Sunday, March 14, 2010

SoftChalk Lesson Builder v.5

I'm using Lesson Builder to construct online versions of some astronomy labs. I've run into these limitations with Lesson Builder (Mac OS 10.6):

  1. Copy and paste from MS Word doesn't quite work. Lesson Builder doesn't copy images of the equations into the lesson folder so the images that appear correct on first doing the paste will not work later once the temporary files used by the system to do the copy to/paste are gone.
  2. Apparently you can't copy/paste QuizPoppers...this is documented in their User's Guide, but it seems like that will make it hard to reuse materials.
  3. LaTeXiT doesn't work drag-n-drop to Lesson Builder. A workaround is to drag to the finder, then drag from the finder to Lesson Builder. That does not work either with LaTeXiT's default setting of PDF output. PNG does work.