Creation and Curation of Resources
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Overview
DIKSHA houses a wide variety of content. Users can directly create content on DIKSHA using the inbuilt content editor. Content available offline for example, a pdf file available in your local system can be uploaded on DIKSHA. For more details on uploading content, created offline, refer Uploading Content
Resources are the simplest/smallest unit of content that can be created by any user on DIKSHA using the inbuilt content editor. The various categories of resources that can be created on DIKSHA include:
- Experiment
- Learn
- Play
- Practice
- Read
- Teach
- Test
Each of these categories corresponds to the learning process/methodology that is deployed to teach a particular piece of content. For example, a tutor creates an activity and the intent is to educate the learner about a concept through a game. The resource category in this case is, Play. Similarly, a tutor creates a story to enhance the reading skills of the learner, the story falls under the category of Read.
This page details the procedure of creating resources on DIKSHA
Prerequisites
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| 1. You are logged in
2. You have clicked on Workspace tab 3. You have clicked on Resource tile | 
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Creating Resources
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| On Create Resource screen
1. Enter Name of the course 2. Click Start Creating | 
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Editing Resource Details
Once the resource is created, using the content editor, all details pertaining to the resource must be updated before sending the resource for review.
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| 1. Click the Edit Details link on the top left corner of the page
2. Click the camera icon to add an image Note: For details, refer Adding Image to Metadata 3. Enter Title 4. Enter Description for the lesson plan 5. Enter Keywords 6. Select the following from their respective drop-down lists: a) Board b) Medium c) Class d) Subject e) Resource Type 7. Enter Topic Note: To know more refer Selecting Topics 8. Enter Audience 9. Enter details of people you want to acknowledge in the Credit To field 10. Select Creators 11. Select Contributors 12. Select Owner 13. Click Save to collectively save all updates 14. Click Cancel to exit the page Note: These details can also be added later when updating the resource details before sending it for review | 
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Content Editor
DIKSHA provides an inbuilt content editor to create engaging and innovative content. For details on how to create resource using the content editor, refer Content Editor
Sending Resource for Review
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| 1. Click Save on the header to save the created resource
2. Click Send for review. Before sending for review, you can share the content to a limited audience. To know more about Limited Sharing, refer Limited Publishing and Sharing | 
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