How to customise the course player

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You can customise your courses in various ways, this is a great way to help set each course apart.


Colour scheme

When you create a new course, it will automatically use the same colour scheme that you currently have applied to your JumpLMS portal. To change the colour scheme for a single course, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Courses tab.

2. Search for the course you want to customise.

3. If you’re using a touchscreen device, click the course’s thumbnail or if you’re using a computer, hover the cursor over it.

4. Click Edit course.

Edit a course

5. Click on the Course details tab.

Click Course details

6. Click on the header, sub-header or background colour swatch to select the colour you want, you can also enter a hex colour code.

7. To revert to using your portal colour scheme, click Use default colour scheme.

8. Click Save changes.

Change colour and save

The new colour scheme has been applied to the course, you can view it by clicking Preview course.


Course image

You can customise your courses by associating an image with it. The image is used as the course’s identity in course listings on the portal, it is also used on the course’s main menu screen.

You can upload JPEGs or PNGs, we recommend you use an image sized 1280px by 720px.

To add a course image, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Courses tab.

2. Search for the course you want to customise.

3. If you’re using a touchscreen device, click the course’s thumbnail or if you’re using a computer, hover the cursor over it.

4. Click Edit course.

Edit a course

5. Click on the Course details tab.

Click Course details

6. Click Select image to open your Resource Library.

Click Select image

7. Open the folder where you want to import your course image by double clicking the folder icon or single clicking and selecting Open – alternatively create a new folder by clicking the New folder button.

Open resource folder

8. Click Import and browse to your course image and click Open or drag and drop the image straight from your computer into the Resource Library.

9. Once the image has been uploaded to your Resource Library, click it to highlight it and click Select.

Import and select image

10. The Resource Library will close then click Save changes.

Save new image

The image has now been applied to your course.

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