Web Course Builder produces a course using HTML frames.
Chapter listings are located on the sidebar frame, services are located on a
bottom frame, and the course material is located in the center content area.
You can use the default frame settings, display only one frame, or display no frames.
- Each time you generate a course, all four viewing options are created.
- To provide students with a different frame experience, change the course URL (that you give the students) from http://www.yourserver.com/coursename/index.htm to http://www.yourserver.com/coursename/choice.htm, where choice.htm is either main.htm, index4.htm, or index5.htm.
- To display the main page only (for use with PDAs if the different functional areas are implemented
using frames), use pda.htm as the starting page.
- You can also specify a first page to display in the content area. To do this, add ?start_file=file.htm to the end of the course URL. For example, to have the course open with the FAQ as the first page, the course URL would be
http://www.yourserver.com/coursename/index.htm?start_file=faqs.htm
It's True! To view a sidebar only version of this course right now, go into the URL (address) field in the browser window and change index.htm to index4.htm.
Tip As a course developer, you can also specify the layout of your course by choosing Appearance > Frame Layout to select which frames you want visible.
