Build templates with prompt modules and instructions sections

Version: Kora Courses, April 14, 2023 or later

Permissions required: Faculty

  • Prompt modules and instructions sections are helpful tools when building templates.
  • They assist faculty members in guiding students' work.

Prompt modules

  • Prompt modules provide placeholders and short prompts where students can add the appropriate work.
  1. To add a Prompt module, click “Add Content” (1).

An ePortfolio page, with a numerical guide, 1, marking 'Add Content'

  1. Click “Prompt” (2).

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  1. Add instructions (3).
  2. Select or customize a response type (4).

The prompt builder, with numerical guides marking the following: 3, the space for instructions; 4, response type selection

    • Response types allow you to define the kind(s) of work students can produce in response to a prompt (5).
    • You can have students upload images, record audio or video, or enter text, among other options.

The prompt builder, with a numerical guide, 5, marking the list of preset response types

  • Selecting “Customize” (6) allows you to customize the possible response types precisely.
  1. Click “Save” (7)

The prompt builder, with numerical guides marking the following: 6, 'customize' and response types; 7, 'save'

  • The Prompt module will be added (8).

A Digication page, with a numerical guide, 8, marking a prompt module

  • When “Add Content” in the Prompt module is clicked, the Prompt module is replaced by the module type needed to address the prompt (9).
  • Prompt instructions remain on the page (9).

An animated image showing a Digication page; a prompt is clicked on and turns into a rich text module, and the prompt instructions appear at the bottom of the screen; the entire image is marked by numerical guide 9.

Edit a prompt module

  1. Click “Settings” (10).
  2. Expand “Prompt builder” (11).
  3. Click “Edit” (12).

A Digiciation page with the 'module settings' panel open; numerical guides mark the following: 10, 'settings'; 11, 'Prompt builder'; 12, 'Edit'

  1. Edit the module’s instructions or type.

Instructions sections

  • Instructions sections (1) allow faculty members to provide additional instructions, learning content, and materials to students on the page.
  • They are visible while editing, but do not appear in the work’s published version.

A Digication ePortfolio page, with a numerical guide, 1, marking an instructions section

  1. Create the section for instructions.
  2. Click “Settings” (2).
  3. Expand “Section options” (3).
  4. Toggle on “Turn section into instructions” (4).

A Digication page with the 'section options' panel open; numerical guides mark the following: 2, 'settings'; 3, section options; 4, 'turn section into instructions' toggle

  1. Unlock (5) an instructions section to edit it.

A Digication ePortfolio page, with an instructions section; a numerical guide, 5, marks 'unlock'

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