The Image Gallery tool allows authors and learners to upload a series of image to LAMS and review and rate them.

View of the Image Gallery Activity Basic tab.

There are two features on the basic tab common to all activities:

• Title: All Activities have a web page title which is presented at the top of the activity page when displayed in the Learning Environment. This is NOT the same title as the Title that can be set using the Properties Inspector.
• Instructions: All Activities have a text area that is presented beneath the title. This is where the main activity text to be displayed to learners is entered. The text can be formatted using the Rich-Text Editor. Image, Video, Audio and URL content can also be displayed in the Instructions area.
  
  h4. Specific Features for the Image Gallery Activity
  • Image Gallery
    • Click Add Image to add a new image to the activity.
      • Title - give the image a name.
      • Description - (Optional) Provide a brief note to go with the image. You can use the full fckEditor rich-text features if you desire.
      • File - browse to the location of the file on your hard disk.
      • Alternatively, you can click Upload Multiple Images to upload up to five images at once, however you will then need to go back through the images one by one and update the title and description.

View of the Image Gallery Activity Advanced tab.

* *Lock When Finished:* ** Enabling this option in Image Gallery means that learners will not be able to add images, add/edit comments or add/edit ratings after they click Finish on the activity. Learners will still be able to return to the activity via the progress bar and view the images.
If this option is disabled, Learners will be able to make changes to the activity until the sequence is stopped.

• Add Notebook... : This option is available on all Activities. Enabling this option creates a Notebook as part of the Activity, which Learner's can use to reflect on the activity just completed. The reflections are personal (ie: not shared with other learners).

h4. Advanced Features Specific to the Image Gallery Activity

• Allow Learners to Share their own images
  This feature, when enabled, allows Learners to upload images to the activity for review and/or comment.
  When disabled, only the images uploaded by the author and monitor are visible. Learners cannot add their own images.
  Notify monitoring teachers...: sends email notifications to all monitors when a Learner uploads an image to the activity.
  This options requires an SMTP server to be configured for LAMS. Contact your System Administrator for details.

• Allow Learners to comment on images
  When enabled, learners can add text comments to each image.

• Enable Feedback: There are two options for learner feedback in the Image Gallery.
  • ... Select Favourite Images...: allows learners to select favourite images which will be collated in the monitoring view.
  • ... Give a Rank to Images... : allows learners to rank images based on a star system, from 1 to 5.
    

Unable to render embedded object: File (instructions.PNG) not found. View of the Instructions tab. This is the same for all activities.

The Instructions tab contains the same features for all Activities.

It allows the Author to create specific instructions for the activity, as well as upload files that may be useful for running the activity (ie: support documents, etc.). It is a resource that can be used by teachers who are running the sequence for their learners. (In the Monitoring Environment, the Instructions for an Activity can be viewed by double clicking the activity on the Sequence tab and then selecting the Instructions tab.

The instructions can be retrieved by other authors who open the activity, or by monitors running the sequence.

There are two types of Instruction possible, Offline and Online, depending on the mode that the teacher wishes to run the activity. The feature is useful for teachers who are sharing sequences with their colleagues as it provides an area where the Author can describe any learning objectives and/or the specific purpose of the activity.

h4. Conditions Specific to the Image Gallery Activity No output conditions are available for the Image Gallery at this time.

If you have any suggestions for implementing output conditions for the tool, let us know over at the LAMS Community.

Image Gallery Summary tab.

The Summary Tab for Image Gallery shows all the images that have been uploaded to the activity, their titles and average rating.

For each image, Monitors can choose to hide the image from the activity.

Monitors can also add images to the activity from this screen.

View of the Instructions tab.

In the Authoring Environment, Authors can use the Instructions Space to attach support files for a specific activity, or leave comments for othe Monitors about how a given activity should be run.

These comments and files can be viewed from here - the Instructions Tab.

The Image Gallery summary tab.

The Image Gallery Summary tab displays a breakdown of the number of ratings an image has recieved, and the average score from those ratings.
Where applicable, it will list the username associated with any learner-uploaded images.