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1: LAMS Interactive Tutorials
02/15/06 10:47 PM
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Hi Everyone,

We have been working on a number of quick online tutorials to show how to use LAMS. The tutorials are at both a general level - "authoring", "Using optional activities", "Monitoring" and "Learner" and at a specific tools level. Check them out at the following URL:

http://lamsinternational.com/documents/1.0/winks/

Still to come are:
- Monitoring
- Learner
- Chat and Scribe
- Double tools
- How to Import/Export LAMS sequences

We'd love to get some feedback from the community! How useful are the tutorials? Are they at an appropriate level for staff and learners at your institution? Are there any other topics you'd like to see added?

Your feedback is greatly appreciated :-)

Posted by Karen Baskett

2: Re: LAMS Interactive Tutorials
In response to 1 08/16/06 05:46 PM
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The tutorials give a clear and quick overview of how to create a project yourself and put it up to the students.

What we are struggling with as new users is how to manage a project where various members of a team are working on pieces of it.

Things seem to be automatically locking up on us and file path changes ?? are causing us to lose links from web sites loaded.

The tutorials don't cover sharing a project within a team environment well or the saving process , default naming conventions when a file needs to be authored by several people from the same root directory.

Posted by Sandra Ridings

3: Re: Re: LAMS Interactive Tutorials
In response to 2 08/19/06 09:38 PM
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Hi Sandra,

When you are saying "manage a project where various members of a team are working on pieces of it."

Do you mean, several authors trying to work together in the same sequence?

If so, LAMS v1.0.2 locks the sequence when you run it with a class (when you select the sequence and assign it to a class in monitor). This lock does not allow you to re-save this sequence again. However, you can open the sequence and then save it with another name.

Possibly the best way for people to work on a sequence together is for all of the authors to put the sequence in a public folder (or a folder that they all can access it). Then allow each of them to contribute their piece -although you need to ensure that some two people will not work on the file at the same time, otherwise they will overwrite each others changes (just like happens with Word). Each of the authors can preview the sequence to view how everyone's parts play as a whole. And once you all are happy with the final sequence, you can assign it to a class in Monitor.

If you need to improve the original sequence, you can always open it, but need to save it with a new name (Mysequence_v2 for example?).

Hope that helps.

Now in LAMS v2.0, sequences don't get locked any more, so you can *always* go back and modify them as many times as you like without worrying about locks and all that.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

4: Re: LAMS Interactive Tutorials
In response to 1 01/04/07 11:41 PM
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The tutorials with voice are great - just what I needed to get started.

Thanks James.

Nina

Posted by Nina Jenkins

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