The Objectives Properties Window is displayed if you select Node in Properties from the Main Menu when you have the Objective Hierarchy selected. You can also open the Objectives Properties Window by double-clicking on any Objective node.
See Also:
Developing Objectives gives more in-depth information on objective design activities.
See the Objective Workscreen Overview for specific details for each page.
Common Menu Items discusses the common pages that all hierarchy nodes share.
Objective Levels
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Level Name |
Pages on this Level |
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Organizer |
General, Training, Content, Analysis Links, Questions, Cross References, Document Links, Version Comments, Past Versions |
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Cognitive Terminal |
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Cognitive Enabler |
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Performance Terminal |
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Performance Enabler |
General Page
The Objective's General page is where you can enter the behavior Statement, which will be displayed in the hierarchy. Optionally you can also do the following:
•Enter a Topic.
•Enter a Condition.
•Enter a Standard.
•Add a User-Defined ID.
•Change the Status to Approved, or unapprove the status.
Refer to "Developing Objectives," for more detailed instructions on this menu item.
Training Page
The Training page shows training information about the objective. Here you can also do the following:
•Enter the Training Media this objective requires.
•Enter the Training Setting that this objective is designed for.
•Enter an estimate of the time it takes to train the objective.
•Enter comments about training can also be entered on this menu item.
Refer to "Developing Objectives" for more detailed instructions on this menu item.
Content Page
The Content page is more elaborate than some of the other menu items you have already encountered in VISION. This page is for entering objective content that you can deliver to learners online via the VISION Learning Station. Here you can:
•Classify the Objective according to its instructional strategy.
•Add Word or PPT content to the objective.
•Add web-based types of content to the objective.
•Add Video content to the objective.
More information is available from the Advisor topic “Classifying Instructional Objectives.” Also, see "Adding Various Types of Content" for more information about creating content objects for an objective.
Analysis Links Page
The Consolidation menu item displays analysis items that are associated with and “consolidated” into the selected objective. Consolidated Analysis components are not represented individually by separate objectives, but rather are taught within the objective as content or teaching points. If you plan to enter content into the objective using the Content menu item, review the Consolidation items first so that you will be aware of the Analysis components to address in your content. From the Analysis Links page you can:
•View a list of the Analysis Hierarchy nodes associated with and consolidated into this objective.
•View the Properties of those nodes.
•Unlink nodes.
•Rebuild the hierarchy if you get a database error.
Refer to "Developing Objectives," for more detailed instructions on this menu item.
Questions Page
The Questions menu item displays a list of test questions that are currently associated with the selected objective. The two-character abbreviation in front of the text indicates the type of question. From this page you can:
•View the questions associated with the objective.
•Create new questions.
•Open the question's Properties window.
• Unlink a question from the objective.
• Preview questions as they will appear on a test.
• Rebuild the links between the objectives and the questions if you get a database error.
Refer to "Developing Objectives" for more detailed instructions on this menu item.
You can see this same list in the Question links window below the Objectives Hierarchy.
