LON-CAPA Resources
Resource is the term used to describe the material that is
given to your students through the LON-CAPA system. The following are the different types of LON-CAPA resources:
- Content pages: This is the term used for pages that are purely for
informational purposes. Almost always they will end with the extension .html
or .htm.
- Problems: These are questions given to the student in which all
submitted answers are stored. They will end with the extension .page.
- Maps: Maps are ways of stringing your resources together. There
are two kinds of maps:
- Sequences: This is a type of map that in which you need to use
the arrow keys or NAV button to traverse through the different resources.
Sequences always end with the extension .sequence.
- Pages: This is a type of map in which all of the resources
appear in the browser window together. For example, a page of
problems will appear to look like a homework set in the browser
window. Pages always end with the extension .page.
- A sequence can include other sequences and pages. For example, there
is a sequence called lg_biomols.sequence which includes some content pages
and the sequences carbo.sequence, protein.sequence, etc.
- All other resources, such as images and animations, should be in a .html
or .htm file before they are put in a sequence. LON-CAPA can handle image
files such as .gif and .jpg though.