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  • January 10, 2024
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Hi Everyone! 

We are looking for a way to easily assign downloadable content to individual learners.


We have tried articles but it doesn’t look great at all when trying to use it just for the file download.

 

For Instructional videos, we are able to use the video content type.

For Downloadable PDFs we are able to use a micro course with a PDF viewer with download enabled.

We have yet to figure out how to share a downloadable excel file or similar items.

 

Does anyone have any experience in trying to do this? What did you find works the best?

Best answer by KatieBush

Our use case for this is editable digital worksheets or workbooks where the learner needs to be able to edit the file itself. We cannot deliver these as PDFs; we have to deliver them as editable documents like Word and Excel.

Note that a similar feature request is at 

 

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    You can add an excel doc or others to the course file section of resource library in a course. 

     

     

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    • mgkaulen
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    • January 17, 2024

    You can add an excel doc or others to the course file section of resource library in a course. 

     

     

    Yeah, we played with that but we didn’t have enough supporting material to make the page look good to make sure they knew to click on the resources panel.

     

    We ended up using a custom html page inside a one-page mini course that will automatically download the excel sheet.

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    • KatieBush
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    • July 28, 2025

    Our use case for this is editable digital worksheets or workbooks where the learner needs to be able to edit the file itself. We cannot deliver these as PDFs; we have to deliver them as editable documents like Word and Excel.

    Note that a similar feature request is at 

     


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