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How to Manage Sections in the Online Variant

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Bree Williamson
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  Sections in the Online Variant

In the online variant, the Assessment section and the Supporting info section will come with default sections per standard Catapult units; this article will cover how to manage the particular sections within the Online Variant.

 

According to the needs of an organisation, it may be required to add additional sections, replace default sections, rearrange sections and disable sections.

All of the above actions can be customised to the Assessment and Supporting info sections and the Navigation menu.

The Edify tool also allows for sections added by organisations to be deleted, but not default sections—these must be disabled.

Adding a New Section to the Online Variant

Organisations may need to add sections for assessments, instructions for learners or file attachments. Sections can be added within the Assessments or Supporting info sections or a new section can be added to the Navigation menu.

Sections that can be added are:

  • Section (Assessment or Supporting info section)
  • Boilerplate
  • Attachment
  • Declaration form

  Please note, If you want to add a new Assessment or Supporting info section, this must first be created on the Data Section page and then added to the Online variant question.

To learn more about creating Assessment or Supporting info sections, please view the articles below:

Steps to Add a New Section to the Navigation Menu
  1. Go to the Online page of the unit.
  2. To add a new section to the left-side Navigation menu, click the + New section button at the bottom of the list.

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Steps to Add a New Section to Assessments or Supporting Info

To add a new section to either the Assessments or Supporting info, click on the relevant tab and then click the + Add section card.

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The New section form will open. Use the drop-down menu to choose a section type.

Section Types

The section types that can be added to the online variant include:

Section

Assessments
Assessment sections must be added to the Assessment tab. The exception to this is adding an auto marking section used for a Check your response style quiz. Check your response sections must be added to the side navigation menu.

Adding an assessment section to the side navigation menu will not show the section description (if there is one).

They can be either gradable or non-gradable. A non-gradable section does not count towards the learner’s progress in the unit.

For automarking to be used in an assessment section, it must only contain true/false, multiple choice and/or short answer questions. For a detailed explanation, see our Automarking article:

Supporting info
Supporting info can be used to provide additional information to the learner or trainer.

A supporting info section can be set to trainer only to hide certain information from the learner and can only be viewed by trainer users.

Adding a section type

  1. Open the New section form.
  2. Choose the Section section type.
  3. Click the Choose one dropdown menu and select a section from the list. Sections that have already been added and are enabled cannot be selected.
  4. If the current section name needs to be changed, type a new one into the Override title field.
  5. Click Save.

Boilerplate

Boilerplate is an efficient method of using repeated information across multiple units. 

It can be used for the same purpose as a supporting info section.

Adding boilerplate

  1. Open the New section form.
  2. Choose the Boilerplate section type.
  3. Click the Boilerplate dropdown menu and select a section from the list.
  4. If the current section name needs to be changed, type a new one into the Override title field.
  5. Click Save.

Attachment

A file attachment added to the Unit home page will create a purple tab button that is linked as a direct download of the file. To do this, see Adding a button to the unit home page.

If an attachment is used elsewhere in a unit, it will link to a separate page that contains a download link for the file.

Adding an attachment

  1. Open the New section form.
  2. Choose the Attachment section type.
  3. Type a title for the section into the Title field.
  4. Click the Add attachment button shown as a paperclip icon to open the Media library. 
  5. Select a file attachment to be added and click the Insert -> button.
  6. Click Save.

Declaration Form

A declaration form is commonly used as an assessment agreement which the learner must read and declare they accept the terms and conditions.

In the online variant, declaration forms can be added to the:

  • side navigation menu
  • assessment tab
  • supporting info tab

Adding a declaration form

  1. Open the New section form.
  2. Choose the Declaration form section type.
  3. Enter a Title for the declaration form.
  4. In the Declaration Intro text area, type the body text.
  5. For each checkbox required: 
    1. Next to Declaration items, click the blue plus (+) sign button.
    2. In the modal window, enter a line of text the learner needs to agree to. 
    3. Click OK.
  6. Click Save.
Rearranging Sections in the Online Variant

In the Online variant, the order of sections can be changed in the Assessments section, Supporting info section and the Navigation menu.

Sections can only be moved to the area they have been added to. For example, a section in the side navigation menu can only be moved up or down that menu. To move a section from the side navigation menu into the Assessment tab, it needs to be deleted from the menu and then added to the assessments.

Example #1: Order of Sections in the Left Navigation Menu

In the before-and-after example below, the Instructions section has been dragged between the Learning Resource and Assessments sections.

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Example #2: Order of Sections in the Assessments or Supporting Info Pages

In this example, the Activities section has been added to the Assessments and initially sits last in the order of assessment sections. In this instance, it must sit directly after the Knowledge Questions section.

To do this, the Activities section should be dragged over the top of the Performance Tasks section. This will bump the Performance tasks and all other sections one place to the right.

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The Activities section now sits between the Knowledge Questions and Performance Tasks sections.

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Changing the Default Landing Section

The default landing section will be set as Knowledge questions in standard Catapult units in the Assessments section.

If an organisation wants to change the first assessment section from Knowledge questions to another assessment type, they must follow the instructions to rearrange the Assessment sections.

To change the default landing section:

  1. Click the cog in the top right corner.

  1. The Edit Assessments window will appear.
  2. Use the drop down menu to select the new landing section.

  1. Click Save.
Disable Section in the Navigation Menu

  1. Click the online tab the section is located in.

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  1. If the section is visible in the card view, click the cog icon in the bottom-right corner of the section to be deleted. Otherwise, inside the section itself, click the cog icon in the top-right corner of the section. This will load the Edit section form. 

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  1. In the top-right corner of the form, tick the Disabled checkbox.

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  1. In the bottom-right corner of the form, click the Save button.

  2. The section will now appear faded and marked as disabled. They will not appear when pushed to the LMS.

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Disable Section in Assessments or Supporting info
  1. Click the relevant tab (Assessments or Supporting info) and locate which section you want to disable.

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  1. Click the cog in the bottom-right corner of the relevant box.

  1. The Edit window will appear. Click the Disabled checkbox.

  1. Click Save.
Deleting Section in the Online Variant

In standard Catapult units, the default sections cannot be deleted; they must be disabled.

Deleting a section from the Online variant will not delete the section on the Data section page.

There is no undo button for deleting sections. So if a section is deleted by mistake, it must be created again.

  1. Click the Online tab the section is located in.

  2. If the section is visible in the card view, click the trash can icon in the bottom-right corner of the section to be deleted. Otherwise, inside the section itself, click the trash can icon in the top-right corner of the section.

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  1. A confirmation dialogue box will appear. Click the Yes button.

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