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1. The Manifest is the information structure defined in the Content Packaging Specification It is contained within a package as an XML file with a fixed pre defined name imsmanifest xml This enables it to be found amongst the many other content files that may be contained in a package 2 Page 12 Authoring Tool User Manual Resources Resource sub Manifest Physical Files The actual content HTML Media Activity descriptions Collaboration and other files The integration of a Learning Design into the Content Packaging Structure is set out in the above Figure To create a unit of learning IMS Learning Design is integrated with an IMS Content Package by including the learning design element as another kind of organization within the lt organizations gt element using the standard namespace for Learning Design When the standard namespace is standard namespace for learning design then learning design elements are included as follows ignoring irrelevant elements and attributes lt manifest gt lt metadata gt lt organizations gt lt learning design xmlns standard namespace for learning design gt add learning design elements here lt learning design gt lt organizations gt lt resources gt lt manifest gt The italics have to be filled in with the appropriate namespace and elements respectively In a package that includes a learning design element the optional organizati
2. Current service types are send mail conference monitor level B and index search The selection of services to be included needs to be driven by the community We therefore decided to start with the most widely implemented and used services in online learning environments e Send Mail Service About the Send Mail Service we can find the following description in the IMS LD specification One of the services in any online learning facility is the ability to send and receive mail This is done with an e mail client However in learning situations it is often needed to know all the e mail addresses of your fellow students and teachers when sending to groups This information is available in the runtime system In order to help users to send e mail to other users in the same run of the unit of learning the declaration of a send mail facility is included in the services part When a send mail service is included as part of a user s environment the runtime system must provide a facility to edit a message and attachments and to send them to a selected list of e mail addresses of users in the run of the unit of learning This can either be to all the users in a specific role or to individuals selected from a role The users receive the messages in their regular inbox in the e mail client e Conference Service About the Conference Service we can find the following description in the IMS LD specification A typical communications servi
3. Alfanet Authoring Tool User Manual Page 2 Authoring Tool User Manual 1 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 1 ALFANET Background Project Objectives Authoring Tool Standards 1 4 1 IMS Global Learning Consortium 1 4 2 IMS Learning Design 1 4 3 IMS Content Packaging 1 4 4 IMS LOM Resource Metadata 1 4 5 Integration between Standards INSTALLATION 2 1 Requirements 2 2 Installation Guidelines TOOL STRUCTURE 3 1 Manage Global Resources 3 1 1 Options of Manage Global Resources module 3 1 1 1 New 3 1 1 2 Edit 3 1 1 3 Duplicate 3 1 1 4 Remove 3 1 1 5 Save Global Resources 3 2 Manage Global Metadata 3 2 1 Metadata Information Categories 3 2 1 1 General 3 2 1 2 Life Cycle 3 2 1 3 Metametadata 3 2 1 4 Technical 3 2 1 5 Educational 3 2 1 6 Rights 3 2 1 7 Relations 3 2 1 8 Annotations 3 2 1 9 Classifications 3 3 Learning Editor 3 4 Repository Interface 3 4 1 How to Configure the DAV Explorer 3 5 Configuration Options LEARNING EDITOR SUB MODULES 4 1 File Manipulation Options 4 2 Create Package Interchange File Option 4 2 1 How to Install and Configure the WinZip Command Line Support Add On 4 3 Items 4 4 Local Resources 4 4 1 Add to Local 4 4 2 Remove from local 4 4 3 Add all to local 4 4 4 Remove all from local 4 4 5 New Local Resource 4 4 6 Edit Local Resource 4 4 7 Make Local gt Global 4 5 Title amp Metadata 4 6 Learning Objectives 4 6 1 Items 4 6 2 Title amp Metadata 4 7 Pre Requisites 4 7 1 Items 4 7
4. First Test FirstTest In this section the user can e Create New Learning Activities In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Learning Activity data Since this form needs an extensive explanation see the Learning Activity Form section of this sub module e Edit existing Learning Activities In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Learning Activity data filled The user can change all fields of that Learning Activity e Duplicate existing Learning Activities In this option the user can select an existing Learning Activity and create a copy of that Learning Activity The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Learning Activity e Remove existing Learning Activities In this option the user can select and delete one existing Learning Activities 4 11 1 1 Learning Activity Form The Learning Activity form available to the user is like the below picture Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback Pi Title Environmentisi Conference Enviranmia Send Mail Enviranmen Index Environment 3 Parameters Cervwicesd Fowiranment Completed Activity Options None of Below options iw Is Visible C Activity has a Time Limit H M 5 C User Can say when activity is completed Metadata i fonmplete When seta Propeney walle Ok C
5. CO Index Search Class l Monitor W Ts Visible Properties Type Of Service Title C Conference PAT Parameters send mall C Index Search Class C Monitor Is Visible Properties Index Search Type Of Service Title C Conference Parameters Send mail Index Search Class C Monitor Ts Visible e Edit existing Services In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Service data filled The user can change all fields of that Service e Duplicate existing Services In this option the user can select an existing Service and create a copy of that Service The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Service e Remove existing Services In this option the user can select and delete one existing Service Note When you define a Service you need to associate it to an Environment otherwise that Service will not be saved Page 102 Authoring Tool User Manual This ts due to the fact that Services and Learning Objects are inner concepts of the Environments but the tool organizes the Services and the Learning Objects separately from the Environments to make the Environment s interface simpler According to this fact when the user is leaving the Environments menu the Authoring Tool launches an alert message to the user The process is described in the below pictures Environments Attention In the f
6. Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Min Persons Numeric value that defines the minimum number of persons in that role before start running the course Max Persons Numeric value that defines the maximum number of persons in that role before start running the course If these two values are empty the role can be considered as unlimited Persons Exclusively in This Role Option value that defines if the persons in this Role should be only in this Role or can belong to more than one Role This is due to the use of sub roles hierarchies Edit existing Learner Roles In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Learner Role data filled The user can change all fields of that Learner Role except to the Name value as you can see in the below picture Edit Learner Properties Basic Learner Person s Properties of this Role Duplicate existing Learner Roles In this option the user can select an existing Learner Role and create a copy of that Role The only different value will be the Name of the Role like you can see in the below picture Learner basic Basic Learner Intermediate Intermediate Learner advanced Advanced Learner T Of Ofbasic Basic Learner gt e Remove existing Learner Roles In this option the user can select and delete one existing Learner Role e Move Up exi
7. The second list on the right side is the list of the selected Activity Structures This list is only active is the user select the Show Activities Sequentially option of the Choose Activities Presentation field of the Properties section When the user select activities on the first list the tool will refresh the second list and then the user can manipulate the order of the chosen activities To manipulate the second list the form has five buttons that can execute the ordinance operations Those operations are o Move First Move the selected activity to the first position Move Last Move the selected activity to the last position Move Up Move the selected activity one position upper Move Down Move the selected activity one position lower Unselect All Unselect all elements of the left list emptying the right list O O O O Page 126 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 12 Method The Method sub module can be seen as a group of concepts that will be compound and organize the execution sequence of the course In the Method option we can find concepts such as Plays Acts and Parts In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Method This and its sub elements control the behavior of the unit of learning as a whole coordinating the activities of the players in the various roles and their use of resources This creates a learning flow similar to the coordinatio
8. We are also able to define different Metadata information in each element or also not define any Metadata for others elements As you can see the main menu at left disappears to be replaced by the Learning Editor menu If the user want to leave the Learning Editor module he needs to click on the lt lt Main Menu link to get back to the main menu like showed on the below picture Page 40 Authoring Tool User Manual This Learning Editor menu that we can see on the above picture represents the hierarchy of the Learning Editor which is similar to the hierarchy of Learning Design This will be explained later on this manual on the Learning Editor Sub Modules section The Learning Editor module has a brief text on the entry like the below picture to help the user to understand the philosophy of the tool and also of the Learning Design Welcome to the Learning Editor This option lets the user create and edit IMS Learning Design IMS LO Level A courses This tool follows the hierarchic organization of the IMS LD that separates several learning concepts that will be used to assemble the course In the hierarchy of the tool we can see the following options that are associated to different concepts Local Resources Indicates the external files that the course will need to be performed We can use the Global Resources created in the Manage Global Resources module or can create new Local Resources We can also edi
9. e A button to create and edit Learning Objects Learning Objects button The Environments form available to the user is like the following picture Environments Manager Existing Environments Conference Environment ConferenceEnvyiror Send Mail Environment SendMalEnviranmer New Index Environment IndexEn iranment Services Enviranment ServicesEnviroanment Edit Encyclopedia Environment EncyclopediaEnyi Library Environment LibraryEnyvironment Learning Objects Environment LearningObje Duplicate Remove Move Up Move Down In this feature the user can Create New Environments In this option the tool will present to the user a form like the one below to let the user fill the new Environment data Properties Content Type Of Environment Content ide Servicels C Reference to Other Environments C Learning Gbjectis Metadata Ok Cancel The form consists in the following items o Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Environment This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Environment can t be created Page 94 Authoring Tool User Manual Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Environment the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing environment or other kind of element Accordi
10. in front of the option In the Play is completed when last Act is completed option the play will be considered completed when the last act is completed Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Play Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Acts This is the list of Acts defined in the Course and where the user will define which of them belongs to this Play Acts Order Final Feedback Property Change Notifications Lesson 1 Act Lesson 2 Acts First Test Acted The Acts fields are o Existing Act s List of all Acts defined inside of this course The user must choose the Acts that will belong to this Play o Create New Act Button that allows to the user creates a new Act that will belong to this Play and due to that fact will be automatically selected For more information about the creation of an Act please read the Acts sub module section of this manual o Unselect All Button that allows to the user erases the selection made The Existing Act s list will be with none selected element and the Selected Act s list of the Acts Order section will be empty Note The acts can be only be used in one and only one Play Due to this fact when the user is going to save the Play and if he has selected an Act that i
11. 1 Add to Local In this operation the user can choose a Resource from the Global Resources left list and add it to the Local Resources right list To perform this operation the user only as to choose one or more Resources from the left list and click on the Add to Local button like the following pictures represent BookoftBasicEnglish BasicExerciseforverbs DictionaryEnglish French DictionaryEnglish French BasicExerciseforverbs 4 4 2 Remove from local Add to Local ty Add to Local ly aqaal aqae H aqao XXX qqqq AlfanetTextFiles Alfanet Te xtFiled oe xdgfdg AlfanetTextFilesS AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFilesd qqqq AlfanetTextFileS AlfanetTextFiled Kare xdgfdag AlfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 AlfanetTextFile58 AlfanetTextFile59 AlfanetTextFile g0 wodgwtdiawg AlfanetTextFile 64 BookofBasicEnglis In this operation the user can remove a Resource from the Local Resources list To perform this operation the user only as to choose one or more resource from the right list and click on the Remove from local button like the following picture represents Global Resources out of local list DictionaryEnglish French BasicExerciseforverbs Add to Local Remove from local fre Add All to local Remove All from local New Local Resource Edit Local Resource Make Local Global Local Resources list 499q i
12. 9 AlfanetTextFiledo wgdqwtdwg 7 DictionaryEnglish Frenc Add All to local BasicExerciseforverbs BookotBasicEnglish Note As you can see from this moment the left list will be empty because all the Global Resources are used in the Course and are on the right list 4 4 4 Remove all from local This operation as the same logic as the Remove from local option but the logic it s applied to all resource in the right list This can be seen as an easy way to delete all the Resources of the course Note If one of the Resources is not possible to remove or is a really Local Resource the tool will not remove or ask to remove the Local Resource as described in the Remove from local section and abort the removal of the resources To perform this operation the user only as to click on the Remove all from local button like the following pictures represent AlfanetTextFile6S Resources Resourced Dictionary English French BookofBasicEnglish BasicExerciseforverbs Page 72 Authoring Tool User Manual DictionaryEnglish French BookotBasicEnglish BasicExerciseforverbs Note If the tool could remove every Local resources the right list will be empty because all the Local Resources are deleted and the left list will have all the Global Resources defined 4 4 5 New Local Resource In this operation the user can create a new Local Resource for this Course To perform this operatio
13. Objects In this option the tool will present to the user a form like the one below to let the user fill the new Learning Object data New Learning Object Properties Properties The form consists in the following items o Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Learning Object This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Learning Object can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Learning Object the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing learning object or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the learning object to let you easily remember and identify the different learning objects o Type Option value that defines the type of this learning object The options can be knowledge object tool object and test object o Class Text value to the class name assigned to this learning object o Parameters Text value to the parameters to be passed during runtime o Is Visible Option value to define if this learning object will be visible to the end user of the course o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Learning Object Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module
14. Tool User Manual After these steps finally the user will be able to create the new course The tool will present to him a form like the one below Sew Course Folder New Course Title In this form the user can change the location of the new course by browsing in the file system drives and folders in the Folder section of the form The default folder will be Working Folder defined in the Configuration Options module If the user chooses another folder to the course that new folder will be the new Working Folder In the New Course Title section the user can choose the name of the new course This name will be the general title of the course and the name of the physical file with the xml extension If needed the tool will show an overwriting alert like the below picture about a previous file with the same name Sew Course After these steps the tool will load the needed data to start working The tool loads the General Resources data defined in the Manage Global Resources module The tool asks to the user if we want to use the Global Metadata information defined in the Manage Global Metadata module as a template to the metadata sections of the new elements of the course The message is like the below picture Open File Finally if there was no error in the creation of the new course the tool will show a message like the one below and will activate the Learning Editor menu the Sav
15. a The Final Feedback fields are o Activity s Final Feedback s Items List of Items that represents the Final Feedback of this Support Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New ltems Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Final Feedback of this Support Activity o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Final Feedback of this Support Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 120 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 11 3 Activity Structures The third and last type of activities that we have is the Activity Structures These activities are groups of activities We can see the Activity Structures as a subjective activity that is composed by several minor activities In the Activity Structures the user can include any kind of activities In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Support Activities An Activity structure in turn consists of refere
16. a normal Resource element with a fixed URL can be provided For this version of the specification the types of services specified are limiting these to those that are now found in typical LMS systems It is possible to inherit from a generic service and thus specify new types as extensions to the vocabulary As many services are targeted for use in a specific instance of a learning design the actual members will need to have been assigned to roles before the service is instantiated As different roles may have different permissions within a service there is the facility to specify these within the particular service definition EML included a complete content vocabulary based on the OASIS DOCBOOK specification LD12 For Learning Design it was decided not to include any content specification but let the users of the Learning Design Specification decide which one to use In order to allow for runtime interactions with the end users specific global learning design elements are provided separately at level B which can be namespaced into any XML based content schema A suggestion is to use XHTML for content and to namespace the global elements of learning design into XHTML 1 4 3 IMS Content Packaging In the IMS Content Packaging IMS CP Information Model we can find the following description about what is the IMS CP the objectives structure and elements of this standard The IMS Content Packaging IMS CP Information Model describes
17. and create a copy of that Role The only different value will be the Name of the Role like you can see in the below picture Learner Staff Existing Staff s El Edit Duplicate am Remove Move Up Move Down Remove existing Staff Roles In this option the user can select and delete one existing Staff Role Move Up existing Staff Roles In this option the user can select and move up one position the selected Staff Role in the list order Move Down existing Staff Roles In this option the user can select and move down one position the selected Staff Role in the list order Page 92 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 10 Environments The Environment concept can be seen as a definition of objects needed by the activities to run properly The Environments consist in two kinds of objects with different purposes Those objects can be Services or Learning Objects The Services are separated in several concepts such as services that support the establishment of conferences between the course Roles Conference Service the sending of e mails to the course Roles Send Mail Service or to define index searching system inside the course Index Search Service The Learning Objects can be seen as objects or collection of objects to help the end user to execute and achieve the activity learning objectives We can consider a good example for the learning objects a collection of electronic books or an electronic library I
18. are performed concurrently The same role can be associated with different activities or environments in different role parts and the same activity or environment can be associated with different roles in different role parts However the same role may only be referenced once in the same act If multiple activities or environments need to be associated for the same role an activity structure or wrapper environment should be used When an act within a play is activated all the role parts in the act go on stage or become live Depending on the implementation players of the roles referenced by the role parts may then have their associated activities or environments made visible in their activity tree and any content associated with the activity made accessible However if an activity or items isvisible attribute is set to false the link in the activity tree might be made visible but the content not made accessible The Method sub module is the seventh option of the Learning Editor menu Learning Editor method Manager Welcome to the Method Manager In this option you are able to manipulate objects of the concepts that orchestrate the workflow of the course The concepts are the following ones Course In this option we can manage the properties that define how the course will be considered finished and what items should the course show to the user as a final feedback Plays We consider each Play as an i
19. by sub Manifests The combination of resources is generally categorized as content Each resource may be described in a lt resource gt element within a manifest s XML This element includes a list of all the assets required to use the resource The files included in the Package are listed as lt file gt elements within such lt resource gt elements 1 4 4 IMS LOM Resource Metadata IMS Learning Object Metadata IMS LOM or simply Resource Metadata it s the standard that defines the metadata associated with the learning materials used in the Authoring Tool Metadata in a simple way to define it s the data about data or for other words it s the information that helps us to catalog identify or describe the contents of the learning materials We can find the following definition about Metadata in the IMS Learning Resource Meta Data Best Practice and Implementation Guide Descriptive labels can be used to index learning resources to make them easier to find and use Such labels are data about data and are referred to as meta data An example of meta data is the label on a can of soup which describes the can s ingredients weight cost and so forth Another example is a card in a library s card catalog which describes a book its author subject location within the library and so forth A meta data specification makes the process of finding and using a resource more efficient by providing a structur
20. existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Final Feedback of this Learning Activity o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Final Feedback of this Learning Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 116 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 11 2 Support Activities The second type of activities that we have is the Support Activities These are the activities that will support the execution of the learning activities and the flow of the course A good example on a Support Activity can be the assessment of a test In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Support Activities A Support Activity consists mostly of the same elements as a Learning Activity but without the learning objectives prerequisites and with a role ref element added The role ref element indicates who will be supported by this activity The supported role can have more than one person in the role This means in practice that the support activity has to be repeated for every user in the supported role before it is c
21. field has fixed values that are Very Low Low Medium High and Very High Please choose the closest description that applies to the object Language Acronym value that represents the language that the pedagogical object is created The acronym is in the form of two letters defining the language e g Portuguese gt pt English gt en French gt fr Optionally we can add a reference to a specific country This reference has also two letters e g English GB gt en GB English US gt en US If the acronym is not in the right format the metadata can not be saved Typical Age Range Text value that represents the target end user age ranges that the object is recommended to be applied Learning Resource Type s Type of the object in a pedagogical view The first type is the predominant one This feature allows the user to Add and Remove learning resource types When the user selects to Add a new object the tool presents to him a form with a list of values to choose This list has the following values Exercise Simulation Questionnaire Diagram Figure Graph Index Slide Table Narrative Text Exam Experiment ProblemStatement and SelfAssessment Please choose the closest description that applies to the object e Difficulty Level of pedagogical difficulty of the obje
22. go to Tools menu choose Internet Options Connections amp LAN Settings then verify if there is defined any Proxy Server If you have a Proxy Server go to the WebDav Explorer window go to Edit menu select Edit Proxy Info option and then write the Proxy Server Name or IP Address followed by and then the Proxy Port e g 127 134 97 03 8080 Page 44 Authoring Tool User Manual If you have any problem about the use of this application please visit the following page to see the Dav Explorer User Manual http www ics uci edu webdav um html 3 5 Configuration Options The Configuration Options module allows the user to configure some configuration settings of the Authoring Tool To accede to this module please choose in the main menu the button that says Configuration Options Configuration Options Manage Global Resources Course Project Manage Global Metadata a Global Resources Editor Repository Metadata Interface WIN 2 IP The settings to configure are e Working Project Directory Text value to the user specify the folder where he wants to create the course projects When the user creates a new course the window will assume by default this value but if the user changes the location of the new course away from this folder the tool will assume that folder as the new working folder and will forget the former value If the user prefers the tool let the u
23. groove net Note The present version of this manual refers to the Level A tool so any Level B or C concept or feature will not be available to the user and it s out of the scope of this manual 1 4 Standards The Alfanet courses are based on three standards of Instructional Management Systems IMS Global Learning Consortium The first standard IMS LD is related to pedagogical definition of the course The second standard MS CP is about the wrapping of the course and every related resources in a standardized organization Ths last standard IMS LOM is about the meta information about the course and the enclosed elements These three standards combined make possible to create a complete definition of a course 1 4 1 IMS Global Learning Consortium In the IMS Global Learning Consortium MS we can find the following description about what is the IMS The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology Several IMS specifications have become worldwide de facto standards for delivering learning products and services IMS specifications and related publications are made available to the public at no charge from www imsglobal org No fee is required to implement the specifications IMS is a worldwide non profit organization that includes more than 50 Contributing Members and affiliates These members come from every sector of the global e learning com
24. has internally complex sequencing as long as the activities of the players do not need synchronizing e g when the use of a learning resource is completed all participants move to a discussion forum ae Although within an act there may be complex sequencing and there may be only one active act if there is more than one act within a play the acts are run in sequence Thus acts can be used as synchronization points either waiting for all players to finish before starting the next or forcing an end when a certain number of players have finished when terminated by a support staff member or under some other condition All role participants in the next act may then start together at the same time subject to their being simultaneously logged into the runtime service When the last act is completed the unit of learning is also complete An act brings together one or more role parts This is the mechanism that allows more than one role to perform at the same time Therefore role parts within an act are always run in parallel Role parts and Parts are the same concept 1 Role parts enable several users playing the same or different roles to participate in the same act Each role part associates exactly one role with exactly one type of activity including the performance of another unit of learning and activity structures or with one environment equivalent to an organization in Content Packaging Multiple role parts within one act
25. has the following values Primary Education Secondary Education Higher Education University First Cycle University Second Cycle University Postgrade Technical School First Cycle Technical School Second Cycle Professional Formation Continuous I3 kk Formation Vocational Training Please choose the closest description that applies to the object Note This category is very specific to objects with a pedagogical objective so it s recommended to fill this category differently for each object and not as a template in the global metadata 3 2 1 6 Rights General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications Page 34 Authoring Tool User Manual In the Rights category we can find information about the conditions of use of the object content e Description Text value that briefly describes the conditions of use of the object e Type of Use Cost Field to the user define if the use of the object is free Free Use or has any cost Use is Not Free e Copyright and Other Restrictions must be Apply Field to the user define if the object has copyrights or other kind of use restriction 3 2 1 7 Relations General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations annotations Classifications In the Relations category we can find information about
26. intelligent personalisation capabilities and focused on continuous training needs in corporate firms a proposal for contributing to the current standards of the e learning field in the adaptation and personalisation on contents and learning methods an evaluation of the prototype s impact on the current learner needs A description of the project results in terms of internal usage by the consortium and a set of components for potential exploitation by third parties e learning service providers The project will have a significant contribution to Knowledge in the area of adaptive e learning e learning standards usage and the potential exploitation of some of the components by e learning service providers Page 6 Authoring Tool User Manual 1 3 Authoring Tool The Authoring Tool is part of the Alfanet LMS prototype and its objectives are to provide an easy and user friendly interface to create and edit courses for the Alfanet System The Authoring Tool also has a module of integration with the Alfanet Repository and communicates with it between WebDav protocol The courses are based in a standard named IMS Learning Design that is explained in the Standards section The tool was developed in VB Net based on a peer to peer application called Groove Workspace that give us several communication facilities and it s intended to be a collaboration platform for working teams For more information please visit the following page http www
27. is a mandatory field This means that whatever option the user chooses in the Type Of Environment Content field he must select at least one element of the Content list If there isn t any element on the Content list the user must choose another type of content that has defined elements or cancel the operation Page 96 Authoring Tool User Manual Note Because the Content list is a mandatory field if there isn t any defined Service Learning Object or Environment it s impossible to create an Environment According to this it s recommended that the user define in a first moment the Services and or Learning Objects and only after that step define the Environments of the course Edit existing Environments In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Environment data filled The user can change all fields of that Environment Duplicate existing Environments In this option the user can select an existing Environment and create a copy of that Environment The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Environment like you can see in the below picture Conference Environment ConferenceEn ira Send Mail Environment SendMailEnyvironmer New Index Environment IndexEnv ironment Services Enviranment ServicesEn iranment Ey Encyclopedia Environment EncyclopediaEnyi Ea a eae ean ER We Duplicate fh When the u
28. is called of Items and the second section of Title amp Metadata 4 6 1 Items The items are the objects that related to the resources and represents in this case the contents of the Learning Objectives Title amp Metadata sdsggsweg Book Item Item vdfbdfbfdb Itemz Note For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section Page 80 Authoring Tool User Manual In this section the user can e Create New Items e Edit existing Items e Duplicate existing Items e Remove existing Items e Move Up existing Items e Move Down existing items 4 6 2 Title amp Metadata The Learning Objectives can have a specific Title and Metadata so the tool has a second section in this sub module dedicated to those subjects that is called Title amp Metadata Title amp Metadata Properties Course Learning Objectives In this section the fields are e Title This is the Title of the general Learning Objectives of the Course e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the general Learning Objectives of the Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step 4 7 Pre Requisites The Pre Requisites sub module is the fifth option of the Learning Editor menu The Pre Requisites sub module is t
29. lfanetTextFile5 AlfanetTextFiled Xxx xdgfdag AlfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 AlfanetTextFile58 AlfanetTextFile59 AlfanetTextFile g0 wodgwtdiweg 4lfanetTe xtFiled4 4lfanetTextFile If the Resource is referenced in an element inside the course its impossible to remove the resource because it would cause referential problems inside the course To solve this problem the user will need to locate and remove all the references to the chosen resource by changing or deleting the items that refer this resource In this case the tool will show a message like the one below The Local Resource BookofBasicEnglish is used by another element in the course Please remove the references to this Resource and then try to Remove the Resource Ok If the chosen Resource is not referenced by any element inside the course and belongs to the Global Resources the Resource will be removed by the right list and will appear in the left list Global Resources out of local list DictionaryEnglish French B SUC Each se erbs BookofBasicEnglish Add to Local Remove fram local re Add All to local Remove All from local New Local Resource Edit Local Resource Make Local Global Local Resources list aqaal ra aqae HT qaqa XN qqqq 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFiled xxx xdgfda AlfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFiles9 k Page
30. specific title for the Final Feedback of this Course o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Final Feedback of this Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 132 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 14 Plays The Plays sub module is the second option of the Method menu In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Plays The core part of the learning design is represented in the play A play specifies the actual learning design the teaching learning process referring to the components declared earlier In the play it is specified which roles perform what activities in what order When reading a learning design one basically reads the play This is true for human readers as well as machines Components not referenced in the play are not shown in the runtime system A play is modeled according to a theatrical play with acts and role parts In general a play consists of a sequence of acts In each act different activities are set for different roles and are performed in parallel When an act is completed the next act starts until the completion requirements for the learning design are met The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Learning Editor Plays Manager Basic English Course BasicEnglishCourse This f
31. specification So they are inactive and don t fall in the scope of this Authoring Tool version The sections that belong to Level A and are active are e Properties These are the main properties of the Support Activity Properties Description Final Feedback Property Change Notifications Title Roletsi teacher Teacher assistant Teaching 4 hazir Racic learner Parameters r F Environmentis Conference Environm a Send Mail Enviranmen Completed Activity Options l l l Index Environment None of Below options BPI Fowiranment C Activity has a Time Limit H M User Can say when activity is completed iw Is Visible l complete When seta Property valle Metadata The properties fields are o Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Support Activity This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Support Activity can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Support Activity the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing support activity or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit Page 118 Authoring Tool User Manual value on the title of the support activity to let you easily remember and identify the different support activities o Role s List to the user select which Rol
32. the Learning Editor sub modules section Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback Pi 4 The Pre Requisites fields are o Activity s Pre Requisite s Items List of Items that represents the Pre Requisites of this Learning Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section Page 114 Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback Pity Authoring Tool User Manual Title Text value to define a specific title for the Pre Requisites of this Learning Activity Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Pre Requisites of this Learning Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Description This is a list of Items that will describe to the end user the activity to be performed The user must introduce at least one Item otherwise the Learning Activity can t be created because this is a mandatory section The D
33. the list or cancel the operation otherwise the user can t advance Page 64 Authoring Tool User Manual Ed Content Title Item Associate to a Resource C Enter Simple Text Parameters iw Is visible Metadata Related Resource Create New Resource alfanetTe xtFile56 AlfanetTextFilesS AlfanetTextFileS AlfanetTextFilesa AlfanetTextFiledod wgdgwfdwg AlfanetTextFiledd Ok Cancel e Create New Resource Button that allows the user to see create a new Local Resource without having to cancel this operation This field will be active only if the user chooses the Associate to a Resource option on the Content field This option opens a form similar to the option New Local Resource of the Local Resources sub module section For more information read that section The resource created in this operation will be chosen resource in the Related Resource list like the below picture shows Ed Content Title Item Associate to a Resource C Enter Simple Text Parameters iw Is visible Metadata Related Resource AlfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFile58 AlfanetTextFile59 AlfanetTextFileg0 wgadgwfdwg AlfanetTe xtFilead Create New Resource K Ok Cancel e Enter Simple Text Text value where the user can create a text that will be the content of the item This field will be active only if the user chooses the Enter Simple Text option on the Content field
34. the relationships between this object and other objects This feature allows the user to e Create New relationships e Edit existing relationships e Duplicate existing relationships e Remove existing relationships When the user tries to create a New relationship or Edit an existing one the tool will present to him a form like the below picture The difference between the two options is that in the creation the form will appear empty but in the edition the form will appear with the relationship data New Relation Properties Related Resource Description of the Related Resource SS Add _ Remove e Kind of Description Field where the user chooses which kind of relationship that we wants to create This field has fixed values that are sPartOf HasPart IsVersionOf HasVersion IsFormatOf HasFormat References lIsReferencedBy IsBasedOn lsBasisFor Requires IsRequiredBy Please choose the closest description that applies to the object because this is a mandatory field e Resource List of IDs of resources that are available in the context The user must choose one Resource on which the object has the relation If you filling this value in the Global Metadata probably there will not appear any resource and the list will be empty If this situation happens it s impossible in practice to complete the Relationship because this is a mandatory fi
35. the user input directly the value on the text But the user has also the option to click in the Browse button near the textbox to navigate through the file system in order to choose the target folder When the user clicks on the Browse button the tool presents a form like the below picture Page 48 Authoring Tool User Manual Folder Selection Choose Folder _ compaq _ Documents and Settings _ Favorites J Intell IDEA 3 0 4 jdk1 3 1_09 Note The user must choose a folder on the folders list by double clicking on the chosen one otherwise the tool will assume the parent folder 4 Learning Editor Sub Modules The Learning Editor module it s divided in several sub modules that intend to represent the MS LD structure and hierarchy Besides the File Manipulation Options and the Create Package Interchange File Option all other options are located in the Learning Editor menu Note This menu will be active only when the user creates a new course or loads an existing one This menu tries to organize the several IMS LD elements in a similar way as the standard This menu has two levels of interaction For example the four first options Local Resources Title amp Metadata Learning Objectives and Pre Requisites are first level options this means that when the user chooses one of this options in the right side of the tool will be presented to him the related form to wor
36. to see more information how to do this step o Items Section that includes the list of Items associated to this learning object These Items will be the objects that relate the learning object with the resources that define the contents of the learning object For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section In this section the user can Create New ltems Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing items e Edit existing Learning Objects In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Learning Object data filled The user can change all fields of that Learning Object e Duplicate existing Learning Objects In this option the user can select an existing Learning Object and create a copy of that Learning Object The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Learning Object e Remove existing Learning Objects In this option the user can select and delete one existing Learning Objects Note When you define a Learning Object you need to associate it to an Environment otherwise that Learning Object will not be saved This ts due to the fact that Services and Learning Objects are inner concepts of the Environments but the tool organizes the Services and the Learning Objects separately
37. value that if filled define the number of completed activities inside the structure are needed to considered the structure completed If this value is not defined the structure will only be completed when all the activities are completed Choose Activities Presentation Option value to the user defines how the activities will be presented to the end user The options are Show Activities Sequentially and Let the User Choose the Order In the Show Activities Sequentially option the activities will be shown to the user one after another by the order defined in the other Activity Structure s section In the Let the User Choose the Order option the run time system will present some kind of menu where the user will choose the order of the activities that we wants to perform Choose Activities Order Option value to the user defines how the order of the activities is The options are As Is and In Visibility Order In the As Is option the activities will be ordered like defined in the other sections In the In Visibility Order option the activities will be ordered by the visibility e Information This is a list of Items that will give some additional information to the end user about this structure Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures The Information fields are O Activity Structure Information s Items List of Items that repre
38. very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing act or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the act to let you easily remember and identify the different acts O Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Act Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Completed Act Options Option value to the user defines how can be considered the Act completed The options are Act has a Time Limit and Consider the Act completed when this Part s are completed In the Act has a Time Limit option the Act will be considered completed after the time defined on this value sum of defined hours minutes and seconds relative to the start of the course If this option is selected the user must insert a time value on the numeric fields hours minutes and seconds in front of the option In the Consider the Act completed when this Part s are completed option the user defines that the course will be considered when a certain Part s is completed This is defined in the list in front of the option The user will select which Part s correspond to this option The list is of every Parts already defined in the Act If the user selects more than one Part this can be seen that all t
39. 2 Title amp Metadata 4 8 Components 4 9 Roles 4 9 1 Learner Roles 4 9 2 Staff Roles 4 10 Environments 4 10 1 Services 4 10 1 1 Conference 4 10 1 2 Send Mail i 1 AUN OONNNOOL A 4 10 1 3 Index Search 104 4 10 2 Learning Objects 105 4 11 Activities 109 4 11 1 Learning Activities 110 4 11 1 1 Learning Activity Form 111 4 11 2 Support Activities 116 4 11 2 1 Support Activity Form 117 4 11 3 Activity Structures 120 4 11 3 1 Activity Structure Form 121 4 12 Method 126 4 13 Course Completion 129 4 14 Plays 132 4 14 1 Play Form 133 4 15 Acts 138 4 15 1 Act Form 140 4 15 2 Parts Form 143 APPENDIX 1 REFERENCES 145 Page 4 Authoring Tool User Manual 1 Introduction 1 1 ALFANET Background In the current competitive and global market there is a real need of continuously improve the training of employees in any organisation in order to e offer a higher quality of service to their customers e rapidly incorporate the new changing technologies of the sector University Research and Technology Transfer in a Changing World e achieve a greater level of fidelity of employees to attract and retain top talent based on motivating people and achieving personnel satisfaction adding social and community added value to the main strategic objectives At the same level that companies are using IT for improving their business processes the new technologies can be especially adequate for improving the key process w
40. 70 Authoring Tool User Manual Otherwise if the chosen Resource is not referenced by any element inside the course and doesn t belongs to the Global Resources this means that this is a really Local Resource the Resource will be permanently removed In this case the tool will ask to the user if he wants to permanently remove the Resource like described in the following picture If the user chooses to permanently remove the Resource it will disappear from any list and will no longer exists Note The only way to recover the resource is to reopen the file without saving losing every changes made since the last saving 4 4 3 Add all to local This operation as the same logic as the Add to Local option but the logic it s applied to all resource in the left list This can be seen as an easy way to import all the Global Resources to the course To perform this operation the user only as to click on the Add all to local button like the following pictures represent DictionaryEnglish French AddtoLocal aaal BasicExerciseforverbs aaa BookoftBasicEnglish HT Remove from local aaa5 AE qqqq AlfanetTextFilesS AlfanetTextFilesd XEXE xdgfdg AlfanetTextFilesS AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFile59 AlfanetTextFile5 4AlfanetTextFiled Xxx xdgtdg AlfanetTextFile55 Add All to local fh lfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFiles AlfanetTexthile s 7 4lfanetTextFiles
41. ALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WOU HAVE READ ALL OF THE ERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS EULA UNDERSTAND THEM AND GREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THEM fall or some portion of the Software has been licensed by another party for your use e g your employer or an individual or company with which you conduct business your rightta use that Software and to obtain any related Services fas hatterm is defined below is subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement 3 between Groove Networks and the other party whether the other party has l PEER SEER E SEE S A EEEE E Perea aaa A N UE EE eae P AS EEE ME SR i ae E E BETET ere E T IT accept the terms in the License Agreement Back Mext kg Cancel J 3 Fill the e mail data sa Activate Product Groove Activate Product Welcome To Groove Before you can use Groove Workspace you need to take a minute or so to set up an account First we d like to ask you a couple of questions Many people find our Groove monthly bulletin very useful j w Oo Would you like to subscribe to it After you activate the Preview version of Groove you will receive some Getting the Most out of Groove emails containing helpful hints and other information you may find useful Each message includes instructions for opting oaut of receiving future messages Email Address roberto ab reut ace bnetcam In what format would you prefer your emails Text
42. Basic Learner Intermediate Intermediate Lear advanced 4dyvanced Learner 4i i B e Send Mail To Option value to define if the mail will be send to Everyone on the role s selected by the user or if the runtime system will allow to the end user of this service to Select the persons on the role s which will receive the mail related to this Service e Role s List where the user will select the Roles that will receive the mail related to this Service The list is of every Roles defined in the Course The user must select at least one role to advance because this field is a mandatory field e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Send Mail Service Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 104 Authoring Tool User Manual Note Despite the Property where E Mail is defined and the Property where Username is defined fields are visible they are inactive This is due to the fact that the properties belong exclusively to the Level B of the IMS LD specification 4 10 1 3 Index Search When the user chooses to create or edit a Index Search Service the tool will present the second section of the Service form to the user like the below picture SSS Index Search e Search Type Option value to define the type of search that this Service allo
43. Configuration Options module Page 26 Authoring Tool User Manual 3 2 Manage Global Metadata Like it s said in the MS LOM section the Authoring Tool uses the MS LOM standard to define the metadata associated to any kind of elements in the course The Manage Global Metadata module allows the user to define a template metadata to use in every new course element So if the user wants to the information defined in this module will be copied to the new elements when the user clicks on the Metadata related button s of the element To accede to this module please choose in the main menu the button that says Manage Global Resources Global Metadata Manager Tt a M x 5 7 toraa js 7 P Manage Global Resources Manage alobal M Fa Learning Editor Repository Interface Configuration Options a T L As you can see in the picture above this module doesn t have specific manipulations options This module consists in the edition of the global metadata information This information is present in the file defined on the field Global Metadata File of the Configuration Options module If this value is not defined or is not a valid file the global metadata form will be presented unfilled otherwise will be filled with the metadata information Note You might have two kinds of approach to this module The first is to use it as a template for every objects of a course that you can adapt or comple
44. HTML CAOL users choose Text Optional How did you hear about Groove software SELECT Having difficulties Click here to report them Choose username and password ea Activate Product Groove Activate Product The name you enter here is how other Groove users will recognize you Account Name Roberto Canada de Abreu Enter a passphrase For your new account Pick a passphrase that is both secret and reasonably long Passphrase SEE Confirm passphrase M List my name in the groove net public directory When you click Finish your account and identity will be created Fi r 4 Back at l Binish r l Cancel a Page 16 Authoring Tool User Manual e Open a Space click Start Here 5 Welcome Page Groove a 10 File Edit View Options Help Welcome Page Roberto Canada de Abreu Roberto Canada de Abreu OTOOYE 4 My Contacts 4 Add Contact v Groove Workspace Preview Edition lets you explore Groove Find Out More Workspace a low cost flexible environment ie for small group collaboration Order Standard or Professional Edition to extend this Order Now gt natal nile aaa functionality to an unlimited number of shared Spanos Use this list to keep track of people you communicate with Click Add Contact to add a new contact to this list o J oove os Manage contacts 7 workspace My Spaces _ Create Shared Space dek Start Her
45. IMS LD Level 4 courses This tool follows the hierarchic organization of the IMS LD that separates several learning concepts that will be used to assemble the course In the hierarchy of the tool we can see the following options that are associated to different concepts Local Resources Indicates the external files that the course will need to be performed We can use the Global Resources created in the Manage Global Resources module or can create new Local Resources We can also edit existing Resources and upload Local Resources to the Global Resources list Tithe amp Metadata Represents the general Tithe and general Metadata defined for the course Sbout the Metadata we can use the module Manage Global Metadata to define a global Metadata and reuse itin every Metadata items in every elements of the course We are also able to define different Metadata information in each element or also not define any Metadata for others elements We have the following options e New This is the feature that allows the user to create new Courses When the user chooses this option the tool will ask him for a confirmation with a message like the below picture about this action to assure that was not a mistake of clicking New Course If the user confirms his option and has already an open file the tool will ask him if he wants to save the opened file with a message like the one below Save Course Page 52 Authoring
46. Is this field is active the user must write some text or cancel the operation otherwise the user can t advance New Learning Objective s Item Properties E v Associate to a Resource NewResource Enter Simple Text This is a simple text This text will be saved automatically by the tool in a text file txt in the working folder The tool will create too a resource that refers to that file and will automatically associate this item to that new resource If after saving the item the user edits again the item he can see that e The Content option field maintains the value in Enter Simple Text e The Related Resource list is not active but has the new automatic resource as the chosen resource e The Create New Resource is not active e The Enter Simple Text field is active and has the text written in the creation Page 66 Authoring Tool User Manual Edit Pre Requisite s Item Properties Associate to a Resource olfanetTe tFiled stj Enter Eimel Taut This is a simple text When the user is creating a new Item or editing an existing one the difference will be only that in the first occasion the form will appear empty except the Title field which will have a default value In the edition of the Item the form appears with the item data on the fields 4 4 Local Resources The Local Resources sub module is the second option of the Learning Editor menu This fea
47. J2SE installed in the computer Learning Editor La If the application doesn t initiate please verify if you have the Java 2 Runtime Environment sepa installed on your computer preference vl 4 2_02 or above nce If you don t have installed the J2SE then go to the page http ijaya sun com downloads i Configuration Options Choose the latest J2SE available select the related All platforms option click on the button 50 and then download the correspondent Runtime Environment JRE for Windows After you have downloaded run the file and install the JayvafTM 2 Runtime Environment As referred before the communication between the tool and the Alfanet repository is made by the WebDav protocol To do so the Authoring Tool use an application named DAV Explorer This application supports almost every features of the WebDav protocol and it s available in the Authoring Tool on the form of an applet located in a web site The module launches an internet browser window with that web site which contains the DAV Explorer applet The browser window will be like the following picture 4 Cannot find server Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help p J x E A Jo Search SIP Favorites GA media iH 2b Address http jalFanet portalace com applet webdav her ea o File Edit Versioning View Help EO x 6 6 Bleden nal amp DAY Explo
48. Manage Global Resources module or can create new Local Resources We can also edit existing Resources and upload Local Resources to the Global Resources list Tithe amp Metadata Represents the general Title and general Metadata defined for the course About the Metadata we can use the module Manage Global Metadata to define a global Metadata and reuse itin every Metadata items in every elements of the course We are also able to define different Metadata information in each element or also not define any Metadata for others elements To more information about how to work with and how it s build the Learning Editor please read the section Learning Editor Sub Modules Page 42 Authoring Tool User Manual 3 4 Repository Interface The Repository Interface module allows the user to have an interface with the Alfanet Repository system to transfer courses edited in the Authoring Tool and every other features that the WebDav protocol allows To accede to this module please choose in the main menu the button that says Repository Interface ejje Repository Interface i Manage Global Welcome to the Repository Interface Resources This option opens a browser window with the DAY Explorer Manage Global Metadata The DAY Explorer is an application that gives us an interface to the Alfanet WebDay Repository This application to run needs to have the JavafTM 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition
49. O English FrenchDictionary D 4lfanet Docs Tool al Testofferformance DO 4lfanet Docs ToolAlfanet new TestotPertormance C 4lfanet Docs Tool4l 3 1 1 4 Remove This option allows the user to remove an existing global Resource The user must choose from the list one existing Resource and click on the Remove button Page 24 Authoring Tool User Manual FirstLessonEnglish O 4lfanet Docs Tool 4lfanets English FrenchDictionary CD 4lfanet Docs Tool al TestofPertormance O 4lfanet Docs ToolAalfanet new TeastotPerormance GC 4lfanet Docs Tool4 Duplicate After this step the tool will present to the user a message like the below picture where he must confirm the decision of remove that Resource Atention If the user confirms his decision the list will be refreshed without the deleted Resource and with the previous Resource of the list selected FirstLessonEnglish O 4lfanet Docs Tool 4lfanets English FrenchDictionary O 4lfanet Docs Tool4l TestotPerformance D 4lfanet Docs Too Alfanet 3 1 1 5 Save Global Resources When the user is on the Manage Global Resources module and clicks on another button in the main menu the tool will present to him a message like the picture below if he wants to save the Global Resources Attention If the user confirms the decision the Global Resources will be saved in a file named resources xml on the folder chosen on the
50. Staff Existing Learners basic Basic Learner Intermediate Intermediate Learner EW advanced Advanced Learner Edit Duplicate Remove Move Up Move Down This feature allows the user to e Create New Learner Roles In this option the tool will present to the user a form like the one below to let the user fill the new Learner Role data Mame URI Reference Title W Multiple Instances Metadata Min Persons We Persons Exclusively in This Role Max Persons Ok Cancel The form consists in the following items o Name Text value that represents the ID of the Role This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the resource can t be created Note This is a very important value because this is the field that will identify the Learner Role in every elements and lists Try to put an explicit value on the Name of the Role to let you easily remember and identify the different Roles o URI Reference Text value that allows the user to refer an URI link to this role Page 88 Authoring Tool User Manual Title Text value that defines a title description for the Role Multiple Instances Option value that defines if this role can have multiple instances or can only have one and only one instance Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Role of the Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage
51. ancel This form is divided in seven sections which two of them Property Change and Notifications are related to Level B or C of IMS LD specification So they are inactive and don t fall in the scope of this Authoring Tool version The sections that belong to Level A and are active are e Properties These are the main properties of the Learning Activity Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback Pi Title Environmentisi Conference Enviranmia Send Mail Enviranmen Index Environment 3 Parameters Z erwires Fowironcent Completed Activity Options None of Below options iw Is Visible C Activity has a Time Limit H M z C User Can say when activity is completed Metadata gonmplete when seta Property walte The properties fields are o Tithe Represents the title that the user will give to the Learning Activity This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Learning Activity can t be created Page 112 Authoring Tool User Manual Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Learning Activity the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing learning activity or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the learning activity to let you easily remember and identify the diffe
52. ariable Global Resources Directory of the Configuration Options module If this variable it s not defined the tool will assume a default directory normally the user profile default directory or the home directory of Groove Note The philosophy of this module is to define working folders where the user can centralize the resources and the correspondent files This means that the user can create several kinds of resources and organize them in different folders and then load them to the courses Despite the user could choose a file from any location of the file system we advise the user to have the physical files in the same folder of the Global Resources file If there was any error loading the resources file because it s not defined doesn t exist or it s not valid the tool will show you a message like the following picture and the list will be empty like in the above picture Page 20 Authoring Tool User Manual After loading the Global Resources file we can see a list of resources with the ID of the resource and the location of the physical file that the resource represents On the right of that list we can find four buttons that allows us to manipulate those resources 3 1 1 Options of Manage Global Resources module 3 1 1 1 New This option allows the user to create a new global Resource The user must click on the New button Existing Global Resources FirstLessonEnglish O 4lfanet Docs Tool 4lfanets E
53. arts within an act associate each role with an activity The activity in turn describes what that role is to do and what environment is available to it within the act In the analogy the assigned activity is the equivalent of the script for the part that the role plays in the act although less prescriptive Where there is more than one role part within an act these are run in parallel The explicit roles specified in this language are those of learner and staff roles Each of these can be specialized into sub roles but no vocabulary is put forward for this It is left open to the learning designer to name the sub roles and specity their activities For example in simulations and games different learners can play different roles each performing different activities in different environments Activities can be assembled into activity structures An activity structure aggregates a set of related activities into a single structure which can be associated to a role in a role part A structure can model a sequence or a selection of activities In a sequence a role has to complete the different activities in the structure in the order provided In a selection a role may select a given number of activities from the set provided in the activity structure This can for instance be used to model situations where students have to complete two activities which they may freely select from a collection of e g five activities contained in the activit
54. ata and reuse it in every Metadata items in every elements of the course We are also able to define different Metadata information in each element or also not define any Metadata for others elements This option is only active when the Authoring Tool has an open course file If the user didn t open or closed a file this option will be inactive This feature uses an application named WinZip Command Line Support Add On For more information about the WinZip Command Line Support Add On installation and configuration please read the How to Install and Configure the WinZip Command Line Support Add On section of this sub module lf there is an open Course and this option is correctly configured the creation of a Package Interchange File follows the following steps When the user chooses this option the tool will ask him for a confirmation with a message like the below picture about this action to assure that was not a mistake of clicking Page 58 Authoring Tool User Manual Create Package Interchange File lf the user confirms his option the tool will ask to him if he want to saves the last changes to the open file before create the Package Interchange File like the below picture describes Save Course Note The Package Interchange File will assume the physical course file so if the user says no the feature will continue but will assume the saved file and not the last modifications made since the last sav
55. belong to the Level A of the Method Course Plays and Acts 4 13 Course Completion The Course Completion sub module is the second option of the Method menu ere m This module consists in the information to consider the Course completed and the information to produce when the Course is finished This module refers to the concept Course of the Method module The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Lea rning Editor Course Completion Manager when Completed Final Feedback Property Change Notifications lt untitled gt unidentified Yi plete when seta Propet wallie This form is divided in four sections which two of them Property Change and Notifications are related to Level B or C of IMS LD specification So they are inactive and don t fall in the scope of this Authoring Tool version The sections that belong to Level A and are active are e When Completed This section consists in an option value where the user decides when does this course can be consider complete Page 130 Authoring Tool User Manual rine aCe ithe Se a Praner owe Yo plele When seta Property valle The options are O Course has a Time limit In this option the user defines that the course has a time limit to be executed and will be considered completed after that time The time is defined has a sum of hours H minutes M and seconds S
56. bject Each line must have only one word 3 2 1 2 Life Cycle Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications In the Life Cycle category we can find information about the evolution of the content in a basis of versions and status e Version Text value that represents the actual version of the content of the object e Status Status of the content of the object This field has fixed values that are Draft Final Revised and Unavailable Please choose the closest description that applies to the object e Contributes List of contributions of entities to the actual and previous versions of the content This features allows the user to create New contributes Edit existing contributes Duplicate contributes or Remove contributes When the user choose to create a New contribute or Edit an existing one he has to fill a form that the tool presents to him like the below picture The difference between the two options is that in the creation the form will appear empty but in the edition the form will appear with the contribute data New Contribute Properties In the field Kind of Contribution the user must choice the role of the entities of this contribute between the following values Author Publisher Unknown Initiator Terminator Validator Editor Graphical Designer Technical Impl
57. ce is a conference The conference service in addition to a title and metadata specifies four conference system roles participant observer conference manager and moderator These contain references to roles in the learning design When the learning design roles have been assigned players this information can be used to automatically set up the dedicated conference space It is not defined in this Learning Design Specification what permissions the conference roles should have so this is left up to the implementer However these conference roles have commonly understood meanings and learning designers would have the expectation that implementers would stay within this range The conference service can be divided into three subtypes synchronous conferences like chats and audio video conferences asynchronous conferences like newsgroups forums and announcements one to many asynchronous conferences e Index Search Service About the Conference Service we can find the following description in the IMS LD specification The Index Search service enables a unit of learning to be indexed and searches to be then made across it In addition to title and metadata elements it includes an index element and a search element The index element is a wrapper for indexing aspects used to set up a search service The index is made in the background not visible to users The visibility is determined with the search element The functionality o
58. create and edit courses in a very user friendly way To accede to this module please choose in the main menu the button that says Learning Editor Bu yg os i i z M i et L aw ALFANET Authoring Tool Manage Global Resources Manage Global Metadata Repository Interface Configuration Options After this step the tool will be presented to the user the like below picture N Learning Editor welcome Fave FAVE AE Eose Peate Rackage lntermnange mie Main Menu Welcome to the Learning Editor This option lets the user create and edit IMS Learning Design IMS LD Level amp courses This tool follows the hierarchic organization of the IMS LD that separates several learning concepts that will be used to assemble the course In the hierarchy of the tool we can see the following options that are associated to different concepts Local Resources Indicates the external files that the course will need to be performed We can use the Global Resources created in the Manage Global Resources module or can create new Local Resources We can also edit existing Resources and upload Local Resources to the Global Resources list Tithe amp Metadata Represents the general Title and general Metadata defined for the course About the Metadata we can use the module Manage Global Metadata to define a global Metadata and reuse it in every Metadata items in every elements of the course
59. ct for the typical target audience This field has fixed values that are Very Easy Easy Medium Difficult and Very Difficult Please choose the closest description that applies to the object e Semantic Density Subjective measure of the learning object s usefulness as compared to its size or duration This field has fixed values that are Very Low Low Medium High and Very High Please choose the closest description that applies to the object e End User Role s Normal kind of end user that uses this object This feature allows the user to Add and Remove roles When the user selects to Add a new object the tool presents to him a form with a list of values to choose This list has the following values Very Low Low Medium High and Very High Please choose the closest description that applies to the object e Typical Learning Time Three values that represent the approximate or typical time it takes to work with the object The field H represents hours the field M represents minutes and the field S represents seconds All three values must be numeric e Context s The typical learning environment where use of the object is intended to take place This feature allows the user to Add and Remove coniexts When the user selects to Add a new object the tool presents to him a form with a list of values to choose This list
60. ction of this sub module e Edit existing Activity Structures In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Activity Structure data filled The user can change all fields of that Activity Structure e Duplicate existing Activity Structures In this option the user can select an existing Activity Structure and create a copy of that Activity Structure The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Activity Structure e Remove existing Activity Structures In this option the user can select and delete one existing Activity Structures 4 11 3 1 Activity Structure Form The Activity Structure form available to the user is like the below picture Properties Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Title Environment s Conference Environm Send Mail Environmen Index Environment Metadata Services Fowieoncoent Number of Activities to consider structure completed Choose Activities Presentation Choose Activities Order w Show Activities Sequentially fe As Is C Letthe User Choose the Order In Visibility Order Ok Cancel This form is divided in five sections Those sections are e Properties These are the main properties of the Activity Structure Properties Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Title Environmentis Conference Environm Send Ma
61. cture of the Learning Design The core concept of the Learning Design Specification is that regardless of pedagogical approach a person gets a role in the teaching learning process typically a learner or a Staff role In this role he or she works toward certain outcomes by performing more or less structured learning and or support activities within an environment The environment consists of the appropriate learning objects and services to be used during the performance of the activities Which role gets which activities at what moment in the process is determined by the method or by a notification Note most of the concepts mentioned above are reflected in the information model but some only exist at the conceptual level person outcome The method is designed to meet learning objectives specification of the outcomes for learners and presupposes certain prerequisites specification of the entry level for learners The method consists of one or more concurrent play s a play consists of one or more sequential act s and an act is related to one or more concurrent role part s each role part associates exactly one role with one activity or activity structure The teaching learning process is modeled in the method on the notion of a theatrical play A play has acts and in each act has one or more role parts The acts in a play follow each other in a sequence although more complex sequencing behavior can take place within an act The role p
62. d with specific activities or acts to help the learner to achieve the learning objectives of that activity and the entire course In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Learning Objects Learning objects are defined here as any reproducible and addressable digital or non digital resource used to perform learning activities or support activities a Examples are web pages text books productivity tools text processors editors calculators instruments microscope etc and test items A classification of different types of learning objects can be found in the LOM specification element 5 2 Learning Resource Type makes a distinction between exercise simulation questionnaire diagram figure graph index slide table narrative text exam experiment problem statement self assessment and lecture A Learning Object may reference any of these types However this assumes a runtime system that will be able to handle them The Learning Objects sub module is the fourth option of the Environments Menu l Environments Services Learning Objects hy _ Learning Objects The Learning Objects form available to the user is like the following picture Lea rning Editor Learning Objects Manager English Encyclopedia EnglishEncyclopedia Library of Dictionaries LibraryofDictionaries In this feature the user can Page 106 Authoring Tool User Manual e Create New Learning
63. d with some existing part or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the part to let you easily remember and identify the different parts e Related Role List of every defined Roles in the course in which the user must choose the Role related to this Part e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Part Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Part references a Option value to the user define which kind of object is related to this Part When the user chooses the type he must select on element of the correspondent list In front to each option the user have a list of every defined objects of the related type This list will be active only when the related option is selected The available types are Learning Activity Support Activity Activity Structure and Environment IMS Global Consortium 2003 IMS Learning Design Information Model Version 1 0 Final Specification http www imsglobal org learningdesign Idv1pO imslId_infov1p0 html IMS Global Consortium 2003 IMS Content Packaging Information Model Version 1 1 3 Final Specification http www imsglobal org content packaging cpvlp 1p3 imscp_infovlp1p3 html IMS Global Consortium 2001 IMS Learning Resource Meta Data Information Model Version 1 2 1 Final Speci
64. data structures that are used to provide interoperability of Internet based content with content creation tools learning management systems LMS and run time environments The objective of the IMS CP Information Model is to define a standardized set of structures that can be used to exchange content These structures provide the basis for standardized data bindings that allow software developers and implementers to create instructional materials that interoperate across authoring tools LMSs and run time environments that have been developed independently by various software developers Package Interchange gt File PIF Manifest MetoDete Manifest PHYSICAL FILES The actual Content Media Assessment Collaboration and other files IMS Content Packaging scope The IMS Package depicted in the above Picture consists of two major elements a special XML file describing the content organization and resources in a Package and the physical files being described by the XML The special XML file is called the IMS Manifest file because course content and organization is described in the context of manifests Once a Package has been incorporated into a single file for transportation it is called a Package Interchange File The relationship of these parts to the content container is described below Package Interchange File a single file e g zip jar cab which includes a top level ma
65. defined in numeric fields in front of the option lf this option is selected the user must insert a time value on that numeric fields Consider the Course completed when this play s are completed In this option the user defines that the course will be considered completed when a certain Play s is completed This is defined in the list in front of the option The user will select which Play s correspond to this option The list is of every plays defined in the Course If the user selects more than one Play this can be seen that all those selected Plays need to be completed to consider the course completed If this option is selected the user must select at least one Play from the list e Final Feedback This is a list of Items that will be shown to the end user when the Course is completed When Completed Final Feedback Property Change Notifications The Final Feedback fields are o Course Final Feedback s Items List of Items that represents the Final Feedback of this Course This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of tems Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a
66. e Save As and Close options and the Create Package Interchange File option Create File Open This is the feature that allows the user to open existing Courses and load them to the tool When the user chooses this option the tool will ask him for a confirmation with a message like the below picture about this action to assure that was not a mistake of clicking Open Course If the user confirms his option and has already an open file the tool will ask him if he wants to save the opened file with a message like the one below Save Course After these steps finally the user will be able to load the course The tool will present to him a form like the one below File Selection Choose File E3 Alfanet ee Docs Tool Alfanet Annex 2001 _ 10 76 doc ALFANET Authoring Tool User Manua ALFANET BRO1 doc ALFANET BROT doc ALFANET BARO2 v2 doc ALFANET BRO doc ALFANET BROS doc ALFANET BRO doc ALFANET 013 1 dac In this form the user can browse the file system drives and folders to choose the target file Page 54 Authoring Tool User Manual The default folder will be Working Folder defined in the Configuration Options module If the user chooses a file from another folder that will be the new Working Folder After these steps the tool will load the needed data to start working The tool loads the General Resources data defined in the Manage Global Resource
67. e When the user clicks on the Browse button the tool presents a form like the below picture File Selection Choose File E d DATA EJDA E3 Alfanet EJ Docs E Tool ce Alfanet aaa sml aaa new xml aaaa sml aaaaaaaa xml aaald xml AlfanetT extFileU srl AltanetT extFile sml df gdr f gtd th rnl dfg hg th xml dsted xml devi d dg sml Note Be very careful with the file that you choose because if you choose to save the global metadata information the tool will overwrite the content without an overwriting alert message e W2ZZIP Application Folder Text value to the user specify the folder where is located the WZZIP application This setting refers to a special feature of the Authoring Tool that allows the user to create WinZip files that contains a course and all related resources These files follow the MS CP indications for interchange files To be able to perform this action the authoring tool needs to have an external application This application is the WinZip Command Line Support Add On and allows the tool to create WinZip files To more information about this application please read the Create Package Interchange File Option section of this manual The value that you need to provide is the folder where is located after installation the wzzip exe file normally is the folder where is installed the WinZip application If the user prefers the tool let
68. e Start Here amp My Account Help amp Support se G0 TO Space iy Fa My Messages Getting Started Created on eB Manage identity information 2 Help 15 01 2003 15 08 fe Email contact information to 2 FAQs amp Forums Size 1MB others Members Active Online By Roberto Ca Not Online xl Manage shared spaces e Install the Alfanet Authoring Tool Copy the grv file normally called Alfanet grv file to disk and double click Accept the Certificate a Confirm Component Installation Confirm Component Installation fou are being requested to install the component entitled 4lFanet Tool Template Do you agree to install this component This component was signed by its publisher using 4 digital certificate According to the certificate the issuer s name is Roberto Canada de Abreu and the subject s name fie the publisher s name is Roberto Canada de Abreu This certificate is self signed so the publisher s identity has not been verified by a recognized certification authority You should install this component only if vou are confident of the publisher s identity and of the component s Functionality and safety Always trust components signed by this signer Roberto Canada de Abreu Note The installation process will include some Groove components and could also if needed install the Microsoft Net Framework e Add the Alfanet Authoring Tool to the Space Select t
69. e may be complex sequencing and there may be only one active act if there is more than one act within a play the acts are run in sequence Thus acts can be used as synchronization points either waiting for all players to finish before starting the next or forcing an end when a certain number of players have finished when terminated by a support staff member or under some other condition All role participants in the next act may then start together at the same time subject to their being simultaneously logged into the runtime service When the last act is completed the unit of learning is also complete An act brings together one or more role parts This is the mechanism that allows more than one role to perform at the same time Therefore role parts within an act are always run in parallel Role parts and Parts are the same concept Role parts enable several users playing the same or different roles to participate in the same act Each role part associates exactly one role with exactly one type of activity including the performance of another unit of learning and activity structures or with one environment equivalent to an organization in Content Packaging Multiple role parts within one act are performed concurrently The same role can be associated with different activities or environments in different role parts and the same activity or environment can be associated with different roles in different role parts However th
70. e of defined elements that describe or catalog the learning resource along with requirements about how the elements are to be used and represented The IMS LOM defines several kinds of information about the object such as e general e lifecycle e metametadata e technical e educational e rights e relation e annotation e classification These items are described in more detail in the Manage Global Metadata section of this manual 1 4 5 Integration between Standards In the IMS LD Information Model we can find the following description of the integration between IMS LD and IMS CP Unit of Learning IMS Content Package IMS Learning Design The primary use of IMS Learning Design is to model units of learning by including an IMS Learning Design in a content package preferably but not necessarily an IMS Content Package It this specification it is assumed that IMS Learning Design is being used with IMS Content Packages to model units of learning How this is done is explained in this section IMS Content Packages describe their contents in an XML document called the package manifest The Manifest may include structured views into the resources contained in that package each view is described as a hierarchy of items called an organization Each item refers to a Resource that in turn can refer to a physical file within the package It can however also refer to an external resource
71. e organized in sub directories Package A Package represents a unit of usable and reusable content This may be part of a course that has instructional relevance outside of a course organization and can be delivered independently as an entire course or as a Collection of courses Once a Package arrives at its destination to a run time service such as an LMS vendor the Package must allow itself to be aggregated or disaggregated into other Packages A Package must be able to stand alone that is it must contain all the information needed to use the contents for learning when it has been unpacked Packages are not required to be incorporated into a Package Interchange File A Package may also be distributed on a CD ROM or other removable media without being compressed into a single file An IMS Manifest file and any other supporting XML files required by it DTD XSD must be at the root of the distribution medium Manifest A manifest is a description in XML of the resources comprising meaningful instruction A manifest may also contain zero or more static ways of organizing the instructional resources for presentation The scope of manifest is elastic A manifest can describe part of a course that can stand by itself outside of the context of a course an instructional object an entire course or a collection of courses The decision is given to content developers to describe their content in the way they want it to be considered for aggre
72. e right side is the list of the selected Learning Activities This list is only active is the user select the Show Activities Sequentially option of the Choose Activities Presentation field of the Properties section When the user select activities on the first list the tool will refresh the second list and then the user Can manipulate the order of the chosen activities To manipulate the second list the form has five buttons that can execute the ordinance operations Those operations are o Move First Move the selected activity to the first position Move Last Move the selected activity to the last position Move Up Move the selected activity one position upper Move Down Move the selected activity one position lower Unselect All Unselect all elements of the left list emptying the right list O O Page 124 Authoring Tool User Manual e Support Activities This is the section where the user can select which Support Activities will belong to this Activity Structure Properties Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Assistance to Lesson 1 Assistar Assistance ta Lesson 2 Assistar Assessment of Test Assessment The Support Activities section has two lists The first list on the left side is the list of every Support Activities defined in the course The user must select the Support Activities
73. e same role may only be referenced once in the same act If multiple activities or environments need to be associated for the same role an activity structure or wrapper environment should be used When an act within a play is activated all the role parts in the act go on stage or become live Depending on the implementation players of the roles referenced by the role parts may then have their associated activities or environments made visible in their activity tree and any content associated with the activity made accessible The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Learning Editor Acts Manager Lesson 1 Act Lesson 2 Act First Test Acted This feature allows the user to e Create New Acts In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Act data Since this form needs an extensive explanation see the Act Form section of this sub module e Edit existing Acts In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Act data filled The user can change all fields of that Act e Duplicate existing Acts In this option the user can select an existing Act and create a copy of that Act The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Act e Remove existing Acts In this option the user can select and delete one existing Act Note When you define an Act you need
74. e to the user give the author s e mail address as a contact information about the annotation content This field must be filled because is a mandatory field e Date Three numeric fields that allows the user to give the date of the comment text By default and if this value is not filled the tool will automatically put the current date The format of the date is Year Month Day If the date is not filled nor have non numeric fields there will be impossible to advance also because It s a mandatory field e Annotation Text Text value where the user can fill the comment itself This field must be filled because it s a mandatory field 3 2 1 9 Classifications General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications In the Classifications category we can find information about classify any specifics characteristics of the object This feature allows the user to e Create New classifications e Edit existing classifications e Duplicate existing classifications e Remove existing classifications When the user tries to create a New classification or Edit an existing one the tool will present to him a form like the below picture The difference between the two options is that in the creation the form will appear empty but in the edition the form will appear with the classification data Page 38 Authoring Tool User Manual New Classification Charact
75. eature allows the user to e Create New Plays In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Play data Since this form needs an extensive explanation see the Play Form section of this sub module e Edit existing Plays In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Play data filled The user can change all fields of that Play e Duplicate existing Plays In this option the user can select an existing Play and create a copy of that Play The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Play e Remove existing Plays In this option the user can select and delete one existing Play e Move Up existing Plays In this option the user can select and move up one position the selected Play in the list order e Move Down existing Plays In this option the user can select and move down one position the selected Play in the list order 4 14 1 Play Form The Play form available to the user is like the below picture New Play Properties Properties Acts Acts Order Final Feedback Property Change Notifications Complete When seta Property walle This form is divided in six sections which two of them Property Change and Notifications are related to Level B or C of IMS LD specification So they are inactive and don t fall in the scope of this Authoring Tool version The sections
76. eld e Description Text field that briefly describes the Resource on which the object has this relationship e Catalog Entries See Catalog Entries on General category In this context the object is the Related Resource Note Since this category is very dependent of the working context and deals with very specific information of each object it s recommended to fill this category differently for each object and not as a template in the global metadata 3 2 1 8 Annotations Page 36 Authoring Tool User Manual General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications In the Annotations category we can find comments about the use of the object educational or not This feature allows the user to e Create New annotations e Edit existing annotations e Duplicate existing annotations e Remove existing annotations When the user tries to create a New annotation or Edit an existing one the tool will present to him a form like the below picture The difference between the two options is that in the creation the form will appear empty but in the edition the form will appear with the annotation data New Annotation Properties e Author First Name Author Middle Name and Author Last Name Three text values that the user must fill to give the name of the annotation author The first and the last names are mandatory fields e Author E Mail Text valu
77. ementer Content Provider Technical Validator Educational Validator Script Writer Instructional Designer Please choose the closest description that applies to the entities of this contribute because this is a mandatory field Besides the role user must introduce the Date of the contribution by default if this value is not defined the tool will provide the current date and the list of Entity ies involved The list of entities consists in the description one entity per line and max 40 of the entities that corresponds to the role chosen in the Kind of Contribution field 3 2 1 3 Metametadata General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications a a In the Metametadata category we can find information about the information on this metadata section For other words it s the data about the data about the object content e Metadata Scheme Text value that represents the metadata schema used on this block file By default the value is LOMv1 0 e Language Acronym value that represents the language that the metadata is created Page 30 3 2 1 4 Authoring Tool User Manual The acronym is in the form of two letters defining the language e g Portuguese gt pt English gt en French gt fr Optionally we can add a reference to a specific country This reference has also two lette
78. encesSery In this feature the user can Page 100 Authoring Tool User Manual e Create New Services In this option the tool will present to the user a form like the one below to let the user fill the new Service data Sew Service Properties Properties Conference tight The form consists in the following items o Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Service This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Service can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Service the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing service or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the service to let you easily remember and identify the different services o Parameters Text value to the parameters to be passed during runtime o Class Text value to the class name assigned to this service o Is Visible Option value to define if this service will be visible to the end user of the course o Type Of Service Option value to define which kind of Service is this Service According to this choice the content of the second section will change such as the section name We can see three examples of those changes in the following pictures Properties Conference Title Parameters C Send mail
79. erformed concurrently The same role can be associated with different activities or environments in different role parts and the same activity or environment can be associated with different roles in different role parts However the same role may only be referenced once in the same act If multiple activities or environments need to be associated for the same role an activity structure or wrapper environment should be used When an act within a play is activated all the role parts in the act go on stage or become live Depending on the implementation players of the roles referenced by the role parts may then have their associated Page 144 Authoring Tool User Manual activities or environments made visible in their activity tree and any content associated with the activity made accessible The Parts are defined inside the Act s form in the Parts section but has a specific form to define the Part s data This form is explained in this section The Part s form available to the user is like the below picture Mew Part Properties The Part s Form fields are e Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Part This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Part can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Part the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicate
80. eristic to Classify Taxon Path Characteristic Field where the user chooses which characteristic of the object we wants to classify This field has fixed values that are Discipline Idea Prerequisite Educational Objective Accessibility Restrictions Educational Level Skill Level Security Level Please choose the closest description that applies to the object because this is a mandatory field Description Text value to the user briefly describe the object according to the characteristic chosen This field must be filled because is a mandatory field Keywords List of words that can help to describe the object according to the characteristic chosen Each line must have only one word and with a maximum of 40 words Taxon Path Set of three values that represent a taxonomic path in a specific classification It s formed by Source Taxon Id and Taxon Entry Note It s recommended this part to be filled only by advanced users that are familiarized with the concepts involved Source Text value where the user refers which specific classification is involved in this part Taxon Id Text value where the user refers the Taxon s identifier in taxonomic system Taxon Entry Text value where the user refers the value of the taxonomic classification 3 3 Learning Editor This is the core module of the Authoring Tool The Learning Editor module allows the user to
81. es a top level manifest file named imsmanifest xml and all other physical files as identified by the Manifest A Package Interchange File is a concise Web delivery format a means of transporting related structured information PKZip v2 04g zip is recommended as the default Package Interchange File format Any ZIP file format MUST conform to RFC1951 The manifest file referred in the specification can be seen as the open file edited in the Authoring Tool This feature is located in the right side of the Learning Editor screen as showed in the picture below Learning Editor welcome Welcome ta the Learning Editor This option lets the user create and edit IMS Learning Design IMS LD Level 4 courses This tool follows the hierarchic organization of the IMS LD that separates several learning concepts that will be used to assemble the course In the hierarchy of the tool we can see the following options that are associated to different concepts Local Resources Indicates the external files that the course will need to be performed We can use the Global Resources created in the Manage Global Resources module or can create new Local Resources We can also edit existing Resources and upload Local Resources to the Global Resources list Tithe amp Metadata Represents the general Title and general Metadata defined for the course About the Metadata we can use the module Manage Global Metadata to define a global Metad
82. es will be supported by this activity The activity is repeated for every member in the supported role learner staff The list is of every Roles defined in this Course o Parameters Text value to the parameters to be passed during runtime o Environment s List to the user select which environments are needed for this activity could be performed The list is of every Environments defined in this Course o Completed Activity Options Option value to the user defines how can be considered the activity completed The options are Activity has a Time Limit and User Can say when activity is completed In the Activity has a Time Limit option the activity will considered completed after the time defined on this value sum of defined hours minutes and seconds relative to the start of the course If this option is selected the user must insert a time value on the numeric fields hours minutes and seconds in front of the option In the User Can say when activity is completed option the activity may be considered completed when the end user typically learner decides in that way o Is Visible Option value to define if this Support Activity will be visible to the end user of the course o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Support Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more informat
83. escription fields are Activity s Description s Items List of Items that represents the Description of this Learning Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section Title Text value to define a specific title for the Description of this Learning Activity Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Description of this Learning Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Final Feedback This is a list of Items that will be shown to the end user when activity is completed Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback p 4 ae Change Property The Final Feedback fields are o Activity s Final Feedback s Items List of Items that represents the Final Feedback of this Learning Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New Items Edit
84. f the index is dependent on the search element e when search is free text search then the index is made on the resource pointed at in the index i e the underlying html texts e when search is index with without reference then an index is only made of the elements which share the same class including underlying items This has the form of a table of contents The search element specifies how a user can access the indexed entities There are three possibilities e the user gets a free text search dialog where he can search the index in a free text format this also means that the index has to be build for free text retrieval The syntax for free text retrieval is implementation dependent e g the format found in search engines like Google or AltaVista e the user is presented a text index table of content with hyper linked or on other media e g page numbers references to the source e the user is presented a text index table of content without hyper linked references This provides e g information about the structure of the unit of learning The Services sub module is the third option of the Environments Menu leering objects The Services form available to the user is like the following picture Learning Editor Services Manager Conference Service Conference Service Send Mail Service SendMailService Index Search Service Index SearchService Conference Service CopyOtConter
85. f the selected operating system or browser this requirements refers to Note This category is very specific to objects that have some kind of digital support associated files applications plug ins etc so its recommended to fill this category differently for each object and not as a template in the global metadata 3 2 1 5 Educational Page 32 Authoring Tool User Manual General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications In the Educational category we can find information about the pedagogical issues of the object Interactivity Type Type of interaction between the object and the final user This field has fixed values that are Active Expositive Mixed and Undefined In an Expositive object the information flows mainly from the resource to the learner Expositive documents are typically used for learning by reading In an Active object information also flows from the learner to the resource Active documents are typically used for learning by doing Note Activating links to navigate in hypertext documents is not considered as an information flow Thus hypertext documents are expositive Please choose the closest description that applies to the object Description how to use Text value to briefly describe how to pedagogical use the object Interactivity Level Level of interaction between the object and the end user This
86. fication http www imsglobal org metadata imsmdv1p2p1 imsmd_inftovlp2p1 html IMS Global Consortium 2001 IMS Learning Resource Meta Data Best Practice and Implementation Guide Version 1 2 1 Final Specification http www imsglobal org metadata imsmdv1p2p1 imsmd_bestvlp2p1 html
87. from the Environments to make the Environment s interface simpler According to this fact when the user is leaving the Environments menu the Authoring Tool launches an alert message to the user The process is described in the below pictures Page 108 Authoring Tool User Manual Attention 4 11 Activities The Activity concept can be seen as the steps that are needed to perform the course The Activities consist in three kinds of objects with different purposes Those objects can be Learning Activities Support Activities and Activity Structures In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Activities Activities are one of the core structural elements of the learning workflow model for learning design They form the link between the roles and the learning objects and services in the learning environment They describe the activities a role has to undertake within a specified environment composed of learning objects and services They also specify their termination conditions and the actions to be taken on termination There are two basic types of activities learning activities and support activities A learning activity is directed at attaining a learning objective per individual user Any user performs a learning activity only once until completion A support activity is meant to facilitate a role performing one or more learning activities More than one person can be assigned to a role in runt
88. gation or disaggregation The general rule is that a Package always contains a single top level manifest that may contain one or more sub Manifests The top level manifest always describes the Package Any nested sub Manifests describe the content at the level to which the sub Manifest is scoped such as a course instructional object or other For example if all content comprising a course is so tightly coupled that no part of it may be presented out of the course context a content developer would want to use a single manifest to describe that course s resources and organization However content developers who create instructional objects that could be recombined with other instructional objects to create different course presentations would want to describe each instructional object in its own manifest and then aggregate those manifests into a higher level manifest containing a course organization Finally a content developer who wants to move multiple courses in a single Package a curriculum would use a top level manifest to contain each course level manifest and any instructional object manifests that each course might contain Resource The resources described in the manifest are physical assets such as Web pages media files text files assessment objects or other pieces of data in file form Resources may also include assets that are outside the Package but available through a URL or collections of resources described
89. he Add Tool Select Alfanet Authoring Tool and double click El start Here Add Tool Groove File Edit Yiew Options Help Gotoy 2 dh gt Start Here U B Invite Kit AlFanet Authoring Tool Alfanet Authori Active Ti Calendar Track appointm O Roberto Canada d Tl Chess Game Play a game of Online 2 Ti Contact Manager Maintain a shar Not Online Ti Discussion Share detailed Suspended Tl Document Review Initiate 4 revie Ti Files Share files doc Ti Forms Design and cre Tl Groove Database Navigator v2 5 Navigate Ti Meetings Manage meetin Ti Notepad write or edit on More Tools on Groove net Note The tools listed above are compatible only with Groove version 2 5 and above Change this setting Conversation AO Add Selected Tool Welcome i Discussion cick here Pictures ia Files WebLinks TooPPublsher Groove Database Navigator _ T Hide Chat SY o 7 Navigate Together e Start using the Alfanet Authoring Tool Select the tab of the space with the Alfanet Authoring Tool and start use it 18 x Start Here Alfanet Authoring Tool Groove File Edit View Options Help TE sock B Invite Active RO Roberto Canada d Online Not Online Suspended _ Conversation Hold to CE ere eee e Ee Te Aaa Tea H an f i i amp o Chat J7 Navigate Together Page 18 Authoring Tool User Manual T
90. he Alfanet Authoring Tool it s divided in 5 modules with specific functions that will be explained in the following sections In the following picture we can see the main window of the Tool and also the main menu with the 5 different modules ALFANET Authoring Tool a m get i i Manage Global Resources i Manage Global Metadata Learning Editor Repository Interface i Configuration Options net 3 1 Manage Global Resources Like it s said in the IMS Content Packaging section Resources are files that represent the learning materials and objects that will be used in the course and are external to it These materials can be used and reused in several courses and following that philosophy we create a module where it s possible to the user to define resources once and then when defining a course will only need to load the global resource to the course To accede to this module please choose in the main menu the button that says Manage Global Resources Global Resources Manager Resources FirstLessanEnglish O 4lfanet Docs Toolalfanety English FrenchDictionary O 4lfanet DocsToolAl j Manage Global TestofPerformance D Alfanet DocsToolhAlfanet Metadata Learning Editor Repository Interface Configuration Options This module will try to open a file of resources already defined by the user with the tool with the name resources xml on the folder correspondent to the v
91. he option that allows the user to edit the requisites that the learners need to achieve before starting the course unit of learning and course are the same concept In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about what are the Pre Requisites The prerequisites specify the overall entry requirements for learners for doing the unit of learning As with learning objectives the prerequisites can be provided at the level of the unit of learning and or for individual learning activities Learning objectives and prerequisites can be described using the IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objective RDCEO format but can also refer to simple resources e g a text with a description of the learning objective The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Learning Ector Pre Requisites Manager In the Pre Requisites sub module we have two sections of data available to the user fill The first section is the section is called of Items and the second section of Title amp Metadata Page 82 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 7 1 Items The items are the objects that related to the resources and represents in this case the contents of the Pre Requisites itle amp Metadata sdsggsweg lt untitled gt v dfbdfbfdb Items lt untitled Note For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules sectio
92. hich is training the Human Capital The current training needs of a company include e Changing training needs in the increasing competitive market up to date and specialised training materials e Needs of up to date active and collaborative learning methods e Different training depending on competence personal skills and preferences of employees There is a need for tools that can assist firms not only to instruct their employees but also assessing the level of performance acquired evaluating the Human Capital of the company by means of some indicators 1 2 Project Objectives ALFANET concentrates in the new emerging market of e learning an area that will doubtless take advantage of the new technologies related with the internet human interaction and automatic learning More specifically ALFANET will allow organisation personnel to have an interactive adaptive and personalised learning through the internet bringing them the opportunity to learn on those matters that are relevant to perform and to improve their work ALFANET will allow organisations to improve their intellectual capital promoting the evolution of employees in specialised and also multidisciplinary areas that are required in their daily work ALFANET will allow learning content providers and educational centres to provide learning contents in such a way that these contents can be adapted to the personal needs Outcomes are a working prototype of a LMS with
93. hose selected Parts need to be completed to consider the Act completed e Parts This is the list of Parts defined in the Course Page 142 Mew Ack Authoring Tool User Manual Properties In the Parts section the user can Create New Parts In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Part data Since this form needs an extensive explanation see the Parts Form section of this sub module Edit existing Parts In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Part data filled The user can change all fields of that Part Duplicate existing Parts In this option the user can select an existing Part and create a copy of that Part The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Part Remove existing Parts In this option the user can select and delete one existing Part Move Up existing Parts In this option the user can select and move up one position the selected Part in the list order Move Down existing Parts In this option the user can select and move down one position the selected Part in the list order Final Feedback This is a list of Items that will be shown to the end user when Act is completed Properties Parts Final Feedback Property Change Notifications The Final Feedback fields are o Ac s Final Feedback s Items List of Items that represents
94. ice facilities used during the teaching and learning for instance a discussion forum or some other communication facility Service facilities are resources that cannot be given a URL at design time They have to be instantiated by a local runtime service This is because if a service facility is bound at design time then that specific service would have to be used by all users of all instances of the learning design When what is needed is an instance of the service that is unique to the runtime instance of the learning design and its assigned users e g if a chat forum is to be dedicated to the use of a specific group of learners and support Staff associated with an particular instance of a learning design then this has to be created and the local URL assigned after the instance of the design has been set up and the group of learners and staff associated with it For this to work it requires a well defined set of service types which are known to the runtime service such as chat discussion forum announcement channel etc These are now commonly found in learning management systems In a learning design the use and setup of such a service is declared at an abstract level so that a runtime facility or a human can setup the necessary facility according to the requirements In the learning design specification the abstract declaration of a service facility is called a service The instantiation of a service is called a service facility
95. il Enviranmen Index Environment 3 Metadata Terwdices Fowiroanment Number of Activities to consider structure completed Choose Activities Presentation Choose Activities Order Show Activities Sequentially w As Is C Let the User Choose the Order In Visibility Order The properties fields are o Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Activity Structure This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Activity Structure can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Activity Structure the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing activity structure or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit Page 122 Authoring Tool User Manual value on the title of the activity structure to let you easily remember and identify the different activity structures Environment s List to the user select which environments are needed for this activity could be performed The list is of every Environments defined in this Course Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Support Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Number of Activities to consider structure completed Numeric
96. ime In practice this means that a support activity has to be performed as many times as there are users in the supported role Activities can be aggregated into an activity structure which provides the mechanisms to structure activities and referenced units of learning into a sequence or a user selection An activity references the environment in which the activity must be executed For the execution of any activity a user needs at a minimum an activity description and optionally an environment with the learning objects and services needed to perform the activity The Activities sub module is the fourth option in the Components menu Activities The Activities form available to the user is like the following picture Learning Editor Activities Manager Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Lesson 1 Lessan 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 2 First Test FirstTest This form consists in three sections each one corresponding to a type of Activities Page 110 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 11 1 Learning Activities The first type of activities that we have is the Learning Activities These are the core of the Learning Design Is in these activities that we define the learning episodes that can be available to the learners In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Learning Activities A Learning Activity consists of a single activity description and several op
97. ing of the file lf the user confirms the saving of the file the tool will show him an overwriting message like the below picture to make sure that he wants to overwrite the last saved file Save Course After these steps finally the user will be able to create the new Package Interchange File The tool will present to him a form like the one below New Package Interchange File Folder d DATA EJDA E3 Alfanet E3 Docs J Tool ce Alfanet Package Interchange File Name In this form the user can change the location of the new file by browsing in the file system drives and folders in the Folder section of the form The default folder will be folder where is located the opened file In the Package Interchange File Name section the user can choose the name of the new file This name by default will similar to the general title of the opened file but the user can change this name to another one This name will be the name of the physical file with the zip extension This form has also a button called Package Metadata This button allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Package Interchange File This Metadata can be seen as a metadata for the packaging and not a general metadata for the course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step If needed the tool will sho
98. ion how to do this step e Description This is a list of Items that will describe to the end user the activity to be performed by him The user must introduce at least one Item otherwise the Support Activity can t be created because this is a mandatory section Description Final Feedback Property Change Notifications The Description fields are o Activity s Description s Items List of Items that represents the Description of this Support Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of tems Those operations are Create New ltems Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Description of this Support Activity o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Description of this Support Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Final Feedback This is a list of Items that will be shown to the end user when activity is completed Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback ppt
99. irements Text value about software required to the object other than Operating System or Browser Requirements List of Operating System or Browser requirements needed to the object This feature allow to the user create New requirements Edit existing requirements Duplicate requirements or Remove requirements When the user choose to create a New contribute or edit an existing one he has to fill a form that the tool presents to him like the below picture The difference between the two options is that in the creation the form will appear empty but in the edition the form will appear with the requirement data New Requirement Properties In the Type field the user can choose if the requirement is about an Operating Browser or about an internet Browser This is a mandatory field If the user chooses the Operating System value in the Name field he can choose between the following values PC DOS MS Windows MacOS Unix Multi OS Other and None Otherwise if the user chooses the Browser value in the Name field he can choose between the following values Any Netscape Communicator Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera The Name field is a mandatory field so the user have to fill it otherwise the user can advance In the Minimum Version and Maximum Version the user must introduce between which versions o
100. ivity descriptions can be handled differently from other learning content this can vary from implementation to implementation within the boundaries of the behavior descriptions provided in this information model In other words the Items are the object that will encapsulate and refer the Resources According to the context that the items are used the user can define for the same resource different kinds of approaches to the content The items concept and interface will be describe in just one section of this manual for a better and efficient description In other words in every place that is used the items will correspond to the same interface that will describe in this section The form that correspond to the items is like the below picture New Learning Objective s Item Properties Associate to a Resource Enter Simple Text e Title Represents the title that the user will give to the item resource This is a mandatory field so if this field is not filled the Item can t be created The tool if that field is not defined by default gives an automatic name to the item normally a sequential name like in the above picture Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Item the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing item or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value o
101. k But the two other options Components and Method have a sub menu This happens because they are not an element but a group of concepts and elements that have something in common In the Components option we find objects that will be used and reused in the organization of the course When the user chooses to click in the Components button the menu changes to the related sub menu That Components sub menu is similar to the following picture Main Menu ay aneres Tr WUE Linas In the Method Option we find objects that organize the course in a sequential way When the user chooses to click in the Method button the menu changes to the related sub menu This Method sub menu is similar to the following picture Page 50 Authoring Tool User Manual Main Menu In the Learning Editor module menus the tool have always a Learning Editor button like the picture below which redirects the user to the main page of the module In the following section we define all the sub modules of this module 4 1 File Manipulation Options In the main page of the Learning Editor we can find the File Manipulation Options These options are related to the Creation Loading and Saving of courses They are located in the right side of the screen as showed in the picture below Learning Editor welcome Welcome to the Learning Editor This option lets the user create and edit IMS Learning Design
102. kind of Item or Resource that can help and support the Learner in the course Activities We can define three kinds of activities in the course Learning Activities Support When the user clicks in the Components button the tool shows a screen with a brief text to help and explain to the user every concepts that belongs to the Components sub module The tool also changes the Learning Editor menu to the Components menu that is like the below picture Main Menu FOPeErleS In this menu we can e Accede to the tool Main Menu by the lt lt Main Menu link e Go back to the Learning Editor menu by the Learning Editor button e Accede to the concepts that are involved on the Components clicking on the related buttons Roles Environments Activities and Properties Note The Properties concept belongs to the Level B of the IMS LD specification so the target of this link will be inactive because this tool version supports only Level A of the IMS LD specification The following sections will explain in more detail the concepts that belong to the Level A of the Components Roles Environments and Activities Page 86 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 9 Roles The Roles sub module is the second option of the Components menu In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Roles Roles allow the type of participant in a unit of learning to be specified There are two basic Role type
103. le If the user prefers the tool let the user input directly the value on the text box But the user has also the option to click in the Browse button near the textbox to navigate through the file system in order to choose the target folder When the user clicks on the Browse button the tool presents a form like the below picture Folder Selection Choose Folder Se compaq Documents and Settings Favorites Inteld IDEA 3 0 4 idk1 3 1_09 Cancel Note The user must choose a folder on the folders list by double clicking on the chosen one otherwise the tool will assume the parent folder e Global Metadata File Text value to the user specify the file where is defined the global metadata that he wants to use or define This is the file that the Manage Global Metadata module will try to open and save the global metadata defined on that module If the chosen file doesn t have the right information format the Manage Global Metadata module will appear empty but gives no error This philosophy of having global metadata saved in files means that the user can create several metadata templates and organize them in different files and then load the most adequate for the courses If the user prefers the tool let the user input directly the value on the text But the user has also the option to click in the Browse button near the textbox to navigate through the file system in order to choose the target fil
104. learning objectives at two levels each with advantages and disadvantages First it is possible to define the learning objectives at the global level of the unit of learning Second it is possible to specify learning objectives for every single activity in the learning design Designers can follow several approaches e define the learning objectives only at the level of the unit of learning as a whole not indicating the sub objectives of the individual learning activities or what they add to the overall objectives e define the learning objectives only per learning activity and not globally for the unit of learning The learning objective for the unit of learning is nothing more or less than the list of all the learning objectives specified in the different learning activities e define the learning objectives on both levels the learning objectives at the unit of learning level can be described more abstractly than those at the activity level Learning objectives and prerequisites can be described using the IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objective RDCEO format but can also refer to simple resources e g a text with a description of the learning objective The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Lea rning Es itor Learning Objectives Manager itle amp Metadata In the Learning Objectives sub module we have two sections of data available to the user fill The first section
105. munity They include hardware and software vendors educational institutions publishers government agencies systems integrators multimedia content providers and other consortia The Consortium provides a neutral forum in which members with competing business interests and different decision making criteria collaborate to satisfy real world requirements for interoperability and re use In hitp www imsglobal org aboutims cfm 2003 1 1 28 1 4 2 IMS Learning Design The IMS Learning Design IMS LD is the core standard of the Alfanet System The MS LD it s a xml standard that defines a language to assemble courses and use a terminology that are drawn from the metaphor of theatre with several equivalents concepts such as Play Act Role Role Part etc In the IMS LD specification IMS Learning Design Information Model we have the following definition about the Learning Design Conceptual Model The model shows that learning design provides a semantic view of a collection of resources on one hand and on the other hand it integrates a method specifying the dynamic aspects of the learning design The model shows three levels of semantic aggregation the three horizontal layers of grey colored classes The semantically highest level is the learning design it aggregates a collection of components objectives orerequisites short for learning objectives amp prerequisites and a method The lowest levels of aggregation are the res
106. n In this section the user can e Create New Items e Edit existing Items e Duplicate existing Items e Remove existing ltems e Move Up existing Items e Move Down existing items 4 7 2 Title amp Metadata The Learning Objectives can have a specific Title and Metadata so the tool has a second section in this sub module dedicated to those subjects that is called Title amp Metadata Title amp Metadata Properties Course Pre Requisites In this section the fields are e Title This is the Title of the general Pre Requisites of the Course Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the general Pre Requisites of the Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 84 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 8 Components The Components sub module can be seen as a group of concepts that will be used and reused in the organization of the course In the Components option we can find concepts such as Roles Activities and Environments In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Components These are the declarations of the different components that provide the building blocks for the method section of the learning design In Learning Design Level A these are roles activities and environments In Learning Design Levels B and C these are r
107. n of activities in a workflow groupware system but not to the passage of documents in a document oriented workflow system Functionally a method is made up of one or more play elements Play elements are functionally independent and run in parallel so each play element has to be instantiated when the unit of learning is first initialized The terminology used to describe the various sub parts of a Method Play Act Role and Role part are drawn from the metaphor of theatre with the Environment equivalent to the stage set and stage props The Method Plays Acts and Role parts are all nested within each other providing three levels within a Method At the top level the method consists of the 2 elements play and complete unit of learning The latter as described in the Completion Rules section that follows holds both the condition on which the unit of learning is completed and optional actions to be taken when it is completed On initialization all play elements are made active for the members of the roles that participate in it Play elements unfold in a series of one or more acts which are always run in sequence No act is made visible to the role s that play a part in it until the previous act has completed This factor can be used to synchronize the activities of those playing roles within the play The activities associated with the roles within a play may have complex sequencing so it is possible to have a one act play which
108. n the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Environments Activities take place in a so called environment which is a structured collection of learning objects services and sub environments The relationship between an activity and an environment can be derived from the linguistic description of the activities Most nouns in the activity imply the availability of learning objects in the environment references to other persons imply the availability of communication services some verbs imply the availability of supportive services or tools For instance the activity read the problem and discuss solutions with your peers refers to environment components the problem which must be available for reading and peers which must be available to communicate with including communication means The environments sub module is the third option in the Components menu Roles Environments he Activities Properties When the user clicks in this option the Components menu is changed to the Environments menu This menu is like the following picture Environments Services Learning Objects i In this menu the user finds e A button to return to the Components menu and page Back to Components button e A button to create and edit the environments Environments button e A button to create and edit Services Services button
109. n the title of the Item to let you easily remember and identify the different items e Parameters Text value to the parameters to be passed during runtime e Is Visible Option field that allows the user to decide if this item will be visible to the end user of the Course e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the metadata associated with the Item Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Content In this interface the tool let the user to decide if he wants to use an existing resource create a new one or simply write a text that the tool will convert to a new resource In this last option the tool creates one text file with the text written by the user in the working folder and one resource related to that text file If the user wants to use an existing resource or create a new one he must choose the Associate to a Resource option like the below picture Otherwise if the user wants to just write a text that will be converted to a new resource he must choose the Enter Simple Text option like the below picture e Related Resource List of ID s of the existing resources that the user can choose to relate to this item This field will be active only if the user chooses the Associate to a Resource option on the Content field Is this field is active the user must choose a resource from
110. n the user only as to click on the New Local Resource button like the following picture represents DictionaryEnglish French aaea aa a aaal BasicExerciseforverbs i sete see ey aaaz BookotBasicEnglish a a a LENIEN qaqa XXX qqqq AlfanetTextFiles Alfanet Te xtFiled XEXE xdgfda AlfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 AlfanetTextFile58 AlfanetTextFile59 Note The Resources created in this option will be really Local Resources that means that they will be defined only in this course When the user clicks on this option the tool will present to him a form to define the new resource data like the picture below Sew Local Resource Properties e Title Represents the title that the user will give to the resource This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the resource can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Resource the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing resource or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the resource to let you easily remember and identify the different resources e URI Reference Reference to an external file that can t be transform in a local file e g a web site e Type Type of resource A resource can be webcontent or imsidcontent The webconten
111. nces to one or more of e A Learning Activity e A Support Activity e An sub Activity structure Like the single Activities an Activity structure may reference one or more environments This allows for learning design models where a series of different activities are performed within the same environment When an activity structure references one or more environments then these will overrule the environments specified within the referenced activities The environments will not be inherited between hierarchical levels of the Activity structure allowing environments to be omitted as well As a consequence for each hierarchical level of the Activity structure the appropriate reference to an environment has to be made and possibly repeated A structure may contain information This provides a CP Organization Item structure which provides links to resources which contain further information about the activity structure The Activity Structures section of the Activities form available to the user is like the following picture Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Lesson Sequence LessonSequence Lessons amp Test Lessans Test In this section the user can e Create New Activity Structures In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Activity Structure data Since this form needs an extensive explanation see the Activity Structure Form se
112. ndependent way of making the course In the Play we define from the beginning to the end the steps that the course must perform to achieve his goal Acts Each Play is made of one or more Acts that are run in a sequential way The Acts are divided in one or more Parts These Parts are related to a specific Role and have a reference to a component element such as Learning Activity Support Activity Activity Structure or Environment So to mount a course we have several levels We startin the Plays Then we have the Acts The Acts are divided in Parts Each Part refers to a component that can be unique or can have multiple sub components e g Activity Structures When the user clicks in the Method button the tool shows a screen with a brief text to help the user and explain every concepts that belongs to the Method sub module In this menu we can e Accede to the tool Main Menu by the lt lt Main Menu link Page 128 Authoring Tool User Manual e Go back to the Learning Editor menu by the Learning Editor button e Accede to the concepts that are involved on the Method clicking on the related buttons Course Plays Acts and Conditions Note The Conditions concept belongs to the Level B or C of the IMS LD specification so the target of this link will be inactive because this tool version supports only Level A of the IMS LD specification The following sections will explain in more detail the concepts that
113. new resource Page 22 Authoring Tool User Manual 3 1 1 2 Edit This option allows the user to see edit change an existing global Resource The user must choose from the list one existing Resource and click on the Edit button Existing Global Resources FirstLessonEnglish O 4lfanet Docs Tool 4lfanets English FrenchDictionary Ds Alfanet Docs ToolAl New Edit fh Duplicate After this step will be presented to the user a form similar to the New option form but will appear filled with the Resource data Title Test of Performance URI Reference Type webcontent Ww Metadata Local File D4lfanet Docs Tool alte Browse Open Choosen File Resource FirstLessonEnglish Dependencies TestofPerformance k Cancel In this option the fields have the same meaning of the New option 3 1 1 3 Duplicate This option allows the user to create a new global resource similar to an existing one with only the exception of the Resource ID The user must choose from the list one existing resource and click on the Duplicate button FirstLessonEnglish G 4lfanet Docs Tool4lfanety English FrenchDictionary O 4lfanet Docs Tools4l TestotPerformance D 4lfanet DocsTool alfanet After this step if there is no problem in the duplication of the resource the list will be refreshed with the new Resource selected as you can see in the below picture FirstLessonEnglish O 4lfanet CocsTool4lfanety _ _ o
114. ng to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the environment to let you easily remember and identify the different environments O Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Environment Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Type of Environment Content Option value that defines which kind of content this Environment uses The Environment can have Services Learning Objects or other Environments sub environments If the user decides to include services in the environment he must choose the Service s option like the following picture shows In the Content section when this option is selected will appear the list of every Services defined in this Course If the user decides to include sub environments in the environment he must choose the Reference to Other Environment s option like the following picture shows In the Content section when this option is selected will appear the list of every Environments defined in this Course If the user decides to include learning objects in the environment he must choose the Learning Object s option like the following picture shows In the Content section when this option is selected will appear the list of every Learning Objects defined in this Cour
115. nglish FrenchDictionary D 4lfanet Docs Tool al New TestoftPerormance D Alfanet Docs Tool alfanet Edit Duplicate Remove After this step will be presented to the user to fill the Resource data on a form like the picture below Title URI Reference ene h Metadata Local File Browse Open Choosen File Resource FirstLessonEnglish Dependencies English FrenchDictionary TestotPerformance h Cancel e Title Represents the title that the user will give to the resource This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Resource can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Resource the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing resource or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the resource to let you easily remember and identify the different resources e URI Reference Reference to an external file that can t be transform in a local file e g a web site fi JJ e Type Type of resource A resource can be webcontent or imsldcontent The webcontent resource means that this is a file that a browser can show The imslidcontent resource means that this is other kind of file This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Resource can t be created e Metadata Button that allows the user
116. nifest file named imsmanifest xml and all other physical files as identified by the Manifest A Package Interchange File is a concise Web delivery format a means of transporting related structured information PKZip v2 04g zip is recommended as the default Package Interchange File format Any ZIP file format MUST conform to RFC1951 Package a logical directory which includes a specially named XML file any XML control documents it references such as a DID or XSD file and contains the actual physical resources The physical resources may be organized in sub directories Page 10 Authoring Tool User Manual e Top level Manifest a mandatory XML element describing the Package itself It may also contain optional sub Manifests Each instance of a manifest contains the following sections e Meta data section an XML element describing a manifest as a whole e Organizations section an XML element describing zero one or multiple organizations of the content within a manifest e Resources section an XML element containing references to all of the actual resources and media elements needed for a manifest including meta data describing the resources and references to any external files e sub Manifest one or more optional logically nested manifests e Physical Files these are the actual media elements text files graphics and other resources as described by the manifest s The physical resources may b
117. not in the right format the metadata can not be saved Structure Type of organization of the object This field has fixed values that are Collection Mixed Linear Hierarchical Networked Branched Parceled and Atomic Please choose the closest description that applies to the object Aggregation Level This value refers to the functional size of the object Level 1 means smallest level of aggregation e g raw media data or fragments Level 2 refers to a collection of atoms e g an HTML document with some embedded pictures or a lesson Level 3 indicates a collection of level 1 resources e g a web of HTML documents with an index page that links the pages together or a unit Finally level 4 refers to the largest level of granularity e g a course Description Text value max 10 lines to briefly describe the object content Coverage Text value max 10 lines to briefly describe the object historical context of the content Catalog Entries List of entries that define the object as a part of some catalog This feature allows the user to Add or Remove entries When the user click on the Add button the tool presents a form like the below picture where the user must fill the catalog name and the value of the entry Page 28 Authoring Tool User Manual New Catalog Entry Properties e Keywords List of words max 10 that can help to classify the o
118. oles properties activities and environments The components are declared separately from the method to avoid duplication in the method when using the same component more than once The component and the method sections can be compared to a cooking recipe the components are the list of ingredients and the method is the preparation instructions The Components sub module is the sixth option of the Learning Editor menu The Components sub module is like the following picture N T Learning Editor Components Manager 4 Main Menu Lam Welcome to the Components Manager In this option you are able to manipulate objects of the concepts that will be used and reused in the organization of the course The concepts are the following ones Roles Indicates every kind of player that will interact with the course We have two kinds of Roles Learner and Staff The Learner Roles define the different types of learners that the course will have The Staff Roles define every type of support players needed to the execution of the course Environments Indicates the support Environments that are needed to execute the activities of the course Inside of the Environments we can define or configure Services or Learning Objects Services The Service can be a Conference between several course players Send a Mail to a specific kind of player or create an Index Search Service Learning Objects The Learning Objects can be any
119. ollowing sections we will explain the content of the second section of the Services form This section is different according to the choice made by the user in the Type Of Service field 4 10 1 1 Conference When the user chooses to create or edit a Conference Service the tool will present the second section of the Service form to the user like the below picture Properties Conference teacher Teacher assistant Teaching Assistant hazir Racic learner E m E eee Ma teacher Teacher assistant Teaching Assistant hasir Racic learner e Conference Type Option value to define the type of conference this service will be The options are Synchronous Asynchronous and Announcement The Synchronous type of conference means that the participants can interact in a synchronous way e g chat The Asynchronous type of conference means that the participants can interact in an asynchronous way e g a lesson give by a tutor with possibility of questions by the learners The Announcement type of conference means that the participants have an interaction in a single way e g a lesson give by a tutor without interaction by the learners e Participant s List where the user will select the Roles that will participate in the conference The list is of every Roles defined in the Course The selected Roles will be the participants of the confe
120. ompleted This is a key difference from learning activities which is only performed once Example a staff role has the support activity to grade reports made by persons in the learner role named student Every person being a student creates his her own report The tutor grades every report repeating the grade report support activity C A support activity can optionally be connected to a role This means that the activity is repeated for every member in the supported role learner staff Support activities are typically performed by staff members e g tutors to support learners In some pedagogical models however learners can support learners peer to peer teaching It is also possible that staff members support staff members When the optional role ref element is set it is expected that the support activity will act for every single user in the specified role s That is the same support activity is repeated for every user in the role s The Support Activities section of the Activities form available to the user is like the following picture Learning Activities Support Activities activity Structures Assistance to Lesson 1 AssistancetoLessoan Assistance to Lesson 2 4AssistancetoLesson Assessment of Test Assessment In this section the user can e Create New Support Activities In this option the tool will present to the user a form to let the user fill the new Support Activity data Since
121. on element within organizations is ignored This mechanism is in conformance with the extensibility mechanisms IMS Content Packages provide If an organizations element contains a learning design element any organization element in the same organizations element is ignored and only the learning design element is read by the runtime system Where other content organization elements are desired they can be included in sub manifests as sub packages may be aggregated in the same way as in normal content packages About the integration between MS LOM and the others standards we can say simply that every metadata sections of the IMS LD and IMS CP will be filled with information that follows the IMS LOM standard 2 1 Requirements Operating System e Microsoft Windows 98 e Microsoft Windows ME e Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 with Service Pack 5 or later e Microsoft Windows 2000 e Microsoft Windows XP Designed For Note With the release of Groove Workspace 2 0 Groove no longer supports Microsoft Windows 95 Hardware Requirements e Intel Pentium processor 400 MHz or higher e 128 MB RAM for Groove Workspace 256 MB RAM for synchronizing a Groove Mobile Workspace with a Microsoft SharePoint site e 100 MB free disk space with additional space required for your data e Display resolution 800 x 600 15 bit 32 768 colour minimum e Sound card speakers and microphone required to use voice features Software Requi
122. option will not work e Resource Dependencies This is a list of the existing local resources and the user can choose other resources that this new resource is depending of Only the selected resources will be considered as dependencies to the new resource 4 4 6 Edit Local Resource In this operation the user can edit an existing Local Resource on this Course To perform this operation the user only as to choose one resource from the Local Resources list right list and click on the Edit Local Resource button like the following picture represents DictionaryEnglish French BookoftBasicEnglish BasicExerciseforverbs AlfanetTextFilesS AlfanetTextFiled oe xdgfdg AlfanetTexthilesS lfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFiles9 After this step will be presented to the user a form similar to the New Local Resource option form but will appear filled with the resource data Title URI Reference Type webcontent w Local File D Documents and Settin Browse Resource aal Dependencies aad aaaS xxx Metadata Open Choosen File Ok Cancel Note If the selected resource is a Global Resource used in the Course the changes made to the resource will only affect locally the instance inside the Course By other words if you change a resource that belongs to the Global Resources in this option the changes will not make effect in the Global Resources file So if you want to
123. or phone For immediate online delivery click the Order link on the WinZip home page at httpi www winzip com press any key to continue Ctrl to guit The user only needs to press any key and it will be able to see the evolution of the creation of the WinZip file If there was no problem in the creation of the Package Interchange File the tool will present a success message like the picture below Package Interchange File Saved 4 2 1 How to Install and Configure the WinZip Command Line Support Add On The Create Interchange File option is the feature that allows the user to include the course and all Resources in only one file To do this the user must have installed on his computer the WinZip 8 0 or higher To install the WinZip please visit the following page http www winzip com Download the latest version and install it After installed the WinZip the user also needs to install the WinZip Command Line Support Add On To do this please visit the following page http www winzip com wzcline htm Download the latest WinZip Command Line Support Add On file it s not recommended to download a beta version and install it After installed the WinZip Command Line Support Add On please go to the Configuration Options module of the Authoring Tool and indicate on the WZZIP Application Folder option the folder where you installed the WinZip Command Line Support Add On the folder that have the
124. ource play condition and notification The resources are aggregated into components and objectives prerequisites The plays conditions and notifications are aggregated into the method A component can be one of seven different types role property group property activity structure activity environment or outcome With the exception of outcome these are all elements in the LD Information Model Role can be one of two types learner or staff A resource can be one of five different types web content imsid content person service facility or dossier These resources can be referenced from a Learning Design but are not explicitly part of the Information Model Specific tyoes of components are bound to specific types of resources The moment in time when the resource is bound in the learning design differs Example The textual description of a learning objective for instance can be written during the design and delivered as a fixed resource with the learning design However also an absolute URL can be provided to a location where the file can be edited at any time The resources that are not bound during design time are not part of this specification This applies to concrete persons and to the actual dossiers of persons However the roles that persons can take into the learning design and the properties that have to be present in the dossiers are part of the learning design Page 8 Authoring Tool User Manual Css Conceptual Stru
125. rements e Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 0 or later required version 5 5 or later recommended e Internet Explorer 6 0 or later required to use the Groove Forms Tool Groove Mobile Workspace for Microsoft SharePoint or Groove Web Services Internet Connection e 56 kbps modem minimum LAN local area network DSL or cable modem preferred Page 14 Authoring Tool User Manual 2 2 installation Guidelines e Download Groove Workspace Preview Edition from http Awww qgroove net downloads groove e Install Groove following the Wizard e Start Groove and Create an Account Following the wizard filling e mail name and choosing a password Sa Activate Product Groove i 2 101 x Activate Product To use Groove you must accept the terms of the End User License Agreement To accept the agreement click the check box below END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT for Groove Client Software IMPORTANT READ CAREFULLY Please read this End User License qreement EULA carefully and be sure you understand it This EULA is a legal agreement between you either an individual ora single entity and Groove Networks Inc a Delaware corporation Groove Networks ou must review and either accept or reject the terms of this EULA before installing or using the Software fas thatterm is defined below CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON BELOW IS JUST LIKE SIGNING A CONTRACT WRITTEN ON PAPER B CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON OR INST
126. rence The user must select at least one role to advance because this field is a mandatory field e Observer s List where the user will select the Roles that will be observers in the conference The list is of every Roles defined in the Course The selected Roles will be the observers of the conference e Manager List where the user will select the Role that will manage the conference The list is of every Roles defined in the Course The selected Role will be the manager of the conference e Moderator List where the user will select the Role that will moderate the conference The list is of every Roles defined in the Course The selected Role will be the moderator of the conference e item Button that let the user define an Item to associate this conference to a Resource For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Conference Service Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step 4 10 1 2 Send Mail When the user chooses to create or edit a Send Mail Service the tool will present the second section of the Service form to the user like the below picture Properties Send Mall teacher Teacher assistant Teaching Assistant basic
127. rent learning activities O Environment s List to the user select which environments are needed for this activity could be performed The list is of every Environments defined in this Course Parameters Text value to the parameters to be passed during runtime Completed Activity Options Option value to the user defines how can be considered the activity completed The options are Activity has a Time Limit and User Can say when activity is completed In the Activity has a Time Limit option the activity will considered completed after the time defined on this value sum of defined hours minutes and seconds relative to the start of the course If this option is selected the user must insert a time value on the numeric fields hours minutes and seconds in front of the option In the User Can say when activity is completed option the activity may be considered completed when the end user typically learner decides in that way Is Visible Option value to define if this Learning Activity will be visible to the end user of the course Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Learning Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Learning Objectives This is a list of Items that correspond to the specific Learning Objectives of this Activit
128. rer Lo Ve Hame Displa Type Size Last Modified E ntp www sharemation com wa AlfanetTextF iled AlfanetT ext iled textiplain 16 Fri Dec 05 10 13 00 GMT 01 C4 Basic English Collection AlfanetTesdrilel AfanetTextFile1 textplain 43 Fri Dec 05 10 74 00 GMT 201 eee E SL texte Aad Fri Dec 05 10 13 00 GMT 201 c3 English for Foreigners amp C trash For more information how to use the DAV Explorer applet please consult the user manual of the DAV Explorer in the following web site http www ics uci edu webdav um html 3 4 1 How to Configure the DAV Explorer This application to run needs to have the Java TM 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition J2SE installed in the computer If the application doesn t initiate please verify if you have the Java 2 Runtime Environment installed on your computer preference v1 4 2 02 or above If you don t have installed the J2SE then go to the page http ava sun com downloads Choose the latest J2SE available select the related All platforms option click on the button GO and then download the correspondent Runtime Environment JRE for Windows After you have downloaded run the file and install the Java TM 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition If after these steps the application still doesn t work or doesn t connect to Alfanet Repository please verify if you are using an HTTP Proxy Server to connect to the Internet If you are using the Internet Explorer
129. reuse that resource in other course the resource copied to that new course will not be identical to the resource with the changes of this option 4 4 7 Make Local gt Global In this operation the user can transform a really Local Resource to a Global Resource adding it to the Global Resources file To perform this operation the user only as to choose one of the Local Resources from the right list and click on the Make Local gt Global button like the following picture represents Global Resources out of local list DictionaryEnglish French BookotBasicEnglish BasicExerciseforverbs Add to Local Remove from local Add All to local Remove All from local New Local Resource Edit Local Resource Make Local Global Allah Local Resources list aqaal aqae HT qaqa XO qqqq Alfanet Te xtFiled XEXE xdgfda AlfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 4lfanetTextFiles AlfanetTextFiles4 If the selected file is already a Global Resource the tool will send a message to the user like the picture below saying that this is already Global Resource and will do nothing Page 76 Authoring Tool User Manual Warning Otherwise if the resource is not a Global Resource and there was no problem in the transformation the tool will send the following message of success SuUCCeSssil 4 5 Title amp Metadata The Title amp Metadata sub module is the third option of the Learning Edi
130. rrently an opened file and allows the user to close the opened Course Page 56 Authoring Tool User Manual When the user chooses this option the tool will ask him for a confirmation with a message like the below picture about this action to assure that was not a mistake of clicking Close Course If the user confirms his option the tool will ask to him if he wants to save the opened file before close it Save Course If the user chooses to save the file the tool will present an overwriting alert like the below picture Save Course After these steps finally the course will be saved and if there was no problem saving the course the tool will present to the user a message like the one below Save Course After closing the file this feature will deactivate the Learning Editor menu the Save Save As and Close options and the Create Package Interchange File option 4 2 Create Package Interchange File Option The Create Package Interchange File option is a feature of the Learning Editor that allows the user to create Package Interchange Files that follows the MS CP specification The Package Interchange File is a single file that aggregates the course definition file and all related resources In the IMS CP specification we can find the following description about the Package Interchange File Package Interchange File a single file e g zip jar cab which includ
131. rs e g English GB gt en GB English US gt en US If the acronym is not in the right format the metadata can not be saved Catalog Entries See Catalog Entries on General category In this context the object is the metadata itself Contributes See Contributes on Life Cycle category In this context the content is the metadata itself Technical General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Ri Classifications In the Technical category we can find information about the file that the object refers like format size Format Text value that represents the format of the associated file in MIME Type There is already a list of values that the user can choose but the user can introduce an additional type because the MIME Types list is not static Duration Three values that represents the time that the associated file will take to be showed or played The field H represents hours the field M represents minutes and the field S represents seconds All three values must be numeric Size Numeric value that represents the physical size of the associated file in Bytes Location s List of physical locations or methods one per line max 10 that resolves the location of the associated file The first location it s the preferable location Installation Remarks Text value to briefly describe how to install the associated file application Other Platform Requ
132. s Learner and Staff These however can be sub typed to allow learners to play different roles in certain types of learning activity such as task based role play and simulations Similarly support staff can be sub typed and given more specialized roles such as Tutor Teaching Assistant Mentor etc Roles thus lay the basis for multi user models of learning The name a role is given depends on the pedagogy and setting used In some instances a learner is called a student in others a participants The names of staff roles are even more variant e g teacher trainer tutor facilitator mentor assessor Every role can have its own title which provides the name for it At runtime more than one user can be assigned to the same role however restrictions can be set on the maximum and minimum number for each role In this sense roles can be used for grouping purposes The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Learning Editor Roles Manager Learner basic Basic Learner Intermediate Intermediate Learner advanced 4dyvanced Learner In the Roles sub module we have two kinds of Roles Those kinds are Learner and Staff 4 9 1 Learner Roles The Learner Roles can be seen as the Roles of the target persons of the course They can be defined as student participant learner etc The section that allows to manipulate the Learner Roles is like the below picture Learner
133. s already selected in another Play the Authoring Tool will present an error message like the below picture and the Play can t be created Error Filling Form e Acts Order This is the section where the user defines the order of the Acts selected in the Acts section Page 136 Authoring Tool User Manual Properties Acts Acts Order Final Feedback Property Change Notifications The Acts Order fields are o Selected Act s List of all Acts selected by the user in the previous section This list has four related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of selected Acts Those operations are Move First Move the selected Act to the first position of the list Move Up Move the selected Act one position upper on the list Move Down Move the selected Act one position lower on the list Move Last Move the selected Act to the last position of the list e Final Feedback This is a list of Items that will be shown to the end user when Play is completed Properties Acts Acts Order Final Feedback Property Change Notifications The Final Feedback fields are o Play s Final Feedback s Items List of Items that represents the Final Feedback of this Play This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate exi
134. s module The tool asks to the user if he wants to use the Global Metadata information defined in the Manage Global Metadata module as a template to the metadata sections of the new elements of the course The message is like the below picture Open File Do you Want to use the Metadata defined on the Global Metadata as a template for the new elements YEs Ho Finally if there was no error loading the course the tool will show a message like the one below and will activate the Learning Editor menu the Save Save As and Close options and the Create Package Interchange File option Load File File Loaded D 4lfanet Docsteste xml k e Save This feature it s only available if there is currently an opened file and allows the user to save the opened Course When the user chooses this option the tool will ask him for a confirmation with a message like the below picture about this action to assure that was not a mistake of clicking Save Course 4re you sure that you want to save the file Ds 4lfanet Docs teste xml YEs Ho If the user confirms his option the tool will present an overwriting alert like the below picture Save Course This file already exists Do you want to overwrite the file De Alfanet Docs teste xml es MHo After these steps finally the course will be saved and if there was no problem saving the course the tool will present
135. se Content Section that has the related list according to the choice in the Type Of Environment Content field If the user select to use Services in this Environment the Content list will have the list of every Services defined in the Course and will appear like the following picture Properties Content Select Conference Service ConferenceService Send Mail Service SendMailService Index Search Service Index SearchSeryice If the user select to use References to Other Environments in this Environment the Content list will have the list of every Environments defined in the Course and will appear like the following picture Properties Content Select Reference to Other s Conference Environment ConferenceEnvironment Environments J Send Mail Environment SendMailEnviranment Tndex Environment IndexEnviranment Services Environment ServicesEnvironment Encyclopedia Environment EncyclopediaEnviranm Library Environment LibraryEnyvironment Learning Objects Environment LearningObjectsEn At last if the user select to use Learning Objects in this Environment the Content list will have the list of every Learning Objects defined in the Course and will appear like the following picture Properties Content Select Learning Objectis Library of Dictionaries LibraryofDictionaries Encyclopedia Encyclopedia The Content list
136. sents the Information of this Activity Structure This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Information of this Activity Structure o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Information of this Activity Structure Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Learning Activities This is the section where the user can select which Learning Activities will belong to this Activity Structure New Activities Structure Properties Properties Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Lesson 1 Lesson i1 Lesson 2 Lesson 2 First Test FirstTest The Learning Activities section has two lists The first list on the left side is the list of every Learning Activities defined in the course The user must select the Learning Activities that he wants to use on this Activity Structure The second list on th
137. ser duplicates an Environment all is content will be copied to In other words if the user duplicates an Environment that has Services or Learning Objects those objects will be copied too You can see an example on the following picture In the above picture we copied an Environment that has in the content a Conference Service If we go to the Services list we will find a new service copy of the original This new copied service will be the content of the copied environment Properties Content Conterence Service ConterenceService Send Mail Service SendMailService Note This fact doesn t happen if the user selects sub environments to the content of the Environment Remove existing Environments In this option the user can select and delete one existing Environment Move Up existing Environments In this option the user can select and move up one position the selected Environment in the list order Move Down existing Environments In this option the user can select and move down one position the selected Environment in the list order Page 98 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 10 1 Services The Services are Environments that specify and define facilities to configure three specific kinds of environments to run the activities In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Services Besides resources which can be defined at design time there are numerous so called serv
138. ser input directly the value on the text box But the user has also the option to click in the Browse button near the textbox to navigate through the file system in order to choose the target folder When the user clicks on the Browse button the tool presents a form like the below picture Folder Selection Choose Folder CE compaq Documents and Settings Favorites ntelhJ DEA s 0 4 idk1 3 1_09 w Page 46 Authoring Tool User Manual Note The user must choose a folder on the folders list by double clicking on the chosen one otherwise the tool will assume the parent folder e Global Resources Directory Text value to the user specify the folder where is located the global resources that he wants to use or define This directory needs to have a file named resources xml where are defined the global resources of that folder This is the file that the Manage Global Resources module will try to open and save the resources on that module If the resources xml doesn t exist on that folder the Manage Global Resources will give an error on loading the global resources but the user can still work and define the resources This means that the user can create several kinds of resources and organize them in different folders and then load them for the courses If the user decides to save the Global Resources the tool will save them on the resources xml or if doesn t exist will create that fi
139. sting Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section Title Text value to define a specific title for the Final Feedback of this Play Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Final Feedback of this Play Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 138 Authoring Tool User Manual The Acts sub module is the third option of the Method menu LE Course Plays i Acts In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Acts Play elements unfold in a series of one or more acts which are always run in sequence No act is made visible to the role s that play a part in it until the previous act has completed This factor can be used to synchronize the activities of those playing roles within the play The activities associated with the roles within a play may have complex sequencing so it is possible to have a one act play which has internally complex sequencing as long as the activities of the players do not need synchronizing e g when the use of a learning resource is completed all participants move to a discussion forum Although within an act ther
140. sting Learner Roles In this option the user can select and move up one position the selected Learner Role in the list order e Move Down existing Learner Roles In this option the user can select and move down one position the selected Learner Role in the list order 4 9 2 Staff Roles The Staff Roles can be seen as the Roles of the persons needed to support the execution of the course They can be defined as teacher trainer tutor facilitator mentor assessor etc The section that allows to manipulate the Staff Roles is like the below picture Learner teacher Teacher assistant Teaching Assistant This feature allows the user to e Create New Staff Roles In this option the tool will present to the user a form like the one below to let the user fill the new Staff Role data Page 90 Authoring Tool User Manual New Stalf Properties Person s Properties of this Role The form consists in the following items o Name Text value that represents the ID of the Role This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the resource can t be created Note This is a very important value because this is the field that will identify the Staff Role in every elements and lists Try to put an explicit value on the Name of the Role to let you easily remember and identify the different Roles o URI Reference Text value that allows the user to refer an URI link to this role o Title Text
141. t resource means that this is a file that a browser can show The imsidcontent resource means that this is other kind of file This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the resource can t be created e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the metadata associated with the Resource Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Local File Physical location of the file that the resource represents e Browse Button that allows the user to navigate through his file system to locate the target file The form presented to the user is like the below picture The user can navigate through the file system to choose the file that we want By default if the Local File is not filled this window will open on the Working Folder The user must choose a file from the list or cancel the operation otherwise the user can t advance Page 74 Authoring Tool User Manual Resource s File Choose File E d DATA DA Alfanet Docs j Tool ce Alfanet 444 zip aaa New sml aaa xml aaaaaaaa xml aaaaaaaa zip Aaac zip aaald xml ALFANET logo gif Al FAMFT Inan inna Eo E E e Open Chosen File Button that allows the user to see the chosen file with the default editor reader application associated to that kind of file on Windows If there is no application associated to the kind of the file this
142. t existing Resources and upload Local Resources to the Global Resources list Tithe amp Metadata Represents the general Tithe and general Metadata defined for the course About the Metadata we can use the module Manage Global Metadata to define a global Metadata and reuse it in every Metadata items in every elements of the course We are also able to define different Metadata information in each element or also not define any Metadata for others elements This kind of approach to help the user is also used on the Components Manager and Method Manager which are the sub modules that agglomerate concepts that need to have some explanation even beyond the user manual The Learning Editor also has some file manipulations options such as a special feature named Create Package Interchange File This features we can find them on the main window of the Learning Editor like the below picture Learning Editor welcome Welcome ta the Learning Editar This option lets the user create and edit IMS Learning Design IMS LO Level A courses This tool follows the hierarchic organization of the IMS LD that separates several learning concepts that will be used to assemble the course In the hierarchy of the tool we can see the following options that are associated to different concepts Local Resources Indicates the external files that the course will need to be performed We can use the Global Resources created in the
143. te later when you are editing a specific one The other approach is to see this module is as a complete metadata template that you don t want to change and will be equal for every objects of the course You can also don t use this module and define the metadata of each object one by one if the metadata information of the objects of the course aren t similar 3 2 1 Metadata Information Categories The metadata information is divided in nine categories each one with a specific context and objective Note Despite this information is on the Manage Global Metadata module this will be referenced by every Metadata sections buttons of the elements of the Learning Editor module because the information and interface are similar 3 2 1 1 General General Life Cycle MetaMetadata Technical Educational Rights Relations Annotations Classifications In the General category we can find information with an open scope like Title Text value that represents the title that the user will give to the metadata information or object Language Acronym value that represents the language that the object is created The acronym is in the form of two letters defining the language e g Portuguese gt pt English gt en French gt fr Optionally we can add a reference to a specific country This reference has also two letters e g English GB gt en GB English US gt en US If the acronym is
144. that belong to Level A and are active are e Properties These are the main properties of the Play Page 134 Authoring Tool User Manual Acts Order Final Feedback Property Change Notifications T eomplete When seta Propeniy walle Define The Properties fields are O Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Play This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Play can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Play the ID is created automatically by the tool this is very important because the ID will be based on this value except when that ID will be duplicated with some existing play or other kind of element According to this try to put an explicit value on the title of the play to let you easily remember and identify the different plays O Is Visible Option value to define if this Learning Activity will be visible to the end user of the course Completed Play Options Option value to the user defines how can be considered the Play completed The options are Play has a Time Limit and Play is completed when last Act is completed In the Play has a Time Limit option the Play will be considered completed after the time defined on this value sum of defined hours minutes and seconds relative to the start of the course If this option is selected the user must insert a time value on the numeric fields hours minutes and seconds
145. that he wants to use on this Activity Structure The second list on the right side is the list of the selected Support Activities This list is only active is the user select the Show Activities Sequentially option of the Choose Activities Presentation field of the Properties section When the user select activities on the first list the tool will refresh the second list and then the user can manipulate the order of the chosen activities To manipulate the second list the form has five buttons that can execute the ordinance operations Those operations are O O O O Move First Move the selected activity to the first position Move Last Move the selected activity to the last position Move Up Move the selected activity one position upper Move Down Move the selected activity one position lower Unselect All Unselect all elements of the left list emptying the right list e Activity Structures This is the section where the user can select which sub Activity Structures will belong to this Activity Structure Properties Information Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Lessonsequence Lessons amp Test Unselect All The Activity Structures section has two lists The first list on the left side is the list of every Activity Structures defined in the course The user must select the Activity Structures that he wants to use on this Activity Structure
146. the Final Feedback of this Act This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of tems Those operations are Create New Items Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Final Feedback of this Act o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Final Feedback of this Act Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step 4 15 2 Part s Form The Part or Role Part concept can be seen as a sub set of an Act In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about Parts An act brings together one or more role parts This is the mechanism that allows more than one role to perform at the same time Therefore role parts within an act are always run in parallel Role parts enable several users playing the same or different roles to participate in the same act Each role part associates exactly one role with exactly one type of activity or with one environment equivalent to an organization in Content Packaging Multiple role parts within one act are p
147. this form needs an extensive explanation see the Support Activity Form section of this sub module e Edit existing Support Activities In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Support Activity data filled The user can change all fields of that Support Activity e Duplicate existing Support Activities In this option the user can select an existing Support Activity and create a copy of that Support Activity The only different values will be the ID and Title of the Support Activity e Remove existing Support Activities In this option the user can select and delete one existing Support Activities 4 11 2 1 Support Activity Form The Support Activity form available to the user is like the below picture Properties Description Final Feedback Property Change Notifications Title Role s teacher Teacher assistant Teaching 4 hasir Racie learner Parameters F 4 Environmentisi Conference Environm s Send Mail Enviranmen Completed Activity Options l i Index Environment None of Below options Servires Enwiranment C Activity has a Time Limit H M 5 z f C User Can say when activity is completed W Is Visible Gonmplete when set a Property Value Metadata Ok Cancel This form is divided in five sections which two of them Property Change and Notifications are related to Level B or C of IMS LD
148. tional elements The activity description is the actual cue given to the user rendered in the user interface to describe the activity to be performed by the user In most cases the activity description is a text of tyoe webcontent In other cases it can be an audio file webcontent a video file or any other cue to the user Whatever forms it takes the activity description is referenced via an lt item gt element derived from Content Packaging referencing a resource element in the content package In addition to Environment reference s the other optional elements include title IMS metadata learning objectives prerequisites see above and the new elements complete activity which specifies when an activity is completed in Level A either by user choice or on reaching a time limit and extended by Level B with when property value is set and on completion which specifies actions that are to be executed on completion of the activity In level A on completion contains only one element feedback description which references content to be displayed to the user when they finish on completion is further extended at level B by the change property value element and at Level C by the notification element The Learning Activities section of the Activities form available to the user is like the following picture Learning Activities Support Activities Activity Structures Lesson 1 Lesson i1 Lesson 2 Lesson 2
149. to associate it to a Play otherwise that Act will not be saved This ts due to the fact that Acts are an inner concept of the Plays but the Authoring Tool organizes the Acts separately from the Plays to make the interface of the Plays simpler According to this fact when the user is leaving the Method menu the Authoring Tool launches an alert message to the user The process is described in the below pictures Page 140 Authoring Tool User Manual Attention 4 15 1 Act Form The Act form available to the user is like the below picture Mew Act Properties Notifications Lot plete When seb a PRopeniy walle plete When a Gondition ts mnie This form is divided in five sections which two of them Property Change and Notifications are related to Level B or C of IMS LD specification So they are inactive and don t fall in the scope of this Authoring Tool version The sections that belong to Level A and are active are e Properties These are the main properties of the Act Properties Parts Final Feedback Property Change Notifications om plete When sete Property malie plete When a Gaon ition ts line The Properties fields are O Title Represents the title that the user will give to the Act This is a mandatory field if this field is not filled the Act can t be created Note Despite this value is not the ID of the Act the ID is created automatically by the tool this is
150. to define the metadata associated with the Resource Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step e Local File Physical location of the file that the Resource represents e Browse Button that allow the user to navigate through his file system in order to locate the target file The form presented to the user is like the picture below The user can navigate through the file system to choose the file that we want By default if the Local File is not filled this window will open on the Global Resources folder The user must choose a file from the list or cancel the operation otherwise the user can t advance Resource s File Choose File E d DATA w EJDA E3 Alfanet E3 Docs E Tool ce Alfanet 444 zip X a aaa nev sml aaaa sml aaaaaaa sml aaaaaaa zip aaac zip aaald xml ALFANE T_ logo gif OLE ARIE T hann inn lt mT e Open Chosen File Button that allow the user to see the chosen file with the default editor reader application associated to that kind of file on Windows If there is no application associated to the kind of the file this option will not work e Resource Dependencies This is a list of the existing global resources In this list the user can choose other resources that this new resource is depending of Only the selected resources will be considered as dependencies to the
151. to the user a message like the one below Save Course File successfully saved Ok Save As This feature it s only available if there is currently an opened file and allows the user to save the opened Course with a different name from the actual one When the user chooses this option the tool will presents a form like the picture below to let the user decide the new name and location of the file Saye Course As Folder E3 Alfanet Tool Save Course As In this form the user can change the location of the new course by browsing in the file system drives and folders in the Folder section of the form The default folder will be Working Folder defined in the Configuration Options module If the user chooses another folder to the course that new folder will be the new Working Folder In the Save Course As section the user can choose the new name of the course By default the value is the same name as the opened file This title will be the name of the physical file with the xml extension If needed the tool will show an overwriting alert like the below picture about a previous file with the same name Save Course If the user says Yes to the last message finally the course will be saved and if there was no problem saving the course the tool will present to the user a message like the one below Save Course Close This feature it s only available if there is cu
152. tor menu The Title amp Metadata sub module is the option that allows the user to edit the General Name of the Course not the name of the file and also the General Metadata of the Course The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Lea rning EC COP Course Title amp Course Metadata Properties e Title This is the general title of the course e Metadata Button that allows the user to define the general metadata associated with the Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Page 78 Authoring Tool User Manual 4 6 Learning Objectives The Learning Objectives sub module is the fourth option of the Learning Editor menu Learning Editor Title amp Metadata Pre Requisites lt iT cu z Ta a g Tl iT lt T a The Learning Objectives sub module is the option that allows the user to edit the learning objectives of the course unit of learning and course are the same concept In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about what are the Learning Objectives The learning objectives are the overall learning objectives to be attained by learners who complete the unit of learning Learning objectives can be specified on several levels of detail In IMS Learning Design designers can choose to specify
153. ture allows the user to edit and create the resources that belongs to the opened course To more information about what is a resource please read the IMS Content Packaging section of the Introduction and the Manage Global Resources module section The below picture shows how is the form available to the user Lea rning Ed OF Local Resources Manager DictionaryEnglish French aaal BookofBasicEnglish l aaaz BasicExerciseforwerbs tTHttf aaa XXX 4444 AlfanetTextFileS OlfanetTextFiled xxx xdgfdg lfanetTextFile55 AlfanetTextFile56 AlfanetTextFile57 AlfanetTextFile58 lfanetTextFile59 In the left side of the form we can find the list of ID s of the Global Resources that belongs to the global resources file defined on the Manage Global Resources module and is not used on the course In the right side of the form we can find the list of ID s of the Resources used in the course that we call Local Resources This list includes all Resources defined only in this course called really Local Resources and the Global Resources that are used in the course There are seven operations that the user can perform with the resources Those operations are e Add do Local e Remove from local e Add All to local e Remove All from local e New Local Resource Page 68 e Edit Local Resource e Make Local gt Global Authoring Tool User Manual These operations are explained in the following sections 4 4
154. value that defines a title description for the Role o Multiple Instances Option value that defines if this role can have multiple instances or can only have one and only one instance o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with this Role of the Course Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step o Min Persons Numeric value that defines the minimum number of persons in that role before start running the course o Max Persons Numeric value that defines the maximum number of persons in that role before start running the course If these two values are empty the role can be considered as unlimited o Persons Exclusively in This Role Option value that defines if the persons in this Role should be only in this Role or can belong to more than one Role This is due to the use of sub roles hierarchies e Edit existing Staff Roles In this option the tool will present to the user a form similar to the previous option but with the chosen Staff Role data filled The user can change all fields of that Staff Role except to the Name value as you can see in the below picture Title Teacher W Multiple Instances Metadata Min Persons lL W Persons Exclusively in This Role Max Persons D Ok Cancel Duplicate existing Learner Roles In this option the user can select an existing Staff Role
155. w an overwriting alert like the below picture about a previous file with the same name Attention After these steps the tool will process the course file name it as imsmanifest xml and copy to a temporary folder The toll will process every resources copying them to the same temporary folder Note One frequent error in this phase is the presence of Resources with references to unavailable files files that have been moved or deleted If this fact happens the tool will abort this procedure and send a message like the following picture Page 60 Authoring Tool User Manual There was an error creating the resource named AlfanetTextFile6S txt The File was not created Error Could not find file D Documents and Settings abn001 8lof 4Ce My Documents 4lfanet 4lfanetTextFile S txt k If there is no error in the creation of the temporary files the tool will proceed to the creation of the WinZip file Probably the tool will present a message proceeding from the WinZip Command Line Support Add On like the following picture es C Program Files Win iptwezip exe x MainZiptR gt Command Line Support Add On Version 1 6 Build 3181 Copyright tce WinZip Computing Inc 1991 2606 All Rights Reserved THANK YOU FOR TRYING WINZIP This is a Fully functional version for EVALUATION USE OMLY The registered version does not display this notice You can register Winzip hy check or charge card by mail
156. ws The options are Free Text Index with reference and Index without reference The Free Text type means that the search uses a free text search index The Index with reference type means that the search uses page numbers or hyperlinks depending on the publication medium used The Index without reference type means that the search is a list of terms without page numbers or hyperlinks e Class to Index Text value to the user identifies which class defined in the course will the index of the search be make on If this option is selected the user must fill this field because this field turns mandatory when is selected e Element to Index List where the user will select the ID of one of the elements defined in this course which the index of the search is making on The list is of every objects with an ID defined inside the Course If this option is selected the user must fill this field because this field turns mandatory when is selected e Type of Element to Index List where the user will select the type of elements defined in this course which the index of the search is make on The list is of every concepts related to the IMS LD standard If this option is selected the user must fill this field because this field turns mandatory when is selected 4 10 2 Learning Objects The Learning Objects are Environments that define objects or collections of objects that can be associate
157. wzzip exe file Normally is the folder where is installed the WinZip Configuration Options Course Project D 4lfanet CoacsToohAlfanet Global Resources _ _ C Program Files Common Files System WIN IP C Program Files Wwinzip E 7 a Only after these steps the Authoring Tool will be able to create Package Interchange files compatible with the IMS CP standard Page 62 Authoring Tool User Manual The Items are not quietly a module of the Learning Editor but a concept that is present in a lot of objects inside the course In the IMS LD specification we can find the following description about the Items When a component a learning objective or a prerequisite needs a resource an item element is used in the similar way as in the organization part of IMS Content Packaging The learning design provides a semantic context for these items so that runtime systems can know what to do with the resource For example in the following case lt learning objectives gt lt item identifierref 0123 gt lt learning objectives gt it is clear that the resource with identifier 0123 is a learning objective description In the case of lt activity description gt lt item identifierref 0345 gt lt activity description gt the item is an activity description A runtime system can position the learning objectives in a certain place in the user interface different from the activity description and act
158. y To see more information about the concept of Learning Objective please read the Learning Objectives sub module of the Learning Editor sub modules section Properties Learning Objectives Pre Requisites Description Final Feedback Pi gt The Learning Objectives fields are O Activity s Learning Objectives Items List of Items that represents the Learning Objectives of this Learning Activity This list has six related buttons which correspond each one to a specific operation about this list of Items Those operations are Create New ltems Edit existing Items Duplicate existing Items Remove existing Items Move Up existing Items Move Down existing Items For more information about the Items concept please read the Items section of the Learning Editor sub modules section o Title Text value to define a specific title for the Learning Objectives of this Learning Activity o Metadata Button that allows the user to define the Metadata associated with the Learning Objectives of this Learning Activity Please see Metadata Information Categories section of the Manage Global Metadata module to see more information how to do this step Pre Requisites This is a list of Items that correspond to the specific Pre Requisites of this Activity To see more information about the concept of pre requisite please read the Pre Requisites sub module of
159. y structure a Environments can contain two basic types e Located learning objects typically specified by a URL with optional metadata A user may further classify these learning objects by means of the vocabulary provided in the IMS LOM Meta Data 5 2 Learning Resource Type or the generic class attribute that is available on all elements In EML LD1 the learning objects are classified in the following types knowledge objects tool objects and test objects e Generic services A service relates to a concrete service facility available at runtime During design a service has no URL assigned to it but must be given a URL when the Learning Design is instantiated at runtime Examples of a Service include a discussion forum chat rooms monitoring tools search facilities etcetera In Learning Design the conditions for setting up a service at runtime are specified at an abstract level For example for discussion groups it specifies which learning design roles have what type of access participant observer moderator etc Note if a discussion forum is to be used within a learning design were it given a predefined URL then all instances of the Unit of Learning that includes the learning design wherever and whenever instantiated would have the same one specific discussion forum While this may lead to serendipitous learning it is probably not what was intended by the learning designer However should this be desirable and then

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