{"id":64,"date":"2017-03-02T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/devinstrcourses\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2017-05-29T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:46:07","slug":"hiding-and-showing-content","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/getting-started\/hiding-and-showing-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding and Showing Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! In this tutorial, you will learn how to hide or show\u00a0content (e.g., labels, activities, blocks, etc.) on your course site.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, you will\u00a0want to\u00a0hide\u00a0content on your course site from students. Some reasons for hiding content include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You want to create an activity or another resource on your course site but do not have time to finish creating it in one sitting. Hiding such content allows you to build a resource over time and show it when it is ready.<\/li>\n<li>You have determined that the content is not necessary for students. Either you have not yet arrived at a point in the course where students need to worry about a particular section of the course, or you have completed a section of the course and students no longer need to worry about it. Hiding this kind of content allows you to keep it if you need to refer to it or plan on using it later in the course without making students scroll through non-urgent content.<\/li>\n<li>Some templates, like the English 150 and 250 templates, come with certain items already hidden from view. This reminds\u00a0you to edit this content before showing it to your students and helps avoid the potential confusion and embarrassment of using a default scheduler\u00a0activity, for instance. (You want to have the right dates entered\u00a0<em>before<\/em> you show a\u00a0scheduler.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This tutorial shows you how to hide\u00a0a piece of content, and then how to show the same piece of content\u00a0later. The tutorial will focus on the first writing assignment found in the English 150 template.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Step 1:<\/h2>\n<!--include code: [rps-include blog=7911 post=6 filter=\"true\"] -->\r\nClick \u201cTurn editing on\u201d at the top of the course site.\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/-plug24-in42-test\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7911\/2017\/02\/Course__English_250__Written__Oral__Visual__and_Electronic_Composition__Section_MG__B__Vance__S17_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"48\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Next, scroll down to the piece of content you want to hide. Click on the &#8220;Edit&#8221; button, then select &#8220;Hide&#8221; next to the eye icon in\u00a0the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/HideAssignment.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4654\" src=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/HideAssignment-400x153.png\" alt=\"hide show contents screenshot2\" width=\"461\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The item will now be hidden. Notice that a hidden resource will have the text grayed out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/HiddenAssignment.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4655\" src=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/HiddenAssignment-400x80.png\" alt=\"hide show contents screenshot3\" width=\"450\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep a sharp eye out for gray text, especially when working with a template for the first time; you may think an item is visible when it is actually hidden! To make sure that a resource is visible to students, you may want to log in as a student to double check. <a href=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/logging-in-to-your-course-page-as-a-particular-student\/\">Read this article to learn how to log in as a student.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Show\u00a0Content<\/h2>\n<p>Once you have finished creating and editing a particular piece of content, you will need to make sure it is visible to students.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Step 3:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While in\u00a0editing mode (see step 1), click on the &#8220;Edit&#8221; button next to the resource you want to show. Then, select &#8220;Show&#8221; next to the eye icon in the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/ShowAssignment.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4656\" src=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2155\/2015\/08\/ShowAssignment-400x175.png\" alt=\"hide show contents screenshot4\" width=\"451\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The text should now be red, meaning it is visible. If you want to double check but do not want to log in as a student, follow this step again; if the menu says &#8220;Hide&#8221; next to the eye icon, that means it is currently visible.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<!--include code: [rps-include blog=7911 post=12 filter=\"true\"] -->\n<h2><strong>For Support<\/strong><\/h2>\nIf you encounter difficulty during any part of these tasks, please e-mail us at <a href=\"mailto:olt@iastate.edu\">olt@iastate.edu<\/a> for assistance, or\u00a0stop by 306 Ross during our scheduled support hours.\n\nIf you cannot see the images in this documentation, click<a href=\"http:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/no-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here<\/a>.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2588,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"isu_carousel":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Bremen","author_link":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/author\/bvance\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/author\/bvance\/","display_name":"Bremen"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 2, 2017","modified":"Updated on May 29, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 2, 2017 9:27 pm","modified":"Updated on May 29, 2017 9:46 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/286"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.isucomm.iastate.edu\/courses-instructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}