Odijoo

The authoring tool is a built-in application in Odijoo, which allows users to rapidly create interactive, dynamic and fully-hosted online courses. It can be accessed in the Author Course menu. There are five simple steps required to create an Odijoo course using the Authoring tool:

Step 1: Describe
Course – a course name and description is inputted. A course name
is mandatory and is what distinguishes one course from others in Odijoo. A course
description is not required, but recommended to give users an overview of what
the course is all about.

Step 2: Choose
Template – Odijoo has 28 design templates (and growing) to choose from. Choosing a course templates is a required  step.

Step 3: Create
Outline – The course outline is the product of your instructional
design. This is defined broadly as an instructional discipline which asks you to determine the needs of your learner, defining the end goal of your instruction, create materials (text - multi-media) to support your goals and measure results.

Pay careful attention to the sequence of your outline.There are many purposes to your outline sequence, for example:

• Ask yourself if learners already have a strong background in
  the content, if not, then sequence your outline from
  the bottom up. Unless you teach prerequisite information first, your learners
  could become confused.
• Alternatively, whole or part sequencing gives learners a big
  picture overview, break it into component parts and then put the pieces back
  into a whole again.
• Job sequencing delivers instruction in the same order that tasks are performed in the workplace.

This step gives users a chance to plan out their course and divide it into
modules, lessons and topics.

Step 4: Manage
Content – After an outline is created, it can be filled with course
content. The authoring tool allows users to:

• Format course content: Add or change
  fonts, font sizes, font colors, bullet points, justification and links.
  Formatting features in the authoring tool are similar in functionality and use
  to those of Microsoft Office.
• Add Audio or Narration: must be mp3
  format and uploaded from a user’s computer. The file size limited is up to 10 MB and no limit to
  the number of total audio files allowed in a course.
• Add videos: must be flv or swf and
  uploaded from a user’s computer. Each video can be maximum 10MB in size and
  there is no limit to the number of total video files allowed in a course.
• Add images: can be gif, jpg or png and
  uploaded from a user’s computer. There is no limit to file size or the number
  of total images allowed in a course.

Step 5: Finalize
Course – Once a course has been created, it can be
accessed or modified at any time in Authored
Courses, located in the Author Course menu. Once a user is satisfied with a course, it can be published into a classroom and delivered to students for free or for an enrollment price.
Alternatively, the course can be sold to Odijoo users as a syndicated course,
where users can purchase the course, turn it into their own classroom and
teach it to their own students.