Create Course Tabs in OLX

Create Course Tabs in OLX#

Tags: educator how-to

Authors can add custom tabs, or pages, to a course. Each page appears in the course’s navigation bar.

Create the Tab File#

For each custom page in the course, create an HTML file in the tabs directory. It can be as simple as this:

Contents of html_custom_tab.html:

<h1>Welcome to the OLX Example Course!</h1>

<p>This is a custom HTML page added as a custom tab to the course.</p>

Any text and HTML markup can be added to the page. Pages can also be links or other types of content. One design pattern is to link a tab to a chromeless XBlock in the courseware, which allows for top-level interactive course content.

Ensure the custom tab is placed properly in the policy.json file as detailed in Create OLX Course Policies.

{
  "course/2025": {
  {
      "course_staff_only": false,
      "name": "HTML Custom Tab",
      "type": "static_tab",
      "url_slug": "html_custom_tab"
  },
}

See also

What is Open Learning XML? (concept)

Create OLX Course Policies (reference)

Example of an OLX Course (reference)

Getting Started with OLX (quickstart)

What is the OLX Course Structure? (reference)

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

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