Assets overview

Updated 27 days ago / 10 min read

Asset items are reusable instructional components that you can use to structure and tailor your learning content to different environments. Assets are digitally tagged with XML metadata based on a set of international standards and specifications guidelines. These metadata tags enable you to search for objects in the system.   

List of assets:

Asset Description
Ask Instructor


Enables users to ask relevant questions to course providers. 

Calendar


Enables users to display the current days of the month and attach a calendar of events and reminders for the course. It also enables the posting and viewing of global and personal events and reminders. 

CardBoard
Lets you keep track of the tasks assigned to you and to other relevant users. You'll have access to other user's tasks with information relevant to your room. For more information, see Boards.
Certificate Manager
Manages users’ certificates online. Once enabled, it lets managers view and edit exam and course completion certificate records. You can use this asset to issue new certificates based on a certificate template. You can also use it for external courses, to enable the upload of certificates to register that a user has successfully completed an external course.
Chat / Social Wall

Adds a chat function to the course, which not only enables conversation between users and course providers but also facilitates case and scenario discussions in real-time. It displays users who are currently online.

Wall feed that enables users to comment and chat with other participants. 

Course Catalog
Displays a list of courses (as tiles) that a user is enrolled in. It is also a shop that displays the courses with sessions and learning plans that the user can sign up for. For more information, see The Course Catalog.
Download

Where the administrators and course editors can share files with users. It enables users to download materials provided by their course administrators. This asset is also an efficient tool when there’s a need for administrators to work together in developing a common course. Consequently, it enables users to interact with other users and with the course administrator.

Inline Frame
Can show an HTML resource.
Interactive Content  (H5P)


Helps you develop and edit creative and interactive content for your users. 

KPI Manager
Enables users to keep track of their performance. This asset displays user's monthly and overall target status represented by statistical data. 
Leaderboard Viewer
Displays a competitive board view with the names and current kudos scores and progress ranking of leading users. 
Learning Plan Viewer
Enables users to view and edit learning plans. This is often used in connection with the Course Catalog asset. 
Media

Lets you upload and play media in various formats such as image files (jpg, gif, png, svg), MS PowerPoint, MS Word and pdf documents, streaming video/sound files.

Additionally, this asset enables you to upload files in mp3 format which is compatible in most browsers. (When viewed in a client an mp3 jquery player is shown to play the file.)

Note: You are only allowed to use one media asset per page.

My Courses
Keeps users informed and up to date about their curriculum or courses. It enables users to see the courses that they are signed up for. This asset also makes it easier for the user to switch views between courses and see their progress on each course.  It can be added to a slide of a course and serve as a bulletin board where users can view relevant notes, news, course changes and other information that you post. It consists of news channels where users can subscribe to get the latest updates. 
My Documents
Works as a personal workplace where users can write and leave their own documents or add attachments. This enables users to share documents with other users which works best when working in a group or a joint project. Through this asset, users can create, maintain, send and share documents allowing other users to view their documents. 
My Info
Tracks how many times a user has logged in to the system. It also tells if there are internal messages for the user.
News
Lets you add a news section to a slide or on the Admin pages to display relevant news items for a course, or to share information about the system to course editors. 
Online Message System
Creates a message function that lets users send messages to either online or offline users. This asset also enables users to instantly see and search for their messages. 
Online Users 
Enables users to see which other users are currently online. Since it displays a list of all the online users, administrators and instructors can send messages to anyone in the list. 
Polling

The Polling asset is similar to the Survey asset but is only made up of a single question to get feedback. The following question types are supported by this asset: 

  • Multiple choice
  • Multiple answer
Product/Kudo Shop


Lets users see items that they can buy or bid on (auction) with the Kudos points that they've earnt. For more information, see Kudos and the Kudo Shop.  

Question Pool
A composition of question items (which can be of different question types) compiled together in sequence as each item or slide appears. This lets you automatically set feedback messages when the test is submitted.

The following question types are supported: 

  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Answers
  • Multi Question
  • Fill in the Blank
  • Point and Click
  • Matching drag and drop
  • Matching dropdown
  • Sequence drag and drop
  • Sequence dropdown
  • Numeric
  • Plain text
  • Essay
  • Plain video

For more information, see Question Pool.

SCORM Container

Enables users to import a SCORM package(Scorm 1.2 / 2004, XAPI and CMI5-package and CMI5-livelink into a course. The SCORM packages can be integrating or non-integrating. 

An import assistant is also available and is used removing comments when uploading SCORM packages. 

When you upload an xAPI package into the Learning Center, all the content, activity definitions, and activity provider definitions in the package are imported and tracked.

For more information, see An introduction to Tin Can/xAPI.

Note
When you import a SCORM package, texts and exams can be saved as question slides instead of assessment slides. 

Survey

Ideal for building and publishing course evaluations and market survey forms. These question types are supported:

  • Multiple choice
  • TextArea
  • TextBox
  • Multiple answers

You can define your questions in the following way: 

  • A question can be set to require interaction before it can be submitted.
  • A question can be dependent on the answer from a preceding question.
  • You can make cross references between questions.
  • For multiple answer questions, you can select to load previous answers if you want your users to see their previous responses whenever they visit the survey page.

You can extract the evaluation in a CSV file to use in third-party software.

Task List

Use the Task List to verify the completion of course activities. You can set this up by prompting users to tick a checkbox, upload a file, or provide a rating. 

Text

Lets you add content based on text or HTML and comes with an online Word editor that can handle a large amount of text with embedded media, hyperlinks, and object links. Additionally, the editor includes a menu bar with different settings on styles and formats. Use the $$ variable properties to customize text that reflects user information.

You can also use this asset to upload Video / Streaming links. 

User Profile Editor

Enables the user to view and manage their profile by uploading an image and giving it a brief description. 

 

 

Assets in the list is assets that is used by Partners or Customers that has indept setup knowledge on how to setup sites and design / functionallity that is needed in portals   

 
Asset Description
External Website Launcher (Auth. Ticket)


Launches external web resources from the CURSUM Learning Center. The specified URL is launched including any added URL query string parameters.

The parameters that the user can add to the URL are:

  • the authentication ticket
  • the course ID
  • the start slide ID
 

Forgot My Password,

Login page

Registration Form

Adds a page to the course where users can retrieve their password. The password is sent to the user via email. 

Used as the login portal for a course. This asset contains settings for creating the required data for the asset. You can create a title and description for this asset to instruct users how to log in to a course. Consequently, users are notified if they have successfully logged in or if an error has occurred. 

The Registration Form asset adds a registration page where users can apply to courses and be part of groups. It can also serve as a catalog for already registered users.

 Index
Creates an index of the course items consisting of either an alphabetized list or a list based on corresponding item score or item lesson status.  
 Search 
Creates a search function for the course. Users can search for other users in the course, and download items and course content. You can determine which criteria can be used for searching and what information should be available for each course. 
 ToolPanel
Adds a tool panel to the course. You can select what buttons to display. There’s also a default setting for using JavaScript.