Time for action – adding a topic and hiding it
Return to your course front page and choose Edit settings from the Settings block.
Scroll down to the number of weeks/topics setting and change the number in the drop-down list to add another topic to your course:
At the bottom of the page, press the Save changes button. That's it, we're done—and now there's a new empty topic at the end of your course.
For the moment, I want to hide this topic from students. Click on the eye icon on the right-hand side to hide the topic:
It depends on your theme but, to show that a topic is hidden, two gray bars are shown on the left- and right-hand side of the topic:
What just happened?
We've now got a new, empty topic added to our course. I don't want students to be able to view the assignment until we are all ready, so I've hidden this topic from them for now.
Which assignment type
For the purpose of my project, I'm only going to be looking at two different assignment activity types—but by looking at those two...
