Create courses from "chunks" of content, made up of modules and segments. Courses and modules are reusable, so you can build courses from existing content and resources.

Modular structure

The following articles cover how courses, modules and segments work.

• Modules and segments outlines the structure of Safety Made Simple courses
• Course content types explains the types of modules you can create in a course
• File types supported in course modules: overview explains what files you can upload to Safety Made Simple modules
• Use the rich text editor introduces the CK Editor, for entering and formatting text, images and links within segments

Add content to a Safety Made Simple course

Learn the basics of creating content:

• Create a course takes you through the first steps of naming and saving a course. You then add content to that course
• Create a text and image module explains how you add a "basic" module to your new course
• Add documents, video or audio segments to modules provides instructions about uploading a range of content to a module.
• Embed videos and other external media explains how to insert links to content which is hosted and maintained outside of Safety Made Simple 
• Add SCORM content to modules is the how-to of working with SCORM content
• Add Tin Can (xAPI) content to modules for a how-to of handling xAPI content
• Instructor Led Training (ILT): overview introduces in-person and virtual training sessions
• Exams: create an exam together with Exams: create and edit a question pool form the core of adding an exam module
• Assignments: create an assignment for a course about creating work to grade for learners
  
• Checklists: create a checklist and add it to a course about creating checklists either in a course, or in the library
• Publish a new version of a course explains what changes do or do not require a new version of a course
  
• Archive a course when you don't need to offer it anymore, but need the course data for reporting
• Course statuses explains the names of different states of courses

Reusing content: using a library module vs module copying

When you upload content modules, these modules also appear in your portal library, so they're available for use elsewhere. Optionally, you can limit their use to your own courses.

If you use content from the library, be aware you are not creating a copy of the module in the library. You are using the same module, across multiple courses. So, if you edit the module in any courses, the edits appear immediately, wherever the module is in use.

This feature is effective

• for sharing the same content for all audiences, like a general company welcome message
• for making edits once, which appear in all courses, like uploading a new logo

Copying a module is different from using existing content modules from the library.

Copying courses, and template courses

Copying individual modules, and copying courses which contain modules, give you different results. 

Some admins who use consistent settings for their courses set up a template course: a course without modules, in Draft state, with Additional Settings, Due Date and Notifications options already set.

The admin can then copy the course, rename it, and add new modules to create new courses.

Use a template for exams and surveys

You can set up an exam module with Exam Options, but without a question pool, and use that module as a template, making copies of it to add to courses. To create a new exam, choose the exam's question pool, and add it to the pre-prepared exam module.

This same method works for surveys.