If you have 'Advanced User status' you can create Learning trails.
Why create Learning trails?
Learning trails can be used in a classroom or other learning environment to give a structured route through the content and activities in SoundJunction, for example, as interactive lesson plans. Or they can simply be shared on Learning trail forum for use by the general public.
In Learning trail mode, peripheral site navigation links are removed. This means that you can control which pages the user can visit.
How do I create one? Four easy steps
- Make sure you are logged in
- Navigate around SoundJunction, visiting the pages you want to be in your learning trail
- Use Journey Mode to delete unwanted pages and add notes and instructions
- Save your Learning trail in Journey Mode
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First, make sure you are logged in.
Simply navigate around the site, visiting the pages you wish to be inside your trail. Don't worry if you visit pages you don't want to be in the trail. You can delete these later.
Review your trail
You can review your trail at any point by clicking on the 'Journey mode' button. Journey mode shows all the pages you have visited – your journey. When you create a Learning trail from a journey, users can navigate only to the previous and next steps you define.
Editing your trail
You can remove redundant pages from your trail. Click on the page node you want to delete, then click on the 'Edit' menu, and 'Delete page'. The selected page is deleted and the adjoining pages are linked together.
You should delete from your trail all content menu pages (e.g. Explore music, All about the trombone). Because Learning trail mode removes navigation links apart from the previous/next steps you define, these pages are redundant.
Saving your Learning trail
Your trail can be saved as a Journey and/or a Learning trail. Journeys are for your personal record; Learning trails can be used by others.
You can save your trail by choosing 'Save Learning Trail as' from the File menu in Journey Mode.
Fill in the fields in the dialogue box. These influence how your Learning trail appears in the Learning trail forum. The target age-group box is optional.
If you don't want your Learning trail to appear on the Learning trail forum, but for it to be accessed by a password, enter the password and tick the 'private' box.
Finally choose an appropriate image for your Learning trail.
Once you have saved your Learning trail, it will appear on the Learning trail forum, unless you have requested that it remains private.
