Creating a Rich Text with Narration Activity

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Overview

Within our Getting Started Package, you will find a Template folder. We have provided a template for the configuration file, which is used by the CLIO interface to set up the activity. We also include a content drafting template created in Microsoft Word that can aid collaboration when creating activities as part of a development team.

Options

Content Configuration

These are configuration settings for the content available within the activity.

Property	Description	Expected Parameters	Examples
Audio	The audio file to be played.	OGG file This activity type currently only supports the .OGG audio format.
Rich Text	Rich text content to be displayed within the activity.	Rich Text

Creating the Activity

Define the Activity

All CLIO activities, regardless of their Activity Type, contain many of the same configuration settings.  These are used to configure the screen and load the correct content.  By defining this information, we can begin to draft more specific activity content.  This information is included in both the drafting template and the coding template provided with each activity type.

Read More: Defining a CLIO Activity

Drafting the Content

Download the template.

Open the provided Content Template for drafting the Rich Text with Narration activity.  First, we must decide on the basic descriptive information for the activity, such as the title, description, preview image and theme.  This information is required because it is used by the CLIO interface to properly display the activity.

Next, we can start to write the content needed for the Rich Text with Narration activity type.  This activity type will display rich text content that the user can scroll, as well as an optional OGA audio file voice over.

For the Audio field, we can put the relative location to the OGG audio file that we would like to play.  This is entirely optional.  For the Rich Text field, we can put the rich text that we would like to display as part of our activity.

Coding the Activity

This section requires a downloadable template.

The next step will be to take the content that was created in the Content template and begin to migrate it into the Configuration template.  We will need to open the provided Configuration Template for drafting the Rich Text with Narration activity.  This can be done in a plain text editor, but for the purpose of this manual we will be using jsoneditoronline.org/.  

We can now start filling out the empty fields for our activity.  Our audio file, named “1”, will be displayed under the object named “Audio”.  Here, we can enter the relative location of the OGA audio file that we put into our content draft.  Finally, we can enter the rich text that we want to display under “Richtext”.

Once you are finished, you can download the finished JSON file by clicking ‘Save’ and then ‘Save to Disk’.  This file can be copied to the Program’s @Activity folder, and the media can be copied to the Program’s @Media directory.