Adapt Learning Community: authoring help for missionaries etc.

as a director of www.bible.org I am interested in reviewing and understanding the maturity of the authoring tool to be used by folks with limited tech skills (missionaries on the field)

I have read your focus and goals and it looks like it is exactly what we need as we are focused on mobile with or without full time internet connectivity.

How best is it to do this? (I myself am of limited skills and could use some hand holding )

they probably are able to interact directly with GIT for the install etc

Hi David,

thanks for reaching out.

The authoring tool is stable and functional, albeit its feature set as an authoring tool is still limited. However, the output it produces (i.e. courses / resources) is very mature and feature rich and works very well on mobile devices as well as regular desktop/laptop computers.

At this point, the tool installation is probably the most difficult task as it's still quite technical. If you like, I'd be happy to show you the tool and answer some of your questions to help you decide whether it's suitable for your needs.

Thanks and best regards,
Sven

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i am following the instructions on https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_authoring/wiki/Installing-Adapt-Origin#1
and it says to install node.js and i did and i checked its version # and it says 4.2.1 and the instructios say v0.10.33 WOW that is a lot behind.. now i have to figure out how to uninsall and install v0.10.33.. not very novice friendly
so i skip this step and try to install and get errots that i am not admin. so i install windsu and try it... i am geting errors that it cant find git.. .. I will wait for Sven to help me

i am daustin100 on skype

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node have an extremely high release rate - 58 releases this year alone. I don't work on the authoring tool side but I would imagine trying to keep up-to-date with the latest version would be an incredible challenge.

The page you link to above recommends the use of a Node Version Manager and links to two such pieces of software, have you given either of them a try?

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Hi David,

Part of the reason why we're still using 0.10.33 is because of the pace of Node.js development and publicising that we support later versions would require a full regression test. Don't let the version numbers confuse you, as 0.10.33 is only one year old. The Node.js version numbers are skewed due to the io.js fork and join again.

The recently released 4.2 is the version with long term support and we plan to support it in an upcoming release.

Regarding your errors that it can't find git. Do you have it installed? How did download the adapt_authoring repository?

Regards,

Brian

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