Objects

Object is the basic element of CourseLab, the building brick of the Learning Module. You may construct the Learning Module of any complexity by employing various Objects and building relationships among them.

When you insert the Object of any shape into the Frame it is placed into the Rectangular Placeholder. You can change size and orientation of this Rectangular Placeholder. There are 3 types of Objects allocation within the Rectangular Placeholder:

• Object that can automatically adjust it’s size to the size of Rectangular Placeholder (for example, pictures, and AutoShapes are always resizing it’s height and width to fit the Rectangular Placeholder),
• Object that can resize by itself (autofit to contents depending, for example, on the amount of the text)
• Object's size will not change

Two main types of Objects are used in the CourseLab for building up learning Module: internal and complex.

Internal Objects are the primary and most frequently used Objects; they are built into the CourseLab. In fact, you can create entire learning Module by utilizing only internal Objects such as:

• Text
• Images
• Autoshapes

Since these types of Objects are the most commonly used, the access to the Editor menu is very simple - editing buttons are conveniently located on the toolbar.

Complex Objects are external to CourseLab and loaded into the CourseLab using the Open Object Interface.

For simulations of software execution the special object Cursor can also be employed.

There is also virtual Actionbox Object, which is used to launch action sequence by timeline.

• Text
• Images
• Complex objects
• Autoshapes
• Cursors
• Actionbox