Managing Content

Students value consistency within and across the subjects they take.

The structure of content items within a subject site all contribute to the overall usability of the digital learning experience. Students should know where they are within a subject site and where they need to go next. This can be achieved through indicative labels, headings, descriptions, and visual cues.

  • Ultra Documents (pages created within your subject site)
  • Word Documents, PowerPoints, Spreadsheets, PDFs
  • Video or Audio
  • Assignments or Tests
  • Discussion Boards
  • Journals
  • Learning Modules
  • Folders
  • Other types of learning objects.

Accessibility in LearnJCU
Your LearnJCU subject sites will give you a place to build, manage, and display your subject material.  Content typically added to LearnJCU includes accessibility feedback via Bb Ally, a tool that contributes to making subject content inclusive and flexible.

Editing and managing content (Blackboard Help)
Your LearnJCU subject sites will give you a place to build, manage, and display your subject material.  Content typically added to LearnJCU includes documents such as Word, PDF or PowerPoint slides; and links to websites you have produced or external sites.

Managing the release of content (Release Conditions)
When you manage the release of content, you provide a subject that is more interactive and tailored to the needs of individual students. Availability of content can be set by dates, performance, or sequence and it can be used on lecture materials, quizzes and discussion board forums.

LearnJCU Guides
A full list of guides that can help assist with building and managing your online learning materials.

Panopto Video Capture
Panopto is JCU's video capture platform that provides secure video recordings, viewing, editing, sharing, and streaming capabilities, all from within LearnJCU.

Readings
Readings helps lecturers create and maintain reading lists for students and automatically ensures that items digitised for student access are copyright compliant.

Organising your subject sites

Need to lay out an assessment task?  Take a look at the Assessment Template (PDF, 231 KB).