Project Planning Guides

Our project planning guides provide an introduction to the different facets of the materials development process.

Portable content formats
This guide provides an overview of the types of content formats typically used for download and use on portable media devices (with a particular focus on iPods). Formats covered include audio-only files, audiobooks, enhanced audio files, narrated slideshows, and full movies.

Digital audio recording production plan
This guide takes you through the step by step process of planning and carrying out a digital audio recording project to create course materials. Topics covered include planning your project, planning your content; pre-production tasks; recording, editing and saving your content; post production; content testing; and making your content available to students.