The Browser View

To open the browser view you must have first selected a role in the course manager view and clicked play. this view opens in another pane and will look similar to the following;

As you can see the browser section of the player is divided up into various parts.

(a) At the top (the tab) is the title of this ROLE and who is assigned to it. In this case it says "Student - Dummy User for Student". Student is the title of the role found within the manifest and Dummy User for Student is the actual user assigned to it. This "dummy" user has been automatically generated.

Under this are the browser controls. The first one is a standard address bar - which you will be familiar with from within your favourite browser. On the right are a number of buttons. These are back, forward, stop and fresh respectively. Again these are standard browser controls.

(b) The actual user interface. As you can see this is divided up onto 4distinct sections;

(i) The top thin blue section does two jobs. The first is to display the current title of the Activity/Environment you have selected. The other is the collapse icon on the far right . This is used to hide both the Activity Tree and the Environments Tree so that you have more viewable space for the actual content. It also will hide the content panel and just show the Activity Tree and the Environments Tree. Click to toggle this feature. (3 way toggle: Normal -> Hide Navigation -> Hide Content)

(ii) The Activities Panel

This panel is used for primary navigation. Once loaded you should expand the tree to see the structure of the course. This tree can dynamically update and change structure based on decisions made in the design of the Learning Design. The idea is that you click on a link from with the activity tree and that will load content into the content pane and may also load extra resources into the Environments panel.

(iii) The Environment Panel

This displays any environment resources for a given activity. This can include Learning Objects, but also Mail and other communication activities.

(iv) The Content Panel

This shows the actual course material & resources

You can have several browser windows open at the same time. Each new window will appear as another tab within the browser view as show below;