4. Course Content — the Multimedia Book

Where: sidebar → Course Content → Multimedia Book (/courseware/course/{courseId}/content/multimedia)

The Multimedia Book is your course’s teaching material: videos, documents, links, and quizzes, organised into chapters.

4.1 How content is structured

Chapter
  └── Section
        └── Video · Quiz · Document · URL

You can also place a video, quiz, document, or URL directly in a chapter without a section.

The word “Chapter” is configurable — set Prefix for Course Content in Settings to Week, Day, Module, or anything else (§2.7).

4.2 Building a chapter

Click Add Chapter and give it a title and description.

Each chapter row carries:

an eye toggle — “Click to show this chapter to students” / “Click to hide this chapter from students”
Add Content ▾ — Section, Quiz, Document, Video, Url
a ⋮ menu — Edit Chapter, Delete Chapter, Clone Chapter, Reorder Content, Import Concept

Multimedia Book chapter list

Hidden means invisible, not greyed out. Students do not see hidden chapters at all, and the Next/Previous buttons skip over them silently. See Appendix A §A.2.

Reordering

Reorder Chapter turns the list into drag-and-drop and the button becomes Save Current Order. Nothing is stored until you click Save. The same pattern applies to reordering content within a chapter.

4.3 Adding content

Video

Title and a Video File are required. You may also add a Description, a Camtasia Config File, and a slides file that students can download.

Accepted formats: .avi, .mp4, .mpeg, .ogv, .ts, .webm, .3gpp

Files over 1 MB upload in 512 KB chunks and can resume, so a dropped connection does not mean starting over.

Document

Title required, plus a file. There is no format restriction on the upload, but students can only preview common types — PDF, Office documents, and images. Anything else is download-only.

URL

Title required, then one or more links. Each must start with http:// or https:// — otherwise “Invalid URL (must start with https:// or http://)”.

Quiz

Title, Description, and optionally a Quiz File to import questions from. Accepted: .csv, .txt, .odt.

4.4 Authoring quiz questions

Open a quiz to reach the question editor. The header offers Add Module, Add Question, Reorder, and the toggles Student View and Statistics.

Question types

Type	Meaning
MCQ	Multiple Choice — more than one correct answer
SCQ	Single Choice — exactly one correct answer
FAQ	Fixed Answer — typed text must match
FIB	Numerical Answer — a number, or a range

Fields

Title (optional) and Description (required)
Marks — default 1, in steps of 0.5
Attempts — default 1
Options — radio buttons for SCQ, checkboxes for MCQ
Hint, Answer Description, Error Description

Fixed Answer questions add Ignore Case and Ignore Priority. Numerical questions add Minimum and Maximum, letting you accept a range.

Set attempts deliberately. The default is 1. With the reveal settings on, a student who answers wrongly on their only attempt sees the correct answer and cannot retry.

4.5 In-video quizzes (markers)

Open a video to reach the video page. The Chapters & Markers panel is where in-video quizzes live.

Adding a marker

Play or scrub to the moment you want.
Click Add Marker. The dialog is titled with the exact timestamp.
Choose Marker Type: Section Marker (a chapter point in the video) or Quiz Marker (an interruption with a question).
Give it a Title.
For a quiz marker, choose Add Question or Add Module.

A thumbnail of the current frame is captured automatically as the marker image.

Only one marker per timestamp — “A marker already exists at this timestamp”.

Video page with the markers panel

Bulk import and export

Actions ▾ → Export All Quiz ODT and Import All Quiz ODT move every in-video question for that video in one file. This is much faster than authoring question by question for a video with many checkpoints.

What students experience

The video pauses and the question appears over it, with ↺ 5 sec and continue buttons.

⚠️ Students can switch in-video quizzes off entirely with a toggle under the player. Treat them as formative practice, not as a checkpoint you can enforce.

4.6 Reusing content

You do not have to rebuild material each term.

Action	Where
Clone Chapter	Chapter ⋮ menu — duplicates within the course
Import Chapters	Top of the Multimedia Book
Import Concept	Chapter ⋮ menu — pull individual sections in
Clone an item	Item ⋮ menu
Move an item	Item ⋮ menu — into another section of the same chapter

Import Chapters offers three routes:

Select a file — .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, .gz, .bz2, or .zip
Provide a link — an export link from another course
Select from existing courses — browse your other courses and tick the chapters you want

Route 3 is the quickest way to carry a course forward to a new offering.

4.7 Publishing content to students

Content is invisible to students until published. Work top-down: a published item inside an unpublished chapter is still invisible.

Use Student View on a quiz or video to check what students actually see before you publish.

Known limitations

Quiz Statistics shows “Statistics Coming Soon.” The panel exists in the interface but the underlying report was never built. Use Performance → Statistics → Quiz Report instead (§9)
Reordering is not saved until you click Save — in every reorder mode
The Add Page description field contains a spelling error in its placeholder text (Desciption) — cosmetic only

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