Learning Objects Management Overview – LMS

Note: Only an administrator who enrolled as a Teacher in a course can access the following

The Learning Objects (LO) management page is made by three tabs:

1. Course Objects: list of actual LO of the course, available for students. They can be directly created from this area or imported either from MyObjects or Shared Objects areas.
2. Shared Objects: a repository of LO shared among all the courses and users with permission to access this tab
3. My Objects: personal materials repository for the logged user. A private area for teachers in which they can store their own objects, create new objects, or import objects from other teachers. It is an inter-course area in the sense that the objects placed there can be viewed from any of the courses managed by the teacher.

Note: Any user whose level is set as a Tutor/Mentor/Instruction by the admin to a course can only see the Course Object tab for creating new learning objects

In all the tabs LO Objects can be organized into folders/subfolders.

Directory: Create a new folder

New Learning Object: create a new learning object.

Learning Object types

• SCORM
• TEST
• Upload file
• HTML page
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Links
• Survey

Learning Objects actions and features

1. View: open and launch the learning object. Actions will be tracked for normal fruition
2. Edit: access the edit page for this learning object. Each type of learning object has a different edit mode.
3. Properties: edit object properties for:
   1. Prerequisites
   2. LO Properties
4. Assign: assign this LO only to specific users
5. Categorize: Add description, category, and tags for the knowledge base
6. Copy: duplicate the object
7. Delete: remove the LO. All trackings will be deleted
8. Expand – Opens the course actions where these options appear.

Note: You need to hold and drag to move the objects up and down in the list to arrange them in a sequence

Properties: Prerequisites

Click on the “Properties” icon to open the Properties > Prerequisites tab.

Here you can select the LO in the course that needs to be completed for the object to be unlocked

Properties: LO Properties

Here you can set the general configuration settings for this object. Different LO types might have different option sets.

General options, available for all types of objects:

Title: display LO name. Editable only for SCORM objects, for other types use their edit page

Hidden: decide whether this object must be visible or not for students (default: yes)

Publish from/until: the object will be visible only between the selected dates. Leave empty for unlimited

Number of Views: define how the object must be accessible based on its completion status

End Object Marker: if set to yes, completing this object will set the user status on the whole course to “complete“.

Options for both TEST and SCORM LO:

Bookmark: this object’s score will be reported as a separate start score or final score for the course

Assign to selected users

Here you can assign the LO only to selected users or groups. Other users won’t see the object.

 Categorize

Use this form to categorize the object within the Forma Content Library

Shared Objects

This is the area where teachers can share teaching objects with other teachers and can import them to their own home pages or directly to the courses section.

Note:

• Importing entails making a new copy of the imported object, which will therefore be treated as a completely new object
• Teachers can create, copy and move any shared LO, but can delete only their own. Only administrators can delete LO by other users.

My Objects

Materials in this area can be viewed and managed only by the logged user, and are shared among all the courses where he has teacher permissions.