Getting Started: Creating a Lecture in Lecture Builder

Lecture Builder is a tool that organizes media items into collections, called lectures. Lectures, once created and saved, can be displayed in the classroom or on a personal computer using a standard Internet browser. Lectures can also be exported to Microsoft PowerPoint format for transportability.

The Lecture Builder tool consists of two main pages:

1. the Manage Lectures page, which allows users to see all of the lectures for a project and perform actions on lectures as a whole
2. the Build Lecture page, which allows users to create and update the contents of a selected lecture

Note: Before you can create a lecture, you must contact the Almagest Administrator to have a course (or project) added to the Almagest database. Your project will provide an area in the Almagest database for the images you add and the custom lectures you create. You can control access to your project, and thus the contributions you make to the Almagest system.

To create a lecture in Lecture Builder:

1. From the Almagest project selection page, select your course (project) from the Project List, and click Go. Your project's home page will be displayed.
   


2. Click the Log On button to authenticate for editing privileges.
   


3. From the Contribute section in the side menu, select Lecture Builder. The Lecture Builder tool will open in a separate window, and the Manage Lectures page will be displayed. This page provides a file management view of the lectures created for your course (project).
   


4. To create a new lecture, click the Create New Lecture icon in the toolbar of the Manage Lectures page.
   


5. You are prompted to set the properties for your lecture:
   
   
   • Enter an identifying title for your lecture in the Title field. This will be the title that displays in the Lecture List on the View Lectures page.
     
   
   
   • In the # field, enter the number for the position of the lecture as it will be displayed in the Lecture List.
     
   
   
   • From the Type pull-down menu, select the type of lecture you are creating: lecture, exam, precept or review.
     
   
   
   • From the Images Per Page pull-down menu, select the number of images you want to have on each lecture page.
     
   
   
   • Under 'User Access Date Range' specify when you would like your lecture available for viewing.
     
     
     • By default, Available After is selected and the current date is supplied, resulting in the lecture being made available immediately and indefinitely. To make the lecture available sometime in the future, supply the future date.
       
     
     
     • To 'hide' the lecture from view, select Not Available.
       
     
     
     • To make the lecture unavailable at a future date, select Available Until and provide the date after which the lecture is to become inaccessible to general users.
       
     
     
6. Click the Create New button to create the lecture.
   


7. To modify the contents of the lecture, see Modifying a Lecture

Related Topics

Understanding the Lecture Builder workspace
Building a Lecture