CHAPTER 7
Managing iTunes U Course Pages
After you customize the look and feel of your entire site to use your institution's colors, logos, and graphics to make your site appears familiar to instructors, staff, students, and alumni, you can further customize your site by designing a specific use and look for each Course page within your site. This section describes iTunes U Course pages and how to edit and manage your Course pages.
About iTunes U Course Pages
iTunes U is designed to provide students, instructors, and the public easy access to course content. It can also provide access to institutional information such as on-campus events, news, sports, or a message from your institution's president. Each course has its own Course page, initially created by a site administrator. Your site's root page can display a collection of descendant Welcome pages and Course pages. When a user clicks a course title or thumbnail image in a Welcome page or Public Feature page, the associated Course page appears. Course pages contain the audio, video, or PDF content files you, instructors, staff, or students make available for download. Within a Course page, you can use editing tools to create different groups, displayed as tabs within the Course page, to help organize and manage all the course content, and then, if you are using advanced access controls, can assign permissions to each group to control user access to the content. You can create the following types of groups within a Course page:
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Simple. A Simple group populates track content in a Course page when users explicitly upload tracks to the course in your iTunes U site. Smart. A Smart group displays tracks in a Course page by performing a search of your site for all tracks that match the criteria you specify. Feed. A Feed group automatically populates track content in a Course page based on the specified podcast feed URL and details. Course content can be updated on a periodic basis and, depending on your site settings, can be updated as often as every day.

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