The document provides step-by-step instructions for creating and setting up a course on the Evolve learning development platform. It covers topics like creating a course title and theme, setting up the course appearance and extensions, building the course structure of topics and pages, adding and formatting content, and more. Key areas covered in setting up pages include specifying titles, descriptions, and status, as well as adding components, articles, blocks, and formatting content with styles, images, and animations.

1. Create a course
1. Log in to your account and access your dashboard. Click on the Create Course.
2. You will be now prompted with a new screen. There are 3 key areas to focus
1 – Course Title: You need to enter a title for your course
2 – Select Theme: You need to select a theme from the theming options provided to
you.
3 – Create: Click the button to create the course.
3. Now you will be prompted with a course structure inside a page called “Course
Builder”.

2. 4. It is recommended to setup your course first before you start developing a course.
5. We should first setup the appearance of the course. This is important, since this is the
way your course is going to look like in the future. Click on the appearance tab. [A]
6. You will be now prompted with a screen with lots of different themes to select from.
NOTE: There are 2 types of themes. [B]
1 – Themes which is being shipped by default from Evolve. [1]
2 – Themes built customly to be edited and modified. This will have and Edit option.
[2]
7. You could also create a new theme if you like. In case if you need to create a new
theme, simply click on the New Theme button.
NOTE: You can only build a custom new theme, basing on one of the themes
currently exists. [C]
8. You will be prompted with a new theme creation screen.
1 - Simply give a new name for the theme [1]
2 select a theme from the drop-down menu and the following screen. [2]
3 Click create [3]

3. 9. Your newly created theme will be displayed as the last theme in the list.
[Insert 2 screen and compare]
10. Now you can Edit your theme. To edit the theme, simply click on the Edit button. [A]
11. Now it’s time to set the Extensions for your course. In this part, not only it allows you
to add extensions to your course, but it also gives the options to create a menu for
your course.

4. 12. When you enter the Extensions page, you will be prompted with a screen with 2
sections.
1 – Couse Menu: Select style of menu for your course and topic menus
2 – Course Extensions: Enable extensions for extra functionality for your course
13. To choose a menu, all you need to do is just select a theme by clicking on the radio
button next to the theme.
14. In the “Course Extensions”, when you select a extension, a self-introduction about
each extension is provided. To enable an extension, simply click on the switch next to
it to be turned on.
15. Once you enable the extension, you need to edit it to the way you need it behave.
Simply click on the Edit button next to each extension.

5. 16. Once you click to edit an extension, it gives you options for that particular extension.
Each extension gives you multiple categories [A] and subcategory of options [B].
Each section contains a self-explanation instruction what needs to be done.

6. 17. Now you are ready to get started to build your course. To get started building the
course, simply click on the “Content” menu option.

7. 18. Now you will be navigated back to the page builder page.

8. 19. You will notice a page structure. Let’s observe each component.
1 – The menu page of the course.
2 – Where we create a new page for the course directly.
3 – You can create a topic as a section and build corresponding pages to have a
structured hierarchy for your course.
20. To get started of creating a structure, as stated above; click on “Add Topic” [3]
button.
21. Now you will see new section created under the menu page.
22. If you need to create a subtopic, simply click on the “Add Topic” button directly
under your topic group. [2]

9. 23. Now we need to give a name for our topic. To give a name, simply click on the “Edit
Topic” [1]
24. Now you will be in a different page with options to set your topic header.
25. Even though there are so many configuration sections, we only need to focus on very
few.
40- Title: The name of the to be identified when using in development.
41- Display Title: This is the name which you could see as a title. Basically, the name
of the topic of the section.
42- Display Title Settings: This the display formatting. The size of the font &
alignment. There is also a button to clear the formatting.
43- Description: This is a page descriptor. You could add a description for
identification. You could use this to enter any comments for identification and
used in further development.
44- Aria Label: This is an alternative text to be read by a screen reader. You could use
the same title as the “Display Title”.
45- Tags: Identification tags to be used in search. Once it is tagged, you could type in
the universal search feature in your course and it will be picked up in the search
results. This would be useful when you have too many information in your course
but you are in a hurry to find what to you need quickly.

10. 26. If you need to delete the section/topic, simply click on the “Delete Topic” button.
27. Now lets add a page to the main menu. Simply click on the “Add Page” button. [A]
28. Now you could see the page is appearing as the second page next to the topic/section.
The Learning Development Platform Evolve, understands a section as a page when
creating the hierarchy. [B]
29. If you like to add a page under the topic/section, simply click on the “Add Page”
button located under the section header.[1]

11. 30. Any page under the topic/section will create under that topic/header in a hierarchy
manner. [2]
31. Now let’s build the page. To get started, click on the page you want to build. It will be
selected with a blue box around it.
32. First, we need to give a title for the page. Click on the icon with a pencil to bring up
the page setup dialog box. [1]
33. When you click on it, you will be prompted with a dialog box. There are 3 key areas
we need to focus on when setting up the page.

12. 1- Title: The title of the page. Give it a good name. This will the name to identify the
page.
2- Description: Give a meaningful description to understand what this page is about.
You could also put any comments about the page for further development. When
you page is searched and found, under the page name, the description will appear.
So, it is very important to give a good description.
3- All Edit Options: This brings the complete editing features related to the page.
34. Once you enter the title and the description, it will be displayed automatically in the
full editing options page. [1]
35. As discussed earlier (please refer to step 25), we only focus on the 6 areas. You need
to repeat the “steps 25” and fill in the details as you required for this page section.
NOTE: This is the common setup for every page and section/topic you create.
36. Now we focus on the specific unique setup area when developing a page.
A – Page Header: This is the area you can setup your page header section. Instruction
and each feature in this section is explained in the system next to each heading.
B – Page Hero Image: This is basically a cover page you see in Facebook and
Youtube Channel page. Likewise, instructions and each feature in this section is
explained in the system next to each heading.
C – Page Background image: This is where you can set a background relating to the
content. Simply the way you do PowerPoint presentations.
D – Content Locking: This option is only available if you have the “Content
Blocking” extension is turned on when you setup your course. You can setup
navigation restrictions. This is very important if you want to avoid your learners
skipping through content and want to follow a strict content. In case if you turn the
extension on, you do not have to enable it for your pages right away. You can
implement it at any stage you like. Instruction and each feature in this section is
explained in the system next to each heading.
E – Status: You can specify the status of your page. By doing so, if someone accesses
the learning systems and wants to know what the status of the course is; this indicates

13. the status of the page. Then whoever wants to modify will reverse their action or do
something else. You can select the action from the drop-down list. [E1]
F – Comments: You can add any comments when developing the page. If you want
someone else to work on the page, you could enter the comments as instructions for
the person.
37. After finishing setting up press the “Page Builder” at the top left, to setup the page.
[G]
38. A page in Evolve Author is built in a hierarchy structured system.
1. Articles - articles sit within pages, they are typically used to separate out
chunks of content (e.g. introduction/knowledge check). Blocks and
components sit within articles.
1. Selecting the edit icon will allow you to add an article title and body
text along with background images.
2. Blocks - blocks sit within articles and they allow you to add components
to your page.
1. You can add as many blocks to an article as you want but you can only
add up to 2 components per block.
3. Components - components are added within blocks. You can add up to 2
components per block.
1. If you need to add more components, simply add more blocks within
the article.
2. Components can sit full width or half width, two thirds left or two thirds
right.
3. They can be aligned to the top, center or bottom (when there are 2
components).
Article & Blocks – These are arrangement placeholders. This is where you can group
them to organise. These becomes handy when you apply theme styles for your pages;
using the themes you selected when you setup your course (discussed in a further
topic under ‘Themes’ in the quick reference guide “New Course”).
Components – This is where your course content interactions happen. This is used to
display how you want your learner to see the content.

14. 39. You are now displayed with a page building interface.
1 – Hero Image: This is the cover page image you already imported when setting up
the page.
2 – Article block: The main container used to group. Comes handy when applying
styles setup in your theme (discussed further under the heading ‘Themes’ in the
“New Course” quick reference guide).
3 – Block: The container holding components. This allows to re-arrange
components easily within the page.
4 Article Style: This is the area the specific style assigned in themes could be
applied. Simply select the style from the drop-down menu and select it.
5 Hidden: This allows you to hide the article item being displayed. This is useful
when using Logic (discussed further under the topic ‘Logic’ in the “New Course”
quick reference guide) to restrict the progress of content being displayed.
6 Tags: You could create tags or specify tags to categorize.
7 Edit Article: This is where you can setup the title and arrange how the components
inside the article would appear. Once you click on the edit symbol, you will be
navigated into a different page. The page consists of key areas.

15. 1 – General: This consists of general information about the block title with key
important areas.
• Article Title [1A] : This is the name given to identify the component in
development. NOTE: Always if it has “Title”, no matter if it is an
Article, Page, Block, Component; this means it’s a name for the
identification purpose. Comes very handy in using Logic and grouping.
Need to give a meaningful name.
• Article Display Title[1B]: This is the title which display to the user.
This could be a heading name. You must give it a meaningful title.
NOTE: Always if it has “Display Title” , no matter if it is an Article,
Page, Block, Component; this means it displays to the learner.
• Display Title Settings [1B]: This is the area you need to specify the
size of the font and the alignment of the font.
• Aria Label[1C]: This is used as an alternative title for the screen
readers. You must use the same title you used in B1. NOTE: Always
when it has “Aria Label”, it refers to an alternative title for the screen
readers. You must use the same title you used for “Display Title” as
the Aria Label.
2 – Appearance: This is how your article is going to appear when you publish the
course. There are few key areas you need focus in this section.
• Article Style[2A]: This is where you define a style for your article. The
style needs to be created when you setup the theme for your learning
course. You could also use the same method when you in the page
building setup; discussed earlier [4].
• Enable Scroll action button[2B]: A self-explanatory instructions are
given in the interface itself. Please refer to that.
3 – Background: This is where you set a specific background image for your
article block. Just only 2 key areas to focus on this section.
• Background Image[3A]: This is where you upload and set up your
background image.

16. • Background Image Position[3B]: This is where you set the alignment
of the image.
NOTE: Mobile Background Image is the same as the normal image but
a different small size. This section is not compulsory, but good to have.
4– Divider Before: This is where you add a separator to separate between articles.
The separator will appear before the article displayed. Only 2 key areas to focus.
• Display Divider Before Article[4A]: Just enable this to add a divider
before this article appears.
• Divider Before Aria Label[4B]: This allows you to add a separator for
the content to appear on screen readers. This is not compulsory, but
good to have. Further instructions on what to do is displayed in the
theme page itself under the topic name.
5 - Divider After: This is where you add a separator to separate between articles.
The separator will appear after the article displayed. Only 2 key areas to focus.
• Display Divider After Article[5A]: Just enable this to add a divider
after this article appears.
• Divider After Aria Label[5B]: This allows you to add a separator for
the content to appear on screen readers. This is not compulsory, but
good to have. Further instructions on what to do is displayed in the
theme page itself under the topic name.

17. 6-Animations: This is the area you can set the animations how the content should
appear when the content is published. Key areas to focus.
• Slide in Horizontally [6A]: Slide the article content horizontally. Just
enable the feature to turn it on. Self-explanatory instructions provided
on the setup page itself.
• Slide in Vertically [6A]: Slide the article content vertically. Just enable
the feature to turn it on. Self-explanatory instructions provided on the
setup page itself.
• Fade In[6B]: You can set the content appearing with a Fade In effect.
Just click on the switch to enable.
• Animation Delay[6C]: This is the area you set the time for the
animation to appear on the page. To set the timing, simply drag the
scaler.
If you need to smooth the animation appearance with a pre-set, simply
click on the drop-down menu and select the pre-set [6C]
7- Content Locking: This allows you to lock the content and let you retrieve in
a progressing manner. This setting is only available if you have added the “Content
Locking” extension when you setup the course.
8 - Progress: This is the area where you can track the progress of your learners,
to understand where they are at with the course. Only a single key area to focus on.
• Include article in progress[8A]: Simply click on the switch to turn it
on. Self-explanatory instructions is given under the menu option itself.
8 Hidden & Tags: You could create tags or specify tags to categorize. Also if you
press the switch to on next to “Hidden” the article disappears from the learner’s
screen. This is very useful when you use “Logic” (explained in the “New Course”
quick reference guide under the topic ‘Logic’).
9 Click to edit the Block setup. You will be navigated to a different page. There are
key areas you need to focus on this setup page.

18. 1 – General: This consists of general information about the block title with key
important areas.
• Block Title[1A]: This is where you set the identifier. It’s a good idea to
give a topic name for this section for easy identification.
• Block Display Title[1B]: This is where you set the topic header to
appear on the published content for the learner. You can set the size
and the alignment by using the options provided in “Display Title
Settings”[1B].
• Aria Lebel[1C]: This is the alternative text for the screen readers. It’s a
good idea to give the same title as “Block Display Title”[1B].
2 – Appearance: This is how the block would appear on the final published screen.
The key features included is explained by the self-explanatory instructions
provided on the development platform itself. Simply follow the instructions.
3 - Animations: This is where you can set the animations appearing for the block
of content. Any component under this block will inherit the animation
automatically. There is a self-explanatory instruction provided on the development
platform itself for the only feature related to the animations. Simply click on the
switch to enable the animation.
10 Click to add a component to the block. There are 45 components available in
Evolve Author. Here is a list of components available for you:
• Accordion
o Great for presenting pieces of content that are related and need grouping
together as a distinct unit.
• Action Button
– Easily add a button to Reset assessments, restart the course, scroll to the top
of the page or close the course (if using with Bloom LMS)
• Attachment

19. o Let learners upload their own documents onto a course. Ideal for learners
who need to submit documents as part of a course.
• Audio
o Play audio items to learners; encourage active listening.
• Branching
o Displays content to the learner based on decisions made.
• Capture
-component to test and assess a users ability from within an application/tool.
• Checklist
o Easily display a list of tasks, learning points, events or process steps to
learners for completion. Display as columns.
• Confidence slider
o Test learner confidence against a predefined scale and give feedback
based on ranges.
• Confidence Chart -
– The confidence chart displays the results of a number of confidence sliders in a
graph format.
• Dialog beta
o Display a dialog between people in a messaging app style.
• Drag and drop
o Create draggable items and corresponding areas to receive them. Great
for building more complex test interactions.
• Flip card
o Setup flippable ‘cards’ with editable text and background images on the
front and back of each item. Great for small pieces of learning content
that needs to be remembered.
• Flow chart
o Ideal for describing processes, workflows or timelines.
• Game
o Create Multiplayer and ranking game types. Set timers, powerups. 4
question types.
• Gallery beta
o Display a collection of images. Useful for display images of a product.
• Gif
o Present GIF image sequences.
• Graphic multiple choice question
o Multiple choice questions with added images.
• Graphic
o Display images or diagrams, providing context for other course
information.
• Hint
o This component presents buttons that open a dialog with additional text
• Hot graphic
o Ideal for creating diagrams with clickable areas that reveal additional
content.
• Iframe
o Embed iFrame content from anywhere inside your course.
• Interactive video
o Create branching video content; present video scenarios that allow
multiple outcomes and branches your learners can explore.

20. • Linked confidence slider
o Link multiple confidence sliders together and test learner confidence over
a range of topics.
• Links
o Excellent for linking to relevant external materials or allow learners to
jump quickly to a piece of content elsewhere on an Evolve course.
• Matching
o Test whether your learners can match the word to the phrase. Or the
image to the description. Great for testing scenarios with multiple
outcomes.
• Multiple choice question
o A classic. One question. Many choices.
• Media
o Add a video to your course. Display videos on a course from external
sources or your own Evolve instance.
• Media Grid
-Display multiple media items inc image/video and GIF’s in a configurable grid.
• Media Carousel
-Display multiple media items inc image/video and GIF’s in a configurable
carousel.
• Narrative
o Text and images in a slide format. Useful for giving topic overviews or
breaking up complex information.
• Open input
o Let learners enter short sentences in response to a question. Handy for
building sequences of short question and answer segments.
• Ordering
o Present learners with items and test their ability to arrange the items in a
predefined order.
• Question result beta
o Display feedback based on the number of questions answered correctly.
• Single flip card
o Setup a singular flippable card with editable text and a background image
on the front and back. This is great for small pieces of learning content
that needs to be remembered.
• Slider
o Simple sliding scale component with the ability to set a question and link
the answer to the slide. Great for questions with numbers.
• Sorting
o A sorting question
• Survey experimental
o Displays a survey form for submitting learner feedback. Learner feedback
is only saved if using the storage extension.
• Tabs beta
o Present information to learners in a tabbed format.
• Table
– Layout responsive data tables. Configurable column and row headers.
• Text
o Present text content.
• Text and graphic beta

21. o Easily group text and image content.
• Text input
o Setup multiple questions and users can type short responses. Great for
missing words in a sentence.
• Text narrative
o Text blocks that users can navigate through in sequence. Great for
sequences of information, describing company history or technical
processes.
• Text reveal
o Present users with a clickable image. Additional content revealed when
the image is clicked. Similar to the Flip Cards component but allows more
feedback text.
• Video stream
o Add streaming video from You Tube and embedded it into your course.
Simply click on the “ADD COMPONENT” to add a component. For the
demonstration purposes, we will be using an ‘Accordion’ to show how it is done.
1 – Select the component from the list and click on it to add.
2 – You will now be prompted an alignment location where it needs to be placed,
simply choose one. To pick an alignment, click on the corresponding button next
to each position. We are using “ADD RIGHT”.
NOTE: Each component has the same alignment features and steps.

22. To make your component use the full width of the page, we need to move it. [1]
To move it to a different position, firstly click on the three dots [A].
Now you will be prompted with a drop-down menu. Click on “Resize on Full
Width”[C] to move it to fullwidth.
Now you can see your component has taken the full width of the page [3]
To setup your component, simply click on the edit button[B]
NOTE: Each component has its own setup. There is a self-explanatory instruction
written under each topic to help you configure it.
11 To add a block to your page, simply click on the “ADD BLOCK”. A blank block
will be added; with ready to add a component.
12 To add a new Article to your page, simply click on the “ADD ARTICLE”. A
blank article will be added; with ready to add a component inside an already
created block component.

23. Rearranging Blocks/Articles/Components
If you need to re-arrange Blocks or Articles or Components, simply click on the
three dots [A] next to the preview button.
A drop-down menu will be visible to you. Select “Reorder Block” and click on it.
[B]
Now you can move to any location you want. Movable empty spaces are listed in
purple colour with a button “MOVE BLOCK HERE” [C]. Click on it to complete
moving. If you want to cancel moving, simply click on the “CANCEL” button.

24. 13 If you want to hide the page from not appearing, simply click on the switch to turn
it on. This is a good to keep on editing without publishing and publish later when
the page is ready.
14 You could create tags or specify tags to categorize.
15 You can specify the status of your page. By doing so, if someone accesses the
learning systems and wants to know what the status of the course is; this indicates
the status of the page. Then whoever wants to modify will reverse their action or
do something else. You can select the action from the drop-down list.
16 You can add any comments when developing the page. If you want someone else
to work on the page, you could enter the comments as instructions for the person.
17 After you build your page, when you want to have a look how it appears after it’s
published; simply click on the “Live Preview” to see a preview of your page.
40- After finished building the page, simply click on “Course Builder” to get back to
the course builder page.
41- If you want to directly build the page first and then set it up as you go, simply
click on the “Build Page” button to start building the page.