Doing more with CompendiumLD

Contents

• Adding timing information• Dragging and dropping files• Laying out maps• Saving and sharing designs• Hiding/showing menu options• Managing maps & designs

– Workspaces– Outline view

Timing information

• CompendiumLD allows the user to specify how long they envisage a task will take for a particular role-player (e.g. student or tutor) to complete. CompendiumLD keeps running totals of the time for all tasks assigned to each role player,

Adding timing information to designs

To show the activity timing information, right-click anywhere on the activity background.

For example right-clickhereorhere.

Adding timing information to designs

If you ‘tick’ the ‘Show task times’ option the timing information will appear.

Adding timing information to designs

To add or edit the time for a particular task, right-click on the task node itself to display this ‘Set task time’ window

This window displays a running total of the times for each role

Dragging & dropping resources• You can drag and drop files or web pages into your designs and maps.• This feature is illustrated in the movie after this slide

Laying out maps• CompendiumLD provides some tools to help you lay out your activity maps.• These include tools to

–help you align nodes within a map, –enable you to zoom in and out and –manage the display in other ways.

Aligning nodes

You may want to align nodes horizontally or vertically if your initial layout is not neat and tidy (e.g. as in the example to the left).

Select

First of all select the nodes you want to align.

AligningWith the nodes selected, right-click on the background of the activity.Now select the alignment option you desire.

Vertical alignment options

Horizontal alignment options

Zooming in and out

Use the zoom tool

Resize icons menuYou can resize icons by selecting them and then using the ‘Set/unset Small icons’ toolbar option

Resizing iconsThis node icon has been set to small. If you select several nodes you can change the size of all of them simultaneously

Saving and sharing designs

CompendiumLD automatically saves your designs as you are working.If you want to share your work you can export it in a variety of formats including a zip file which allows others to import and edit your design.

Hiding/showing menus

Click triangle to extend menu list

Click triangle to retract menu list

Hiding/showing menu options

Click triangle to extend list of menu options,

or to retract the list

Managing your maps & designs• If your CompendiumLD projects begin to get complex there are some features which can help you manage them.

1. Workspaces, which enable you to store a particular arrangement of maps and designs

2. The outline view which can show the hierarchy of embedded maps within your project

Workspaces

The workspaces feature enables you to save a ‘snapshot’ of an arrangement of windows. You can recall this snapshot later.

Outline view

If you have a maps nested within each other you can display the structure of nested maps by selecting ‘Outline view’ ‘Views only’ from the view menu

More information

• CompendiumLD web sitehttp://compendiumld.open.ac.uk/

• Open University Learning Design Initiativehttp://ouldi.open.ac.uk/

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