{"id":3746,"date":"2019-11-04T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2019-11-05T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:49:58","slug":"how-to-create-a-module-thumbnail-on-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2019\/11\/04\/how-to-create-a-module-thumbnail-on-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a module thumbnail on Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By default, a patterned image is displayed as a thumbnail for your module in the &#8216;My modules&#8217; view on Learn, but this can be changed&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/11\/My-modules-pattern.png\" alt=\"Patterned thumbnail image\" class=\"wp-image-3751\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now quickly replace this with a chosen thumbnail image for your module. For instance, if your module is lab based, you may want select a lab image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/imagebank-3.lboro.ac.uk:8085\/imagebank\/#\/\">University Image Bank<\/a> so that your students can quickly identify the module. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To add a thumbnail image, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click on &#8216;Edit Settings&#8217; within the Module Administration block.<\/li><li>Scroll down the settings to the field  labelled &#8216;Module Image&#8217; and drag your chosen image into the field.<\/li><li>Click on &#8216;Save and display&#8217; at the bottom of the page. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s it! Your thumbnail image will appear! See the example below where the standard pattern has been replaced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/11\/My-modules-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3750\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, a patterned image is displayed as a thumbnail for your module in the &#8216;My modules&#8217; view on Learn, but this can be changed&#8230; You can now quickly replace this with a chosen thumbnail image for your module. For instance, if your module is lab based, you may want select a lab image from<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2019\/11\/04\/how-to-create-a-module-thumbnail-on-learn\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}