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4.3
Authoring Tool User Manual
Items
The Items are not quietly a module of the Learning Editor but a concept that is present in a lot of objects
inside the course.
In the IMS-LD specification we can find the following description about the Items:
“When a component, a learning objective, or a prerequisite needs a resource, an ‘item’ element is used in
the similar way as in the organization part of IMS Content Packaging. The learning design provides a
semantic context for these items, so that runtime systems can know what to do with the resource. For
example in the following case:
<learning-objectives><item identifierref="o123"/></learning-objectives> it is clear that the resource with
identifier ‘o123’ is a learning objective description. In the case of:
<activity-description><item identifierref="o345"/></activity-description> the item is an activity description. A
runtime system can position the learning objectives in a certain place in the user-interface, different from the
activity-description, and activity-descriptions can be handled differently from other learning content (this can
vary from implementation to implementation, within the boundaries of the behavior descriptions provided in
this information model).”
In other words the Items are the object that will encapsulate and refer the Resources. According to the
context that the items are used, the user can define for the same resource different kinds of approaches to
the content.
The items concept and interface will be describe in just one section of this manual for a better and efficient
description.
In other words, in every place that is used, the items will correspond to the same interface that will describe
in this section.
The form that correspond to the items is like the below picture.
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Title - Represents the title that the user will give to the item resource. This is a mandatory field, so
if this field is not filled the Item can’t be created. The tool, if that field is not defined, by default
gives an automatic name to the item (normally a sequential name like in the above picture);
Note: Despite this value is not the ID of the Item (the ID is created automatically by the tool), this is very
important because the ID will be based on this value, except when that ID will be duplicated with some