SnackBox: Publish a Snack

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Note To author a Microsoft Silverlight Learning Snack, you must first sign in to SnackBox with your Windows Live ID and create a user name.

After you finish adding content by using the Learning Content Development System (LCDS) tool, you are ready to publish your Snack.

Step 1: Create a Snack

On the LCDS toolbar, click Create. A dialog box appears.
Select Learning Snack, and then click Create. The Snack Converter tool opens.

The dialog box that appears when you are creating a Snack.

Step 2: Open a Course

In the Snack Converter tool, click New, and then click New Snack from LCDS. A Browse for Folder dialog box appears, showing the available LCDS courses on your computer.
Select a subfolder within the Courses folder (for example, sample_snack), and then click OK. The subfolder name should match the name of the course that you want to convert.

Note When you select the subfolder, more folders may be displayed.

The interface listing the topics that you choose from.

Step 3: Add Topics

In the Snack Title field, enter the name of your Snack.
To add your first topic, click Browse in the Topic 1 box, and select a topic. A dialog box appears. The topics are numbered, beginning with 0001. Topics that begin with the number 0004 and higher are Snack-friendly topics. You can identify the topic by the title that follows the number.
Select a topic, and then click Open. The Topic 1 box shows the topic that you have selected. Notice that the Title field has been defined by the topic you selected. If you want a different title, simply edit the text.
Continue to select topics for your Snack by following this process. Your Snack can contain between one and six topics.

The interface that shows the list of topics on your computer.

Step 4: Create your Snack

When you are ready to build your Snack, click Create Build at the bottom of the screen.
In the dialog box, select the folder where you would like the Snack to be created, or click Make New Folder to create a new folder. When you have selected (or created) a folder, click OK . A dialog box appears when your Snack is complete.

The dialog box that appears after your Snack has been built.

Step 5: Preview your Snack

Navigate to and open the folder you specified. Click the Default.html file in the folder list in the right pane to view your completed Snack.

Interface that appears when you navigate to the folder you specified.

Step 6: Create a thumbnail

Create a 313x230 pixel thumbnail image for your Snack.
Save the image as a JPEG file, and name it thumb.
Save the thumb.jpg file in the root folder of your Snack.

Step 7: Create a ZIP Folder

Navigate to the folder that contains the Snack that you just created.
Right-click the folder containing the Snack, select Send To, and then select Compressed (zipped) Folder.
When the folder finishes compressing, you will have the original folder as well as the compressed folder.

Interface showing what to select when you create a ZIP folder.

Step 8: Upload your Snack

Navigate to the SnackBox page
Click Upload Snack in the upper right side of the page.
Complete the upload form, and click Submit to submit your Snack.