Digital Education Wiki Spaces

Accessibility — Assessment — CampusPress Guides — Digital Education — Gradescope Guides — Learning Technology Good Practice — Lecture Recording — Moodle for Learning — Moodle Baseline — Moodle How-Tos — Multimedia — Student Online Learning — Zoom

Course formats

Owned by Geraldine Foley (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 08, 2023 by Sonja Grussendorf
2 min read

Why use it?

Course formats help you structure your course content using different layouts.

What ever format you choose try and make your course as accessible and user friendly as possible with clear labels, meaningful titles and descriptive names for files and images.

Step 1: Select a course format

Go to SETTINGS.

Click the drop-down menu on Format to reveal the choice of formats.

Select the required format from the list (you can view examples of the available formats below).

Click Save and display to apply the new layout.

Note: Changing the format of an existing course will not remove any content.

Course formats available at LSE

Courses should either use the GRID format or the COLLAPSED TOPICS format. Both of these allow for a compact display that helps students find what they need. Other formats tend to lead to long pages that are harder to navigate.

Grid format

This format hides all content and creates a grid of icons and/or images for each section.

Clicking on a section icon/image will display the section content.

To make this course format accessible for keyboard and screen reader users, go to the course settings and from the Course format options set the Course layout to Show one section per page.

 

Collapsed topics format

All course sections except the General section are collapsed. Sections can be toggled to hide or expand the section content.

Note that the Open All, Close All and > buttons are not accessible to keyboard users. However, it is possible to use the tab key to navigate to links for individual sections and then press enter to open a section. Then use the tab key to move from one section to the next.

 

 

These pages are created by the LSE Digital Education Team and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0