A component is a part that allows your learners to interact with your course in different ways. Some examples of a component could be a multi-part Accordion that your learner needs to interact with to reveal information or a question that your learner is required to answer.
You can add as many components as you like to your Project. Having a variety of different ways to interact with your course can make your content much more engaging for your learners. See Adding new components to a section for more information about how to add components to your course.
There are five different types of components. You can use the links below to jump to each category.
Presentational | Interactions | Navigation | Questions | Results
Presentational
Presentational components are intended to convey information to the learner without much direct interaction on their part. These are useful for things like summaries, short explanations of concepts, instructions, and direct addresses to your learners.
Page heading
This is a simple component that is made up of text and a feature image. This component is great for introducing your page and what it is about.
Call to action
A small component made of text and a navigation button which can be configured to navigate either somewhere within your Project or to an external destination.
Text and image
A component made of text and an image, side-by-side. The component can be configured either to have the image on the left and text on the right or vice versa.
Video
A component made up of text and a container where a video can be added. Videos can either be embedded, chosen from your Asset Library or uploaded directly. For more information, see Adding videos to your course.
Audio
A component made of text and an audio container. Audio can be uploaded directly to the container or chosen from your library. To learn more, see Adding audio to your course.
Interactions
Interactive components require your learners to interact directly with the content in order to reveal the information within, often in a sequence.
Encouraging your learners to engage directly with your course can help them retain the information you're trying to teach or separate concepts and steps in a logical, bitesize order.
Info panels
These are made up of static panels containing text and images. These don't need to be interacted with by your learners but they can be useful for presenting information in a sequence.
Accordions
These are long banner-type parts that expand to reveal more information when selected.
Carousel
A Carousel presents information across multiple slides which can contain text and images.
Timeline
Timelines are made up of multiple points on a vertical line. Each Timeline point can be selected to expand it and reveal the information within.
Flipcard
These are two-sided panels which can be flipped around to reveal more information.
Image Explorer
A hotspot image explorer allows learners to interact with an image by clicking or tapping on specific areas to reveal information, helping them explore and understand key features of a product or scene.
Navigation
Grid format
This offers your learners a way to navigate to different areas of your course using a grid of one or more tiles. This is great for creating menu pages which are useful in non-linear courses.
Questions
You can add a Question component to your course if you'd like to quiz your learners.
A question component can hold more than one question. If there is more than one question in a single question component, they will be presented in a carousel.
To learn more about the different question types and how to add them to your course, see Creating assessment questions.
Text choice
Learners can choose from a selection of text answers.
Image choice
Learners choose from a selection of answers with images.
Sortable
Learners are required to sort a selection of answers into the correct order.
Drag and Drop
Learners are required to sort several items into two or more groups.
Results
Score Summary
The Score Summary provides a breakdown of all the scored questions in the course and how the learner answered them. You can learn more about the Score Summary in Creating a results summary for your quiz.