Project & Exercise Structure

Understand project and exercise structure in Colibri

Project & exercise structure

In the Editor before creating/selecting an exercise, you'll see this screen which displays all projects and exercises:

Projects	Exercises
Projects contain exercises	Exercises contain all authored content

Exercise structure

Within exercises, designers can organise their work in different ways:

Chapters and serials

Chapters	Serials
These are like MELs in the team-based Editor, but they're purely for organisational purposes	Allow you to split chapters into sections, keeping material tidy and easy to navigate

Chapters and serials do not affect publishing and have no impact on what the learner sees in the exercise. They exist solely in the Editor to help designers manage large exercises.

Rows

Within chapters and serials are rows. These contain the steps of your exercise content. Unlike chapters and serials, rows do affect publishing. They act as the timeline of your exercise, meaning that during playback rows run from top to bottom.

Narrative block

Narrative blocks group rows for story logic or authoring clarity. This is because narrative steps require no player interactions, so a narrative block must end with a question step to further the exercise.