El Entorno de Autoría es donde creas y modificas las secuencias que se usan en Alumno.
Puedes acceder el entorno de Autor pinchando en la pestaña Autor Azul en la parte superior de la pantalla una vez te hayas registrado en LAMS.
El Entorno de Autoría proporciona a profesores e instructores un entorno de autoría visual que les permite crear, guardar y reutilizar actividades de aprendizaje. Para crear secuencias, arrastras y pegas actividades en el espacio de aprendizaje, y luego creas transiciones para especificar la trayectoria que siguen los alumnos a través de las secuencias. Este Modelo de Automatización Gráfico es lo que distingue principalmente LAMS de otros Sistemas de Gestión de Aprendizaje más basados en el contenido, al proporcionarle a los profesores un alto nivel de interacción y colaboración.
Hay tres áreas principales en el Entorno de Autoría:
Espacio de Autoría - es el espacio en blanco con una cuadrícula de puntos. Es donde se Crean y Editan las secuencias.
Herramientas para actividades - se encuentran en la parte inferior de la izquierda de la pantalla. El juego de herramientas contiene todas las actividades disponibles en la secuencia.
Herramientas de Gestión de Secuencia - se encuentran a lo largo de la parte superior de la pantalla. Permiten las operaciones de las Herramientas de Gestión de Secuencia (Guardar, Abrir) y las Operaciones para relacionar Secuencias (Ramas y Puertas), al igual que permite que los usuarios puedan tener una Vista Previa de su secuencia.
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Double Clicking Nearly everything that exists in the Authoring Space can be double-clicked in order to change its properties.
Casi todo lo que está en el Espacio de Autoría se puede pinchar dos veces para cambiar sus propiedades.
Trashcan To Delete an activity from the Authoring Space, click and drag the activity to the trashcan in the lower right corner of the Authoring Environment.
Para Eliminar una actividad del Espacio de Autoría pinche y arrastre la actividad a la papelera que se encuentra en la esquina inferior derecha del Entorno de Autoría.
Sequence Management Tools
Herramientas de Gestión de Secuencia
Este es la Barra de Herramientas de la Gestión de Secuencia:
Los comandos de la Barra de Herramientas son:
File Operation Tools
New - Clears any existing sequence from the Authoring Space and provides a blank work area or creating a new sequence. NB: The command will warn you that it will clear the Authoring Space and prompt you to save your sequence.
Open - Provides access to the "Open Sequence" window, which uses a similar folder tree structure as Windows. You select the folder where the sequence is saved and select the sequence you wish to open.
Save - Saves the current file. If no filename has been specified, opens the "Save" window and prompts for filename and location.
Editing Tools
Copy - Copies the selected Activity on the Authoring space.
Paste - Pastes a copied Activity back to the Authoring space.
Sequence Tools
Transition - This tool changes the pointer into Transition mode (indicated by a Green pen) for drawing transition lines between two activities. Place the transition tool over the activity you wish to transition 'from,' click and hold the mouse, and draw a line to the activity you wish to transition 'to.' You can also jump quickly to Transition mode by holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
Optional - This tool changes the pointer into Optional mode (indicated by a Purple pen). Click the Optional command, then click the Authoring space to place the Optional box. You then drag existing activities from the authoring space or new activities from the Toolkit into the box.
Flow - provides options for controlling the progress of Learners through the sequence.
Gates - temporarily halt Learner progress at specified point.
Branch(implemented in v2.1) - allows learners to either select a particular path through the sequence, or automatically chooses a path based on certain conditions.
Group - creates a grouping object, which arranges learners into groups for particular activities. (ie: instead of a whole class of learners participating in one chat, there can be several groups of five learners in independant chats.)
Preview - allows the sequence to be run from the Authoring Environment, allowing Authors to check their design before use.
Herramientas de Operación de Archivos
Nuevo - Borra cualquier secuencia existente en el Espacio de Autoría y proporciona un área de trabajo en blanco o crea una secuencia nueva. NB: La orden te avisará de que borrará el Espacio de Autoría y te instará a que guardes tu secuencia.
Abrir - Proporciona acceso a la ventana "Secuencia Abierta", la cual usa una estructura similar al árbol por carpetas de Windows. Seleccionas la carpeta donde está guardada la secuencia y seleccionas la secuencia que deseas abrir.
Guardar - guarda el archivo actual. Si no se ha especificado el nombre del archivo, abre la ventana "Guardar" y pide el nombre del archivo y la localización.
Herramientas de Edición
Copiar - Copia la Actividad seleccionada en el Espacio de Autoría
Pegar - Devuelve una Actividad copiada al Espacio de Autoría
Herramientas de Secuencia
Transición - Esta herramienta activa el puntero al Modo de transición (indicado con un bolígrafo verde) para dibujar líneas de transición entre dos actividades.
Opcional
Flujo
Grupo
Vista previa
----The sequence management tools are replicated in Drop-Down Text menus above the Toolbar.
File
New - same as above.
Open - same as above.
Recover - recover allows an author to recover the last saved version of a sequence and discard all subsequent changes made, provided the sequence has been saved.
Save - Saves the current version of the sequence.
Save As...- Saves the current file under a different filename.
Import - Imports a LMS or ZIP sequence file from a file on the computer.
Export - Exports the current sequence to a ZIP file on the computer.
Exit - Closes the Authoring window.
Edit
Undo - delete the last change to the sequence.
Redo - replaces a change removed by Undo.
Copy - makes a copy of an activity selected in the Authoring space.
Paste - places a copy of the activity on the Authoring space.
Tools
Draw Transition - Switches the pointer to Transition mode.
Draw Optional - Switches the pointer to Optional mode.
Help
Authoring Help - Links to this web page.
About LAMS - displays the LAMS license agreement.
Creating Activities
The main components of any sequence are the activity tools. Each tool has a set of features specific to that tool, as well as some features that are found in all tools. This section describes the basic features found on all tools first. There are also pages specific to the properties of each activity.
Each tool contains three tabs:
Basic - which controls the Content of the Activity.
Advanced - which controls the Behaviour of the Activity.
Instructions - which allows Authors to upload online and offline Support Files for other teachers and instructors.
The activities toolkit contains all of the activities that you can add to your sequence.
The toolkit contains communicative and collaborative tools as well as tools designed for delivering and sharing resources, and also tools for assessing and evaluating student contributions.
The Whitespace at the top of the toolkit will display a short description a tool when it is selected.
To create an activity, simply click the desired activity on the toolkit, keep the mouse button held down, and drag the activity onto the Authoring Space. To place the activity, release the mouse button.
Properties Page - General Features
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To change the Content or Behaviour of an activity, simply double click a particular activity to bring up it's Properties Page.
To the Left is a screenshot of the Basic tab of a Chat activity. It contains two elements, a Title and Instructions screen.
These elements are found on nearly every activity in LAMS.
All tools have a title that is presented at the top of the Learner Environment - this is where you can specify that title.
Presented under 'Title' is the 'Instructions' section. This is where the main text to be displayed to the learners is created. (TIP: For other tools there is always a section for text instructions or content, although it may have a different name than 'Instructions, ie: Content, Questions, etc.)
These links have information specific to particular activities:
The Properties Inspector (shown below) provides quick access to some common tasks for Activities, and replaces many of the options that were found on the Property Pages in LAMS 1.0.
I Can't see the Properties Inspector! If you can't see the properties inspector, it may be hidden at the bottom of your Authoring Screen.
Just Right-Click anywhere on the Authoring Space and select Properties Inspector.
Title - This is the name of the activity. It is shown on the activity box in the Authoring Space, as well as on various screens in the Monitoring Environment, and also in the Progress Bar in the Learner Environment. Ideally, you want to keep Activity Titles as short as possible - less than about 20 characters (including spaces) is recommended. Note: The Title is NOT the same as the Name specified on the Properties Page. Instead, the Title specified in the Properties Inspector provides a quick way to distinguish the activity from others of the same type.
Grouping - All activities can be set to operate in Whole Class Mode or in Small Group Mode. To operate in Small Group Mode, a Grouping Object must be added to the sequence. Once this is done, any tool can be set to use those groups, creating multiple instantiations of each tool according to the number of groups created. Note: It is possible to create several Grouping Objects and then choose different grouping structures for different tools.
Run Offline - New to LAMS 2.0 is the concept of running activities "Offline." When Learners reach an Offline Activity, they are presented with a prompt: "This activity is not being done on the computer. Please see your instructor for details." This allows teachers and instructors to incorporate offline classroom activities into a LAMS sequence.
Define Later - This is synonymous with the "Define in Monitor" option from LAMS 1.0. The feature allows a teacher to change the activity content whilst the sequence is running. This is performed through the Monitoring Environment, on the Lessons tab.
