EasyCourseBuilder - Step By Step Instructions

1. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer in "List" View.

2. Run Easy Course Builder e.g. from Start Menu if installed from package.

3. Resize and arrange windows so that both are on screen at the same time.

4. Open Microsoft Word (or similar).

5. Save a few blank documents with your chosen session names followed by the time this session takes in brackets. e.g. Listening Skills (25).DOC or Assertiveness (45).TXT

6. Now, you should have these documents available in a window ready to drag to Easy Course Builder.

7. Click anywhere on the Easy Course Builder to activate it's window, and select your session start time. It's default is 9.00am

8. Drag you first document (session) into the schedule box (the largest grey box) under the time line.

9. You should see a little box now on the time line. This represents your first session. You can change the colour of this box depending upon whether it's a theory session a practice session or whatever you choose just by clicking on the appropriate coloured boxes to the right.

10. Continue dragging sessions into the schedule box and you should see your course being built on the time line. For evaluation purposes an arbitrary limit may be imposed.

11. You can add breaks and lunch via the Insert buttons or by naming a document "lunch (60).doc" or "break (15).txt"

12. You can adjust the timings of any session by clicking on the timings radio buttons.

To Insert a Session

1. Click on the module you want to move and press NUDGE (yellow right arrow) button repeatedly until the gap is large enough.

2. Insert the module you want roughly where you want it on the timeline, and press CRUNCH (yellow left arrow) button. This will bring all your modules behind each other and adjust the timings automatically.

To Print a Timetable

Press Output button, then the Print button in the Output window.

If you use Word 97 or Word 2000 you can build a workbook using the Word button.

For other word processors or Wordpad, highlight the timetable, then press Ctrl-C (or right click) to copy to clipboard and then Ctrl-V to paste it into your word processing program.

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