Playing the Presentation


The following process describes what will happen when an end user accesses a course on the training site:

  1. End users link to the training site. The link can be placed on the Media Guide site or on other internal sites, or links can be sent in e-mail messages. For example, after the safety courses are finished, the Safety department can send e-mail to factory managers describing the safety initiative and how employees can take the course online.

  2. End users search for the course. The Training site can take advantage of all the features available to SharePoint Portal Server users, such as the search engine, dashboards, and Web parts. The original Media Guide contains a Training category. After the Training site is in place, all content from the Media Guide portal will be moved to Training.

  3. A course link on the Training site actually points to a sign-up ASP page. After the form is submitted successfully, the link to the presentation is returned to the end-user’s browser, and the course loads and plays.

  4. The end user can view the course from beginning to end, pause playback, or use the table of contents to jump forward or back to a different section. By default, slide start times are used as table of contents entries.

  5. At the end of the Producer presentation, the quiz page is displayed. The page can be an ASP page that checks the answers, and only awards credit for the course if the answers are correct, or it can be a HTML page that simply transfers results to a database.

  6. Results of the quiz page are added to the database entry started in step 3. This provides a degree of certainty that an end user has actually taken a course. You, of course, can add further measures to ensure compliance.

The Training and Media departments follow these procedures to produce the four videos in the series and distribute them to employees. Later when usage reports become available to customers, training planners can review details of client usage to help them create more effective online courses. They can also review usage logs to see how much of a course is viewed by an end user. The system that the two departments develop will be an extension of their existing employee education and training programs. For example, the new online series will be part of the same offerings and have the same certification management.

In the next chapter, the IT department finishes the task of enabling the network for multicast. After the network infrastructure has been enabled, the company can begin large-scale broadcasting to every computer in the company connected to the network.




Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit
Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit (Pro-Resource Kit)
ISBN: 0735618070
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 258

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