Hi Everyone,
For those of you who use Dreamweaver there are a couple of extensions available that may help out with the creation and importing of content as well. These are:
* L5 SCORM Producer ("... enables you to take raw e-learning content, which you develop in Dreamweaver, and produce ready-to-deploy SCORM packages that can be delivered over any SCORM-compliant LMS or learning delivery system")
* Content Packager for IMS ("... enables you to take e-learning content, which you develop in Dreamweaver, and produce ready-to-deploy course packages that can be delivered over WebCT Campus Edition 4.0, WebCT Vista 2.1 and other standards-compliant LMS or learning delivery system products.")
* Manifest Maker for ADL SCORM 1.2
* Course Generator for WebCT
I have used the Course Generator for WebCT to create a manifest and import HTML files to automatically create a Content Module in WebCT 4.1 and have done the same with Reload. I would be interested in hearing of any experiences of using Reload or any of the Dreamweaver extensions with WebCT Vista.
Michael - would it be possible to see your "import adapter"?
Thanks,
Greig
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Greig Fratus
eLearning Materials Developer, eLearning Team
Information Services, The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham UK B15 2TT
Ext: + 44 121 4142758
http://www.weblearn.bham.ac.uk/
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Michael Aherne
Sent: 02 December 2004 16:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] Mini Courses
Hi
We've found using Respondus to create content packages offline and then importing them into WebCT to be very efficient. It's also less error prone than uploading the files and linking them into a content module within WebCT.
To get round the problems with the WebCT import tool I wrote a Reload "import adapter" for WebCT, which runs as part of the IMS import tool. It turns nested organisations into nested items (which will import properly) and fixes a couple of other things which can potentially cause problems. It's a grey area, though, whether this counts as altering the WebCT source code (possibly invalidating the license) so it might not be a good idea to install it on a live server.
Michael Aherne
Web Developer / WebCT Administrator
Reid Kerr College
Renfrew Road
Paisley
PA3 4DR
Tel: 0141 581 2311
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www.reidkerr.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Peter Travis
Sent: 02 December 2004 09:55
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] Mini Courses
Hi
I'd be interested to hear how you got on when you imported the IMS package into your VLE. In our own VLE we have discovered two issues:
1) If your package contains multiple organisations the VLE will not represent this.
2) If your Package contains a link to an external website, directly accessible from a link created by adding the url as a resource in Reload it will work fine in the Reload viewer and also in the LRN toolkit but will not work in the VLE. The oinly way around this is to add the url to an html or Word document for example and then add this page as the resource.
Wecuse WebCT by the way.
Pete
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Peter Travis
Manager of Distributed Learning
Henley College Coventry
Bell Green
Coventry
CV2 1ED
Tel. 024 76 626300
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Dear All
I recently put together web pages which included several learning resources with the purpose of providing students with the means to start an outcome and complete it through summative assessment, all through self study on-line.
The resultant folder containing pages, assets, etc, is huge, to large to be posted to our VLE as HTML (to many files). To get around that problem I imported the material in to Reload Editor and generated a zipped IMS system.
I wondered whether anyone has created similar systems and/or whether you feel a system like this has its place. If you have created similar system, what software did you use to create the web pages?
Regards
David Wallace
Learning Resources
Jewel and Esk Valley College
Ext 7369
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