Time for action – setting up the course format

1. Return to the Course settings screen.

2. From the Format options, choose Topics format or Weekly format. For mine, I'm going to choose Topics format:

   

3. Choose the number of topics / weeks. I've planned for six topics in my course.

4. For weekly courses, make sure you set a start date.

5. Now scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button to return to your course page:

   

What just happened?

I've just broken up my Backyard Ballistics course into five "topics", that is, five numbered boxes because that's how my course is structured in the real world. Again, five topics is a natural fit.

You can still adjust the number of topics / weeks in your course once your course is populated with content. However, if you reduce the number then later topics will disappear. So if you have 10 topics, and later reduce it to eight, anything that you had added to topics nine and 10 will vanish from view but are still there (and are still accessible if people...