How to Use

CourseLab 2.4
Prof. Roberto E. Lpez
Universidad Central del Caribe
April 2012

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements for working with

CourseLab:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003;
Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher;
50MB hard drive space;

Minimum system requirements for viewing learning

modules:
Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 (limited support for

Microsoft Windows 95 *), and Linux

Internet Explorer 5.0 (Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher recommended),
Mozilla FireFox 1.0 or higher, Netscape 7.2 or higher, limited support**
for Opera 9.0 and higher and Safari 3.0 (Win) and higher
JavaScript enabled
XML support enabled (Microsoft XML Parser 3.0 or higher recommended
for Internet Explorer***)

Compliance to Standards

Learning modules created using

CourseLab are compliant with the
following e-Learning standards:
AICC (http://www.aicc.org/ )
SCORM 1.2 (http://www.adlnet.org/ )
SCORM 2004 (SCORM 1.3)

(http://www.adlnet.org/ )

Testing Capabilities
The current version of
CourseLab supports the
following types of
questions:
single choice
multiple select
ordered items
numerical fill-in-blank
text fill-in-blank
matching pairs

Supported
formats

Rich Media

Pictures

AIFF
WMA (Windows Media Audio)
MP3
WAV
SWF (Adobe Flash)

Text
RichText-mode text editing
HTML-mode text editing
JavaScript code insertion

Audio

GIF (including Animated GIF)

JPG
PNG
BMP

Video

AVI
WMV (Windows Media Video)
MPEG
MOV (QuickTime Movie)
RM (Real Media)
FLV (Adobe Flash Video)

Adobe Flash
Adobe Shockwave
Java-applets

Attaching external files

Text file (TXT)

HTML (.HTM, .HTML)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Microsoft Word (DOC)
Microsoft Excel (XLS)
Adobe PDF
ZIP archive

Hierarchy
Learning Management System
Learning Module
Folders
Slide
Fram
e

Course Lab Window

Course Lab Window

Working Area

Course Lab Window

Outline Pane

Course Lab Window

Slides Pane

Course Lab Window

Frames Pane

Course Lab Window

Timeframe Pane

Course Lab Window

Frame Pane

Creating a
New Course

File
New
Course

Editing a Module

Module
Desing

Settings

Special Slides

Title Slide

Master Slide

Normal Slide

Editing Title Slide

View
Title

Editing Master Slide

View
Master

Editing Normal Slide

View
Normal

New Slide

Insert
New Slide

Publishing Formats

There are different output choices for

Course publishing:
For launching from a CD
For distribution in a Learning Management

System, which supports the AICC standard

For distribution in a Learning Management
System, which supports the SCORM 1.2
standard
For distribution in a Learning Management
System, which supports the SCORM 2004
standard

Publishing a Course

The sequence of publishing steps is as

follows:
1. Specify the runtime settings for each

Module
2. Specify the Course runtime settings
3. Launch the Publish Course wizard

Module Runtime Settings

Module
Runtime Settings

Module Runtime Settings

General Tab
Identifier is a short

Module ID which will be

used in the Learning
Management System.
Description is a brief
informal description of
the Course, which will
be used within the
Learning Management
System in the Module
card.

Module Runtime Settings

Checks Tab
specify the software

components that
need to be checked
for availability on a
students computer
prior to launching
Module.

Module Runtime Settings

Runtime Tab
specify any extra

execution
parameters.

Module Runtime Settings

Module Runtime Settings