Hi Sven,

I would be very interested in Beta testing the authoring tool for Adapt.

Have been working with the framework, developing a couple of courses.This works fine for me and a couple of my collegues, but we as developers want to hand over as much of the course creation work as possible to the script writers and/or designers as possible.

My main interest in testing the tool is seeing how well this will work for the scriptwriters / designers and how I and my fellow developers can work with adding functionlity to courses, working with themes etc.

Best regards,

Martin Sandberg

Many thanks to those of you who have already got in touch. It's great to see so many people willing to help! There is still space for more - in case you are interested please get in touch as per the above instructions.

I'm currently in the process of writing the instructions and setting up a Beta Testing area on this community site and will write back to everyone either today or tomorrow.

Please note that given the limitations of the tool at this point, all beta testers will be working under the same account in the same instance. It means that everyone can see everyone's content - so this may bot be suitable for those of you who want to work in private - it's really mostly aimed at helping us test. (I hope this is not too offputting!).

Either way, I'll be in touch shortly and welcome anyone else who wants to help with the beta testing.

Many thanks,
Sven

Hi Sven,

I would like to beta test ADAPT. 

I am an e-learning consultant and right now, I am exploring options to migrate to a platform-independent format from flash. 

Thank you in advance,

Dhiyan

Hi Sven,

I would be honoured to join the beta testers - I've been playing with the framework and the initial authoring tool and I adore the way Adapt is a unique and modern twist on e-learning Authoring, after being confined and frustrated by other packages.

I have been working in e-learning for over 10 years and am currently trying to bring elearning for the University of Cambridge into a cohesive format which I'm sure Adapt will be able to do for me.

Many thanks

Helen Maffin

Hi Sven,

I would really love a chance to do beta testing with this. Happy to provide detailed feedback on experience and issues I run into.

Cheers,

Don

Hi!

Oh, yes! I would love to Test the Authoring Tool. I made two WBT with the Framework in the early days (about a year ago) - which worked - but was a bit complicated and not a really easy setup process..  ;-)

Would love to try the authoring tool - I recently have a  project for which I could use it.

Cheers

Thomas

Hi Sven,

I would really like to be involved in beta testing this.

I currently work for a moodle partner and would love to see if the authoring tool is something we can use with our content development team.

More than happy to provide good testing feedback from anything I run into.

Thanks,
Andrew

Thank you very much to those of you who registered interest in becoming a beta tester for the Adapt Authoring Tool. The project works entirely on voluntary contributions and we very much appreciate your support.

I have emailed the 15 of you who contacted me directly with the information below. For those of you who have responded via this thread (Helen, Don, Thomas and Andrew), please have a read of the information below and add a note saying that you are happy to proceed. I will then give you access to the Beta testing credentials and instructions.

Before you get started, there are a few important general points, which I have captured in this email. Please read these carefully before confirming that you would like to go ahead.

In general:

The Adapt Authoring Tool is a free, open source product and licensed under the GPL license. All code is freely available through GitHub. As it is right now, the tool is far from being a finished product and there are significant limitations in its functionality. The tool is still in a pre-release state and we are currently working towards our pilot version 0.1 (zero point one) release. The best way to describe this is that our next release will be a ‘pilot’ and as such is not aimed at non-technical users but rather early adopters, who don’t mind tackling complex, technical issues in installing, maintaining and tweaking the output. 

Having said that, we are looking for non-technical people who want to create responsive eLearning content as our Beta Testers. We are making available a hosted instance of the tool to which you will be given access so that you don’t have to worry about installing and maintaining the tool but rather can get on with the testing and content development. In summary, you will be given access to an instance of the tool, provided by the Adapt project ‘as is’ and without any contract or service level agreement. If you decide to proceed, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Limitations of the tool:

There are still many limitations – the key item is that the tool currently does not have user management functionality and works on the basis of a single user account and credentials. This means the login is shared and everyone who has access to the tool can see and do anything. For this reason, we are asking everyone who partakes:

• Not to use the password reminder / change functionality
• To create a course under their own name and avoid making changes to other people’s courses
• Not to add any confidential content

It is also not possible to change the appearance of content within the tool user interface (although it’s possible to upload new themes and apply these within the courses).

Content:

Please keep all content appropriate and professional (as I’m sure you would naturally do) and only add content, which you are allowed to do. I.e, please consider copyright and licenses when copying and pasting content or uploading graphics and media files.

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If this hasn’t put you off and you would like to pursue becoming a beta tester, we would very much appreciate your help. Please follow the steps below to get started:

• Please make sure you have an account on the Adapt Community Site
  • We have set up a specific area, which contains more detailed instructions on how to test and report issues. We will give you access to this and it contains all you will need for the testing (including the URL and login details for the Beta Installation. Once you have been given access, please keep these credentials confidential and don’t share them.
• Please respond to this post saying you would like to proceed – we will then give you access.

We are looking for a initial set of around 20 Beta Testers and will assign these slots on a first come first served basis.

Many thanks in advance,
Sven

Hi Sven 

Would love to test the beta version .. love the framework .. a breath of fresh air..

Richard

Hi Sven,

I am happy with the information presented here and would love to get access to the Beta environment.

Regards

Greg

Hoi Sven,

Did you recived my interest in becoming a BETA tester?

Regards,

khaled

Hi,

just a quick update to say that we have now filled the quota for the initial Beta Tester group. Apologies to those of you who haven't made into this round. Please bear with us - we're keen to get you involved at a later stage.

Also, just to note that we are currently incorporating the updates in this post from Brian. This means that the server may temporarily be down this morning (UK time).

Many thanks,
Sven

Hi

I am a content developer and am very much interested in beta testing the authoring tool.

Not sure if you're still accepting enrollment or not for the beta testing but I would most definitely like the opportunity to test.

I'm a Learning UX Designer and have been tasked to find course authoring software that provides truly responsive SCORM compliant courses to be delivered on desktops and devices. To date, your platform is the only one that I found which does this and does it well.

Please let me know if I can test, thanks!

Roger