To begin, click the Turn editing on button, as demonstrated in the page Enabling Edit Mode.

While in Edit Mode, sections, activities, and resources may be added, deleted, moved, renamed, and otherwise edited in a variety of ways. Much of this can be accomplished using the quick edit icons that appear when Edit Mode is engaged. For an explanation of each icon, review the tutorial Quick Edits Using Icons.

There is a wide range of activities and resources that you can add to your course. Explore the many options but remember that naming each section and arranging sections in a logical order helps to create a more navigable, less confusing course page.

Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with content, with other students and or the teacher. Possible activities include the following:

• Assignments – Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on- and off-line
• Chat – Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
• Choice – A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses
• Database – Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries
• External tool – Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites.
• Feedback – For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
• Forum – Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions
• Glossary – Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
• Lesson – For delivering content in flexible ways
• Quiz – Allows the teacher to design a set of quiz items, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or correct answers shown
• SCORM – Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
• Survey – For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching
• Wiki – A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
• Workshop – Enables peer assessment

Resources appear as a single link with an icon in front of it that represents the type of resource. Possible resources include the following.

• Book – Multi-page resources with a book-like format.
• File – A picture, a pdf document, a spreadsheet, a sound file, a video file
• Folder – For helping to organize files; one folder may contain other folders
• IMS content package – Add static material from other sources in the standard IMS content package format
• Label – Can be a few displayed words or an image used to separate resources and activities in a topic section, or can be a lengthy description or instructions
• Page – The student sees a single, scrollable screen that a teacher creates with the robust HTML editor
• URL – You can send the student to any place they can reach on their web browser, for example Wikipedia

Be sure to click the Turn editing off button when you are finished