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You find the global activity settings for Designer in Site administration > Plugins > Course formats > Designer Format > General settings and then in the tab Activity.
There are two types of settings here:
Standard global settings – These affect all course instances immediately. Displayed bold and include an explanation of the setting.
Default settings – These apply only to instances created after the default is set. They can:
be marked as advanced, which hides them behind the “Show more...” link in the instance settings.
be changed later at course level.
Available settings
Note: See activity design settings for more details about the options.
Activity description trim
This global setting determines whether the description for activities is trimmed.
Trimmed
Do not trim
Trim length
Set the maximum number of words displayed for activity descriptions before the text is trimmed in the collapsed state.
Activity element visibility styles
Activity icon
Activity visits
Activity call to action
Activity title
Activity description
Activity mod name
Activity completion badge
Background and mask styles
Mask image
Upload mask images via file picker or drag-and-drop. These will then be available in the global settings and in the design settings of activities with Designer.
Tip: You can download free mask packages from our website.
Activity mask size
Activity mask position
Use different background for completion
Background position
Background size
Background repeat
Background gradient
Masks image
Module general styles
Text color
Minimum height
Additional settings with integrations
The following settings are only available for activities created with our Video Time Premium plugin:
Use activity image
Display progress
The following settings are only available for activities created with the Subcourse plugin from Catalyst IT:
Use subcourse image as activity image
Use subcourse progress as activity progress