Publishing learning assets from course files

Instead of publishing a learning object and all of its associated files, you might want to publish a single asset (e.g., a graphic) from a course that would be useful to multiple users or departments. Publishing an asset such as an HTML file will also publish all of the assets to which it links (e.g., images, media files, etc).

Publish an asset (file)

1. Go to the course containing the file you want to publish. You can also use the LOR widget from Course Home.
2.  Do one of the following:
   • Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click Manage Files.
   • In the Course Administration widget on the course homepage, click Manage Files.
3. Select the file you want to publish and click the Publish icon.
4. Select one of the following:
   • Click Create a new object and select a repository from the Destination repository drop-down list.
   • Click Overwrite an existing object and Search to find the learning object you want to overwrite.
5. If you want to hide the learning object, select Hide learning object. You can change this option once the object is published to the LOR.

   Note  Only you and users with sufficient permission can view hidden learning assets.

6. If you want to make the object available publicly to users without an ID and password to Learning Environment, select the Make Learning Object publicly available for viewing check box.
7. If you want, click Set publish process to run in the background to run the publish process in the background. Use this for large files or packages. You can check the publishing job's status later.
8. Select the Associate Creative Commons license with Learning Object check box if you want to set a license for the object.

   Creative Commons licensing enables you to retain copyright on your work while allowing different degrees of reuse to other users. You can reserve all rights to your work, some rights, or release it to the public domain. For more information go to http://creativecommons.org/.

   If you associate a license with your learning object, choose what restrictions you want to place on it.

9. If you want to add, edit, or delete metadata, click the Edit Metadata icon.

   Note  When publishing an asset from the Files area the metadata IEEE LOM title field automatically populates with the asset’s file name (unless a title already exists).

10. Click Publish.

See also

• About Metadata