Course Structure and Hierarchy

Course components are added to the course tree as it is developed. There are some restrictions on component subordination (where a component can be placed in the course tree). The Edit menu only displays available commands for the currently selected component in the tree.

The order in which components appear in the course tree depends on where they are added. A newly added component always appears directly below the component it was added to. Newly added components appear before any other pre-existing components of the same type that were already in the course tree. The ordering of components is especially critical for playability, as they appear in the Course Player in the order they appear in the course tree. The table below gives an overview of the course component structure:

Course Component	Description	Associated Components
Course	The Course is the highest-level item in the Course Tree. When a new course is created, the course and the Resources component automatically appear in the course tree.	Resources Lesson
Course Overview	The Course Overview is a special type of topic that introduces the general subject matter of the course.	Page
Lessons	Lessons are a collection of topics within a course. All lessons contain at least one topic.	Topic
Lesson Overview	The Lesson Overview is a special topic that introduces the general subject matter of the topics within that lesson.	Learning Point Objective
Topics	Instructional content is presented within topics.	Learning Point
Learning Points	Learning points are subdivisions of a topic.	Page
Objectives	Objectives are organizational folders containing terminal and enabling objectives and their associated test questions.	Terminal Objective
Terminal Objectives	Terminal Objectives define the highest level of learning (related to the expected performance outcome) for a given topic. Terminal Objectives are always tested in Instruction and Roleplay topics.	Test Question
Enabling Objectives	Enabling Objectives define the knowledge and skills required to master Terminal Objectives. Enabling Objectives are not always tested.	Test Question (optional)
Pages	Pages are created with templates, and contain the instructional text and graphics within a course. Pages that contain child pages are referred to as Parent Pages.	Child Page (optional)
Child Pages	Child Pages are pages a user adds as subsets to existing pages in the course. Child pages provide additional information for information covered in Parent Pages.	No course elements are subordinate to child pages.