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Noticeboard
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The Noticeboard Activity provides a simple way of providing information and content to the learners.
The activity can display text, images, links and other HTML content.
The Noticeboard in LAMS 2.0 supersedes both the Noticeboard and HTML Noticeboard tools from LAMS 1.0.
Click here to view an animation on using the Noticeboard activity. |
Noticeboard Authoring
All properties sheets contain three tabs:
- Basic: Which controls the Content of the Activity.
- Advanced: Which controls the Behaviour of the Activity.
- Instructions: Provides information on the structure of the activity.
Basic Tab
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 View of the Basic tab for Noticeboard Authoring.
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The Basic Tab for the Noticeboard Activity allows you to specify a title for the activity, and specify what content is displayed to Learners:
- 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.
- *Content:*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.
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Embedding Content
You can use HTML code to display embedded HTML content such as Flash Files, Videos, Audio, or Inline Frames.
To embed content in your noticeboards, toggle the HTML tag on the FCKeditor paste the appropriate code below into the noticeboard, replacing the URL here with a link to the content that you want to include.
Embed Flash Video Clips
Embed Audio Clip
embed Web Page as Inline Frame
This LAMS Discussion Forum Post describes how you can use iFrames as a Workaround to display previous activities in a sequence as part of a Noticeboard:
- Author a sequence with a forum and a noticeboard.
- Set the noticeboard to be "define later"
- Start a lesson
- Login as learner into the lesson and copy the URL of the forum (note that you want the URL for the frame that loads the forum)
- Go into Monitor for this lesson and double click on the Noticeboard
- Click on Edit Activity and in the FCKEditor switch to HTML editing and add:
<iframe src="paste-here-the-url" width="100%"></iframe>
- Save and that should do quite alright.
If you want to add new instructions for this same forum, you can add them above the <iframe>.
This LAMS sequence, available from the LAMS Community, includes practical examples of embedding content in Noticeboards.
Advanced Tab
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 View of the Advanced tab for Noticeboard Authoring.
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- 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).
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Instructions
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 Vea la pestaña de instrucciones. Esta pestaña presenta las mismas características para todas las actividades.
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La pestaña de Instrucciones tiene las mismas características para todas las actividades LAMS.
Esta pestaña permite al instructor crear instrucciones sobre la actividad así como también subir archivos que puedan ser de utilidad a otros instructores y tutores en el uso de la misma. Por ejemplo, documentos de referencia, planillas de evaluación, etc). Estas instrucciones y archivos pueden ser accedidos desde la interfaz de monitoreo por todos los intructores y tutores.
Hay dos modos de intrucciones posibles: Intrucciones para le modo online o offline. El instructor puede escribir instrucciones para estos dos modos ya que es posible que por alguna razón se decida utilizar esta actividad en modo offline o online.
Estas instrucciones son de importancia si se pretende compartir secuancias de aprendizaje con otros instructores. Estas instrucciones pueden no solo aclarar de la manera que esta actividad debe ser utilizada con estudiantes, sino tambien proveer de información pedagógica sobre la actividad. |
Noticeboard Monitoring
Summary Screen
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 View of the Noticeboard Monitoring Summary tab.
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Double Clicking a Noticeboard activity on the Sequence or Learners tab opens the Summary Screen for the Activity.
This screen displays the Noticeboard content (ie: the text displayed to learners in the sequence) as well as the number of learners that have started the sequence (ie: Total number of learners) and how many learners have viewed the Noticeboard (ie: number of learners in group). |
Instructions
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 View of the Monitoring Instructions tab.
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In the Authoring Environment, Authors can use the Instructions Space to attach support files for a specific activity, or leave comments for other Monitors about how a given activity should be run.
When adding instructions to Noticeboard activities, Authors may like to include supplemental information that teachers can use in an offline setting environment (eg: Blackboard points, worksheets, etc.) |
Edit Activity
Clicking the Edit Activity button opens a new screen identical to the _'Basic'_tab in the authoring environment. In the current version of LAMS (2.0.4), Editing can only be performed on activities that students have not yet reached.
Unlike Live Edit, this form of Editing can only modify the content of an activity, as opposed to the structure of a sequence.
Statistics
The Noticeboard Summary tab repeats the statistics on Learner numbers found on the Summary tab.
