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Adapt authoring tool update
by Dennis Heaney - Thursday, 8 January 2015, 8:43 PM
 

Hi everyone, 

Comms have been a bit sporadic whilst we have been working hard on  the Adapt authoring tool. I wanted to update the community on our progress, and let everyone know that we are aiming to share the fruits of our hard work in the last week of this month. Many of the features below are already present in the O/S project, but the highlights include: 

  • A more robust and user friendly user interface, specifically around properties editing 

  • Ability to link your uploaded assets to your content, ready for publishing 

  • Upload a theme and assign it to a course  

  • Upload a menu and assign it to a course  

  • Compatibility with heroku deployment 

We have also worked hard on several performance and interface improvements, incorporating feedback from extensive user testing within Learning Pool. 

We aim to have this work pushed back to the community for review in the week of the 26th of January. We hope that this will be swiftly accepted into the project, and users will finally be able to deploy and use their own fully featured Adapt authoring tool, with a minimum of fuss.   

Features 

  • Site Roles: Super admin, Course creator 

  • Search courses by: title, description 

  • Filter by: tags, archive, favourite, "my courses" 

  • Sorting:  Ascending/Descending, Last updated, Alphabetical 

  • Asset Management 

  • Upload and manage videos, images, audio files, etc. 

  • Tagging 

  • Search assets by: title, description, type, tag 

  •  Sorting 

  • Create fully featured Adapt courses using core plugins 

  • Upload custom plugins for use in your courses 

  • Link uploaded assets to course content for publishing 

  • Preview in browser, or download as a zip ready for your LMS 

 

Supported community plugins are: 

  • Components 

  • Accordion 

  • Blank 

  • Graphic 

  • Graphical MCQ 

  • Hot Graphic 

  • Matching Question 

  • Media 

  • MCQ 

  • Narrative 

  • Slider 

  • Text 

  • Text Input 

  • Extensions 

  • Spoor (SCORM) 

  • Page Level Progress 

  • Resources 

  • Tutor 

  • Trickle 

  • Assessment 

  • Themes 

  • Vanilla 

  • Menus 

  • Box Menu 

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by Greg Pell - Thursday, 8 January 2015, 9:27 PM
 

Fantastic, looking forward to it.

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by Tom Taylor - Friday, 9 January 2015, 11:36 AM
 

Sounds like things have come along well.

Eager to see all the work you guys have been doing, and make a contribution myself  :)

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by Michael Palmer - Friday, 9 January 2015, 7:08 PM
 

Hi Dennis

Looking forward to seeing everything and really keen to hear about the user testing feedback. Would be good to incorporate that into the new designs i've been working on so hopefully we can catch up sometime next week.

Happy new year to you and the rest of Learning Pool!

Cheers
Michael

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by Mike Nedelko - Monday, 12 January 2015, 10:39 AM
 

Really looking forward to it. Working hard to make a new custom theme in my end. Can't wait to share it :)

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by Denice Lewis - Monday, 26 January 2015, 1:49 PM
 

Very excited to finally try out the authoring tool!

 
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Re: Adapt authoring tool update
by A Young - Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 3:19 PM
 

Wow I can't wait!

 
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