An Introduction to Malted Editor (DVE):

1. Layout of a Malted Teaching Unit

A Malted project or teaching unit consists of three essential components:


A ) frames (.xml): they make up the core of the teaching unit and appear as the screens which build the unit.

B) course (.cxml)
: it is the linking nucleus of the frames. It includes the order in which the frames will appear on the screen as well as the existing hyperlinks among the frames of the teaching unit, such as the links of a menu which take the students to other frames.

C) media files used in the frames:
           - audio files (.mp3 / .wav / .mid) 
           - image files (.jpg /.gif / .png)
           - text files (.txt / .rtf)
           - video files (.mpg / .avi / .mov)


The projects or teaching units are inside the projects folder, in the Malted2 directory. Each project includes five folders where the various files are saved: audio, image, text, video, xml.


The xml folder includes the course (.cxml) and all the frames (.xml). The rest of the folders include the media files used in each frame:




After opening Malted Editor (DVE), the first step is to create a project or teaching unit with a new name. This automatically creates a folder of the unit named according to our preferences together with all its subfolders: audio, image, text, video, xml. The simplest way of inserting images, audio files, texts and so on in the unit is to save those files into their corresponding folders in the unit (audio, image, text, video) before opening Malted Editor (DVE). The designer can also import those files from the Editor; in that way, they will be available to be inserted in the frame.

 
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