1. Putting Documents into CourseInfo
2000
F S I
Faculty Summer Institute
On Learning Technologies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Putting Documents into CourseInfo
Presenters:
Jan Predmore
John Sfondilias
Center for Educational Technology
May 18, 2000

2. Putting Documents into CourseInfo
Types of Documents we will review:
Word Processor Documents (based on MSWord for today)
Text, simple
Text, formatted
Text with images
Images
Special Documents:
PowerPoint presentations
SpreadSheets and Databases
Sound files
Video files

3. Tools Document production: Moving Files:
Text editors CourseInfo Word Processors Control Panel HTML editors (Netscape Composer,
Dreamweaver, FrontPage) Zip file utilities (WinZip, StuffIt,
Special Documents: DropStuff)
Image files (.gif, .jpg)
PowerPoint (.ppt)
.PDF documents
SpreadSheets and Databases
Sound files
Video files

4. Techniques: Native Doc vs Copy ‘n Paste vs HTML
Moving your documents to CourseInfo server.
Use “Native Document” – LINK 1. Examples (.doc, .xls, .pdf, .txt, .ppt) 2. (requires the user’s machine to have the proper program)
Copy and Paste the document contents (works alright if only text and very simple)
Create an HTML version of your document
1. Link to the HTML file
2. Copy and Paste the HTML code 3. For complicated file sets (a doc and associated images) one must work harder a. Zip the file sets and Unpackage in CourseInfo b. Paste the “index.html” file and answer all CourseInfo’s questions about missing images.