Forum Getting Started: Re: LAMS Interactive Tutorials

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