Creating content

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Creating content

Before you start creating content for end-users, it is important to define the Content Properties and set the default Themes, Options, and text Templates (i.e., “Styles”) for content. A piece of content must be open in order to access Themes and Options, and create text Templates.

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Setting the content properties

Setting the content theme and toolbar options

Creating Instructions
<%EXTOGGLE%>Getting organized

BestPrac  Best Practice

Create and maintain a Live Content Standards Guide. Document the license keys available to you, the location where Live Content is saved, note the master files and when to use them. This becomes your historical and tactical file for content creation and editing. It can be created in Excel or Word. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. This is true for any eLearning creation.

To ensure all Live Content Studio authors create consistently formatted content, it is important that you be diligent in following these steps:

1.Document all decisions and settings in your Standards Guide.

2.Create, save, and export the Text and Form Templates.

3.Save the Content Master, Text Templates, and Form Templates in a shared network location or share a copy with each Live Content Studio author.

TPArrowKeep in mind that if any changes are made, you will need to make sure all authors are using the most updated Content Master and Templates for your environment.
<%EXTOGGLE%>File structure

You will require a folder structure on a network drive, or web server, to store and manage your Live Content Studio files. Here is an example of a common setup:

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TPArrowEnd-users will need to have permissions to Read/Write information to the Results and Packages folders.
<%EXTOGGLE%>Create a new project

1.From the File tab, click New in the Navigation Pane on the left.

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TPArrowIf you have a Master Content Template, simply click Import > Import Instructions > From Live Content (see Import/Export Content). Skip to step 3.

2.The opening View will be determined by the selection you make. Select one of the following:

•New Content > Empty Project displays the Main Interface. You can select the action you wish to take from this View.

TPArrowThis is the recommended selection when creating new content.

•Capture Steps will immediately launch the Capture window.

•Add Instructions opens the Add/Edit Instruction window to set your content Theme, Toolbar Options, and start scripting content.

TPArrowThe Add/Edit Instruction window, when displayed, will always be placed on top of any open windows or documents.

•New Content > Create Instructions displays the Add/Edit Instruction window for immediate scripting of content.

3.Set the Content Properties.

4.Save the Content File.
<%EXTOGGLE%>Importing content

The Import/Export option from the File tab allows you to import Instruction text to create a new content file or into a currently open content file. From the File tab:

1.Click the Import/Export tab on the left.

2.Click the Import Instructions button.

3.Select the appropriate type of file:

•Microsoft Word

KeyInfo  Key Information

Live Content Studio uses a Rich Text editor. When scripting Instructions in Word, each new paragraph will generate a new Instruction when imported into Live Content Studio. Soft returns will import as line breaks, and most direct formatting (e.g., bold, italics, underline, font color, etc.) will carry over into your content.

Advanced formatting features such as Word Styles or Paragraph Before/After spacing should not be applied, as source code will be imported and embedded such that text cannot be formatted correctly in Live Content Studio.

•Text Document (i.e., Notepad)

KeyInfo  Key Information

WordPad should not be used to script Instructions. Imported Instructions will display as source code. For example, the text “This is an instruction” in WordPad imports to Live Content Studio as: “\pard\sa200\sl276\slmult1\f0\fs22\lang9 This is an instruction\par”.

•Live Content .tlc File

TPArrowUse this option to import a Content Master.

KeyInfo  Key Information

If you import a Live Content file with Instructions into an open piece of content, the imported Instructions (and any captured Steps and Alternatives, if opted) will be appended to the end of the currently open piece of content.
<%EXTOGGLE%>Exporting content

Export allows you to export Instructions from the currently open content. From the File tab:

1.Click the Import/Export tab on the left.

2.Click the Import Instructions button.

3.Select the appropriate type of file:

•a Microsoft Word document.

•a Text Document (i.e., Notepad).

KeyInfo  Key Information

Text Instructions will export as separate paragraphs to either Word or a Text Document. Form Instructions will only export to Microsoft Word as a graphic, and will not export to a Text Document.
<%EXTOGGLE%>Printing content

The Print option on the File tab will print the open Live Content Project, complete with all Instructions and captured Steps and Alternatives. The file can be printed directly to a printer or PDF file.  This is helpful as a backup or allowing non-Live Content Studio authors the ability to review the content to ensure the proper Instruction wording and captured Steps and Alternatives have been identified prior to final publishing.

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