Customize Course Builder

• Prepare your environment
• Modify and extend the code

Course Builder custom features are usually implemented as modules or extensions that you drop into the following Course Builder directories:

• extensions/tags
• views/
• modules/

Before you create a module or extension, try to search the documentation to see if the feature is already available. For example, you may want to embed a Google Doc into your Lesson but that feature already exists natively in Course Builder.

Prepare your environment

Before making changes to the code, you should:

• Do your development on a development server. Do not make changes directly to a live instance.
• Setup source control. For example, you can use git.
• Document the changes you made.

These steps will also help you when you upgrade to a new version of Course Builder by making the transition smoother.

Modify and extend the code

You modify and extend the code in the Course Builder installation on a development server, not through the browser after deployment. There are two ways to customize the Course Builder code:

• Components - Adding a new item that shows up as a component type that you can add to the lesson body.
• Modules - Add new, self-contained code (a “module”) that encapsulates a feature and can be integrated into Course Builder.