Author Plus - Sharing Material

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Sharing your material


		Getting started
		How do I?
		The Exercises
		Giving Learners access
		Screen details
		Technical Support
		Sharing your material
		Reference
		Licence and terms
		Acknowledgements
		Copyright

		Working with many authors
		Importing and exporting
		SCORM

Working with many authors

You can set up an account for many authors to collaborate on a Course, or set of Courses. From within the main account, you can invite other accounts to merge.

Each author then has their own Author Plus login, which gives them access to the organisation's account, so that they are all working on the same material. Author Plus uses a simple locking mechanism to stop two people changing the same Exercise at once, but otherwise all authors are allowed to edit any material.

Learners logging into this account through the Learner URL will see all the Courses.

If you wish to have separate accounts for authors, but to share the material for learners, you keep each author's account separate from the school account, and then use export and import to share finished material.

If you have more than one author each working on different sets of materials that they do not wish to share. Click here to view information which will tell you how to set up a MyGroup account in Results Manager.
See also Licence

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Importing and exporting

Exporting

From the Menu screen select any Unit or Exercise. Click the Share button and choose Export. This will then make up a package of all the material in this Unit or Exercise and start downloading it. The package is in the form of one ZIP file. You will be asked where you want to download this file to in the usual way for your browser.

Once you have downloaded the ZIP file, you can then send it to anyone that you want to share your material with.

Importing

From the Menu screen, click the Share button and choose Import. You will be asked to select the ZIP file that contains the material you want to import. Only material exported from another copy of Author Plus can be imported. The whole ZIP file will be uploaded. You will then be shown the Units and or Exercises that the ZIP contains and you can choose which you want to import to your current Course. The names of the Units and Exercises will be taken from the ZIP file. If you have any with the same names already you will not lose work, but you will end up with identical names on the menu. You can then move the Units and Exercises around in the usual way.

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SCORM

Overview

SCORM is a standard for sharing and delivering content. (It stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model.) Any material created with Author Plus can be packaged and run under any SCORM compliant Learner Management System (LMS). To create a SCORM package, click the share button on the menu screen and choose Export for SCORM. In the same way as regular export, a ZIP file will be created that contains the Course material. This ZIP file is the SCORM package with an IMS (Instructional Management System) manifest. Once you have downloaded it, you can them import it into your LMS.

Details

Author Plus initially supports SCORM 1.3.

The level of Shared Content Object (SCO) is at the Unit level. This means that your LMS will get one score per Unit from the Author Plus material and learners can enter your Course only at the Unit level and cannot navigate between Units within Author Plus.

When you are running under SCORM, Author Plus no longer stores progress and the Scratch Pad is only saved on the computer the Learner is currently working on.

Author Plus has been tested with these LMS: Blackboard, WebCT, Dokeos, Reload, Moodle. Not all LMS support all features of the SCORM standard for full retrieval of scores, bookmarks, languages and so on. For full details of a particular LMS, please view our website technical support pages (search for SCORM) or contact us directly.