Speaker 1: In this video, I'm going to provide an overview of creating a structure for materials inside of your Schoology courses. When you start a new Schoology course, it's important to develop some sort of structure for organizing or sequencing materials for your students. I'm in my demo course, and I'm going to go to the materials section on the left. You can see I've started to build a structure for containing materials for my course here. Different teachers might use different structures. You may use a unit structure, maybe by chapters, organizing materials by week or by month. It's just important that you choose some structure to begin organizing materials for your course. I'm using folders, and inside of those folders, I'll start to organize materials for my class. To add a folder, click on Add Materials. Select Add Folder. You're going to need to give your folder a title. That's the only thing that's required. You can change the color of a folder. You could add a description. I would have you be mindful that descriptions here at this level will cause your materials page to become long, and students will have to scroll through it. I would avoid long descriptions here and add your descriptions to the individual materials that are contained inside the folders. At the bottom, under Availability, I'm going to have this published so that it's viewable and accessible. You can choose to publish on a start date or publish during a date range, so that folder and the materials in it will only be viewable during that period of time or on that starting date. I've noticed here that I've labeled this unit, and it overlaps with my other Unit 3 folder. So I'm going to click here on the right on this little small gear icon and click Edit, and I need to change the title. So I'm just going to make an update and save my changes. Again, that's in order. I could change the order of these folders by simply grabbing one of the items and sliding it to a new location. I'm going to actually delete this folder. If you'll notice, as I move through my Materials section here, in between the different items you can view this green dotted line. Selecting that will allow you to place a folder in that location. So if I click on the green line, I will once again get the Add Materials selection to come up. And I'm going to add a folder, and I'm just going to call this one Unit 1B. Select Create, and you'll notice it's placed it in between my Unit 1 and Unit 2 folder. Between each item, you'll notice this green line that will allow you to select and insert items in that location. I'm going to delete this folder. So now I've created a simple structure for organizing materials for my course. Once I've done that, you'll notice on the left-hand side there's a drop-down arrow that will let you see the contents of a folder. You can toggle that on and off to view items in a folder. I'm going to go into my Unit 1 folder, and I can begin adding materials for my course. There's a wide assortment of things that you can add for materials. You can add an assignment, add an assessment, add file links from an external tool. You could add a discussion. A page would allow you to put in different types of materials into that page. I could add a media album, and then import from resources. This is where you would add resources that you've stored in your Resources section. So I can click on Import from Resources, and I could add materials from my personal resources from a group I'm a member of. And under Apps, if you've attached your Google Drive resource, this would let you look over into your Google Drive, select an item in Drive, and import that into your materials in Schoology. A note about this, importing a file from your Google Drive will take a static kind of shot-in-time view of that file. I would stay away from this, because if you make changes to that document or file, you're not going to see updates inside of Schoology. I would suggest using Import Link, which will create a link to that document or file. And if you make changes to it in your Drive, those changes will update and be visible when you're looking at them in Schoology. So again, in Materials, remember it's important to build structure for your students to access materials for your course.