Create a New Legacy Library

Create a New Legacy Library#

Use legacy content libraries to build a pool of components that can be used in randomized assignments in your courses.

Warning

The Legacy Libraries feature will be supported through Teak, moving to unsupported in Ulmo. Teak will include a one-click migration feature that will make it easy to convert a Legacy Library into the new Library interface.

See Content Libraries Redesign - Beta for more information.

To create a new library, follow these steps.

Log in to Studio.
Select New Library.
Enter the required information for your new library, then select Create.

Note

Enter new library information carefully. The values in these fields become part of the URL for your library, therefore the total number of characters in the Library Name, Organization, and Library Code fields must be 65 or fewer.

For Library Name, enter the public display name for your library. Choose a meaningful name that will help you and other course team members to identify the library. For example, “Level 200 Math Problems”. When you add a randomized content block to a course unit, you use the library name to specify this library as a source for the randomized assignment.

For Organization, enter the identifier for your university. For example, enter HarvardX or MITx. Do not include spaces or special characters.

For Library Code, enter an identifier for your library that is unique within your organization. This code becomes part of the URL for your library, so do not include spaces or special characters in the code.

Select Create.

You see the new library, to which you can now add components. For information about adding components to a library, see Add Components to a Legacy Library.

After you create a library, you are automatically assigned an Admin role for the library. For information about adding other users to a library after you create it, see Give Other Users Access to Your Legacy Library.

Edit a Legacy Library#

After you create a library, the only change you can make to the initial library information is to the name. However, at any time, you can make changes to the components in your library, including adding or deleting components or editing the settings of components. For details about editing the contents of a library, see Edit Components in a Legacy Library and Add Components to a Legacy Library.

To change the name of a library, follow these steps.

Log in to Studio.
Select Libraries, then select the library whose name you want to edit.
Select the Edit icon next to the library name.

The library name field becomes editable.
In the library name field, make edits or enter a new library name.
Select anywhere outside the library name field to save your changes.

For details about giving other users access to the library, see Give Other Users Access to Your Legacy Library.

Add Components to a Legacy Library#

To add new components to your library, follow these steps.

Log in to Studio.
Select Libraries, then select the library that you want to add components to.
Select Add Component, then select the component type that you want to add under Add New Component.

For more information about the types of components you can add to a library, see these topics.

After you add a component to a library, you can edit its settings. These settings are retained when the component is selected from the library and used in a course.

When a component from the library is used in a randomized content block, you can further edit the component as it exists in the unit, without affecting the original version in the library. For details, refer to Edit Components in a Legacy Library and Get the Latest Version of Library Content.

View the Contents of a Legacy Library#

To view the entire contents of a library in Studio, follow these steps.

Log in to Studio.
Select Libraries, then select the library whose components you want to view.
Optionally, select Hide Previews at the top right of the library page to collapse the component previews and see only the list of component display names. To return to the full preview of components in the library, select Show Previews.

The components in the library are shown in the order in which they were added, with the most recently added at the bottom. If your library has more than 10 components, additional components are shown on other pages.

The range of the components shown on the current page, and the total number of components, are shown at the top of the page.

You can navigate through the pages in the following ways.

Use the < and > buttons at the top and bottom of the list to navigate to the previous and next pages.
At the bottom of the page, you can edit the first number in the page range. Select the number to place your cursor in the field, then enter the page number you want to jump to.

To view the list of matching components in the library, see View the Matching Components in a Randomized Content Block.

To view the randomized content that was assigned to a specific learner, see Specific Learner View.

Edit Components in a Legacy Library#

After you have added components to a library, you can edit, duplicate, or delete them.

For step-by-step instructions for editing, duplicating, or deleting components, refer to the following topics.

Note

If you modify components in your library that are in use in a course, these updates in the “source” library are not reflected in the course unless you manually update the randomized content block in the course unit. For details about updating library components used in your course to match the latest version in the library, see Getting the Latest Version of Library Content.

Delete a Legacy Library#

You cannot delete a library. Instead, you can discontinue use of an unwanted library. To do so, first make sure that none of its components are in use in any courses, then delete all components in the library. You can also edit the name of the library to make it clear to other course team members that the library should not be used as a source of randomized assignment content in courses.

For details about deleting components in a library, see Edit Components in a Legacy Library.