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Chapter 2: Setting Lesson Properties

What are the Lesson properties?

The lesson properties control the ways that a lesson will behave when the student works on it. The figure below is the lesson property setting dialog window in the Digital Teacher authoring program. From this window, we set properties of a lesson.

Available properties for web lesson

While we can set any property for the lessons to be administered on the "desktop" or "LAN" computers, only the properties that are marked with small dots in the blue color are available for our "web" lessons.

Since the detailed explanation on each property is included in the Digital Teacher Authoring Program's help file, we will not repeat them in this guide.

If you're an existing Digital Teacher user, you should already be familiar with each property. If you're a new user, please run Digital Teacher and read HELP.

However, the following three properties deserve a little explanation.

Show Performance Report Upon Completion - .ASP only:
(This property has no effect on lessons created in the .HTM file type.) Setting this property allows the student to see his performance result after he or she completes and submits his or her answers. The report is shown in one of the following two styles.
- Style 1: Report with questions and grades only (Default)
- Style 2: Report with questions, correct answers, student answers, and grades
By default, the report is displayed in Style 1. To have the report shown in the style 2, you should manually set the style by changing the sRptShowAnswer variable inside from the test file. To see how to set the style, please see Performance Report and Grade Book (.ASP only)

Tip: Setting the style manually inside from each test file can be a little inconvenient. So, what you want to do is to create a template (i.e. A_Template_with_sRptShowAnswer_set_to_1.ht_) to use with all the tests that you want to show reports in Style 2 to the student.
Shuffle Questions Order:
For this property to work in the web lesson, the originating book must
1. contain only one chapter
2. not contain "instructional" type questions
Force Student to Answer:
Forcing the student to answer questions may not necessarily be a good idea. Still, we may want to take advantage of this property either on a test or a survey to ensure that we get all the required responses from the student.
For the Desktop or LAN-based testing, setting this property to True will force the student to answer the current question before s/he attempts to move to another question or page. In the web-based lesson, the student can move without the current question answered, but is not allowed to submit the result unless s/he completes answering all the questions in a given lesson. So, the word "forcing" is a sort of misnomer.
Note that this property is always (automatically) set to False for the lesson generated as single-page style regardless of whether this property box has been checked or not. To set this property to True, you must open the generated lesson file (.HTM or .ASP) and change
```
        var pForceAnswer = False; to True
```
However, setting this property to True will have no effect

- on the Netscape browser if
- the lesson contains questions that require student input
Show Automatically (Correct Answers/scores):
This property is originally intended for the Desktop-based and LAN-based lessons. However, for the Web-based lesson, checking this property displays the correct answer buttons for a Fill-in-the-blank type question.

Publishing Web Lesson as Survey - .ASP only

By checking the Publish as Survey check box, you can publish the Digital Teacher web lesson as a survey questionaire.

When published as a survey, the Digital Teacher web lesson can be accessed by anyone - students, parents, teachers, or customers. That is, your lesson database does not need to contain a list of "pre-determined" students.

Please see How to deploy the lesson in two different survey modes.

Table of Contents Chapter 3: Generating Web Lesson Files