Steps to follow when developing a course Course Development Note: Press F5 to view the PowerPoint

Steps to follow when developing a course

Course Development

Note: Press F5 to view the PowerPoint.

The graphic below lists the steps required to develop a course for the DanEL Christian College. Use this graphic as a quick reference guide or click on any of the sections below for further detail about any step in the process.

For solutions to known issues, click the Troubleshoot button. To access additional resources related to developing with PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter, click the Resources button. To return to the Start Here page from anywhere in the course, click the DanEL Christian College banner.

Develop a Course

How to Use This Guide

1. Open the document(s) from which you’ll be copying information to include in your course.

2. Locate the appropriate PowerPoint template from here.

3. Click the dropdown arrow to the right of the template, choose Send To and then select Download a Copy.

4. Choose Save from the PowerPoint prompt that appears next, and save it with the title for your course in the appropriate location on your computer.

5. When the download has completed, click Open.

Choose Template

Steps to Follow

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This slide contains the information shown below.

If you choose to include a page with additional navigation options, ensure the page number stated here is correct. If not, then delete the statement.

In either case, delete the “Note to developer” textbox and red arrow.

Note: If you delete the statement, you will need to move up the attachment icon to align with the sentence that mentions it.

Delete Unnecessary Slides and Information

Slide 2 of Template

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OverviewThese slides set up quick rollover overviews of modules. They also provide custom navigation for reaching each module with one click.

How to Use1.Add all the rest of the course content.2.Pass the course to a developer who knows how to employ this functionality or ask for a walkthrough of how to make it work.

If you will not be using this navigation, delete slides 4–7.


Slides 4–7 of Template

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These optional slides can be placed at the beginning of modules to let learners know where they are. To use, simply place immediately before the first slide of a module.

If you will not be using these slides, just delete them.


Module Introduction Slides of Template

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These optional slides can be placed at the beginning of quizzes to let learners know where they are. To use, simply place immediately before the first quiz slide of a module.

If you will not be using these slides, just delete them.


Knowledge Check Introduction Slides of Template

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Be sure to update this page with the required information. Also, delete anything not needed.


Reference Material and Congratulations Page – Final Slide of Template

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Now you’re ready to copy and paste information from its source into the appropriate sections of your template. The template will then automatically format and position your text.

Note: If you paste text into a template placeholder text field (i.e., the heading, subheading, or body text textbox), it may be necessary to use the “Keep Text Only” option when pasting.

Use Template

Inputting Information

Section Font

Heading Arial 22-pt. bold Subheading Arial 18-pt.Body text Arial 16-pt.

Also, PowerPoint makes its textboxes Calibri 18-pt. by default. If you use a new textbox (including pasting text into anywhere other than a preset template field), be sure to correct this to align with our standards.

How to Tell if the Text Pasted CorrectlyYou can confirm the text pasted correctly by checking it against the following standards.

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To create a new slide, select the appropriate slide from the Layout dropdown in the Home tab.

Alternatively, you can duplicate an existing slide. This is useful if you will be using the same heading or graphics for more than one slide.

Types of SlidesThe only slides you would normally ever need are:

•Non-quiz slide•Multiple-choice quiz slide•Matching quiz slide•Blank slide (useful for screenshots)

Any other type of slide can be created by adding and positioning textboxes as needed.

Use Template

Creating New Slides

Use Ctrl + D to duplicate any slide selected in Slides view (found at the left of your presentation).

You can also use Ctrl + D to duplicate objects such as shapes, textboxes, pictures, etc.

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Quiz slides are duplicated in the same way as non-quiz slides. To create new quiz questions, follow these steps.

1.If you know how many quiz questions you’ll be using, duplicate the template’s quiz slide (multiple-choice or matching) that number of times minus 1.

2.Open Quiz Manager.

3.From the Appearance tab, apply the PS_LPT profile. How?

4.Click Edit for the first quiz question and input the question and distractors, remembering to denote the correct answer.

Use Template

The Fastest Way to Do Quiz Slides

Important: If you are allowing more than one attempt to a quiz question, click the Options tab and check to make sure the Show Retry Message checkbox is checked before clicking OK.

4.When all quiz questions have been completed, click OK.

5.After all quiz slides are completed, it is recommended to choose a location for the feedback to appear; this will depend on how much space is available on your quiz slides.

6.Select all the feedback boxes and align the top and left side of them to be stacked together in the same place. How?

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Apply Quiz Settings

Quiz Settings Tab

Change the name of the quiz from “Quiz” to differentiate it from your other quizzes.

Set the Required: dropdown to “Answer all – the user must answer every question to continue”

Only the Allow backward movement checkbox should be checked.

Quiz Name and Settings

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Apply Quiz Settings

Pass or Fail Options

Set the number of quiz attempts to 99.

Note: This is only for the quiz. For questions within the quiz, learners should not be allowed more than two attempts.

“Allow user:” Setting

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Apply Quiz Settings

Quiz Manager

Change Default Labels

Default labels should be changed as shown.

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This concludes the Course Development Section.

Continue

The graphic below lists the steps required to quality-check a course for the DanEL Christian College. Use this graphic as a quick reference guide or click on any of the sections below for further detail about any step in the process.

For solutions to known issues, click the Troubleshoot button. To access additional resources related to developing with PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter, click the Resources button. To return to the Start Here page from anywhere in the course, click the DanEL Christian College banner.

Quality-Check a Course

How to Use This Guide

Prior to a thorough proofreading, it is important to ensure that additional content will not need to be added. Once it is confirmed that your course’s content is complete, proceed to the next step, proofreading the text.

Check within PowerPoint

Confirm Content Is Complete

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It is important to not allow typographical errors to appear in your course. A thorough proofreading should include using PowerPoint’s spell check feature (F7 on your keyboard).

Accessibility TextAt this time, we are not mandating the use of alt tags. However, we must be prepared to provide this if requested.


Proofread Text

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Content should be positioned consistently on each slide, as much as possible. Utilizing the template’s layouts will help with this, but the Size and Position features of PowerPoint should also be used, as needed.

How to Do ThisA short YouTube video provides an excellent demonstration of ensuring text and objects are positioned consistently across slides, to avoid a “jumping” effect.


Check Positioning of Content

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Change the Title: field to the title of your course. Note: Be sure to also include the course number.

Apply Presentation Settings

Appearance Tab (Setting 1 of 4)

Optionally, you can add a course description in the Summary: field.

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Playback Tab (Setting 2 of 4)

Set the slide duration to 0.0 seconds. Only the “Auto play on start” checkbox should be checked.

Note: If “Auto play on start” is not checked, then animation will not play automatically.

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Set the audio quality to low bandwidth.


Quality Tab (Setting 3 of 4)

Set the image quality to high.

Check the “Control Preloading” checkbox, and select “Disable preloading of embedded Flash content.”

Check the “Use these settings for new presentations” checkbox.

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To add attachments to your course, view the posting titled “Create a File Link for a Presenter Course” on the Training Developer Wiki.


Attachments Tab (Setting 4 of 4)

Note: If you are using links to Internet or intranet sites, it is not necessary to add them as links here. If you do add them here, it will make them available from the paperclip icon when published.

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This is an important step, as not doing so will result in some slides not appearing when published.

To apply this setting, perform the following steps.

1.Open Slide Manager.

2.Click the Select All button.

3.Click the Edit button.

4.Ensure that the “Advance by user” checkbox indicates that all slides have this setting applied.

Apply Slide Manager Settings

Set All Slides to “Advance by User”

Some slides are set to “Advance by user”

All slides are set to “Advance by user”

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When your course is published, it can be helpful for learners to have our contact information. The image at right depicts what the learner will see at the top right when the course is published.

To make this information visible to the learner, perform the following steps.

1.Open Slide Manager.

2.Click the Select All button.

3.Click Edit.

4.From the dropdown list, choose DanEL Christian College.

Apply Slide Manager Settings

Change “Presented By:” Field to “DanEL Christian College”

Course title

Our identifier and tagline

Clicking “Contact” opens an email for the learner to contact us

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Before using the Course Enrollment (CE) Simulator, you can view your course—as it will appear when published—by publishing locally in Presenter.

Note: Publishing locally will usually show the course exactly as it will appear in Saba. However, the CE Simulator is specifically designed to do this.

Publish Locally and Test

Overview

Functionality of quiz feedback should tested.

QuizzesCorrect, Incomplete, Retry, and Incorrect feedback should be tested—ideally in this order.

1.Confirm that the Correct answer feedback fires. 2.Refresh the published course (press F5 in the Explorer window containing the published presentation) and ensure that the Incomplete feedback, Retry feedback (if learners are given more than one try on a question) and Incorrect feedback fire.

If quiz feedback does not appear, try this workaround.


Check Functionality of Quizzes

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All hyperlinks, whether to slides within the presentation or content or websites elsewhere, need to be tested.

HyperlinksSometimes hyperlinks—including mouseovers—will work when previewed in PowerPoint but not when published in Presenter. It’s important to confirm all links work when published from Presenter.

Important: Avoid deleting slides, as this can cause links to break. If you need to delete slides, a safer approach is to first move such slides to the very end of the presentation and then delete them.

If links to slides within your presentation don’t work, try this workaround.If links to files don’t work, try this workaround.


Check Functionality of Hyperlinks

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A course previewed from PowerPoint may look fine, but it can look different when published from Presenter. Examples include:

• Paragraphs not aligning correctly – workaround• Bulleted lists not aligning correctly – workaround

Publishing locally from Presenter will reveal such issues so they can be fixed prior to uploading the course to SharePoint and using the CE Simulator.


Check Positioning of Content

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Having reviewed your course yourself, it is now time for a QA check.

Selecting a ReviewerTo have your course QA-reviewed, contact Luciana.

Note: You will need to first access the DanEL Christian College Functionality Testing Checklist. Include any special instructions for the reviewer, and then save and attach this document to the email you send to the reviewer.

What to Do if You Have Been Asked to Review a CourseIf you have been asked to review a course, the requestor should have sent you a copy of the DanEL Christian College Functionality Testing Checklist containing any instructions for reviewing the specific course in question. If you did not receive this in the email sent to you, ask the reviewer for it.

Once you are sure you understand any custom instructions provided, review the course, following the instructions on the Checklist. When finished, email the course developer with your completed Checklist attached, along with any questions or comments you feel would be helpful.

Important: Review the course in the order presented on the Checklist.


Hand off to QA Reviewer

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The publishing steps are found here. Use this online (as opposed to printing it), as it contains links to other information necessary for publishing.

The steps entail the following process:

1.Prepare publishing environment.2.Apply settings for communication with course enrollment tool.3.Publish final version of course for learner.

Publish

Follow Publishing Steps

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This concludes the Course Development Section.

Continue

Getting Started with Adobe PresenterHas links to Adobe Presenter manual and four short videos: Getting Started, Using Quizzes, Branching Options, and Settings.

PowerPoint FAQ

Resources

Adobe Connect User CommunityAdobe Presenter ForumAdobe Presenter Manual

Troubleshooting

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Steps to follow when developing a course Course Development Note: Press F5 to view the PowerPoint