JClic Guide: The creation of a new project

Creating a new project

Before creating activities using JClic author you must start by creating a new project, or open a previous one. The finished project consists of a group of activities, its links and all the multimedia resources which have been employed in it.

The projects can be created using JClic author. When you start making them you must specify:

• The name of the project.
• The name of the file where the project will be saved. This file will have the double extension .jclic.zip. The programme automatically assigns the same name to the file as the project, replacing if necessary problem characters for others which make it easier to find in Internet or in any operative system. The name of the file should not contain accents or spaces or be too long as later this could cause problems when you want to post it on the Net. If the name of the project is not adequate, the programme will transform it automatically. The files .jclic.zip use a standard ZIP format. They can be opened with any tool which supports this type of document e.g. Winzip or 7zip, but it is recommendable to handle them using JClic author.
• The folder where they will be automatically saved is:

C:/Programme Files/JClic/projects/name of project (in Windows)

$home/JClic/projects/name of project (in other systems)

JClic author creates the folder automatically. It is advisable to save all the resources that will be used in the project in this folder.

Once the new project has been created there is some information that it is advisable to specify before creating the activities. This information can be modified later. e.g. the name and description of the project, information about the author, level ,subject and language/languages used. Some aspects of the user interface can also be configurated here like the skin and sounds of events.

All this information is introduced through the tab Project in JClic author.

This tab contains 4 sections.