Learning capsules
In Smart Courses, a course can be composed of different capsules. Various content types are available for users to create a rich learning material.
Image
There are two ways to add Images to a course:
- Attachment: Upload an image file. The accepted formats are: (png, jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, webp, svg)
- Link: Use an image link from the Internet or your Intranet
Note that the maximum file size in each item is defined by monday.com as 500MB.
Dimensions: Smart Courses uses a responsive image display mechanism. High-resolution images are preferred for better course quality.
Secured Links: Non-HTTPS image links may not display.
You can customize the Image capsule:
- Display media link: whether to display or not the media link in the player
- Image description: displays an image description
- Minimum reading time: displays a countdown while reading the capsule to freeze navigation
Video & Audio
There are two ways to add a video or audio to a course.
- Attachment: Upload a media file. The accepted formats are: (mp4, mp3, WebM, m4v, ogv, ogg, wav)
- Link: Using a link from the Internet or your Intranet, Smart Courses automatically converts links from:
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- SoundCloud
- Streamable
- Vidyard
- Wistia
- Twitch
- DailyMotion
- Loom
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
Note that the maximum file size in each item is defined by monday.com as 500MB.
Secured Links: links from non HTTPS domains may not display.
Options you can use to customize the capsule display:
- Display media link: whether to display or not the media link in the player
- Autoplay: Autoplay the video or audio automatically when the capsule is displayed
- Media description: displays a video/audio description
- Minimum reading time: displays a countdown while reading the capsule to freeze navigation
Text
Smart Courses offers a WYSIWYG editor to quickly and easily create rich content.
Minimum reading time: displays a countdown while reading the capsule to freeze navigation
Quiz Question
Smart Courses offers a powerful and handy module to create Questions to challenge and test attendees.
Different modes and types of questions are available:
| Question Mode | Display mode |
|---|---|
Single choice: Users can select only one single answer. | Radio Select from a drop-down |
Multiple choices: Users can select one or many answers. | Checkbox (default) |
Matching: Match one set of items or statements from the left side with another set in the right side. | Pairs: left and right |
Ordering: Users can rearrange items in the correct order by dragging and dropping them in the correct place. | List of items |
| Freetext | Text input Regular expression |
| Fill in the blank: In this type, two options are available, whether to select the right choice from the drop-down menu or to type the expected answer. | Text input: [[expected answer|another expected answer]] Select from the drop-down:{{Choice|Right choice*|Another choice}}
Add * next to the correct single answer. Only one correct answer is accepted.
|
| Essay: Users are required to enter their own answers, which will be validated by the course contributors. | Text Input |
Options can be used to customize the capsule display:
- Question details: Displays a question description; use this option to give more details about the asked question.
- Media: Allows you to integrate an image, video, or audio into the question. The same rules for image and media capsules apply.
- Custom right answer message: Displays a customized text when the answer is right.
- Custom wrong answer message: Displays a customized text when the answer is wrong.
- Randomize choices: Applies a random display of choices order every time the question is reloaded.
- Time limit: Displays a countdown. If the time limit expires while the attendee has not responded yet, the submit button is automatically triggered, and the selected responses are sent automatically.
- Case sensitive: Only match results that have the exact same uppercase and lowercase characters.
- Diacritics sensitive: If diacritic characters should be ignored. For example, "döner" would not match "doner".
Custom right and wrong messages are only displayed if the Hide questions results option is disabled.
By default, the randomized choices option is applied to matching and ordering questions.
The essay question requires validation to mark a session as Pass or Fail.
Web page
This capsule is used to display web pages in the course (Internet or Intranet). Smart Courses automatically converts given links to iframes.
Options can be used to customize the capsule display:
- Display page link: whether to display or not the page link in the player
- Description: displays a webpage description
- Minimum reading time: displays a countdown while reading the capsule to freeze navigation
Note that the display of external pages may be blocked by their hosting domains. Make sure the web pages are correctly displayed before publishing the course. Check this FAQ page for more details.
There are two ways to add PDF files to a course:
- Attachment: Upload a PDF file
- Link: Use a link from the Internet or Intranet
Note that the maximum file size in each item is defined by monday.com as 500MB.
Secured Links: links for PDF files from non HTTPS domains may not display
Options you can use to customize the capsule display:
- PDF description: displays a PDF file description
- Minimum reading time: displays a countdown while reading the capsule to freeze navigation
You can edit the PDF file and download it. The changes will not be saved in the course attachments and will not be visible to the course attendees.
Import capsules and sections
1. Import capsules:
Use this button to import capsules from other courses.
If the imported capsules contain attachments, they will be automatically copied in the target course.
2. Import sections:
Use this button to import whole sections from other courses.
You can only import sections and capsules from published courses that you have permission to edit, created within the same board.