Before you build the actual Course
Content sections, consider your audience. Consider how they are connected to
your server and what kinds of helper technology they have included with their
web browsers.
If everyone has a high-speed
connection to your server, then large graphic, audio or video content may be
appropriate. If, however, the students will connect through modems over the
public Internet, perhaps simple HTML pages or content authored in FlexTraining
should be used for course material.
Also, what kind of file formats are
your students set up to handle? If they do not have Audio Player plug-ins
installed with their web browsers, they will not be able to hear your audio
content no matter how fast it loads. The same goes for video files and
animation technology such as Macromedia’s ShockWave.
The simplest course content for a web
browser to handle is basic HTML, which you can build with any HTML editor, such
as Front Page, DreamWeaver or even Microsoft Word.
You should identify or build your course content pages or
documents, or build screens and lessons in FlexAuthoring, before continuing.
These pages or documents may be on your server, or anywhere on the Internet or
your Intranet.
You access the Content Sections tools from the “Build
Courses – Table Method” screen.When you
click on the number that represents the number of sections for a given course,
the content builder frameset will open up.
The bottom frame provides details for the sections that have
already been defined.These details
include the Title, the Location and filename, and the Type of content that make
up each course section.
Begin by choosing a Course Section from the list in the
upper-right frame.
The list of Sections will start out empty before you have
defined any section content. Each entry will say “CREATE CONTENT FOR THIS
SECTION.” The number of entries in the list will be the number of Course
Sections you defined in your lesson plan for this course.