Course Builder Dashboard

The Course Builder Dashboard enables you to view and edit the chapters and tasks in your online course.

Check out our blog post to learn how you can create accessible content using the SmarterU Course Builder.

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Who Has Access

The following users have access to the Course Builder Dashboard:

Users with the Group Manager or Create Course group permission if they add an online course. Users with these permissions will automatically be a course manager for any course that they add.
Course managers.
Administrators and owners.

Viewing the Course Builder Dashboard

To view the Course Builder Dashboard:

From the Admin menu, select Course Admin.
Select Courses. The Courses Dashboard displays.
Click the course name you would like to edit. A tab labeled with the selected course's name displays in the right pane.
Expand the Edit list.
Select Edit Content.

A new tab displays the Course Builder Dashboard which contains all the content for the course.

By default, the Tasks (by Chapter) list option is selected to display the chapters and tasks within each chapter.

The right pane displays the Dashboard tab, indicated by the icon in the tab. The Dashboard tab displays a summary of your course's content at the top.

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The summary includes:

Total number of active chapters in the course
Total number of active content slides in the course
Total number of active PDFs in the course
Total number of active videos in the course
Total number of active activities in the course
Total number of active cards in the course
Total number of active quizzes in the course
Total number of active questions in the course
Total number of active tasks in the course

The right pane also displays all of the course's active tasks in a grid. You can filter the grid by clicking on any of the summary numbers to display the specific type in the grid.

Columns in the Grid

The columns of the Course Builder Dashboard's grid are described below.

The columns displayed for cards and questions differs slightly. Refer to Viewing Cards and Viewing Quiz Questions for details.
You can search the contents of the grid. Refer to Searching the Course Builder Dashboard's Grid for details.

Column	Description
Chapter	The chapter that contains the task.
Task	The task's name.
Type	The task type.
Subtype	If the task's type is Activity, the type of activity. For all other task types, "N/A" displays.
Status	The task's status (i.e., Active, Inactive).