To wrap text around a picture follow these steps:

1. insert your text
2. insert your image on its own line
3. select all (text and image) either with the mouse or use Ctrl+A
4. from the Formats menu of the WYSIWYG toolbar surround the text and the image using “Surround > Group Together".
5. from the Formats > Custom Paragraph menu apply "p.floatright" (or "p.floatleft") to the image

You can restore any changes by clicking the button in the top right corner of the toolbar beside the Properties Icon. This will restore any changes made to the current selection in the course map, including title, content, and properties.

Templates can be rearranged by dragging and dropping the blue bar. They can be removed by clicking on the trash icon.

To undo changes in a box use Ctrl-Z or undo from the WYSIWYG toolbar which is accessed by right-clicking in the box.

SWIFT Author keeps track of all the files (for example, audio and video) referenced in your course in order to publish to GeMS. However, sometimes files are buried within referenced content and SWIFT Author cannot find these automatically (for example, if <iframe> code references an HTML file that then includes other files like styl e sheets or JavaScript). In this case, use “Files to Upload” to specify additional files that should be published with your course.

To change an existing file in the Files to Upload, click on the filename and select a new file.

To edit module and other titles double-click on the title in the course map and edit in-place; use enter/return or click elsewhere to save the change. Or, within Properties double-click on “Title” to edit there. If you clear the title in Properties, SWIFT will automatically name it.

Windows:

• Minimum: Windows XP SP2+ (until the end of 2015)
• Recommended: Windows 7 SP1 or later
• Minimum processor: Intel Pentium 4 or later that's SSE2 capable
• Recommended processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or later
• Minimum free disk space: 350MB
• Minimum RAM: 512MB
• Recommended RAM: 4GB

Mac OS/X:

• Minimum: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later
• Recommended: Latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Lion
• Minimum processor: An Intel processor that's 64-bit
• Recommended processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or later
• Minimum free disk space: 350MB
• Minimum RAM: 512MB
• Recommended RAM: 4GB

Flash playback requires Adobe Flash Player NPAPI plug-in, available from This Link

The first time you change something in your course, a “*” will be added to the title in the window to notify you that something has been modified. SWIFT will prompt you to save any changes from that point on, unless you use the Save or Save As buttons.

When you make a change to content, you will see a few things:

1. the "restore" button on the toolbar (upper right, next to the Properties button) will turn orange, indicating that this item can be restored to its previous content
2. the bottom right of the navigation bar will say "MODIFIED".

You can add questions and create External Tests from either the entire pool of questions or from the question pool of any module. First, select the course or module title in the map, and then from the right-click menu choose “New External Test”. This will add a new external test to the map, which you can rename. Then use the Questions button to select which questions you want assigned to the External Test from the pool of questions. Questions can be used multiple times by selecting from the test pool options.

SWIFT provides a three-tier hierarchy (Topic, Module, Concept) and, within each Concept, Examples, Exercises (Questions), and Supplemental. This structured hierarchy ensures sound instructional design and guides the development process. You can reorder or cut-and-paste content within a Topic but you cannot alter the hierarchy.

When you cut-and-paste paste content from another application they do not convert the content reliably to HTML and they inevitably include a lot of undesirable formatting. By design, SWIFT Author strips out all the formatting and only pastes in the text from the clipboard so it can be reformatted properly. You can use your other application or a third-party x-to-HTML service to save your content as HTML, then paste the resulting HTML into the "HTML Code Editor" using the "<>" button on the WYSIWYG toolbar. Any classes defined in the HTML will have to be copied into a SWIFT style sheet; cut them from the HTML, click on the “Style” button, select “custom_full.css” from the “Open Style Sheet” button, and paste the classes in the file.

The first two options below require you to copy and paste the Word document into the webpage for conversion. The third one allows you to upload the file itself, and it will email you the html file after conversion. You can then paste the resulting HTML into the "HTML Code Editor" using the "<>" button on the WYSIWYG toolbar.

Here are some programs you can use to edit HTML:

• http://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-word-to-html.php
• http://word2cleanhtml.com/
• http://www.zamzar.com/convert/doc-to-html/#tool

In an upcoming release the styles will be automatically moved to a style sheet.

You will get a prompt to choose an empty or new folder when you save your course is a safety feature in SWIFT. Each SWIFT course must be saved in a separate folder or directory. A new course consists of several support files and, as you add new audio or video files to your course, by keeping each course separate there is no chance of one course interfering with the files of another.

The course may not display correctly due to the resonsive templates that are not support, however you can disable "Compatibility View" in IE; this will enable the responsive template functionality in the browser. Here's how:

IE10: from the Tools menu, clear the checkmark from "Compatibility View".

IE11: from the Tools menu, choose "Compatibility View Settings"; if "swiftlearning.com" is listed in "Websites you've added to Compatibility View", select it and click "Remove" and then "Close".

You will have a black screen and unable to see the text if you changed the background to black in the course layout section. If you want a black screen or any dark color you can change the text to white or a visible color two ways:

1. Go to each question and highlight the black box and you will see the text then right click and change the text to White. One at a time. (When you hold your mouse button down and slide it across the text box the text will appear)

2. You can add this code to the stylesheet and it will do the change all at once. You will need to add this text below (in red) to the "custom_full.css" style sheet file. Open your course and Click on Style / then click on custom_full.css. Copy this text below and paste it into the Style sheet and save your change. See example below.

                tr.inserted {
                    color:#FFFFFF;
                    font-size: inherit !important;
                 }
                

Click Preview with Question Feedback and you will see the feedback for your questions and see what is Right and wrong (only SMEs see this).

You must set the table layout style to "fixed" and, optionally, specify the column widths.

1. Right-click in the table and under the "table" icon of the WYSIWYG toolbar choose "Table properties".

2. Click the "Advanced" tab and insert "table-layout: fixed;" into the "Style" box and click "Ok".

This will force the table to use fixed column widths and will size the cell contents accordingly, avoiding any overflow. To override the automatic column widths (which gives each column an equal width):

1. Right-click in a cell of the first row of the column you want to set

2. From the "Table" icon of the WYSIWYG toolbar choose "Cell" and "Cell properties"

3. Enter a value for the "width" with units (px or %) -- percentage works best.

For example, if you have two columns you could set the width of one to "75%" and this will size the other column at 25% of the table width at all times and keep all cell contents within the table.