Watch this video for an overview of the Content tool:

1. Create a course module.

Avenue to Learn organizes all tools into an Organizer:Item pairing; in Content you will have a Module to organize the Items you want students to view. Items refers to the actual files that you want to share, whether those are Word documents, PowerPoint slides, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets or (almost) any file. The way you can organize your course is up to you - you could choose to organize your course by weeks, topics, subjects or whatever structure you think is appropriate. If you choose to organize your content by weeks, you would create a Week One module then a Week Two module and so on. Here's how to create a module:

And most importantly how to upload files to include as topics for your course:

2. Content tool reference - How to add files to content and create content form scratch in your course, refer to the following document:

content_tool_reference.docx

If you are thinking about adding a video to your course, talk to your department about streaming servers to host your content. Alternately, use Vimeo, or YouTube to host your content externally and embed the video on a page in Content. Remember to respect copyright and accessiblity laws when you are using other's work as a part of your course. For more information about copyright at McMaster, please go to http://www.copyright.mcmaster.ca/ . For more information about accessibility please go to http://accessibility.mcmaster.ca/teaching-accessibly . Below is a video demonstrating how to embed a video or create content from scratch in D2L which we call Avenue to Learn. The process for embedding a video from YouTube and almost any other video streaming site is the same.

Adding Release Conditions to Content Items:

You may want to restrict access to Content items based on other activity in the system (eg. discussion posts, enrollment in a group or completing a quiz). This video demonstrates this ability.

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Please let us know if you have any pedagogical input for this tool.

For questions or concerns, Avenue support is available from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at (905) 525-9140 ext. 23757 or email support.avenue@cll.mcmaster.ca.