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Overview

What Is It?

Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG (pronounced "whiz-ee-wig," standing for "what you see is what you get") Web editor produced by Macromedia Corporation. It is the standard Web editor for Duke and is simple enough for many beginners to use, working at its most basic very much like a word processor. Dreamweaver creates Web pages, which you then upload to a Web server for presentation on the Internet.

CourseBuilder is a free extension for Dreamweaver for creating online quizzes, typically comprised of multiple choice or matching questions. CourseBuilder provides instant feedback to students as to their success or failure.

Things to consider

For most of the tasks that Dreamweaver and CourseBuilder can handle, we have a campus tool that is both easier and quicker to use: Blackboard. For basic quizzes and surveys, Blackboard can do the same kind of things the Dreamweaver-CourseBuilder combination can. Essentially, you should consider using Blackboard for simple online assessments unless you need some of the more advanced features that CourseBuilder provides.

How Does It Work?

• For instructions on using Dreamweaver, there are training options available at OIT's and at Academic Technology ServicesDuke Human Resources. The CIT has a variety of textbooks available in our library.

In CourseBuilder, you can create a number of interactive exercises, such as:

• Multiple choice and true/false questions
• Drag-and-drop exercises
• Exploratory functions (feedback from pointing at "hot" areas on the screen)
• Functions that simulate physical controls like buttons, toggles and switches
• Text entry items
• Timers
• Sliders

Once you choose a type of interaction, there are multiple subtypes you can choose from.

The tabs at the bottom of the window let you tweak all of the possibilities of that particular interaction type.

These exercises can be timed, and the Action Manager allows you to collect results from a set of multiple choice questions, summarize these results, and send a score back to a tracking system.

What do I need in order to use it?

For Dreamweaver:

• Windows or Macintosh

The Duke University Computer Store offers the product for a reduced price.

For CourseBuilder:

1. Sign in on the Macromedia Web site to obtain a Macromedia ID
2. Download the Macromedia Extension Manager
3. Download CourseBuilder
4. Install the Extension Manager, following the instructions provided by Macromedia
5. Start up Dreamweaver and select Manage Extensions from the Help menu
6. From the File menu choose Install Extension and navigate to the location where you downloaded the CourseBuilder Extension
7. Select it (the file has a name like MX515129_CourseBuilder4211.mxp) and click Choose

This will install CourseBuilder and provide you with the CourseBuilder menu commands in Dreamweaver.