LM-Light: A New E-Learning Standard
About LM-Light Courses Learning Management Systems More Info

Introduction

The LM-Light Standard
 - Course Structure
 - LM-Light Tags
 - Starting a Course
 - On Each Page
 - Exiting a Course
 - Starting a Test
 - Saving a Test Score
 - Course Completion
 - Configuration File

Course Development
 - Development Environment
 - Using a Text Editor
 - Including Tests
 - Using PowerPoint
    - Option 1 - PDF
    - Option 2 - GIF/JPG
    - Option 3 - HTML
 - Using Lectora
 - Download Tools
 - Diagnosing Problems

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LM-Light Standard : Creating Courses : Course Structure

There are some simple rules that need to be followed in arranging the course structure:

  1. The course must be contained in a single folder/directory. There can, however, be any number of subfolders/subdirectories as required by the course developer.

  2. There must be a page called either 'index.html' or 'index.htm' at the top level of the folder. This is the default start page for the course. Note that the name of this file is case-sensitive - it should be in lower case only.

  3. All files that include LM-Light tags must have .html or .htm extensions.

  4. An optional configuration file called 'config.txt' can be included at the top level of the folder/directory tree. This is used to provide information to the LMS such as the course title, the course description and the size of the window that should be opened.

There are no restrictions on what the pages/files contain. For instance, they might be plain HTML, HTML + JavaScript, HTML + Flash, a frameset including other files etc. Other forms of content can also be included such as Java applets, or audio and video files.

Examples

This is a valid course structure. There is a default start page (index.htm) and all of the files have valid names. The course developer has chosen not to include the optional configuration file (config.txt).

Although the files are shown with .htm extensions, they could equally well have been created with .html extensions.

This is a valid course structure. There is a default start page (index.htm) and all of the files have valid names. The course developer has included the optional configuration file (config.txt), and has created a subfolder/subdirectory to hold all of the image files.
This is a valid course structure. There is a default start page (index.htm). Each of the pages has been stored in a separate subfolder/subdirectory, and the course developer has included the optional configuration file (config.txt).
This is NOT a valid course structure. The developer has forgotten to include the default start page.

 

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