EM 731: Designing Computer-Based Courseware
Fall 2005
Dr. Reza Sisakhti

Topics in this page

• Assignments
• Labs
• Sample Student Projects
• Course Project
• Grading Criteria
• WBT Checklist
• Creating a simple multiple-choice scored quiz
• Closing a window
• Creating resizable pop-up windows

Assignments

• Tutorials to review by Thursday, October 27

Authoring Tools Presentation

• Authoring Tools Presentation

Labs

• Day 2: Learning Check Samples and Lab Directions
• Day 1: Lab Directions (We will do this during class.)
• Day 1: Lab Solution

Sample Student Projects from Past Classes

• Learning how to read music (Audience: children)
• Learning about AIDS (Audience: teen-agers)
• Digital video basics (Audience: teacher

Course Project

Your course project will be published on the people.bu.edu site or another public site of your choice. To obtain space on the people.bu.edu server:

1. Follow directions at: http://www.bu.edu/webcentral/publishing/people/apply.html.
   Be sure you have your BU username and password. This is typically your e-mail address without "@bu.edu."
   
   Your URL for your Web site will be http://people.bu.edu/BU_username. Your Web site has been set up when you type in your URL in a browser and you do not get a "Page Not Found" error.
   
   
2. After your site has been created, request additional disk space from http://www.bu.edu/computing/myacs/. Click MyACS tool to request additional disk space on your people.bu.edu site. Request at least 10MB. Indicate that the site is being used for a class project for EM 731.
   
   
3. To get started implementing your project online, review the Step-By-Step Instructions: Implementing Your Project and Uploading to the Web Server.

Grading Criteria

Your project will be evaluated using this grading criteria. Use this document as a checklist to review your project while it is under development.

WBT Editor's Checklist

Editors use this checklist to ensure a course is ready for release.

Creating a simple multiple-choice quiz

This freeware quiz is provided at no charge at: http://wsabstract.com/script/cut180.shtml

You can create a quiz using Dreamweaver Coursebuilder by following the directions in this tutorial:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coursebuilder/scoring/scoring_display/

Closing a window

This sample code shows you how to close the current browser window:
http://www.codeave.com/javascript/code.asp?u_log=7014

Creating resizable pop-up windows

Follow the directions on this page to create a pop-up window that displays at a certain size and location on the screen.