Verifying WBT Manager and Learning Object Communication

It is essential that you test your learning object with WBT Manager as early as possible. This section explains how to use reports to check whether your learning objects communicate correctly with WBT Manager.

Before you can test your new course you must assign it to a learner. WBT Manager comes with a demonstration learner pre-installed to provide an example for you to follow. The demonstration learner's login ID and password are both demo.

Assigning the Course to the Demonstration Learner

Beginning with version 1.8, you can configure WBT Manager's student hierarchy to have up to five organizational levels above the individual student. Previous versions of WBT Manager grouped individual learners into just two organizational levels. The new hierarchy makes it easier to track large groups of learners and allows for decentralized administration of the registration and course enrollment processes. The hierarchy is reflected in the structure of the navigation tree.

Student records include any courses in which the individual learners are enrolled. These courses are displayed under the individual learner’s names on the navigation tree. Figure 1 shows the expanded the Demo Organization hierarchy and the demonstration learner.

Figure 1. The demonstration learner in the WBT Manager Student hierarchy.

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1. Log on to the System Administrator using the instructions in Part 1.
2. Click the small plus (+) sign next to each of the organizational levels (L5, L4, and L3) until you see the Demo Organization.
3. Click the small plus (+) signs next to Demo Organization and Demo Department to see the demonstration learner (Named "Student, Demo" in Figure 1).

4. Right-click the demonstration learner. A contextual menu appears (Figure 2).

   

   Figure 2. The student contextual menu

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5. Select Assign Course to open the Course Selector:

   

   Figure 3. The Course Selector

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6. Expand and collapse the Course Selector tree as needed to locate and select the desired course.

7. Click the OK button. The selected course is assigned to the demonstration learner.

   

   Figure 4. The demonstration learner with the course assigned

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Results Data Reporting

WBT Manager provides comprehensive reporting on learner progress and results with the learning content. Typically the learners are able to access reports on their own progress, while individuals who have administrative privileges are able to access more detailed information.

You may remember from Part 1 that WBT Manager has three separate user interfaces:

• A client-server System Administrator interface for setting up and managing all aspects of the training program
• A browser-based Local Administrator interface for registering learners and assigning courses
• A browser-based Learner Interface for launching assigned courses and tracking progress

To use the WBT Manager reporting facilities for debugging the learning object, you access the System Administrator interface and the Learner interface. You have already used the System Administrator interface in Part 1 and also in the previous section, to assign the course to the demonstration learner.

Next you will use the Learner Interface to generate some results data for your learning object. So you will log on as the demonstration learner and launch the learning object.

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