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Learn@UW - Sharing Custom Widgets to Multiple Course Offerings

This document is for Site Administrators only.

This document describes how you can share a custom widget to multiple course offerings.

You can share a custom widget to an origination unit: e.g., course offering, a department, a semester, or the entire organization. You can only select one such organization unit to share a custom widget, however, the selection has a cascading effect.

• If you select the organization, the widget will be shared to all course offerings in the organization.
• If you select a department, the widget will be shared to all course offerings in that department.
• If you select a course offering, the widget will be shared to only that course offering.

Note that you cannot, for example, share a widget to two or three course offerings in the organization unless they are the only course offerings in the same department.

To share a custom widget to multiple course offerings:

1. From the Home Org. page, select either Edit Course or Homepage Management in the "My Admin Tools" widget.

2. Select Widgets from the "Course Admin Tools" list.

3. Select the 'Edit' (pencil) icon by the custom widget you want to share.

4. In the "Edit Widget" interface, press the Add an Org Unit button under "Share Widget".

   

5. Click Show Search Options and then make sure only the box by "Name" is checked.

6. In the "Search for" box, enter a search string for an organization unit. For example, if you are on UW-Colleges and want to share a widget to the entire organization, enter "uwc".

7. Select the organization unit to share the widget to from the list. (You can only select one.)

8. Press the Insert button.

   

9. Back in the "Edit Widget" interface, remember to press Save.