Hi!

I am having some trouble understanding how to use the Task Controller object, and am wondering if anyone can help me out? I've been trying to follow the manual, but it seems to be written more for programmers, and the instructinos are difficult to follow.

Thanks!
Jenn  

Hi, Jenn,

Unfortunately, these objects are really very complex and it's quite uneasy to explain that in simple words...  

Hi,

I appreciate your response. My issue is that the manual doesn't even explain what the Task Controller is or what it's supposed to do. I can probably figure it out if I know that information, but I'm completely at a loss...Do you have any demo's that use the Task Controller object that could help me understand it a little better?

Thanks! :)
Jenn  

The manual is a little sparse on explaining this but looking at the device itself I'd think that it's designed to augment the SCORM 2004 IMS 'Simple Sequencing.' Crudely this is where you can enforce the path users have to move through your module.
This would allow content developers to customise the path a learner follows through their SCO with some subtlety based on different variables.
You should be able to use this to customise an SCO so that the path through it is adaptive to the learners capibilities.
This is why there are variables tied to individual pages and individual events on those pages. As Slav says this is getting a bit complex.
A sample of this might be, if a user scores at or above a norm in a section you could skip a section and move them to a later continuation point, the next user doesn't do as well and doesn't skip a section and someone in deep trouble gets moved to a totally different point.

There's an in depth explanation of how the rules for this work here http://www.xerceo.com/snguide/

Working from these principles and mapping an SCO thoroughly should give a reasonable idea where they might figure in the task sequencer.
It does hold some very intriguing possibilities but I don't think I have the time or patience to sit down and figure it out myself!!  

hi
i need help to understand what the job of task controller  

Nick,

Thank you! You've helped me out quite a bit. :)

Jenn  

How i can use task controller
i need urgent help

Thank you  

What it is Koronfol is a way of adding different branches to the normally linear (page to next page) stream of events in a module.

Instead of adding the branching structure to the page structure this should be virtually a second map to progress through a module at the SCO level (?). This means that wether it is used or not is often task driven as well.

So a task or more typically a series of tasks are defined, the task controller can then apply different navigation depending on the results. For example get question A in task group 1 correct and skip to task group 3, get it wrong and continue to task group 2.

Because of the way it does this, descriptors for the events are those used in the xml files, you need to view the pages using an xml editor to be able to more easily identify the task groups you're going to define. Try Micro$ofts XML notepad.

It's probably THE most complex tool in courselab and the least user friendly. At its current state of development you need to understand XML to use this tool, how courselab applies and uses labels for events and the concepts behind SCORM 2004 IMS 'Simple Sequencing', simple is a bad description ... it is NOT.  

Thank you Nickj
what you meaning is that tool used to not restrict navigation

is it mean we can go from one question to different path according to the answer as i understand  

Thats the idea as far as I understand it, you take the normal linear module structure say 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 then add the possibility of programatic non-linear navigation.

The logic flow would be a bit like this

Task 1
Evaluate user (question)
Update score and objectives
Options (a) right goto task 3
(b) wrong goto task 2
Task 2
Evaluate user (question)
Options (a) right goto task 3
Task 3
Evaluate user (question)
Options (a) right goto task 4
(b) wrong goto task 2


Why it is so complicated is because the task controller acts as a mask for the existing module and applies a new set of conditions for the events within a task.
So if you have a module that covers a simple task in detail some people may know this already and some may not. You set the tasks so at certain points users responses allow them to skip sections.
Like all things as you increase the users level of control lots more can go wrong or suddenly stop working properly.

A good way to think of task controller is like switching off the auto pilot in a plane, Slav (developer team) is a pilot and knows all about the plane, what each button does so the plane keeps flying. I don't so the plane will probably crash quite quickly!  

Don't waste your time. Get Trivantis' Lectora software instead.  

hi



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