Enhancement for Parent Course - resources tab or portlet and functionality

We are using more parent courses and we’ve received a request to provide additional functionality in parent courses. Specifically, we are hoping to provide an improved method for adding additional enrichment activity (handouts, presenter slides…), outside of using the file attachments feature. This can get unwieldy for parent courses with multiple children.

We’d like to provide learners a more convenient method to access enrichment materials from one place in a parent course, rather than having to drill into each child course. We could mitigate this with a course page and link to it, but we’d like to be able to keep all assets bundled in the parent course.

We’d like to propose either a resources tab or portlet that could be on a parent course page. It would be wonderful to have some of the same functionality that is present in regular/child courses (ability to show objects based on date/time). We’d welcome additional discussion or alternative strategies from the community. Thanks for reading!

Dave Kaye
Children’s Hospital Colorado