Section 5 Content creation step-by-step guides

CourseGenie: Creating Matching self-test questions

CourseGenie provides 15 different types of self-test question divided into fivemain formats as outlined in ‘Self-test question styles’in the overview of courseGenie.


Questions are created using the Question Palette which can be accessed by selecting ViewToolbarsCG Questions or right-clicking anywhere on the Word menu bar and selecting CG Questions. Questions can be placed anywhere within your source Word document.

For this activity, you will create a new section in your course materials for questions that may be relevant to the whole course, and insert some questions within the sections they relate to.

Figure 1: CourseGenie Question Palette

Matching1

  1. Start Word and open (File Open) the information sheet File managementlocated in the CC_content folder on the CD-ROM accompanying this pack. This is an adaptation of the ‘File management’information sheet from Section 7 ‘Technical know-how’.

Note: if you have completed the previous courseGenie activity, continue using your own source Word document.

  1. Start courseGenie by selecting Tools courseGenie Start courseGenie.

You should now have a new drop-down item on the menu bar next to Help, entitled courseGenie.

Notice that the formatting previously applied to the document has changed. This is because you will be using styles from the courseGenie style sheet while the program is running. If you were to stop courseGenierunning(ToolscourseGenieStop courseGenie), your original formatting would be reinstated.

  1. Open the Question Palette, scroll to the end of the section Path on page 2 of your source Word document and insert several blank lines. On the first blank line, enter the heading ‘Test your knowledge’ and apply the cgSubHeading style. Click on the line below the subheading and select Matching and Matching 1 from the Question Palette to open the Matching1 Question Builder dialog box.


Figure 2: CourseGenie Match1 Question Builder dialog box

  1. Select the Text tab and enter the following text for the Question Title:

Match the correct file extension to the type of data file listed on the left hand side.

You do not need to enter anything under Question Text for this type of question.

  1. Select the Answer tab and enter the following six answers:

Microsoft Spreadsheet

Unformatted text document

Zipped file

Graphics file

Software application program


Microsoft Word document

Figure 3: CourseGenie Match1 Question Builder dialog box

  1. Now select the Matches tab and enter the following:

.exe

.doc

.xls

.rtf

.zip

.jpg

Note: do not put the matches in the same order as the answers because courseGenie does not ‘shuffle’ the matches in the same manner as other quiz software programs such as Hot Potatoes™.

  1. Select the Feedback tab. In Match1, rather than evaluating the entries as correct or incorrect, the feedback message simply displays the text that you specify here. A Check your answer button is included for the student to access the popup containing this information. Enter the following Feedback text:

Microsoft Spreadsheet.xls

Unformatted text document.rtf

Zipped file.zip

Graphics file.jpg

Software application program.exe


Microsoft Word document.doc

Figure 4: CourseGenie Match1 Question Builder dialog box

  1. Save your file and generate the course to preview your work. To do this,save the document to a folder called coursegenie on your floppy disk, then select courseGenie Generate course.

A Browse for folder dialog box will open. Browse to the folder you have just created, select it and click OK.


A series of dialog boxes will be displayed showing the progress of the conversion of the Word document to XML, and the conversion of the XML file to HTML pages.The final dialog box shows a complete list of pages generated,with the messageHTML generated OK. If the error message HTML files were not generated is displayed, then return to your document and check that you have made the appropriate amendments correctly.

Figure 5: CourseGenie HTML generate and preview dialog box

  1. Ensure that Preview in Browser is checked then click on Close.

Your browser should open and you should be able to see your document converted into a complete set of course materials in HTML pages.

When you generate your course, all the files will be put into a subfolder within the folder you selected above. The subfolder will be named after your source Word document, and a zipped version of this folder will also be created to enable easy export.

To see the files and folders generated by courseGenie, open My Computer or Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder you created on your floppy disk.

Note: when content is saved, any previous version with the same name will be overwritten. If you want to retain a copy of a previous version of a generated course, rename your source Word document before generating the new version of the course.

  1. Now experiment with Match 2 using the text from Match1 or creating your own. You will need to specify the correct Matchnumbers under the Answers tab and provide feedback messages for correct answers and incorrect answers. However, the feedback message for correct answers will only be given if all the matches are right. Refer back to ‘Self-test question styles’in the overview of courseGeniefor full details of each of these question styles.
  2. To edit an existing self-test question, click in the marked-up Question area of your source Word document and select the appropriate Question type from the Question Palette or select QuestionEdit. To view the whole question within your source Word document, select Question View Extended.


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