Why Create A Course Profile Widget?
A course profile widget displays the course description and general information for public viewing on your website. This is useful for a prospective student to evaluate whether the course is suitable for their needs.
Information displayed in a course profile widget is drawn from the description tab of the course or unit. See help page on course tabs and unit tabs for more information.
How to Create a Course Profile Widget
- Navigate to Connect > Widgets.
- In the Add a Widget section on the left of screen, select Course Profile from the drop down menu.
- Provide a Unique Name for this widget. This is for admin reference only, it is not displayed anywhere on the widget. It is intended to help an admin user identify the widget from the widget collection.
- Once you have selected the widget type and provided a unique name, click continue.
The widget editor is now open on the right side of screen, where you can customise your widget display and settings.
Widget Editor Settings
Type & Unique name - these cannot be edited, but are displayed.
Brand - if using sub-brands, select which brand enquiries should be associated with.
Display title - this text will appear at the top of the widget frame, and will be visible to anyone viewing the widget on your website. Leave blank if you do not want to use a title.
Size - If you are using iFrame code to install the widget on your website, choose the size of the widget in pixels, horizontally (width) and vertically (height).
Fields to show - select which description data fields you would like the widget to display.
If there is no data populated against a field in the description tab for the course or unit, but the field is selected for publishing in the widget then those fields will not show, as there is no corresponding data to display.
Course or unit selection - use the drop down list to select the course or unit that you want to create a course profile widget for. The information displayed in the widget will come from the description tab for whatever is selected here.
Edit selected course - opens the profile for the course or unit currently selected in the drop down menu for easy editing.
Show border - display a border around the perimeter of the widget frame.
Show title - display the widget title in the widget itself.
When you are finished, click Save.
Preview Course Profile Widget
At the bottom of the widget editor, there is a preview button.
Click this to 'preview' what the course profile widget would look like and see how it will display.
Make sure that you have saved any changes to apply your settings to the rendered preview.
A pop-up will open which is fully interactive and allows you to preview exactly how the widget would look when installed on your website.
The course profile widget display is an accordion menu, where each sub heading can be expanded by clicking the arrow to read the information contained under that sub heading. Likewise, clicking the arrow when expanded will shrink the sub-item and hide the contents.
Superseded Courses or Units
If a course has been superseded and it has a course profile widget linked to it, a flashing alert will now warn of this in the widget collection.
To view the widget collection navigate to Connect > Widgets.
If a course or unit is superseded this means on the course or unit profile in the map tab, that a code has been entered in the 'superseded by' field. This indicates the course or unit is no longer the most up-to-date version which exists and it has been replaced.
For more information on this, see the following help pages:
How to edit, modify and upgrade a unit
Unit tabs
Course tabs
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