From CLEW Wiki

In this article:

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Navigating Course Content
• Add New Item
• Add an Empty Sub-folder
• Add a File
• Add a URL (link to website)
• Add an HTML page
• Considerations

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Get Started with the Content Viewer Tool 1.2 Navigating Course Content 1.2.1 Add a New Item 1.2.2 Add an Empty Sub-folder 1.2.3 Add a File 1.2.4 Add a URL (link to website) 1.2.5 Add an HTML Page 2 Considerations 2.1 Related Articles

Overview

The Content Viewer tool contains the same material as your Resources tool but provides a friendlier interface. You may post material through the Content Viewer tool or the Resources tool. If you add material to Resources, it will also be in Content Viewer; if you add material to Content Viewer, it will also be in Resources.

Important: If you use "Content Viewer", most likely students will not be able to see or access the "Resources" tool. Students will access all your resources through "Content Viewer".

If you have previous material migrated from a ViCKi kit(University of Windsor's previous Learning Management System), you will need to use the "Content Viewer" for your resources.

Content Viewer is not available for you to add or remove from your site using the Site Editor – Edit Tools option but it can still be added and removed from your site by request by emailing email to clew@uwindsor.ca. Please be sure to include the course number.

Get Started with the Content Viewer Tool

In the course site left-hand menu, click Content Viewer. You will see your resources in "Content Viewer" interface.

Navigating Course Content

You may edit, delete, rearrange, or hide from student view any of the folders or files in your Content Viewer.

• Edit – Click on the edit icon to the right of the folder or file you want to edit. Make any necessary changes and click Save changes to save your changes or Cancel to exit without saving changes. To revise the content of a document you have uploaded (e.g., a Word, PowerPoint, Excel document, jpg. ) you will first need to update the file on your computer, and then upload the updated version.
• Delete – Click on the delete icon to the right of the folder or file you want to delete. You will receive a confirmation screen. Click Delete it! to finish or Cancel to return to the list without deleting.
• Up Arrow – Use the up arrow to move the resource up one in the list.

Down Arrow – Use the down arrow to move the resource down one. Continue to click the up or down arrows until you have the resource where you want it.

• Hide – Click on the hide icon to hide the folder or file from the students’ view. Note: Any file or folder highlighted with a pink background is not visible to students. Any file or folder that does not have a pink background is visible to students.
• Show – Click on the show icon to make a hidden folder or file visible to students. Note: Any file or folder highlighted with a pink background is not visible to students. Any file or folder that does not have a pink background is visible to students.
• Switch to Student View—Click on the Student View icon to see the Content Reviewer tool as a student would view it. Click it again to return to the Instructor or Edit View.
• To open a folder, click on it. It will bring you to a new screen, which lists the contents of the folder.
• To open a file or link to website, click on it. Files will open within the course site. A link to a website will open in a new window.

Add a New Item

You may add (upload) a file, add a link to a website, create an HTML document within CLEW (type right into the course web page), or add an empty folder to help organize your uploaded files and content.

1. You may add a new item to the main course (root) folder (the one you see on the Content Viewer home page) or you may choose to add an item to an exiting sub-folder. To add an item to a sub-folder, open the folder by clicking on it.
2. Click Add a new item at the bottom of the page. You will be presented with a choice of items to add.

Add an Empty Sub-folder

1. In the Add new item screen, select Sub-folder. (You can create only one folder at a time.)
2. Name your new folder.
3. (optional) Enter a description of the file. Once the folder is created, the description will appear directly below its name in the list of resources.
4. Click Create sub-folder to finish or Cancel to exit.

Add a File

1. In the Add new item screen, click File.
2. Click Browse to choose your file.
3. Locate the file you want to upload from your computer and double click on it (or click once and click Open).
4. Enter a title. Titles are displayed in the list of resources.
5. (optional) Enter a description of the file. The description will appear directly below its title in the list of resources.
6. It is mandatory to select the Copyright status of the files you will be uploading. The options available are:
   • Material is in the public domain
   • I hold copyright
   • I have obtained permission to use this material.
   • Material is available as Open Access.
   • Material is licensed by the U of W library.
   • Material falls under a Creative Commons license.
7. Click Upload to finish or Cancel to exit.

For more information or explanations about what the Copyright Status options are, visit the Copyright & CLEW webpage.

Add a URL (link to website)

1. In the Add new item screen, click Link.
2. Type the URL into the text box. OR you can paste into the text box a URL that you copied from the address bar of a browser or from a document.
3. Enter a title. Titles are displayed in the list of resources.
4. (optional) Enter a description of the website link. The description will appear directly below its title in the list of resources when viewed in Content Viewer.
5. Click Create link to finish or Cancel to exit.

Add an HTML Page

See the article about Adding an HTML Page to Content Viewer.

Considerations

1. The Content Viewer tool does not have the following features:
   • ability to move a file from one folder to another (use Resources tool to do that)
   • append a Copyright statement to a document (type the copyright statement right into your document or in the description of the document)
   • e-mail notification (use Announcements where necessary)
   • create or upload more than one item at a time.

1. If you have used the Resources tool to upload material and it does not appear in your Content Viewer, click the tool’s refresh button near the top right of your screen.

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