UF Templates
Page Design & Structure UF Templates
Templates can be incredible time savers. Rather than manually adding the same design and structural elements to every page, you can utilize templates already created for you and then alter them to reflect your page design decisions. Then, you can use the templates as the starting point for the creation of new content!
UF COIP consistently develops templates, snippets, and blocks so you can quickly build interactive pages quickly. Utilizing template pages to begin your course design and then creating template pages for your own course is the first step to being a DesignPLUS super user!
Use these page-building techniques to scaffold your course using the Multi-Tool Module Builder, and you'll have a course built out quicker than you can say, "Go Gators!"
Institutional Templates
UF templates offered
There are various institutional templates with pre-designed blocks ready for your editing. These have pre-configured, custom colors and images that you can use as is for a course, or you can alter the blocks in the sidebar and colors in the Style Editor. Institutional templates get you going quickly and are fun to work with because the work is already done for you! Rearrange and remove blocks as you wish and save them as a template page in your course to easily copy to a page or to use with the Multi-Tool.
Each UF template will have three pages: a Landing page, a Content page, and an Assignment/Discussion/Quiz page. You can use all the elements included on each page or remove the elements you won't need. Assignment/Discussion/Quiz pages are template pages that are configured with blocks that generally can fit the purposes of any assignment, discussion, or quiz page you create for your course.
Instructions
Add template content to a page
- Add a new page to a module and go to the "Add New Element" tab in the DesignPLUS main navigation.
- On the "Add New Element" tab, search for "Template Content" and you will see the following:
- Select the "Template Content" button to see the template options available to you. You can import course content, import content by using the "Import by URL" option, or select from the other options such as "Basic Bar", "Basic Color", etc.
- For the purposes of these image below, the "Basic Color" Content page has been selected. You'll notice when you hover over the options, you can see a preview of what the template will look like.
- Once you've decided on the template you want to use, simply click on it to place it on your page. Make any changes you wish to make, and remember to click the Canvas "Save" button to keep your changes.