within the folders.

You can manually create a content structure in the application or transfer a content structure along with the physical content from an external source into the application. The import utility enables you to transfer content available in another application or learning management system into your application. See Content Import and Export

Creating Folders

You set up folders to reflect the structure of your learning material, for example by subject matter, faculty, or learner job roles. Use a logical hierarchy and a meaningful naming scheme for the folders and other objects in the content hierarchy. To better manage the content structure, you can establish naming conventions for all objects in your application.

Define Access to Content Objects in the Folder

If the Administrator Group field is available, then select the administrator group to restrict access to the content objects in the folder to the members of the administrator group. OLM applies the restriction on the following content objects in the folder:

• Questions

• Question Banks

• Tests

• Learning Objects

If you leave the field blank, then OLM does not restrict administrators from accessing the folder. You can select the administrator group when you create a folder. You cannot change the administrator group after you create a folder. The Administrator Group field is read-only when you update the folder details.

See: Administrator Groups

Assembling Learning Objects

After you have designed your content structure and created the folders and sub folders, you create learning objects within the folders. Learning objects are database objects that represent the physical content and enable you to organize and deliver online content. See Learning Object Management

Assembling Tests

You create tests in a content structure to assess the learner performance in an online course. You can use the test builder to create tests from questions drawn from one or more question banks. You can create question banks, write the appropriate questions and response options, and then create the test by assembling questions from question banks. See Test Builder

Searching the Content Structure

You browse several folders if you are searching for a particular object in a long hierarchy of folders, sub folders, learning objects, and tests. Use the Search and Advanced Search features to search for objects in the content hierarchy based on various parameters.