Run System Check after you add courses, schedule classes,
add students or perform other maintenance activities.
System Check does not actually correct problems. It merely
informs you of setup or data problems so you can take action to correct them
yourself. A typical System Check run might yield a report like the following
example, assuming that the System Administrator in this case had been somewhat
careless in setting up FlexTraining course components:
Concept: What content type will be most effective?
Sometimes, text and a few images can be as or more
effective than streaming video or multimedia.
In fact, IBM
has discovered that because the global nature of its business and its employee
base, a still photo accompanied by self-paced text may be the best format.
Users can read and scroll through the text at their own pace, re-read sentences
that may be unclear or warrant additional attention, or simply stop and
reflect, and then return to the presentation — all without losing their place
or missing any of what the source is “saying.”
Sometimes, in our eagerness to adopt all the new
“bells and whistles” of a new technology, we forget that self-paced text may be
the most powerful and preferable learning tool of all.