Tips for adding content:
- Add information about the topic as text
- Remember to “chunk” your content into pages that are not too long
- Point them to a reading, a website or a video (see the Instructional Tables section for available options)
- Get the student to do something – i.e. select 1 or 2 activities such as a discussion, an interactive activity or some self-check questions (See the Discussions, Media and Self-Check Questions sections).
- You can make suggestions for media using comments, e.g. MM, can we turn this table or image into a show hide activity? Please provide detailed instructions for the development team, as well as clear instructions for the student on how to complete the activity.
Text
Add your actual content as text to each page, under the page title.
This should be original written material, and copying someone else’s material or text should be minimised to comply with legislated limits – see below.
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Images
You should add an image at least to every page. We have an account with Shutterstock.com.
You can search Shutterstock and if you find an image you want to use, right click the thumbnail and click ‘Copy image’, and then paste this image into your content template at the place where you would like it to appear.
If you have an idea for an image you would like, you can ask us to try to source or create the image you are asking for by adding a comment. You can use images from the internet as examples, but they would likely not be able to be used, and we would need to source or create our own version.
If you need a complicated diagram created, make sure that you provide all the detail necessary to create the image. Again examples from the stock image providers or the internet can be used to demonstrate what is required.
Discussions
A discussion is an activity used to engage students with the learning material and other students. Information can be shared and discussed on a particular question, issue or process. Web links, videos and images can be added to the discussion pages but no other type of instructional tables, media or interactivity can go into them.
Discussions are a separate component in Connect. This means that each discussion will be on its own page, separate from other content. So to add a discussion to the content, start it as a new page with a discussion heading e.g. Discussion: Legal requirements. Refer to the template for the discussion format.
References
Please add a references page at the end of the unit, that includes any material that has been used as a source of information, as well as a reference for any material that has been copied from another source.
Make sure you use the reference standard that applies to your industry (either APA or Harvard), both in line, and in the reference list.