I should have made clear that this wouldn't be a huge task to do just updating some double click interactions to buttons and ensuring that any information that requires 'hover' states are redesigned.
Matt - regarding your point of Windows tablets. I've never used one myself so I don't know if their input works. Does double taps on the resize the screen like on Android and iOS or do they work like the desktop version of Windows?
I had to go into my machine BIOS and change a hardware setting for emulation as I recall. Good luck
I certainly wouldn't have much interest in being able to use the AT on a tablet that uses a mobile OS like iOS or Android - I can foresee more interest in being to do so using a tablet device more like Surface 4/book - but I wouldn't call it 'high priority' by any means.
Hi all,
In our Authoring Tool UI chat on Gitter we have recently been talking about the need to support users who wish to create courses using the Authoring Tool on tablet devices.
One of the huge benefits of having the Authoring Tool as a web app is that it can work on any computer or device. Some of the most popular Authoring Tools force users to only use Windows PCs. The Adapt Authoring Tool works on the other hand works with Windows, Mac and Linux with no issues. It should also in 'theory' be able to work on tablet Operating Systems such as iOS and Android.
However, there are a few screens such as the 'menu editor' screen which are designed to be impossible to use for tablet users. As they require 'double clicks' of items to interact with the page, this is a standard interaction on Windows, Macintosh and Linux, however if you try and perform this action on a mobile Operating Systems such as iOS and Android the screen resizes of opening the item, as such the user is unable to access this screen and is therefore unable to access the majority of the Authoring Tool.
Tablet devices are more and more becoming capable as productivity devices. Whether it is with additional hardware such as Bluetooth keyboards or new software updates that enable features such as better multitasking. Consumers are moving away more and more away from the idea of needing a laptop or computer to do their tasks and instead are happy with their tablet or phone device being able to do everything.
The Authoring Tool is due to go through a design refresh in the next few months. I was wondering how much the current Adapt Community think it is a priority that we create a design that enables support for tablet devices?
I am having the same problem on a Wondows 7 system. I had to change the BIOS to allow for virtualization on 64, then ran "vagrant up" and it worked (at least I got passed the timeout phase) -- it all seemed to install (getting similar screen without the red lines... but then I don't see the bit that says:
Adapt Authoring Tool is running on: http://localhost:5000
username: admin
password: password
what should I do next? I would really like to be able to install the package, I think I am very close...... help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Hi Claude,
Thanks for your feedback, and these are good points.
Windows, and its various versions (7, 8.1, 10) has taken 95% of the time the team has spent dedicated to resolving Vagrant installation and setup issues, and we're still not where we want to be. It's fair to say there are a lot of (sometimes quirky) variables that come into play when running a Vagrant server image a on Windows, such as the BIOS issue you've mentioned.
The software is intended for running as a service on a server, and runs very easily on Ubuntu or OS X.
We would absolutely welcome any assistance from the community of Windows users with regards to ironing out the Vagrant issues.
Brian
Hello Tom,
I knew about Adapt two days ago and as I found-it very interesting I tried to install the authoring tool to my windows 8.1 computer. And that was hard...!
I used the virtual box method, that always crashed with a timeout during the Vagrant installation. Until I found that the Virtual box was unable to create an Ubuntu 64 bits. After may searches on the web I found I had to modify my BIOS, to enable Intel virtualsation...
Finally it worked and I was able to open Chrome and do the famous localhost:5000 to enter into Adapt authoring tool.
I created a first one page test, but when I download-it and try to run it from my desktop... just the blank page!
I would like to see the files and others where the module is stored... no shared folder on Windows and impossible to log into the virtual box adapt drive, as I do not have the login for the installed Ubunto...
A bit hard, but I'm sure I'll find the answers.
To avoid that kind of frustration, it would be fine to have a support page or elearning module or pdf or anything else with:
I know adapt team has already done a hard work trying to simplify our job, but we are not necessarely computer specialists!
Tnanks a lot,
Claude
Yes it is.
Unless I'm missing something this seems to be documented only in the READMEs for the core plugins and not the framework itself.
I'll check on that and see about getting something added.
Is the framework tested for iOS9? Can't find the info in the documentation?
Daryl,
Thanks for this information. I completely agree about new/flexible approaches to tracking. This was my intuition, but seeing it 'confirmed' by your experience is encouraging.
When I started thinking about tracking for Adapt, and particularly for the scenarios in which I'm interested, I soon thought that tracking should not necessarily be tied neither to 'traditional' LMSs or LRSs (for xAPI), nor to specific data formats.
I recently released a tracking extension (available here) which is fairly general, and it does xAPI (as a 'particular' case). I think SCORM and now xAPI will still be relevant (proably for corporate/formal training settings) ... but there are many cases in which taking advantage of the Adapt API and expressing tracking data in whatever way is most convenient to you, will provide a lot of flexibility (as you seem to have experienced).⋅
Regards.
