Can we put a program that is on a DVD into NetLearning? Can it be linked somehow?
Not really. There are a few reasons but it’s primarily that the DVD is a physical medium that doesn’t lend itself to more than one person at a time accessing it and pointing to it’s actual location on the PC can’t always be guaranteed. For example: 1. if you run it on the server, then only person can access it at a time and it will have to stay in the DVD drive of the server. 2. if you want to let someone ‘check it out of a library’ and use it on their PC, the link to put in will be something like “d:\autorun.exe”. If there are users that have an extra hard drive, their DVD drive would probably be “e:\” which then wouldn’t be able to access the DVD. There is one way that you might be able to do it: 1. Create a course that has one page as the main course (index.htm page). It would be the instructions on loading the DVD into their computer and how to access the course. 2. Have them check the DVD out from the library 3. They launch the SI, and click on the course URL. It brings up the pag
