Sergey Sosnovsky, Saarland University / DFKI

Authoring Workflow

Saarbrücken, 08/07/2015

Old Authoring WorkflowSource Content Conversion Tools

Content in OMDoc Slicing

Individual Learning Objects Structure Annotation

Typed Learning Objects Metadata Annotation

Annotated Learning Objects Translation

Final Content

Old Authoring Environment

New Authoring Environment

New Authoring Environment (cont.)❖ WYSIWYG❖ Web-based❖ Built into the rest of the platform

❖ access to content and tools (search, exercise runner)

❖ Creation of new Learning Objects (Static and Interactive)❖ Automatic population of descriptive metadata (creator,

contributor, date)

❖ Editing/Translation of existing Learning Objects (Static and Interactive)❖ Metadata, Formulae, Exercise interaction inheritance

New Authoring Environment (cont.)To edit an existing learning object is must

be copied to the workspace…

…if the licence permits it

Learning Objects are created and edited in a personal workspace of the author

Access to the content

base

New Authoring Environment (cont.)

Changes are saved to Sandbox

Once ready, the LO can be published

PublishingLO

❖ Ifauthorisalreadyacontributororcreator❖ Exis5nglearningobjectwillbeoverwri:en

❖ IfNOT❖ AnewcopyofthisLOwillbecreatedwiththeauthorasacontributor

Summary New LO?

YES,creating new

NO, modifying existent

Start authoring

Creator=You

New LO is created in your

Workspace

NO, Licence forbids

derivatives

YES

A new copy of the LO is

created in your Workspace

Contribuotr=You

Are you already Creator or a Contributor of this LO

NO

When Publishing a new copy of

the LO is created in the content base

YES

The LO is copied to your

Workspace

When Publishing the LO is added to the content

base

When Publishing the LO is

updated in the content base

Licence allows changes

Not Possible

Creating a new exercise