Throughout the Learning Design Editor there are many places where you need to provide a description or information about a certain component. For example, in the Overview you may wish to provide a description of the Prerequisites and Learning Objectives, or for a Play you may wish to provide the Completion Feedback description.
In order to provide the appropriate Resource(s) to do this, you can either reference online Resources or local files. At any point where you can reference a Resource(s) you will see the following tree editor:
Resource Item Tree Editor
To add, remove or edit Item entries, right-click on the table to invoke the contextual menu:
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Resource Item Tree Editor Menu
Add New Item
This menu item will add a new top-level Item.
Add New Child Item
This menu item will add a new Item below the currently selected Item.
Delete
This menu item will delete the currently selected Items.
Move Up / Move Down
These menu items will move the currently selected Item up or down.
Select File...
This menu item will allow you to select a local file to reference that exists in the LD Project's "content" folder or sub-folder. If you wish to add a new file, add it in the File Manager. Please note that any local files have to be in the LD Project's "content" folder or sub-folder. Thus, the path that you see in the File/URL field is relative to the "content" folder. If you enter an absolute file path the editor will not be able to find the file when it comes to package it in the Export stage.
If the Resource is online, type in the full URL (for example, http://www.reload.ac.uk) into the File/URL field.
View Item
This menu item will allow you to view the Resource in the Browser view. This will not work if the File/URL field is empty. Double-clicking on the Item also allows you to view the Resource.
Edit Item
This menu item will allow you to edit the Resource in the internal text editor or external editor. This will not work if the Resource field is empty. See Preferences for more information on how to specify external editors.
Metadata...
This menu item will allow you to add IMS or IEEE Metadata to the Item. See Adding Metadata to the Learning Design for more details.
Note - If you wish to create a new Resource file such as an HTML web page, it is best to create it first in a dedicated editor such as Dreamweaver and save it in the LD Project's "content" folder or sub-folder. Then you can reference it in the File/URL field.