Courseware Best Practices

Courseware creation options and best practices

Typically, you can approach courseware creation in a couple different ways. First is a chapter-by-chapter approach and the second is the complete course single file approach. Each approach is detailed below.

The Chapter-by-Chapter Approach

In this approach the course is separated into chapters or lessons. Each chapter will be given its own assignment listing in the course and can include a chapter test inside the same instructional file or utilize the Question Bank feature to create custom chapter tests.

Advantages of the Chapter Approach

1. Updating a single chapter can be done easily without needing to update the entire course.

2. Chapter tests can be dynamically assigned using the question bank feature or updated without editing the course material.

Disadvantages of the Chapter Approach

1. Can take longer to create the entire courseware material as it requires the creation of a separate file for each chapter.

2. Can take longer to create the entire course in the LMS as it requires the creation of an assignment for each chapter.

An example of the chapter approach to course creation with a separate chapter test.

The Complete Course Single File Approach