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1. A special use case If there 1s a one to one correspondence between your PowerPoint slides and your media files as there might be if you record a MP3 file for each slide then you can easily assign slides to the timeline to match up with the media files In the eTEACH author Media Tool select the Place Slides to Aggregated Media menu item Your slides will be placed on the timeline to match media file boundaries until either there are no more media files or nor more slides left Animations within a slide are proportioned evenly by the tool but can be adjusted to sync up with the narrative in the corresponding media file Page 22 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Changing the presentation title Changing the presentation title The eTEACH author uses the name you gave the presentation when you created it as the presentation title To change the presentation title change this name The steps are Go to your presentation workspace and turn editing on Click the edit symbol E to the right of the presentation name you would like to change Edit the name and save your changes Launch the eTEACH author and save your presentation to capture the change in the presentation itself 5 The next time you publish or export the presentation the title will be set the new name ad ad im Page 23 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quoting a presentation Quoting a presentation By quoting a presentation we mean launching the presentation2. Note By default each slide will appear from its insertion point until the end of the lecture When you insert the next slide eTEACH will automatically shorten the previous slide 3e Repeat this procedure for each slide in the lecture Page 13 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Step 4 Preview and Export the Presentation 4a In the File menu click Save 4b On the toolbar press the Preview icon The authoring server will now generate the presentation and display a sample presentation launch page Follow the link on this page to view the lecture 4c To deploy the presentation on a web site on in a course management system press the toolbar s Export icon The authoring server will prepare a ZIP archive of the presentation and pass it to your browser to download This archive can be uploaded to its hosting environment using that server s tools Page 14 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts PowerPoint with audio Preparing a PowerPoint with Audio presentation The starting point You have recorded an audio track for your presentation in PowerPoint You ve created a workspace for you presentation as described above Now you d like to create an eTEACH presentation Step 1 Upload the PowerPoint file In this step you will upload the PowerPoint file to the authoring server la 1b Click on the arrow button Open eTeach The Slides layout will appear by default next to
3. complexity to building a presentation The media file has to be placed on the streaming server its URL noted and so on However in general the user s experience is better when large media files are streamed Page 20 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Runtime media aggregation Runtime media aggregation eTEACH can be configured to treat a collection of media files as through they were a single media file FLV SWF and MP3 files can be combined into a collection as can a mix of streamed and progressively downloaded files For streamed files a optional start and end time can be set so that only the segment of the file of interest to the presentation will be played This feature reduces the work required to assemble a complex presentation that is built from many sources A standalone RMA configuration tool makes developing these collections straightforward The tool is available from the eTEACH community site http atsosxprod doit wisc edu eteach wiki Steps to build a RMA collection ay Prepare your media files and place them together in a directory on your file system 2 Launch the RMA configuration tool then use the File gt Open menu item to select the directory in which you placed your media files The RMA tool looks like this e TEACH RMA Configuration Tool File Edit file stream start time stop time brown_bag_into flv slide 2a mp3 rtmp 144 92 40 59 flvplayer eteach atomic survival flv 0 0 11 0 slide 4 mp3 rtmp
4. Slides C TEACH te ld le 1f lg File Window Help ptions Preview x v Slides Upload PowerPoint Upload PowerPoint with Audio Upload Converted Slides Upload Converted Slides with Audio Show Thumbnails O10 7 Select the Upload PowerPoint with Audio menu item Click Choose File A menu will appear allowing you to point to the file Find your movie file select it and click Choose Click Upload File eTEACH will tell you when the file is finished uploading Close the File Upload window The Media Tool being no longer relevant disappears The Slides Tool expands to take up the space occupied by the Media Tool And the slides are placed on the time line to correspond to the timing of the audio track in the PowerPoint presentation The author now looks like this Page 15 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts PowerPoint with audio TEACH File Window Help FY Paneises es EH Se D Save Slides TOC Quiz Layouts Preview Export Resources Captions w Slides eTEACH 3 0 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 om RO NN mb ab ab ab o OO i Timeline 00 00 24 00 00 30 00 00 36 00 00 48 00 00 44 I Media Slides dI eTBACH 3 00000 2 1 Step dD Slep 4 1 Sepi 2 10 Step 2 Preview and Export the Presentation 2a In the File menu click Save 2b On the toolbar press the Preview icon The authoring ser
5. e The active row is shaded in aqua e Time is expressed in hours minutes and seconds Time can be set to fractions of a second Clicking the button assigns the time value to the timeline s cursor position e Click on a value in a column to edit it e The tool s menu includes two options that can be used to speed the creation of a table of contents 1 Add all slides creates an entry in the table of contents for each slide in the presentation and uses the slide title as the entry title 2 Add slides from timeline sreates an entry in the table of contents for each slide that has been placed on the timeline and uses the slide title as the entry title A good strategy for creating a table of contents quickly is to place on the timeline only the Page 30 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Table of contents tool slides corresponding to table of contents entries then invoke this menu item After the table of contents as been set place the remaining slides on the timeline _ Table of Contents X Time Entry Title Add Remove ivy Page 31 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Resources tool Resources Tool Use the resources tool to add links to resources to your presentation A resource can be anything that is accessible through the Web using a static URL or it can be a file packaged with the presentation By default a resource will be available throughout the presentation To limit the availability of a resource to a
6. p ART LEUR east pattasi start tra larro edit cmai a fot do A P Ar oi 3 Learning outcor 1 4 History of Peanu 1 5 Basic ingredient 1 6 Alternate ingredi 1 7 Tools for constru 1 B Construction me 1 9 Cutting the sand 1 m Bas njred snis on the pesait litir dx Peanst Otter amp Jat buriet a d jelly satalesch vies tablier tune io som eod rmt veo we LITE pom 08 Ph 9v Indi oo netto eh wani tida esc yho nu gec teacher leo 2 ft conzineorg the pernu hiitier md joel y xard ch Cor st ctr methods The teen Sweet laure Moe oe rea ctu de peur rte E ood Fw rurat orks 10 Eating the pear 1 11 Self assessmer O0 Du LEE LS or Ce vom comer o7 Tes Abonn s rede Pame ayer bot eo oh nec mis a Pour na dater ee er Din ter MNT ve mn a There are several other things to note about this tool e The active row is shaded in aqua Page 27 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Slide tool e Clicking the button places the currently selected slide or animation state with a animated slide onto the timeline at the timeline s cursor position e The up and down arrows in the lower left hand corner of the tool can be used to move the slide selection to the previous or next or previous slide animation state respectively e Animation states in a slide are numbered as decimal points after the slide number Ifa slide has animation states only the animation states image
7. particular time segment within the presentation change its time in and time out values Resources x Time In Time Out Text URL 00 00 00 00 00 21 2 sample ppt resources Sample ppt 00 00 06 03 00 00 21 2 www google com http Wwww google com Add Remove A There are several things to note about this tool e The active row is shaded in aqua e Clicking on the column header sorts the entries Clicking again on the column header toggles the sort from ascending to descending In the beta release changing the sort in author does not change in the sort in the player In the player resources are displayed in the order in which they are entered e To upload a resource that will be packaged with the presentation press the button that appears in the upper left hand corner of the tool In the illustration above the first entry was uploaded in this way e The Text column contains the text that will be displayed in the player s resource tab To change this text click on the text in the row you wish to edit By default for an uploaded file the Text column contains the path to the file In the illustration above this has been changed to file name e Do not change the URL of an uploaded file Doing so will break the link to the resource Page 32 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Resources tool e To add a link to an external resource press the add button that appears in the lower left region of the tool By default th
8. 00 16 79 History of PB amp J 00 00 52 97 Ingredients 00 02 17 86 Tools 00 04 39 83 Construction Methods 00 05 59 95 talis Cutting the sandwich 00 10 56 00 Eating the sandwich 00 12 14 91 EX Je Quiz 00 14 31 3 The audio only layout places a small audio control in the upper left hand corner of the player Slides appear in a large resizable box on the right hand side of the player It looks like this eTEACH Player mm 44 bb CJ B e c 000021 Learning outcomes foore AN Describe the history of the peanut butter and Learning Outcomes 00 00 16 79 jelly sandwich T Identify the ingredients of the peanut butter sp and jelly sandwich and know where to Construction Methods 00 05 59 95 purchase them m Identify the tools required to construct a Eating the sandwich 00 12 14 91 Ron peanut butter and jelly sandwich If you play an MP3 in either the small video or large video layouts an audio icon will appear in the area of the control where video is normally displayed If you play a video in the audio only layout the audio track from the media will be played Layouts can be switched during the presentation without interrupting media playback The small video is best used when the video is visually less important than the slides When the video content is more important change to the large video format And when t
9. 144 92 40 59 flvplayer eteach atomic survival flv 11 0 0 0 slide 5 mp3 slide 6 mp3 brown bag bye flv D Ny AAD UJ N m 3 By default the media files are listed in the order in which there where read from the directory listing This may be alphabetical The files will be played in the order in which they are listed You can move a file in the order by right clicking on the file name selecting the Move menu item then selecting a new position for the file in the list 4 You can delete a file from the list by right clicking on the file s name and selecting Delete from the popup menu 5 To add a reference to a streamed file right click on the row above or below which the streamed file should appear then select the appropriate Insert row menu item Edit the stream URI in the file stream column You may optionally enter a start and or an stop time in seconds for streamed media 6 Save the configuration using the File gt Save menu item Page 21 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Runtime media aggregation 7 Create the configuration ZIP file using the File gt Create media ZIP menu item A ZIP archive file will be created in the directory you selected originally 8 Upload the ZIP file to the eTEACH author by selecting the Media Tool s Upload Media Aggregation menu item To alter a collection use the RMA configuration tool to select your media directory The tool will load the collection configuration that you last saved
10. Copyright 2004 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All Rights Reserved Notice of any changes or modifications to this Software including the date the changes were made e Any modified software must be distributed in such a manner as to avoid any confusion with the original Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE The name and trademarks of copyright holder s and or the University of Wisconsin System may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Software without specific written prior permission Title to copyright in this Software and any associated documentation will at all times remain with the copyright holders The export of software employing encryption technology may require a specific license from the United States Government It is the responsibility of any person or organization contemplating export to obtain such a license before exporting this Software Credits This software was created by the Division of Information Technology s Academic Technology at the Univ
11. MNId DI SeMAONSS EE LL re 19 Included vs Streaming Media N S a reed 20 Runtime media BOGE QAO ictasctrecdtevateredetaderedslacannolaisinunteratessiunstnnedecaiastasadeaadebederadela ha debates etit fatte teda 21 Changing the presentation TG uoo oed teet eee einen ea miri eee te TET BEDS 23 COIN Dre S ANCES E E LEM ne Ge en E ER Ea E EE DEN 24 Tools MOI ES grea rn eh E a Sa Sn a Ad i N 25 SHO SS ha deeb 26 MING WING EEE 29 TADEO Sie le 219 eee ene ene ene ene ni a de 30 R SOMOOS RR Rr 32 QUIZZES I IK ccc c nrc TE 34 The Wilse markup a LE aod eta M Ro d ditas avete a Lao sd M M Le Ms dv M no 36 ICI IMAGES ISERE o m E mo m T E S To E 36 jare rele B ca E 36 ed Wo Bal re OISE Sc a tut 38 CADTONS EE dede este a a elata to usd ue 41 Managing e LEAGPPEPIESSIBHOLDS schede e apii aite te 43 SSI ROUTES RAR te Gh A LO Meo ui iet 44 NIOFSIFITOETEIILIO Dao deua dusforuttadust ind mae ce arnt een desse da cda ne ene eee a eee ee 45 Page 3 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Introduction Introduction What is eTEACH eTEACH 1s arich presentation tool that combines PowerPoint slides with e video media MP3 audio media and or Flash animations e atable of contents for random navigation and structural overview e links to resources either packaged with the presentation or available on the Web e quizzes e media captions e and control over p
12. OTEACH version 3 User s Manual eTEACH User s Manual Copyright amp credits Copyright Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System University of Wisconsin Madison Division of Information Technology Software License The following text should accompany all copies of Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Software Copyright 2007 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System This work including software documents or other related items the Software is being provided by the copyright holder s subject to the terms of this Software License By obtaining using and or copying this Software you agree that you have read understand and will comply with the following terms and conditions of this Software License Permission to use copy modify and distribute this Software and its documentation with or without modification for any purpose and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder s is hereby granted provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Software or portions thereof including modifications or derivatives that you make The full text of this Software License in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work Any pre existing intellectual property disclaimers notices or terms and conditions If none exist a short notice similar to the following should be used within the body of any redistributed or derivative Software
13. al point should be set to 0 The decimal point is required o Column2 The text of the caption We are expecting the text to be encoded as UTF 8 Caption length On playback longer captions will wrap This means that you don t need to be too fussy about the precise length of a caption Note that captions are displayed over the video area and larger captions will take up more space possibly obscuring important video content Some experimentation will give you a sense of what to recommend to your captioning service A good rule of thumb appears to be setting captions to five to ten words per caption Page 42 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Managing presentations Managing eTEACH Presentations Because the eTEACH separates authoring from delivery and because delivery is done through deployment to a course management system or a web site it is not difficult to manage your collection of eTEACH presentations Managing your presentations amounts to creating presentations editing existing presentations exporting and finally deleting presentations The only activity not covered earlier in this manual is deleting a presentation from your presentation workspace Deleting a presentation from the workspace 1 Navigate to your workspace 2 Turn editing on 3 Press the X icon to the right of the presentation you want to delete Page 43 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual System requirements System Requirements Player and author Bo
14. d not the media itself Similarly only the links to external resources are present in the export file Deploying an exported e TEACH presentation involves several steps 1 Upload the archive file to server from which the presentation will be delivered UnZIP the archive using the server s ZIP file utilities After unzipping the archive you will find a number of files and directories 3 Link to the index html file index html contains a link to launch the eTEACH player This link opens a new browser window and displays the viewer html file that is also in this directory Alternatively you could extract the link code in index html and place this in another document with the path to eteach player html relative to that document set appropriately It is beyond the scope of this document to describe in detail how this is done in particular environments such as you local course management system Check for these details in the documentation for your eTEACH installation e g the local eTEACH Wiki site Page 19 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Included vs streamed media Including media files in the published presentation vs streaming media If a media file has been uploaded to the eTEACH author it will be packaged in the published presentation When the package is unzipped on a server the media file along with the other files comprised by the presentation will be delivered from the server This method of delivery is called progressi
15. e time in and out values span the entire media playback time e As with uploaded resource files the values of columns for an external resource can be edited by clicking on them e Clicking the button will set the time in value for the active resource to the position of the timeline s cursor e Removing an uploaded resource removes the uploaded file as well Clicking on a resource link in the player causes the playback to pause and the resource to be loaded in a new browser window The playback does not automatically pause when the resource becomes available Page 33 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quiz tool Quiz Tool The quiz tool has two components The first is the familiar list with entries and timeline button Quizzes x What is a spirit hole 1 Add Remove Edit LV Things to note about this component e The active quiz row in the list is shaded in aqua e The description of the quiz in this tool appears only in the authoring application it is not displayed in the player e The button places the quiz on the timeline This beginning of the timeline tile for a quiz marks the point at which the player will pause its playback and display the quiz e Only quizzes that have been placed on the timeline will be included in the presentation e A quiz may be placed on the timeline more than once e Pressing the edit button will launch the quiz editing tool The quiz editing tool is a Web based Wiki style
16. editor The editor supports a form multiple choice where students are presented with one or more questions each of which has two or more answers Clicking on the answer pops up a feedback window that declares the answer correct or incorrect and that may contain an explanation of why that 1s so In addition to Wiki style markup the quiz editor supports e uploaded images files for inclusion in the quiz body e support for MathML markup and alternate image files of the mathematics for browser that do not support MathML rendering Page 34 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quiz tool A newly launched editor looks like this Note the editing markup conventions listed at the bottom of the page and the uploaded files box at the right hand side AOAO Edit Quiz vi t http eteach dev doit wisc edu mod eteach quiz index php id 4 amp quizid id2006 Q7 Google C TEACH Edit eTeach quiz You may preview the quiz before your edits have been saved See below for instructions on marking up the quiz text in the text area immediately following After you have completed editing the quiz simply close this window to end the editing session Uploaded files Choose File no file selected Send File Save Save and Preview Editing markup Line start block markup Quiz title Instructions If you are unfamiliar with Wiki style markup there are a couple of things to rem
17. elow Step 1 Upload a Media File In this step you will upload the video file to the authoring server Optionally if your video file is hosted by a streaming server you would reference its URL la Open eTEACH The Slides layout will appear by default Ib Click on the arrow button next to Media Upload Media Add Streaming Media Upload Media Aggregation Place Slides To Aggregated Media Actual Size Ic Choose Upload Media from the menu A new window will appear called File Upload Id Click Choose File Page 7 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides A menu will appear allowing you to point to the file le Find your movie file select it and click Choose If Click Upload File eTEACH will tell you when the file is finished uploading 1g Close the File Upload window Ih You will see the media file in the Media Tool A single tile representing the duration of the media appears in the timeline w Media Media Preview Window Media Track in Timeline 00 00 00 After you have uploaded a media file your authoring page will look something like the snapshot above The eTEACH logo in the media window is in this case how the presentation begins Page 8 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Step 2 Upload PowerPoint File In this step you will upload your PowerPoint presentation to
18. ember In Wiki style editing special sequences of characters are assigned the role of controlling how the text following the sequence or the text enclosed by it is to be treated The markup in the eT EACH quiz editor is very simple comprising only a few reserved sequences Page 35 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quiz tool Editing markup Line start block markup Quiz title Instructions mc Multiple choice question sa Short answer question Correct answer Incorrect answer Following a question a hint following an answer a comment on the answer uri Review point HREF blank if current lecture or HREF to another lecture time Review point start time In line markup Image logo gif logo alt text Image link to uploaded image AltMathMLImage math png alt text Image alternate for MathML Line start block markup flags the beginning of a block of text that 1s to be treated in some special way This markup must appear at the beginning of a line in the editing text field In line markup can appear anywhere in the text The quiz editor is expecting to find a quiz title marked by on the first line of the editing field Instructions may follow on a lower line Each question appears on a new line followed by one or more correct or incorrect answers A comment may follow either a question or an answer For answers the comment will be displayed only i
19. ersity of Wisconsin Madison eTEACH 3 0 has been developed through funding provided by the Engage Program a program to support the innovative use of technology in teaching and learning on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison Page 2 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction lA RE AE A EPC tac P 4 The moving parts BMY le EEE EEE 4 AUTMONING ADDICION iaaa aaa aa td a aai aS a aaan aae Dada aaa aaia aia Aaa aSa DEA a O OAE AEA EAA 4 Presentation work spaces cccccsecccccesseeecceessececceaseceecsauseeecseaseeecssauseeecseaseesecsaaseeecseageeeessagsesesssaseenenss 4 Quick Starts Greate a new NCS SAU leh etienne tied Le del t de redd seio sioe cde ilf tede tutes 5 AUthonng applicaton Merna sneno en dua M 6 vaco and POWElr COIN icici i ee a de a ca ad An T7 Upioadng a media EL PP ases ades educi us a 9 Uploading a PowerPoint for conversion ses rence 10 ASSIGNING slides to the Meline csser eaae aaea aiaa o aasia 14 Previewing and exporting a presentation waist ants aed ana wees 12 PowerPoint Witrembedded audio sia iat oe ed ete es ce en a ee us us dat 15 Uploading a PowerPoint file for conversion u s M MT A ni dede uda Une 15 Previewing and exporting a presentation iii nennen nennen nnn nane nana 16 Special Topics Insertng and Editing ATImated sildes 1 59 0 2002 M ard USES o Robe teed A ie d vo una ua t uda bd Ln 17 PUIS RING TS bDIO
20. f the presentation s slide along with a menu for various slide upload options e The timeline tool displays graphically where various elements of the presentation e g slides resources and quizzes fall on the presentation s timeline The eTeach Authoring Interface TEACH Slides Tool e Edit Window Help Rl Media Tool Pane Sess Save Slides TOC Resources Captions Quiz L Tm Previo ublish Export Media x v Slides LY Slide 1 1 5 Overview of Res 1 EV 2 1 Overvie 1 2 2 Overvie 1 2 3 Overvie 1 2 4 Overvie 1 13 Locator for Resot 1 4 Grading Procedur O 5 What Do You Thi O 6 7 6 Summary of Poll 0 NER 00 9 g 00 00 50 On January 14 210 Timeline x Media 5o SD 220 23 Ov 24 Ov quilacaanfol Timeline Tool Quiz Captions Layouts EEE 3 Page 6 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Preparing a video and slides eTEACH Presentation The starting point You have a video of a lecture and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation The video has been converted to FLV format see media preparation below and is either ready to hand on your computer or has been deployed to a streaming server You ve created a workspace for your presentation as described above Now you d like to create an eTEACH presentation Follow the steps b
21. hand region of the page and press it to turn editing on This allows you to add new activities in the topic outline You should see the Add an activity dropdown list in the lower right hand region of each topic 3 Ina topic select the eTEACH activity from this list A new page will be presented that prompts you for the name you would like to use for this presentation Pick a name that 1s meaningful to you as the author and eventually to your audience This name will appear as the title in the presentation delivered to your readers Once you ve entered a name press the Save changes button The workspace for your presentation has now been created and you are ready to launch the eTEACH authoring tool 4 Click on the Open eTEACH author link to launch the authoring tool You can return to the topic list by following the breadcrumbs menu at the top of this page You can also launch the authoring tool by clicking on the topic link on topics page in your presentation space Page 5 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts authoring application interface Authoring application interface To create a simple eTEACH presentation you will work with three of the authoring application s tools e The media tool displays the video and has a menu for uploading the video file to the authoring server or entering a link to a video hosted on a streaming server e The slides tool displays images of the slides and includes a slide picker list o
22. here is no video content or playback of the video is not desired use the audio only layout Page 39 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Player layout tool The layout tool looks like this Layout X Audio 0 Large Video 1 Small Video 1 OO y There are several things to note about this tool e The active row is shaded in aqua e Clicking the button adds the selected layout to the time line at the timeline s cursor position e To delete a layout select the layout s tile on the timeline and then press the delete key e The tile s start point can be adjusted on the timeline The tile s end point is not particularly relevant because the player will not change the layout until it encounters a different layout on the timeline That is the player does not revert to the default layout at the end of the layout tile e Itis not necessary to set a starting layout The small video layout is the default layout and will be used until a change in layout is set on the timeline Page 40 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Captions tool Captions Tool Use the captions tools to add captions that will appear during the media playback Users can turn off captions if they like The tool looks like this Captions x Time Caption 00 00 09 99 Hi lm Mary Smith 00 00 12 Today will be reviewing our 00 00 14 previous work and then will 00 00 16 go into more detail about Add Remove LV There are several t
23. hings to note about this tool e The active row is shaded in aqua e Time is expressed in hours minutes and seconds Time can be set to fractions of a second Clicking the button assigns the time value to the timeline s cursor position e Click ona value in a column to edit it e The Add and Remove buttons do what you would expect The button in the upper left hand corner of the tool opens a menu with an item for uploading a comma delimited menu file See below for details on this file e Clicking on the Time column head resorts the captions list by time The captions tool is not optimized for entering all of the captions in a presentation It is intended for lightweight editing of captions such as fixing small errors and omissions We recommend that captions be prepared outside of the eTEACH authoring tool perhaps by a captioning service eTEACH can import a captions file that has the following format Captions file format e Atwo column text file with the columns delimited by a tab character Each line is treated as a distinct record Page 41 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Captions tool o Column 1 The time offset from 00 00 00 0 which is interpreted to be the beginning of the media playback The format for the time offset is HH MM SS 00 where the value following the decimal point represents fractions of a second Ifthe time offset falls on an second rather than a fraction of a second the value following the decim
24. ia server A Runtime Media Aggregation RMA configuration package can be uploaded using the Upload Media Aggregation menu item If you have uploaded a RMA package and the slides in your presentation correspond one to one to the media files configure in the package use the Place Slides To Aggregated Media menu item to place the slides on the timeline at media file boundaries The Actual Size menu item will cause the media player to resize to the actual size of video FLV if its metadata contains sizing information The scrub bar to the right of the play button can be used to move the players cursor to a position on the timeline The position of the cursor expressed as a time is displayed in the lower right hand corner of the tool In the lower left hand corner of the tool is a mute control and to its right a volume control Page 25 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Slide tool Slide Tool Use the slide tool to upload PowerPoint files for conversion to view slides and to place slides on the timeline v Slides x Upload PowerPoint Upload PowerPoint with Audio Upload Converted Slides Upload Converted Slides with Audio Show Thumbnails OO y The tools menu items accessed through the button next the Slides label perform these functions Use Upload PowerPoint to select a PowerPoint file to upload and convert If the PowerPoint has a audio track and you would like to use it use the Upload PowerPoint with Audio
25. ing in animated slides a Go back to an animated slide you inserted b Click on the play button gt Jin the Media Tool c Watch the lecture and click the stop button at the point the first animation should happen Page 17 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Start animated slides d Inthe Timeline Tool click and drag the end of the slide to the correct time eTEACH will automatically adjust the beginning of the next slide e Repeat this procedure to adjust the animation timings for each animated slide Page 18 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Publishing and deploying presentations Publishing and deploying presentations To publish or deploy a presentation for viewing by others export the presentation by pressing the Export icon on the tool bar The icon looks like this E4 Export eTEACH exports to a ZIP archive file A ZIP archive typically contains the contents of a directory including all of the files in the directory any subdirectories there and contents The files stored in the archive are typically compressed to make the archive file smaller See the Wikipedia article on ZIP file format for detailed information on ZIP files An eTEACH export file contains all of the contents of a presentation including the presentation player software Note that if you presentation uses streaming media the presentation will contain a reference to the media on the streaming server where it is hosted an
26. layer layout eTEACH presentations are quotable in the sense that they can be invoked with URL based arguments to indicate the start and end time of the desired playback segment eTEACH presentations are made accessible through the use of captions for hearing impaired users and by being friendly to screen readers such as JAWS and Window Eyes on Windows and Voice Over on Mac OSX Screen readers can read the textual content on and screen reader users can control the playback of the media segment corresponding to a slide Quizzes the table of contents and resources lists are also presented in a format accessible to screen readers The moving parts Player The eTEACH player is the finished presentation delivered to users It comprises the media files or references to streamed media resources images of the slides in several resolutions configuration files the Flash based media player and HTML files to deliver the player to browsers and to present quizzes The player is packaged for easy deployment in a ZIP archive Author The eTEACH author is a server based tool for converting PowerPoint files to images and accessible text for assigning elements of the presentation to points on the presentation s timeline and for creating quizzes a table of contents and a list of external resources Presentation work spaces The eTEACH authoring environment organizes presentations into workspaces Users are assigned to workspaces as authors With the
27. menu item If you have used the external slide conversion tool to convert your PowerPoint file to slide images use the Upload Converted Slides or Upload Converted Slide with Audio menu items to select and upload the content package created by the slide conversion tool The Show Thumbnails function to show thumbnail versions of the slide images Click on a thumbnail to select the slide Click on a slide title from the list on the left hand side of the tool to revert to the normal slide view Page 26 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Slide tool The normal slide view looks like this Slides 1 Peanutbutteran 1 2 Learning outcorr 1 3 Learning outcorm 1 4 History of Peanu 1 Learning outcomes Describe the history of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich dentify the ingredients of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and know where to purchase them dentify the tools required to construct a peanut butter and jelly sandwich 5 Basic ingredient 1 6 Alternate ingredi 1 7 Tools for constru 1 B Construction me 1 9 Cutting the sand 1 10 Eating the pear 1 11 Self assessmer 0 v 010 7 The thumbnail view looks like this w Slides a 1 Peanut butter an 1 ESMI CACOMES Laan ng avrzormas CON Cecerte tes Falls of he em bur 2172 Cards s pes d bata sristy piy uto 2 Learning outcorr 1 tonu cu Un ore jit u CT nhe LIST ot E ome oum rl n3 sarah uri
28. n the popup feedback window that appears when students click on the answer The quiz editor supports HTML block e g lt p gt lt br gt and inline e g lt b gt lt i gt tags The quiz editor also supports embedded math xmlns http www w3 org 1998 Math MathML gt i e MathML tags If you embed MathML in a quiz you should also provide an alternate image of the math This alternate is needed for those browsers such as Safari that do not support MathML rendering For these browsers the alternate image will be displayed Reference upload images using the in line markup Image imagename gif image alt text where imagename gif is the name of the image your have uploaded This name will appear in the uploaded files box You can upload other sorts of files as well and reference them using standard HTML linking techniques The files will be placed in the same directory as the published quiz HTML file and so you will want to use a relative reference to the file This capacity is considered an advanced and rarely used technique and for this we are not providing a convenient Wiki style shortcut Page 36 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quiz tool The quiz editor has a preview mode that will show you what the quiz will look like to a student Page 37 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Player layout tool Player Layout Tool Use the player layout tool to control how the player displays media There are three layout op
29. ot have to view the lecture to make the assignments We cover each of these cases Insert slides while viewing the video 3a Click on the play button gt Jin the Media Tool 3b Click on the stop button _ Jatthe time you wish to insert the first slide Page 10 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides 3c Click on the first slide in the Slides tool 3d Click on the insert button that appears at the foot of the list of slides The slide will appear in the Timeline Tool Note By default each slide will appear from its insertion point until the end of the lecture When you insert the next slide eTEACH will automatically shorten the previous slide Page 11 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Slides Preview Window Slides Track in Timeline 3e Repeat this procedure for each slide in the lecture For optional steps to insert and edit animated slides see the end of this tutorial Page 12 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Insert slides using pre noted slide timings 3a Click on the scrub bar pointer or the timeline pointer iA Media Scrub Bar 00 00 19 E Timeline Pointer 3b Drag it to the time you wish to insert the first slide 3c Click on the slide to highlight it 3d Click on the insert button in the Slides Tool The slide will appear in the Slides Tool preview window and in the Timeline Tool
30. s can be placed on the timeline Page 28 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Timeline tool Timeline Tool The timeline tool plots the position of different elements of the presentation representing each element as a tile Timeline Xx 00 00 06 of 00 00 18 00 00 24 00 00 30 00 00 36 00 00 42 00 00 48 00 00 44 00 0 T boc t oc c CRT boc se B mal iid do E T boc E T E CRT ido T Media PBJ320x240x30 flv i l Slides 41 Peanut butter and jeily the making of a 2 1 Learning outcomes d1 Learning outcomes cont 4 1 History of Pea Cortents Presentation start Introduction Learning Outcomes 00000 hiatory of PBJ Quiz Captions Layouts Q lt gt Useful things to know about this tool include e The top track represents the media and determines the length of the presentation The length of the presentation 1s fixed by the length of the media Adjusting the length of the media tile is not meaningful e For tiles on the slide track only the starting time is significant The length of a slide s tile gives a visual representation of the duration of the slide but shortening the tile does not set an out point In the player a slide ends when it is replaced by the next slide animation state in the presentation e What holds for slides hold for the other tracks Only the starting point is significant e To remove an element from the timeline click on its
31. th the eTEACH player and author will run in any browser that supports the Flash 8 plug in There are no special requirements beyond the Flash 8 plug in Page 44 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual More information More information This manual covers the mechanics of creating eTEACH presentations using the eT EACH author Other topics that will be of interest to eTEACH others are examined on the eTEACH support wiki http atsosxprod doit wisc edu eteachwiki Topics there include e Preparing media for use in eTEACH e Tips and tricks e Common mistakes new user make e Issues and work arounds e How to report an issue and get help e A frequently asked questions page e News on new releases Page 45 of 45 v 3 0
32. the authoring server The server converts the presentation to a collection of image files then returns a list of the slides including animations if any to the authoring application 2a Click on the arrow button next to Slides w Slides OO x 2b 26 2d 2e 2I 2g Upload PowerPoint Upload PowerPoint with Audio Upload Converted Slides Upload Converted Slides with Audio Show Thumbnails Choose Upload PowerPoint from the menu A new window will appear called File Upload Click Choose File A menu will appear allowing you to point to the file Find your PowerPoint file select it and click Choose Click Upload File eTEACH will tell you when the file is finished uploading and converting Close the File Upload window You will see all the slides from the PowerPoint file listed in order in the Slides tool Page 9 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts video and slides Slide 1 a Overview of Res 0 z 2 1 Overvie O 2 2 Overvie 0 2 3 Overvie 0 2 4 Overvie 0 Locator for ResoL 0 Grading Procedur 0 What Do You Thi O Summary of Poll O On January 14 21 0 Step 3 Assigning slides to the timeline There are two common way of adding slides to the timeline 1 You view the lecture recognize when the slide should appear and add it at that point 2 You have established the points in time at which slides should appear and do n
33. tile then press the delete key e At the starting point of a quiz the presentation playback halts and a quiz window is popped up e To adjust the starting point of a element click on and drag its the left edge Right edges can be dragged out of the way if needed e The timeline cursor appears as a black wedge in the time scale that runs along the top of the time line To position the cursor at a specific point in time either click on that time in the timeline scale or drag the cursor to that time e The scale of the timeline can be adjusted by using the plus and minus buttons that appear in the left end of the bar that runs along the bottom of the time line e Use the scroll bar along the bottom of the timeline to view regions of the timeline that are outside the view pane e Ifthe cursor is not in the view pane clicking on the find button in the upper left hand corner of the tool will move it into view Page 29 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Table of contents tool Table of Contents Tool Use the table of contents tool to organize your presentation into sections In the eTEACH player the section currently being played is highlighted in the table of contents Clicking on a section name in the player takes the user to the beginning of that section Table of Contents X Time Entry Title 00 00 00 Intoducton 00 01 23 91 In the field 00 03 20 19 Spint holes Add Remove A There are several things to note about this tool
34. tions 1 The small video layout places the media display and control in the upper left hand corner of the player and the slides in a larger resizable box on the right hand side of the player This is the default layout It looks like this AAA eTEACH Player v1 0 0a PBJ m2 44 gt gt Peanut butter and jelly the making of a sandwich 3 cd b 00 00 12 Director Greg Moses Introduction 00 00 09 93 Actor Greg Moses Learning Outcomes 00 00 16 79 Producer Greg Moses Hey OF PENSE eee Stagehand Greg Moses Ingredients 00 02 17 86 ES Ko Greg Moses 2006 Construction Methods 00 05 59 95 Cutting the sandwich 00 10 56 00 Eating the sandwich 00 12 14 91 Contents Resources 2 The large video layout places the media display and control in the larger resizable box on the right hand side of the player and the slides in a smaller box in the upper left hand corner It looks like this Page 38 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Player layout tool eee eTEACH Player v1 0 0a Construction methods The basic sandwich Peanut butter on ane slice of bread and jelly on the other Best for immediate consumption Altemative method Peanut butter on both slices of bread with jelly in between Peanul butter provides a barrier against saturation of the bread with jelly Best for later consumption Contents Resources Introduction 00 00 09 93 amp Learning Outcomes 00
35. ve download because the user s browser downloads the entire media file but the player can begin playing the file before the download is complete Still there is a delay while the browser downloads the file before playback can begin And the user cannot navigate to a later point in the presentation until that point in the media file has been downloaded To have the eTEACH fetch its media from a streaming server select the Add streaming media menu item in the eTEACH authors media tool menu You will be prompted for a URL Flash streaming media URLs begin with rtmp followed by a server name and a path to the streaming media file rtmp atsosxdev doit wisc edu oflaDemo slide 5 mp3 is an example of a stream media URL Streaming media can improve the user s experience by shortening the initial delay in playback the presentation In effect the player sips at the media stream only requesting as much of the media file as it needs to play at the moment The player can request any segment of the media file It does not need to have downloaded the entire media file up to that point before it can play the segment of interest The improvement in performance is most noticeable when media files are large and when the bandwidth available to the user is low Streaming media introduces a dependency on a specialized server a Flash media server that has to be available for the presentation to play Using streaming media adds a small amount of extra
36. ver will now generate the presentation and display a sample presentation launch page Follow the link on this page to view the lecture 2c To deploy the presentation on a web site on in a course management system press the toolbar s Export icon The authoring server will prepare a ZIP archive of the presentation and pass it to your browser to download This archive can be uploaded to its hosting environment using that server s tools Page 16 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Start animated slides Inserting and Editing Animated Slides When PowerPoint presentations with animations are converted for use in eTEACH the end state of each animation is rendered as an image The conversion process does not capture the movement of the animation In effect the conversion process creates snapshots of the animations The animations are grouped together into a set below the parent slide This grouping is retained as the group is added to the presentation timeline An animated slide group looks like this in the slide list 2 Overview of 2 1 Overvie s 2 2 Overvie Animation Slide Sequence 2 3 Overvie 2 4 Overvie a Click on the main slide to highlight it b Click on the insert button in the Slides Tool The entire set of slides will appear in the Timeline Tool c Finish inserting slides into the lecture You can come back at the end to adjust the timing on each animation within this slide Adjusting the tim
37. with a fixed start and end times so that only the desired segment of the presentation is played To do this add parameters to the URL used to launch the player The start time parameter is startTime The stop time parameter is stopTime For example if you want to have the playback of the presentation begin a 2 minutes 35 seconds and end at 6 minutes 17 seconds you would launch the presentation using a URL that looks like this http domain edu course presentation one eteach player html startTime 155 amp stopTime 377 The parameter values are expressed in seconds or in HH MM SS format Hours can be omitted 6 17 could be used to express our stop time above You can omit either parameter Page 24 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Media tool Media Tool Use the media tool to upload a media file or a Runtime Media Aggregation configuration ZIP package or to assign a streaming URL The running length of the media determines the length of the timeline v Media x Upload Media Add Streaming Media Upload Media Aggregation Place Slides To Aggregated Media Actual Size 4 00 00 00 There are several things to note about his tool Its menu accessed through the button offers several options To upload media that will be packaged with the published presentation use the Upload Media menu item Use the Add Streaming Media menu item to configure the presentation to retrieve its media from a Flash Streaming Med
38. workspace there is a list of ten topics each of which can contain any number of presentations Authors are free to group presentations within topics in whatever way makes sense and is convenient Page 4 of 45 v 3 0 eTEACH User s Manual Quick Starts creating a new presentation Quick Starts These quick starts take you through the basic steps of creating a simple eTEACH presentation with video or audio media and slides Other eTEACH features such as handling animated slides setting up a table of contents for your presentation changing the player layout and adding captions resources and quizzes are described later in this manual Creating a new presentation A newly created eTEACH presentation is an empty container in which a media file or files a slide set resources quizzes and so on reside The first step in creating an eTEACH presentation is to create this container Let s assume that you have an account in the eTEACH authoring site and that a presentation space has been created for you You have logged into the site and now are presented with a list of presentation workspaces These will likely be organized into various groups l Locate your presentation space from this list and follow the link to your space Your presentation space is organized into a number of topics for your convenience Think of these topics as convenient buckets into which you place presentations 2 Find the Turn editing on button in the upper right
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