Developer Resources

OLI Pre-Workshop Webinar #1 – Overview

A brief overview of the OLI platform which includes: Where the idea stems from, learner centered design, key benefits of the OLI platform, OLI Supported Development, and required technical skills.

OLI Pre-Workshop Webinar #2 – Authoring Tools

Using OLI and the technology frameworks behind it to help you (the course developer) easily create and maintain your course criteria. Within these slides you will receive a summary on the Google Docs convertor, OLI Author, activity types, and the course design triangle

System requirements for Platform+

Software, browsers, and technical requires required for your computer to progress into the OLI developer environment. (Both PC, and MAC requirements are covered within this article)

System configuration instructions for MAC

A more in-depth article that describes the configurations associated with MAC computers. This covers system software, browser plug-ins, java preferences, and using Subversion with Terminal.

OLI Development Workflow

A look into the everyday workflow of course developers using the OLI platform: The three primary components behind OLI, understanding the big picture.

OLI Author

The OLI Author tool allows the user to build or edit simple Inline and Regular Assessments, minimizing or eliminating the need to manually manipulate the XML code. It can accommodate Learn By Doing (LBD) and Did I Get This? (DIGT) inline assessments, as well as Checkpoint and Quiz regular assessments.

OLI Google Docs convertor, installing

OLI Google Docs Converter is an OLI tool for converting Google Documents to OLI XML. It is a Java Desktop application and will run on either Windows or Mac OS.

OLI Google Docs convertor, getting started

How to utilize the Google Docs convertor to successfully create XML structure suitable for using in the OLI platform.

OLI Google Docs convertor, guidelines

An overview of how to style your Google document to achieve certain aspects within a course: Headers, sections, tables, videos, images, etc.

Google Doc Converter Statistical Reasoning – Open and Free page 11

An example document that has been modified from an existing course to show you the mark-up within a Google document.

Google Doc Converter Statistical Reasoning – Open and Free page 15

An example document that has been modified from an existing course to show you the mark-up within a Google document.

Walkthrough of Oxygen

A thorough walkthrough of the Oxygen authoring software used to create, and edit documents for the OLI platform.

Tortoise SVN

Tortoise SVN is a Subversion (SVN) program for Windows. Subversion is a version control system. It keeps a history of all the versions of your project’s files and folders over their lifetimes, as they are updated continually by different users from different computers. It also provides a central location, called a repository, for storing your project’s files. This enables remote users to revise the centrally located course contents without the changes conflicting with each other.

Subversion in Oxygen

A thorough walkthrough of the Oxygen authoring software used to create, and edit documents for the OLI platform.

Subversion on MAC (Terminal)

Terminal is a command line application that comes default with all MAC computers, this article will help you navigate through getting your repository set up, all the way to committing changes.

Previewing Your Course

The steps outlined here will guide you through the process of committing your changes to successfully preview a build of your course.