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Adding and formatting text using Wimba Create

When looking to create a series of web pages from a Word document you will need to define where you want each page to start. You will also need to apply styles to the document.

Wimba Create uses Word 'styles' to determine how text on the web page should appear. These styles can also help a user's computer understand how the page is structured, identifying headings at different levels, tables, captions, etc.

How the styles appear in your Word document does not represent how they will look when you convert your document into web pages. This is dictated by the Wimba Create 'scheme' chosen. There are a number of NTU schemes available. How to apply a scheme is shown below.

Defining the web pages in your document

  1. Select the text which will be the page header.
  2. Open the Styles window by clicking the link just below the Change Styles button.
  3. Scroll down and find the cgPageTitle style.
  4. Click on the style to apply it to the text.
  5. Repeat if for all the page headers in the document.

Applying heading styles

  1. Select the text which will be the header.
  2. Open the Styles window by clicking the link just below the Change Styles button.
  3. Scroll down and find the cgHeading or cg SubHeading styles.
  4. Click on the style to apply it to the text.
  5. Repeat for all the headers in the document.

Applying emphasis to text

There are also styles for captions, quotes and text which you want to emphasise. These are applied in the same way as the heading styles. Depending on the scheme used, the following styles will make:

Applying a scheme

To choose which scheme Wimba Create uses to create your web pages:

  1. Click on the Add-Ins tab.
  2. Click on the first Wimba Create.
  3. Select Settings from the menu.
  4. On the General tab click the drop-down arrow next to scheme.
  5. Choose the scheme you want to use. NTU Schemes include NTU and then the primary colour used (e.g. NTU_Blue).
  6. Click OK.