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Emphasis blocks are a useful way of drawing attention to specific details, important points or additional information relating to your resource.
How to add emphasis blocks
When adding a new block, search and select ‘Emphasis’:
You’ll find several types of emphasis blocks to choose from, most of which have a set icon and title, and editable text underneath. Block choices include:
- Useful tip
- Important!
- Find out more…
- Case study
- Custom header
If you already know which one you want, go ahead and insert the block. When you start editing the content in the right-hand side menu, you’ll see it updates inside the box in the main body of your resource.
Common emphasis blocks
If you’ve read or written resources already, you’ll already be familiar with these blocks. There are some brief suggestions in each of the example blocks below, so you can see how they look and how to use them, too!
This may not be your main point, but it’s one of those practical little additions that readers appreciate. It might be something like ‘make sure you save learners’ responses so you can share the results with them later’.
Unlike this example, just include a single tip, not a list of tips. You can always another ‘Useful tip’ box later if you need.
Is there something people need to remember, prepare, store or save to make this activity or process successful? You can remind them about that here!
To stop your resource getting too long or off topic, you can direct readers to related or extended resources. You can put bullet points and links here, but too many can overwhelm – try to share the most relevant.
Case Study Topic + Author/course
You can use a paragraph here to outline a case study relating to the resource. You might use language like, “In this example, Senior Lecturer Joe Black is using an iPad with a popular app called Explain Everything. Joe imports his slides and then annotates over the top of them. The app itself contains useful help and on the app website you will find a rich collection of help and tutorials.”
Custom Header Example 1: Teaching approaches when using Zoom
You can customise boxes with your own title to provide additional context in a resource. In this example, a short paragraph is included with some links:
There are different teaching approaches you can practice when using Zoom with your students. View our resources on Online case-based learning and Online subject with 12-weeks lectures and tutorials from our ARTT collection.
Custom header Example 2: Citation and attribution
In this example, the whole collection is licensed under Creative Commons so this box is used to keep the citation and attribution consistent.
Fatayer, M. (2019). ’60-second audio introduction to topic’ in Adaptable Resources for Teaching with Technology, LX.Lab, Institute for Interactive Media & Learning, University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved from lx-dev.uts.edu.au/resources/60-second-audio-introduction-to-topic
The Adaptable Resources for Teaching with Technology collection by LX.Lab, Institute for Interactive Media & Learning, University of Technology, Sydney are provided as open educational resources under
a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Checks and guidelines
- Don’t use too many blocks – they’re the emphasis, not the main content
- Keep it concise within the block – one or two short paragraphs should make the point
- Consider which blocks you need for different purposes – is it a really a ‘Useful tip’, or do you want the reader to ‘Find out more’ via other sources?
- External links in emphasis boxes should open in a new tab
- Check in preview mode that images or videos are correctly embedded in boxes, if any are added