Promoting Quality in Open and Distance Learning
12th April 2002

Course of the Week

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Manchester College of Arts & Technology

Ashton Old Road, Manchester M11 2WH

MANCAT is one of the largest FE Colleges in the UK and serves local, regional, national, & international markets.

It has an excellent reputation in education & training, and through its Manchester Open Learning operation, is a national leader in the development, production, & delivery of open learning programmes. ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Tel: 0161 953 5995,
Fax: 0161 9532259.


www.mancat.ac.uk

Living-IT Web Authoring: Media and Multimedia Features



The course is designed to enable you to do the following:

  • Appreciate and determine the need for plug-ins to browsers
  • Compare utility factor of media files to users' bandwidth issues
  • Use advanced HTML coding to control web pages and site design
  • Create web pages incorporating media files and advanced HTML coding
  • Web plug-ins
  • Bandwidth
  • Sound
  • Video
  • Vector graphics
  • Cascading

The course involves about 30 hours of study, and you will be required to be connected to the Internet for approximately 10 hours. You will contact your tutor by email and will submit completed work electronically. The assignments will form the basis of a Portfolio of Evidence, which is then externally moderated at the end of the course.

All Living-IT courses have been accredited with the Open College Network at Level 3 for NVQs. OCN is a national organisation that states learning outcomes at levels which are aligned with the National Qualificatio Framework.