Build and manage your Dawn site

In Settings:

1. Title your course.
2. Select a Cover poster that represents your course in the Catalog and elsewhere.
   • Note: In order to select an image, you must upload it using Resource library.
3. Choose which page you want to always open first from the Launch page for learners dropdown, including:
   • Their Last viewed content. If this is selected, but there is no content in the entry, the player defaults to whichever is available in this order: Coaching, Newsletter or Learner materials.
   • Their Coaching screen
   • The Group screen
   • The Newsletter
   • Learner materials
4. Choose when you want learners to be prompted to review the catalog entry:
   • At the end of the content
   • Throughout the content (three times, including at the end)
   • Never
5. If you want to make the catalog entry available in multiple languages, select them in the Available languages dropdown and select the Default language.
6. Check the This is a template box to allow this course to be copied and used as a starting point when creating new courses.
7. Add/remove Authors.
8. Toggle the Published switch to publish and unpublish your catalog entry; published entries are visible for enrollment in your Catalog and unpublished entries aren't.
9. Click View edit history to review changes made to the course.
10. Click View as learner to preview the course.

In Catalog:

1. You can review and copy the link to your course in the Catalog page. You can share this link with users, so they can learn about it and enroll.
2. If Publishers are enabled in your site, the Publisher is listed and can be changed.
3. If Catalog categories are enabled in your site, you can place the entry to appear in one or more category on the Catalog page.
4. In Prerequisites, select any of the catalog entries that you want learners to complete before enrolling in this entry.
5. Choose Payment option (One time fee or Monthly subscription).
6. Enter pricing details (Price, Full price, and Promotional message).
7. Select a Feature level (1-5 up-arrows) in the Feature at the top of the catalog dropdown to place the course at the top of the Catalog screen and give it priority in searches.
8. Check the Enable self-enrollment box to allow learners to enroll in the catalog entry from their Catalog screen. Disabling this means that learners can only be enrolled by administrators; doing this can be useful if you want a course to appear in the catalog, but not allow enrollment, yet.
   • Check the Enable self-enrolling in a time-based cohort box if the catalog entry has Time-based cohorts set up (meaning that members of this group can access content only after a specified date and time) and you want to allow learners to choose their cohort.

9. In the Description section:
   • Upload and select the Cover video learners will see in on the course preview screen (do this using the Resource library).
   • Provide a course Description to appear in the Catalog (depending on the template you use, there may already be content here).
   • Provide a Short description to appear when users search the Catalog (keep this to one or two sentences).  
10. If the coaches or authors for a catalog entry have created Profile Bios for themselves, you can choose to display them on the the Catalog details screen by checking the boxes next to the names.

In Coaches:

1. Add and remove course Coaches by checking/unchecking boxes next to them (give users coach permissions with the administrator view).
2. Enable 1-to-1 and 1-to-many coach scheduling.

On Mastery:

1. Indicate the percentage of Mastery award points learners need to earn for course completion.
   • Course completion progress is shown to learners as a percentage with 100% indicating full completion. If you choose 85% as the required number of Mastery award points need to complete the course, learners will see 100% course completion once they've earned 85% of the possible Mastery award.
2. Uncheck the Issue a certificate at course completion box if you don't want to issue certificates. If you do want to issue a certificate, follow these instructions.

In the Resource library panel you can review all resource files attached to the course and:

1. Upload new files. When uploading videos, you can automatically generate a video transcript.
2. Search the Resource library.
3. Sort the results using Name, Size, or last Modified date.
4. Delete existing files.
5. Review the amount of storage your course uses.

In Materials panel, you can connect Attachments (that you've uploaded to the Resource library) or Websites to any Instruction item as additional learning Material:

1. Click Add attachment or Add website.

2. In the Attach to field, select the Instruction you want to connect the material to.
3. Click Add.  

4. Provide:
   • A Title that learners will see.
   • A Description to help learners know what the Material offers.
   • The Attachment from the Resource library.
5. Save.
6. Click Back to learner materials.

From here you can easily add Materials to the same Instruction by clicking the buttons in the new Material's section.

Materials appear at the bottom of an Instruction for learners.

With the Newsletter section, you can set up communication with your users! Newsletters are sent as emails to all enrollees, and are also accessible in their Newsletter screen.

How do I create and manage Newsletters in Dawn?

Sections are like chapters in a Catalog entry. They contain related information and activities. In the Section menu, you can:

1. Import Sections that already exist in other Catalog entries.
2. Add sections and populate them with Instructions.
3. Use the more menu to Move, Duplicate, and Delete Sections.

For every section you add to the course, a selectable Sections entry appears here in the side panel.

Click them to:

1. Edit the Section title.
2. Edit, move, or delete existing Instruction (Videos, Interactions, or Projects).
3. Use Quick add to upload a file and automatically make it into an Instruction.
4. Use Import to:
   • Copy and paste an Instruction from the current Dawn site.
   • Import 1EdTech QTI packages [beta]
   • Import 1EdTech Common cartridge activities (integrated LTI activities including integrated Buzz activities)

5. Add Instruction, which allows you to choose one of the following types of Instructions:
   • Videos (files for upload)
   • Notes (rich text content) on the instruction (you can also set up Notes to appear during videos)
   • Projects
   • Discussions with peers and Coaches (where enabled)
   • Multiple interactions (to include more than one type Interaction within one Instruction item in the Table of contents)
   • Multiple Choice questions
   • Short answer questions
   • Multiple response questions
   • Questionnaires
   • YouTube videos or Vimeo videos
   • Flash cards
   • Sorting activities
   • Labelled graphics
   • TinCan/xAPI package
   • Embedded external LTI activities