Adding audio, etc.

Here's what happened at the end of last week:

Thursday, I met with Roxanne and showed her the slides with questions on them that weren't "question slides" (meaning their results can't be reported) in the Research vs. Review Articles module. Roxanne confirmed that being able to have students' answers reported to her is important, so we decided that in this module and the Scholarly vs. Popular Articles module, each question would have 2 slides: one instructing the student to follow a link to the article's database record (allowing the link to open in a new window and not disrupting the module), and the second would have the citation and the question on it. We decided that the final slide of each module should include CC licensing information, but not Roxanne's contact information. We also decided that students should not have the opportunity to go back on question slides- even when they are allowed to go back, they cannot change their answers, so there is little benefit to their being able to do so and plenty of opportunity for confusion. Other details that we noticed needed changing upon looking at the modules included:

• PubMed: When you click on the link to PubMed, the module continues running. Putting in a "Continue" button for students to push when they return to the module will fix this.
• Boolean: There is some flashing in the middle of the Camtasia portion that should be fixed. Instead of trying to link to the database AFSA in every question, put a slide before the questions (with a link) saying that they may wish to refer to ASFA's thesaurus for controlled vocabulary.
  

After meeting with Roxanne, I spent the rest of the day finishing the Keywords & Controlled Vocabulary module (which, you may recall, had to be re-done because of a corrupted Camtasia file) and making changes to other modules we had discussed. To be sure students' answers to questions would be sent to Roxanne, I went to the Quiz Preferences in each module, enabled reporting, and chose email as the method of reporting, putting my email address in for testing purposes.

On Friday, I met with Loriene and showed her the modules. She pointed out that I should consider accessibility issues (having closed captions on the audio will go part way towards satisfying those concerns). She also suggested that we submit the tutorial to PRIMO, ACRL's database of peer-reviewed instructional materials online.

For the rest of the day, I fixed the questions in the Scholarly vs Popular Articles and Research vs Review Articles modules, and added audio to all modules. Per Matt's suggestion, I added the audio in Captivate. This worked well, for the most part, because Captivate creates a preview that runs while you're recording the audio to ensure that the two are synchronized. Unfortunately, this preview does not include playing the imported Flash from Camtasia, so I had to open these videos in another screen and play them while recording the audio.