E-Learning authoring and the reuse of content

You don't want to duplicate any content if that is not necessary. The more copies you make the more complex your maintenance will be. We found that this is especially a concern when you want to reuse questions from an assessment in an e-Learning course (or visa versa), when you just want to publish the questions from a course to memory training software or when you want to publish a course to a mobile device.

In order to solve this, easygenerator offers you the 'page link' and the 'content link'.

Page link
Sometimes you want to reuse a page as it is. For example you want to reuse a question (general pages are obviously also possible) from one course into another. This is quite possible in easygenerator and it is simple. You go to the original page and copy. You move to where you want to reuse it (this might be another course) and you select 'Paste as Page Link'. The page is placed in the new location. The look and feel of a page is set by the master page of the course the page is originally in. The 'linked page' will automatically take on the look and feel of the course it is now placed in. If you change anything in the content or even when you add an extra object like a new image, this will happen in both courses. This is an easy and effective way to reuse your content.

Content link

In some cases you need more than a page link. When you want to reuse a page for publishing in a mobile device you might need to change the place or the size of the objects on this page in order to make them fit to the mobile screen. But if you change the size or position of an image when you use the regular page link option, this will change that image on all occurrences of this page, also in an e-Learning course where you might not want to do this.

To solve this problem we created the content link. This works more or less the same as the page link, but when you change the size or place of an object on a 'content linked' page it will only affect that specific page and not the other occurrences of the same page. This means you can reuse a page from a normal e-learning course, adjust it to the mobile screen resolution without affecting the source page. When you change the content or use another picture in the page though, this will affect all occurrences.