IDDL logo

Virginia Tech

Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning

office of the university provost, vice provost for academic affairs

Providing leadership, coordination, management and support for

eLearning at Virginia Tech

(page 10 of 14)

Learning to Use Centra

print version: entire tutorial | this page only

«« PREVIOUS PAGE - Table of Contents-NEXT PAGE »»

Agendas: Modifying an Existing Agenda

You may want to make changes to your agenda periodically. Once you have added an agenda to your subject, the add link on the Manage Subjects page is replaced by checkout.The checkout function allows you to make changes to an existing agenda. (A useful analogy is that of checking out a library book, only this is a book that allows you to add or delete pages.) You will checkout your agenda, make changes to it in Agenda Builder, and then check your agenda back in using the check in link. If you wish, you can use one agenda for the whole semester and just keep adding folders to it for each lesson.


Checkout

Log in to your assigned Centra domain and select Manage Subjects. Click the checkout link beside your subject. Click launch in the new window. Centra will report that it is verifying your installation. It will then prompt you for a location to store the agenda. After the files transfer from the server to your machine, click the Continue button.


The agenda is now ready to be opened from within Agenda Builder. Add or delete items and save your changes as you would when building any agenda.


NOTE: Any change to an agenda that has been recorded will erase the recording.



Checkin

Log in to your assigned Centra domain and select Manage Subjects. Click the check-in link beside your subject. Click launch in the new window. Centra will report that it is verifying your installation. It will then prompt you for a location from which to get the agenda.


After the files transfer from your machine to the server, click the Continue button. Your updated agenda is ready to use.



Swapping an Old Agenda For a New One

Instead of modifying an old agenda, you may wish to swap it for a new one. Again, any recordings or evaluation results related to the old agenda will be erased.


Checkout the old agenda, then check-in the new agenda just as described above. The new agenda will automatically be renamed with the same name as the old agenda you just checked out.


It is best to save old agendas with a unique name. If not, each checkout will replace the old agenda with the agenda you just checked out because they have identical names.


«« PREVIOUS PAGE - Table of Contents -NEXT PAGE »»

(page 10 of 14)

Related Materials:

Centra FAQs | Request Set-Up of a Centra Session | Centra Student Tutorial

fury
fury
fury
fury