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What are the best ways to apply DesignPLUS to an entire course?
Use the Multi-Tool to quickly scaffold out a course full of DesignPLUS content! To apply consistent Themes across all your existing DesignPLUS content, check out the Course Theme tool! And DesignPLUS Administrators: create Customizations content for your users.
Whether you are building a course from scratch, or using DesignPLUS to overhaul existing content, we make the process of applying a DesignPLUS theme to an entire course easy!
Building Courses from Scratch with the DesignPLUS Multi-Tool
The Multi-Tool LTI helps you create course-level content Templates (which can include your chosen Theme, Content Blocks, etc.) and then scaffold out as many modules as you need, utilizing those templates.
Visit the DesignPLUS User Guide: Multi-Tool to learn more about how the Multi-Tool can easily apply themes and template content to a new course, or to new modules you're building within a course.
And, once you've built Templates in your course with the Multi-Tool, you can easily call them into any of your course content using the Quick Start Wizard or the Sidebar's Template Content tool. No need to re-build your structure from scratch for every new item!
Using the Course Theme Tool to Modify Themes Across Existing DesignPLUS Content
If you'd like to apply a consistent Theme across many (or all) existing content items that already utilize DesignPLUS, our Course Theme tool makes this a breeze! You can apply a single Theme to all content items at once, or select a certain group of items to update with a particular Theme. You can even see which Themes are currently being used on each page!
Visit the DesignPLUS User Guide: Course Theme to learn more about how this awesome, course-wide tool can help you.
For DesignPLUS Administrators: Creating Customizations
DesignPLUS Administrators can create bits of reusable content, like Templates, Content Blocks, Snippets, and even custom Themes, that can be accessed by any user in the sidebar.
For example: the administrator creates and publishes a Template in their Primary Customizations course. That Template includes a Theme and a specific set of Content Blocks, in a particular order. All DesignPLUS Users can then access that Template from the Quick Start Wizard or from the Sidebar's Template Content tool. They drop the Template on the page, and simply customize their unique content within the existing structure of the page.
Visit the DesignPLUS Admin Guide to learn more about Customizations.