This article describes options and considerations for using Classroom for document and content delivery.
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Deciding how to set up your content
How you set up your content depends on your needs. Consider how you want to organize your content, which items need to be available in search, and which presentation works best for your content.
Consider which items should show up in a keyword search. Items in Classroom are searchable primarily at the package level. Words in the package title, or tags added to packages, show up in keyword search results. Individual files, lessons, and courses are not searchable, so keep this in mind when you organize your content if search is important. For more about the Classroom structure and hierarchy, see Classroom - Course Setup Hierarchy.
Content organization options
These examples show 2 ways to set up your content.
Option 1: Packages as categories and courses as subcategories
Use packages as your main categories and courses as subcategories. Within each course, house videos and documents in individual lessons.
In the animated example, Product Documents is the package on the home screen. Selecting it shows the subcategories Product Management Resources and Advanced Product Management, which are courses. Selecting a subcategory shows the list of documents and content for it. Each item in the list is a lesson in the course, and each lesson holds an uploaded video or document.
Option 2: One course per package
Use packages as main categories or topics, and add a single course to each package. The user lands directly on a page that lists all documents and content for that topic.
In this example, the Product Management Resources course and the Advanced Product course each have their own package. When a package has a single course, the user goes straight to the page that lists all of the lessons. Each lesson has a document or video file. The user doesn’t first see a screen of courses listed as subcategories.
This setup gives more specific searching. Searches run off package names and package tags, which gives more chances to return the content a user is looking for.
Creating unique menu items and pages
Tags help packages show up in keyword searches. Each tag also creates a unique page in the system that displays all packages with that tag. For steps, see Classroom - Creating pages on your menu.