Customizing Your Codebashing Course
As an administrator or authorized manager, you can customize and tailor your lessons and courses in Codebashing to specific people on your team based on their roles and experience. Courses can be assembled from Codebashing lessons and previous lessons you created as training modules.
Note
Customized courses, like other Codebashing courses, are displayed in the Course menu and may be defined as primary courses. They also appear on downloaded CSV for tracking progress.
On the left side panel, select Content Management.
Click <CREATE NEW> and select Custom Course from the menu. The wizard appears with the Details dialog.
Enter the following to define the new course:
Course Name - Assign a name to the course.
Description - Add a description (optional).
Tagline - Define the short header under the course name on the course menu screen.
Course Image - Select the image with which to associate the course. This image is part of the course entry.
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A summary of the objects you selected appears to the right, labeled "Your course listing will show here as you build it."
Click <CONTINUE>.
In the second step of the wizard, select the lessons you wish to include in your course.
You can filter and add lessons by selecting or deselecting them:
Under Lesson Type, select Codebashing to display Codebashing lessons only.
Under Lesson Type, select Custom to display Custom lessons only.
Under Course Name, select the course and the lesson you want to display.
Click SELECT ALL to select all the lessons listed according to your set filters. To clear the entire selection, click UNSELECT ALL (#).
Note
If you select a course under Course Name, only Codebashing lessons appear, as no custom lessons are associated with courses.
In the example below, only Codebashing lessons are displayed, and two lessons have been selected from the Java course in the Course Selection dialog.
To display only the selected lessons and re-arrange their order, click <ARRANGE LESSONS> and drag the lessons to order them.
Next:
To add additional lessons from different courses, click <ADD LESSONS>. Follow the instructions above to filter and add lessons.
Click <CONTINUE> to view the summary of your new custom course. In this example, no additional courses were added, and the order of the two lessons was switched.
When you are satisfied with the content and structure of your new course, click <CREATE CUSTOM COURSE>. Your course is now created and listed under Unpublished (#).
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If the course is not published, you can edit its name and revise the lessons that are included.
On the left side panel, select Content Management.
Under Courses, go to Unpublished (#). The unpublished courses appear listed.
Navigate to the desired course and click Publish. A warning appears that the course content cannot be modified once the course is published.
To publish the course, click <PUBLISH COURSE>. The course is published and moved to Published (#).
Note
Once you publish your course, you can still edit its name, description, and taglines and modify the order of its lessons, but you cannot add or remove lessons.
Managing Lessons
Codebashing lessons are created in a SCORM 2004 archive and processed and uploaded.
SCORM is an eLearning standard that stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model and ensures the viability to learn content from any source compatible with any Learning Management Solution (LMS) that complies with SCORM. SCORM is a unification of AICC, IMS, ARIADNE, and IEEE's LTSC standards.
SCORM 2004 consists of the following three parts:
Run-Time Environment. Specifies how content behaves once the LMS has launched it. The ECMAScript (JavaScript) in a web browser handles communication between the content and the LMS.
Content Aggregation Model. This model specifies how to package content so it can be imported into an LMS. It involves creating XML files that an LMS can read and learn everything it needs to know about your content.
Sequencing and Navigation. This allows for defining rules that the LMS will use to control the learner’s navigation between sections of the content.
The training content is created using an editing platform and then saved in a SCORM 2004 file system. The tested editing application for Codebashing lessons is Storyline 360. Other applications that create SCORM 2004 output may also be used, but they have not been tested.
Verify the zip archive with your lesson in a folder accessible to Codebashing.
Click <CREATE NEW>, select Custom Lesson from the menu, and upload the zip archive.
Click <UPLOAD FILE>.
Navigate to the folder where your zip archive resides. This example uses an archive called Cross Site Request Forgery_SCORM4000.zip.
Click <Open>. The archive is uploaded.
Define your new course:
Lesson Name - Assign a name to the lesson, for example, Test_Lesson.
Description - Add a description, for example, Test.
Lesson Image - Select the image to associate the lesson with (optional).
Click <CONTINUE> when done.
Use the switches to enable score tracking and display the course's estimated duration. Use the slider to define the duration of the course.
Click <CONTINUE> when done.
To create the lesson click <CREATE>. Your lesson is now created and listed under Unlinked (#).
Note
A summary of objects you selected appears to the right, which is labeled Your course listing will show here as you build it.
Customizing Lessons
You can add ‘extensions’ to your lessons, such as text or links. These can be added to any lesson to emphasize a topic, share examples, or provide additional reading materials, like code examples.
Note
Lesson extensions can be added by Administrators only.
Lesson extensions can be added during every lesson step except for the in-lesson questionnaire step.
Lesson extensions can be added to the lessons of all courses except for the ones from the C/C++ and Mobile courses.
