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Best Practices For Using Lectora To Create Courses For Elevate
Best Practices For Using Lectora To Create Courses For Elevate
Best Practices For Using Lectora To Create Courses For Elevate
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ADDING MULTIMEDIA TO YOUR COURSE. 4 PUBLISHING A COURSE TO SCORM FOR LOADING ONTO ELEVATE LMS. 6
Intel or AMD class processor 500MB RAM 1.1GB free hard disk space for the application Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (required to install Flypaper)
Internet courses produced by Lectora require Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer or any version of Mozilla Firefox. CD-ROM courses produced by Lectora require one of the following operating systems and a CDROM drive:
Select Add > Object from the menu bar and select the type of object you want to add. Click the corresponding toolbar graphic. Drag and drop the object to your work area. Right-click in the work area, select New > Object, and select the type of object you want to add. Insert the object from the Media Library Organizer.
JPEG (.jpeg, .jpg) GIF (.gif) TIFF (.tif) Windows Bitmap (.bmp) Windows Enhanced Metafiles (.emf) Windows Metafiles (.wmf) Portable Network Graphics (.png)
Flash Audio (.flv) Uncompressed Windows audio (.wav) Standard MIDI (.mid) MPEG, Audio layer 3 (.mp3) MPEG 4 Audio (.m4a) Advanced Systems Format (.asf) RealMedia streaming media (.rm) uLaw audio (.au) Windows Media audio (.wma)
All audio files must be compressed to run at a bit-rate of 56 or 64 kbps to avoid slow page loading times. Dimensions should be 320 x 240. When encoding the audio, please record all sound in mono.
Apple QuickTime movie (.mov) Audio Video Interleave (.avi) Flash Video (.flv and .f4v) Moving Picture Experts Group (.mpg, .mpeg, .MPEG-4, mpg4, .M4V, .MP4) Real Media (.rm, .rmm) 4
Windows Media Video (.wmv) Flash, YouTube, Microsoft, and RealMedia streaming video formats
Essential Learnings Recommended Model for Using Audio/Video When it comes to e-learning, audio and video is most effective when used to enhance a course rather than as the primary way of delivering information. Why? Most of our customers either do not have access to speakers and/or sound cards or they take courses at their desk in an open area where they cannot play audio without using headphones. Additionally, audio increases bandwidth of courses which can significantly increase loading time for courses on slower computers. If you decide you would like to incorporate audio/video in your e-learning course, here are the recommended ways to use it: As an introduction to a topic/section As background narration for a vignette or scenario As a visual example (i.e. video clip of a role play between client and provider) To explain complicated graphics When you use audio/video: 1. Use no more than 30 second clips on a page 2. Use text for key teaching points and audio for enhancement 3. Never read what is already on the screen Remember: while audio can be used numerous ways, it is important to be selective when choosing when and how to use it so that it doesn't overwhelm the learner and diminish learning.
Completed Action
On the last page of your course, you must put a completed action in order for the course to register as complete on the LMS. See screen shot below.
In Title Explorer, you must assign an Assignable Unit Name (see screen shot below):
Publishing to SCORM
To publish your title to a SCORM system, follow these steps (see screen shot below): 1. Save your course. 2. From the Publish menu, select Publish to SCORM/Web-Based. Lectora performs an error check and displays the results in the Publish Title to SCORM Compliant Web Content window. 3. Resolve any errors within your title. If necessary, click Cancel and repeat steps 1 and 2 until your title is free of errors. 4. Click Publish when you are satisfied with the results of the error check. The Publish SCORM Location window opens. 5. Once you have completed configuring all of the publishing options (see below for more information about setting up these options), click OK. Your title is published to your local directory. 6. Click the Done button to close the publishing window. When available, you can also click the Preview button to launch the published title. Note: When you make changes to your title, you will need to republish it so the new changes are reflected in the published title. Repeat these steps as necessary to republish your title.
PUBLISHING SET UP OPTIONS Use the following tabs to specify publishing options.
URL of Course Folder Course Description Additional Keywords The published course will be presented in a separate window other than the LMS The published course will report Test/Survey
Select this to record interaction of contained in the graded test being submitted to LMS
The published course will prompt to restore the last viewed location within the LMS
OPTIONS TAB
When you publish your title, you have a number of different publishing options. After selecting to publish to the desired format, use the controls on the Options tab to specify the following (see screen shot below): Destination Folder Specify the directory in which you want to save the resulting files of the published title. Click the Choose Folder button to navigate and select a location Select this option
Publish Only Updated Pages/Resources Use JavaScript Title Manager Store Published Title in a Zip File
Select this option if you want your course to be Section 508 compliant. This will create ALT tags for all images Select this option
Select this option to display Web 2.0/AJAX-based pop-up windows. This option is enabled by default Do not select this option Do not select this option unless you want to debug course within its published format
When publishing your course to SCORM for Elevate LMS, you do not need to worry about the following four tabs: 1. FTP Options Tab: only use this tab if you want to FTP your course to a server. 2. Proxies Tab: only use this tab if you need to connect to your Web server through a proxy or if you are required to go through a firewall. 10
3. Compression Tab: only use this tab to select the Audio, Video, or Images check boxes to compress the multimedia types within your title. Use the sliders to select from ten different levels of compression.
When your compression settings are low, the quality of the audio, video, and images will be maximized. When your compression settings are high, the quality of the audio, video, and images will be minimized
4. Languages Tab: only use this tab to if you have translated your course into multiple languages.
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You can use hyperlinked text, buttons, and other objects to execute actions when clicked. Section 508 requires that such objects must be accessible with the use of a keyboard only. Objects, like buttons, that have an On Mouse Click action attached to them will be able to receive focus when a user presses the Tab key. When the button, hyperlink, or other clickable object is in focus, the user can then press the Enter key to execute its actions. You must ensure that these objects are properly labeled or have a proper ALT tag so the user is aware of what will happen when the button or object is clicked. Hyperlinks should be logical and able to stand alone, out of context. Links should always be linked to information that is relevant to the content. When hyperlinking text, do not use hyperlinks such as Click here to access the Learning Portal. Instead, use descriptive hyperlinks such as Access the Learning Portal.