Has anyone had any experience developing workbooks? This is going to be an add on where the student would view the workbook inputting name, answers etc. This inputted text would then need to be recorded..
I see where you are going with that but IMHO, no Quizmaker would only be part of of the solution. You would need to develop the book it's self with Presenter. Then you need add chapter reviews to see if they understood what you put forth which Quizmaker could be used for. That's just my thought.
You know why don't you use an online office suite such as Google Docs where you could create a document, share with students and then they can update and share this same document with you. You could see the changes and at the end of course, you simply give them a deadline and say all work must be completed by x date and y time and then grade it. If they wished to download and complete it, they could simply email it to you as an attachment but honestly the Google Docs online option would be the route I would pursue.
what an interesting idea, you could set up a articulate course then direct the student to a url to fill out certain bits of a doc online, then direct them to access the course again...
I'm actually looking for something similar, and currently have the "workbook pages" as fill-able .pdfs available in the Attachments section. I would *love* to be able to create something that was more like an active question and answer where the data would be captured, then available for digital storage/print out at the end of the course ...
Does anyone have any thoughts/experience doing this without creating a database or independent program? I dont' have the budget or time for that "fancy shmancy" Thanks in advance!
Use a course management software such as Moodle or Blackboard. Your workbook is done with Articulate and the quizes are handled by the LMS. Option 2 would involve PHP programming with a MySQL database to hold the information. I've actually done the later and it's not for the faint of heart.
You could also create a Google Form and embed that in an Articulate Presenter project using a web object. When you create a Google Form it gives you a link to share the form. Just use that link for the web object and you'll have the form embedded in your presentation. If you want to post the results at the end you can use another web object or include a link to the results spreadsheet. Hope that helps.
Just to clarify what Joe said, Google Forms are tied directly to a Google Spreadsheet which would store your quiz scores and these sheets may also be downloaded to MS Excel.
Just been looking into forms and its perfect apart from the student can go back to the form and fill it out a number of times.. Or am I missing an option. Other than that Surveymonkey
I am using Office 2007 and I have several big files to send in 1 single new file (to be opened in another workbook) - Of course, I tried to copy / paste (and paste special... which is not possible when swapping files in different workbooks unless changing options... try it, you'll see - Just saying this because I will get some silly answers like cntl+c and cntl+v, lol). When copying / pasting, I loose the formulas, only the values are pasted...
I think there may be some misunderstanding of the term workbook. There is an Excel (XLSX) workbook but then there is a "Lesson Plan" workbook with reading materials and exercises. i.e. Something that you would hand out to students along with their regular text book to supplement their understanding of the reading materials. I believe the author of this forum is referring to the later.
In regards to Excel Workbooks. There seems to be a minor misconception that you cannot copy formulas across workbooks. When you copy an Excel "CELL" or entire workbook and you wish to paste the contents into another workbook, yes this is possible. No, pressing CTRL+C and then CTRL+V will not work for copying formulas because this is a windows DOS command and its only for copying text. However if you look at the "Paste Options" you'll notice there are a lot of various options. If you'll notice, yes you can copy and paster formulas or just the values and yes you can copy content from one workbook and paste them into another.
BTW there is a size limit on the amount of data that you can copy to the PC's clipboard and there is a size limit on Excel Spreadsheets so the practice of storing all your apples in one bowl is not a good one.
Hopefully that helps. As they say "Seek to understand and when that's not possible, Google it."
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I see where you are going with that but IMHO, no Quizmaker would only be part of of the solution. You would need to develop the book it's self with Presenter. Then you need add chapter reviews to see if they understood what you put forth which Quizmaker could be used for. That's just my thought.
Tricky one, I think its more a data capture system im looking for that Articulate lacks.....
You know why don't you use an online office suite such as Google Docs where you could create a document, share with students and then they can update and share this same document with you. You could see the changes and at the end of course, you simply give them a deadline and say all work must be completed by x date and y time and then grade it. If they wished to download and complete it, they could simply email it to you as an attachment but honestly the Google Docs online option would be the route I would pursue.
what an interesting idea, you could set up a articulate course then direct the student to a url to fill out certain bits of a doc online, then direct them to access the course again...
thanks James
I'm actually looking for something similar, and currently have the "workbook pages" as fill-able .pdfs available in the Attachments section. I would *love* to be able to create something that was more like an active question and answer where the data would be captured, then available for digital storage/print out at the end of the course ...
Does anyone have any thoughts/experience doing this without creating a database or independent program? I dont' have the budget or time for that "fancy shmancy" Thanks in advance!
Use a course management software such as Moodle or Blackboard. Your workbook is done with Articulate and the quizes are handled by the LMS. Option 2 would involve PHP programming with a MySQL database to hold the information. I've actually done the later and it's not for the faint of heart.
You could also create a Google Form and embed that in an Articulate Presenter project using a web object. When you create a Google Form it gives you a link to share the form. Just use that link for the web object and you'll have the form embedded in your presentation. If you want to post the results at the end you can use another web object or include a link to the results spreadsheet. Hope that helps.
Just to clarify what Joe said, Google Forms are tied directly to a Google Spreadsheet which would store your quiz scores and these sheets may also be downloaded to MS Excel.
Just been looking into forms and its perfect apart from the student can go back to the form and fill it out a number of times.. Or am I missing an option. Other than that Surveymonkey
I am using Office 2007 and I have several big files to send in 1 single new file (to be opened in another workbook) - Of course, I tried to copy / paste (and paste special... which is not possible when swapping files in different workbooks unless changing options... try it, you'll see - Just saying this because I will get some silly answers like cntl+c and cntl+v, lol). When copying / pasting, I loose the formulas, only the values are pasted...
I think there may be some misunderstanding of the term workbook. There is an Excel (XLSX) workbook but then there is a "Lesson Plan" workbook with reading materials and exercises. i.e. Something that you would hand out to students along with their regular text book to supplement their understanding of the reading materials. I believe the author of this forum is referring to the later.
In regards to Excel Workbooks. There seems to be a minor misconception that you cannot copy formulas across workbooks. When you copy an Excel "CELL" or entire workbook and you wish to paste the contents into another workbook, yes this is possible. No, pressing CTRL+C and then CTRL+V will not work for copying formulas because this is a windows DOS command and its only for copying text. However if you look at the "Paste Options" you'll notice there are a lot of various options. If you'll notice, yes you can copy and paster formulas or just the values and yes you can copy content from one workbook and paste them into another.
BTW there is a size limit on the amount of data that you can copy to the PC's clipboard and there is a size limit on Excel Spreadsheets so the practice of storing all your apples in one bowl is not a good one.
Hopefully that helps. As they say "Seek to understand and when that's not possible, Google it."
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