This slideshow describes some features of CompendiumLD which can help you lay out and manage your learning designs. It shows how you can - Add timing information - Drag and drop files - Lay out maps - Save and share designs - Hide/show menu options - Manage maps & designs using workspaces and the outline view

1. Doing more with CompendiumLD

2. 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

3. 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,

4. Adding timing information to designs To show the activity timing information, right-click anywhere on the activity background. For example right-click here or here.

5. Adding timing information to designs If you ‘tick’ the ‘Show task times’ option the timing information will appear.

6. Adding timing information to designs This window displays a running total of the times for each role To add or edit the time for a particular task, right-click on the task node itself to display this ‘Set task time’ window

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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).

10. Select First of all select the nodes you want to align.

11. Aligning With the nodes selected, right-click on the background of the activity. Now select the alignment option you desire. Vertical alignment options Horizontalalignmentoptions

12. Zooming in and out Use the zoom tool

13. Resize icons menu You can resize icons by selecting them and then using the ‘Set/unset Small icons’ toolbar option

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

15. 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.

16. Hiding/showing menus Click triangle to extend menu list Click triangle to retract menu list

17. Hiding/showing menu options Click triangle to extend list of menu options, or to retract the list

18. Managing your maps & designs If your CompendiumLD projects begin to get complex there are some features which can help you manage them. Workspaces, which enable you to store a particular arrangement of maps and designs The outline view which can show the hierarchy of embedded maps within your project

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

20. 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

21. More information CompendiumLD web sitehttp://compendiumld.open.ac.uk/ Open University Learning Design Initiativehttp://ouldi.open.ac.uk/ If you have used CompendiumLD please share your experience: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2101