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title: "Adding Documents and Website URLs to a Course"
slug: "add-docs-urls"
tags: ["lgc"]
updated: 2024-09-26T15:43:29Z
published: 2024-09-26T15:43:29Z
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# Adding Documents and Website URLs to a Course

Course Activities provide access to documents, external links, and other learning components in Classes, course assignments, and learning paths. These activities provide direct access to document or web pages on the web. When the student selects the Launch button on the activity, the document or web page will open. You control if it opens in new window or within a frame in the same window.

The steps below assume you have completed the Basic Information section in the course ([Creating Courses](/v1/docs/create-course)). Before adding a course activity, you should select whether the course will available instructor-led and/or available Self-Paced on the Basic Information tab. This will affect the defaults for visibility of the activities you add for classes and Course Assignments.

## Add a Document or URL to a Course

To add a document or external link to your course:

1. On the **Create Course** or **Edit Course** page, select **Activities**.
2. Select **Add Document** or **Add External Link**.
3. In the activity,
  1. In **Name**, set the name of the activity. This will appear in the list of activities in the course.
  2. In **URL**, set the URL for the document or external link.
  3. (Optional) Enter the description of the document or external link to be displayed below the name of the activity in the course.

Each activity has the following fields you can set for more control over that it:

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Duration | Sets the estimated amount of time the student should spend on the document or external link. This may affect the overall duration of the class. |
| Availability | Limits who can access the document or external link. It defaults to Everyone but you can limit it to Instructors only if the activity is intended only for instructors. |
| Required for course completion | Requires a student to launch the video for the course assignment or class enrollment to be marked **Complete**. |
| Available Instructor-Led | Makes the activity visible in classes and class enrollments. |
| Available Self-Paced | Makes the activity visible in course assignments. |
| Open in New Window | Sets the document or external link to open in a different window. |

Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.

Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.

- Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
- Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).

A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.

Self-Paced or On-demand training is associated with course assignments or subscriptions. Users are assigned training which can be accessed at any time by the learner at their leisure. Outside guidance or mentorship is often not provided with this type of training.

A course assignment delivers self-paced access to a course. A course is assigned to a student giving immediate access to the student. It can be accessed at any time for the duration of the assignment. The assignment duration begins and is billed when it is created.