Building a Resource Library in your LMS

After adding a Library widget, editing the Widget brings up a selection of different settings to display in a Tile View, include a search box, and a toggle listing of what types of files to display.

After adding a widget to a page, the widget will need to be edited to select which library should display in that widget. If there are no libraries to select from, read below.

Creating a Library

Creating a library for Library widgets is really easy, as it is all done through the built-in files area. The first step if to build the library’s folder [System > Files > File Manager > /_other > /libraries]

From within the /libraries folder (which may need to created if it doesn’t already exist), the next step is to create a folder for the resource Library widget. Each folder you create within the libraries folder will be a selectable library for your widget.

After the library folder is created, it still needs to be populated with content (MP4s, MP3s, PDFs). Each file type does have its own default icon in place, but can be overwritten on a file-by-file basis, all it takes is one additional file.

To replace the default icon for an individual file, upload a PNG file with the same name as the associated file. For example, if an MP4 titled "Introduction_to_Heavy_Machinery.mp4" has been uploaded, to overwrite the default MP4 icon, a file would need to be uploaded to this same folder named "Introduction_to_Heavy_Machinery.png"

This concept of using a mimicking a file name can also be used to set a description for your different resources. To make a text description appear when a user hovers over the resource "Introduction_to_Heavy_Machinery", upload a TXT document of the same name ("Introduction_to_Heavy_Machinery.txt") into the same library folder. Whatever text is within that file will be displayed when a user hovers over the "Introduction_to_Heavy_Machinery" resource.