Re: [Eclass-users] Hi guys, i'm Stefano

[Kevin O. <ke...@tu...>]

Hi Stefano,

Unfortunately, the tutorial is pretty much all that's there, although 
I've just started a little project to update the web site and 
documentation for the new 2.5 version. EClass.Builder been under heavy 
development for most of this year, so the docs would have changed by 
the time they were written. ;-) In the meantime, I'll be happy to 
answer your questions!

I should note also that the "EClass Page" plugin, which is the default 
plugin in EClass, was designed partially to help us migrate our data 
out of a proprietary system (built in Toolbook) that was not 
Internet-friendly. Some of the functionality in EClass was originally 
created in order to minimize the migration work involved in converting 
our courses. The term hotword, BTW, is a carry over from this old 
system. =)

Hotwords are basically a way of creating hyperlinks in the page text. 
In addition to creating a "plain"  web link, you can also create a new 
EClass Page as a hotword, and specify which media file(s) you'd like to 
appear when the learner clicks on the hyperlink. When you save an 
EClass Page (it is automatically saved when you click OK), EClass 
automatically scans the page text for any hotwords you created, 
generates the necessary HTML code to create the hotword page, and 
generates the hyperlink.

For objectives, those refer to the "learning objectives" of that 
particular page/module, so that the learner can see just what 
knowledge, skills, etc. the author would like them to obtain from that 
particular page or module.

Note that part of the reason for the somewhat awkward design of the 
EClass Page format was the lack of a good HTML or rich text editor in 
wxPython. That's why the process is not 'visual' - the user inserts 
files and EClass does it's magic by generating the proper HTML code to 
make it all work.

With wxMozilla's editing mode now working (see the "web page" plugin), 
I'm rapidly working on resolving that problem so that "hotwords" can be 
created more naturally simply by selecting the text and clicking the 
"hyperlink" button. ;-) I fully intend to make the "web page" plugin a 
fully multimedia-aware HTML editor over the next few months so that 
people can have more control over the look and feel of their content, 
and so that the process is more intuitive, at least in the sense that 
most everyone is comfortable using a word processor. ;-)

Please feel free to let me know if you have more questions!

Thanks,

Kevin

On Nov 6, 2003, at 1:49 PM, Stefano Gaburri wrote:

> Hi, I'm a new guy :)
>
> I've just got a quick question: is there any documentation besides the 
> 2-page tutorial? I find it relatively difficult to understand 
> everything in the tool (like, hotwords or objectives, what are those 
> for?).
>
> thanks,
> Stefano
>
>
>
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