Overview
SkillSuite allows you to build online courses with an interactive platform to engage your users in a way that in person simply can’t achieve. The robust builder allows flexibility and simplicity in how you set up your courses.
In this section:
- Getting Started
- Lesson Builder
- Text Blocks
- List Styles
- Images
- Videos
- Flashcards
- Sorting
- Image Hotspot
- Ordering and Sequencing
Getting Started
The course outline is where you can add the lesson title and all the section titles, and add content for each section.
To open the lesson builder, you hover over any lesson section in your course outline and click on the edit icon.
Lesson Builder
When you click on the ‘Edit’ icon in the course outline, it will open the lesson builder where you can start add content to your lesson section. You can add any combination of text, lists, images, videos, flashcards, sorting activity, image hotspots, and a sequencing activity.
Text Blocks
Text blocks give you the option for:
- Paragraph
- Paragraph with heading
- Paragraph with subheading
- Heading
- Subheading
- Two column
Paragraph
Paragraph with Heading
Paragraph with Subheading
Heading
Subheading
Two Column
List Styles
List styles give you the option for:
- Bulleted
- Numbered
- Checkbox
Numbered List
Bulleted List
Checklist
Image Styles
Image styles give you the option for:
- Image Centered
- Image Full Width
- Image + Text
- Text on Image
- Carousel
- Two Column Grid
- Three Column Grid
- Four Column Grid
Image Center
Image Full Width
Image and Text
Text on Image
Two Column
Three Column
Four Columns
How to Upload Images
When adding an image there are multiple options for how to do so:
Option #1: Upload an image from your device.
Option #2: Select saved image in your media library.
Option #3: Select free, high quality stock imagery.
Option #4: Select from Giphy library.
Videos
Videos are a great interactive method for training and educating. You can upload videos with a few different methods.
Upload from Computer
To upload a file from your computer’s browser, you select the ‘Replace Image’ option in edit mode. A finder window will then pop up on your computer and you can locate and select the file from wherever you have it saved on your computer.
Upload from Image Library
To upload from the image library, you select the ‘Replace from image library’ option in edit mode.
Then a modal will appear where you can select from any saved images in your library.
Embed Video
To embed a video, you select the ‘Embed video’ option in edit mode.
A modal will then appear where you can paste in a link or source code for a video.
Flashcards
The flashcards feature allows for an interactive way to teach learners content and give them
something more visually interesting to look at and interact with. You can insert text or images on the front and back of card. The learner just simply has to hover over each card to flip it.
The editing panel for flashcards is a slide-out pop up where you can easily edit the content of the front and back of each card and select the style for each one.
Sorting
The sorting activity allows learners to correctly sort information defined categories. Learners will drag and drop the items into the correct category.
Editing cards and categories is done by simply editing and adding items inside each category box. That’s how the system keeps track of whether the learner’s responses are correct or not.
The learner’s view will show them whether or not they sorted each item into the correct
category or not.
Image Hotspot
The image hotspot feature allows for a great learning tool when trying to teach details through an image. You can create hotspots to highlight different areas of an image.
Learners can click on each hotspot to see the content.
Editing the content will display a slide-out pop up that allows the title and content to be
edited. The image can be replaced through the slide-out panel.
New hotspots can be added and the hotspots order can also be rearranged.
Ordering and Sequencing
This interactive feature allows learners to organize items in a certain order, whether it’s
chronologically, alphabetically, etc. You can set the instructions for how they’re supposed
to be sequenced.
Editing the content will display a slide-out pop up that allows the items content to be edited.
You are also required to set the correct order of the items so that the learn will know if they
have placed them in the correct order or not.
The learner will see messages that indicate if their choices were correct or incorrect.
