Unit Sections

Sections are the organisational building blocks of a unit. They allow Content Editors to group related assessments and learning resources into logical clusters, creating a clear and structured experience for students as they move through the unit.

By using sections effectively, you improve student navigation and provide Trainers with a clear visual overview of where specific assessments or resources belong in the curriculum flow.

What's Covered in This Article

This article walks through how to create and manage sections within a unit, and how to control the order in which students can access them.

What Sections Are: How sections organise content within a unit.
Default Sections: The two sections automatically provided when a new unit is created.
Managing Sections: Adding, renaming, reordering, and deleting sections.
Access Logic: Gating sections so students must complete earlier sections before progressing.

Understanding Sections

A section acts as a container for content items within a unit. Rather than presenting all assessments and resources in a single flat list, sections let you group content thematically or sequentially for example: separating learning materials from assessment tasks, or breaking a unit into topic-based stages.

Each unit must contain at least one section, and all content items must belong to a section before they can be accessed by students.

Default Sections

When a new unit is created, two sections are automatically provided as a starting point:

Assessment/ Observation Task: Intended for activities that students are required to complete and submit, such as Assessments and Observations.
Learning Resource/ Materials: Intended for supporting content that students review as part of their learning, such as PDFs, Articles, Videos, and Quizzes.

These default sections can be renamed, reordered, or deleted to suit your unit's structure.

Managing Sections

Adding a Section

Click the "New Section" button within the unit editor to add a new section. The section will appear at the bottom of the unit and can be repositioned as needed.

Renaming a Section

Section names can be edited directly by clicking on the section title. To save the new name, click outside the text field or press the checkmark icon. If the name field is left empty, the section will revert to a default name.

Sequence Management (Reordering)

Organising the flow of the unit is handled through simple drag-and-drop controls, allowing you to move content between sections or change the order of sections themselves.

Move Sections: Sections can be rearranged within a unit using drag-and-drop. Click and hold the drag handle on a section, then move it to the desired position.
Move Content: Content items can be freely dragged and moved between sections within the same unit, giving you flexibility to reorganise your unit structure at any time while the unit remains in draft.

Note: Reordering sections may affect existing prerequisite logic. If a section is moved to the first position, any prerequisite previously applied to it will be automatically removed.

Access Logic (Prerequisites)

Two separate but related settings work together to control how students progress through a unit: Section Prerequisites and Completion Required.

Section Prerequisites

Section prerequisites gate access to a section until a student has completed one or more preceding sections. The first section in a unit cannot have a prerequisite applied. For all other sections, click the Prerequisite Icon (the small hierarchy chart symbol) on the section to open the configuration modal. There are three options:

None: No prerequisite is applied. The section is accessible as soon as the student enters the unit.
Required to complete previous section: The student must complete the section directly above this one before it unlocks. This is the simplest way to enforce a strict, step-by-step progression through the unit.
Select previous sections: Allows you to choose one or more specific sections within the unit that must be completed before this section becomes accessible. Use this for more flexible dependency structures where linear order isn't required.

Completion Required

Completion Required is a toggle set on individual content items within a section, not on the section itself. It determines whether a student must complete a specific resource or activity for it to count toward finishing the section.

Activities (Assessments, Observations, Evokio Assessments) are always set to Completion Required and cannot be changed.
Learning Resource Materials (PDFs, Videos, Podcasts, Canva, Articles, SCORM, Quizzes) have Completion Required as an optional toggle that Content Editors can enable or disable per item.

Together, these two settings define the learning journey: Completion Required determines what a student must finish within a section, and Section Prerequisites determine when the next section becomes available.