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 How to publish course

Module Runtime Settings. Before publishing your Course it is necessary to specify runtime settings for each Module in the Course. Select Module -> Runtime Settings sub-menu. “Module Properties” dialog window opens up (Fig.1). Identifier is a short Module id, which will be used as Module reference code in the Learning Management System. Description – brief informal description of the Module.


Fig.1

Use “Checks” tab to specify names of the software components that need to be checked for availability on student’s computer prior to launching Module. On “Runtime” tab you can specify some Module runtime parameters, such as: Show Title-Slide at Module Startup - if this checkbox is unchecked Title-Slide will be automatically skipped. Preload images - allows preloading all images of particular Slide before display. Usually this feature causes some delay (with "Loading images" progress bar) before transition to the Slide but then all the images of the Slide will be displayed much faster. Allow viewing Slides in sequential order only - this feature disables transition on the Slide that is unvisited yet and is not the next to last visited Slide in line. Transition to any visited Slide is not restricted. Scale module score to 100% - legacy feature. Modern e-Learning standards include special parameters for raw and scaled score.


Fig.2

Publish Course. After completing of all editing tasks Course should be published. Publishing Course - creation fully functional standalone (separate from CourseLab) version of the Learning Course intended for distribution on CD, in the Learning Management System and so on. During publishing only those elements which are required for displaying the Course are copied into the separate folder from the folder containing the working version of the Course, also some other elements added which are not used for editing, but require for Course display. The working version of the Course during publishing remains unchanged.
Depending on the prospective usage there are different choices of Course publishing:
launching from the CD distribution in the LMS, which supports AICC standard
distribution in the LMS, which supports SCORM 1.2 standard
distribution in the LMS, which supports SCORM 2004 standard

Select File -> Publish Course… sub-menu to start Course publishing. Follow wizard instructions to complete publishing.