The testing team at Kineo are now finalising their second round of testing of the Adapt Framework v2.0, prior to its release into the open source community. A test package was created with a representative layout and the full set of components included in this new release. Please note that the scope of the test did not cover an exhaustive variation of all core component configurations.

 

As many of the issues we reported from our first round of testing in March had been addressed, most of the bugs we found were fairly minor or content related, rather than any significant functional issues. 

 

We conducted cross compatibility testing across the agreed tech spec, and also carried out screen reader testing using both JAWS on desktop and the iOS Voiceover app on iPad. 

 

Here’s a breakdown of the type of issues we found:

• Most were contextual, issues around styling the various elements to fit the art direction and small errors around layout, overruns and how things respond when scaling which have to be set up on a case-by-case basis. However there were far less of the frequent, endemic issues that we have seen in older versions of the Adapt framework.
• There were issues that occurred due to the idiosyncrasies of each mobile OS/device.
  • Windows phone was the most problematic platform, not only because of the pop-up blocker in Mobile IE11 which cannot be disabled, but because we have not had to test on this OS as a project requirement, so we have not had a chance to account for its idiosyncrasies as we have for iOS and Android.
• As we would expect there was a larger proportion of IE8 specific issues than any other browser due to how outdated it is.
• We also used this as an opportunity to add/modify aria screen reader text for generic components.
• Although approximately 25 accessibility issues have been entered into JIRA, the majority of them are of a minor to normal level and have to do with general navigational issues, inaccessible functionalities and unclear/incorrect alt text or completion states. These are mostly issues that affect the user experience rather than their ability to effectively use the course with accessibility software.

-Sam Cook, Head of Testing, Learning Content Team, Kineo

Greetings to forum and THX for advance :)

 

I just install adapt_framework on my Mac, all was great with permission and just seeing the final webpage welcome, all great till now.

 

The problems starting with adapt_authoring, after clone the files into a folder run “npm install” command long waiting and log and after i run “node install” the strange comes when terminal say to adapt framework was not found, and start to cloning it in auto mode, then ask me for the questions and when comes with master questions stop and no more news

 

what im wrong doing? 

 

OMG i really love to play with authoring because design a course with code only becomes hard i see

 

pls any help there?

 

many many thanks 

 

i used also the “sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local” run after install

 

i did after all a folder called ADAPT into my desktop for to get more accesible files, into the two folders adapt_framework and second adapt_authoring, maybe did wrong with this? may put all both in same folder maybe?

 

this is my last log

 

Successfully installed Adapt framework plugins.

You will now be prompted to set configuration items. Just press enter to accept the default.

> Server port (5000) 

> Server name (localhost) 

> Choose your database driver type (enter a number)

1. mongoose

 (1) 1

> Database host (localhost) 

> Master database name (adapt-tenant-master) inma

> Database server port (27017) 

> Data directory path (data) 

> Session secret (your-session-secret) 

> Choose your authentication method (enter a number)

1. local

 (1) 1441

error:   Invalid input for Choose your authentication method (enter a number)

1. local

 

> Choose your authentication method (enter a number)

1. local

 (1) 1

> Will ffmpeg be used? y/N (N) y

> Which SMTP service (if any) will be used? (see https://github.com/andris9/nodemailer-wellknown#supported-services for a list of supported services.) (none) 

> SMTP username 

> SMTP password 

> Sender email address inmacagliostro@gmail.com

> Which output plugin will be used? (adapt) 

Checking configuration, please wait a moment ... 

(node) warning: possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 serverStarted listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit.

Trace

    at Origin.addListener (events.js:179:15)

    at Origin.once (events.js:204:8)

    at initialize (/Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/menu/index.js:96:7)

    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/menu/index.js:156:1)

    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

    at require (module.js:384:17)

events.js:85

      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event

            ^

Error: listen EADDRINUSE

    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)

    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1156:14)

    at listen (net.js:1182:10)

    at Server.listen (net.js:1267:5)

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/application.js:328:34

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/application.js:300:12

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/database.js:451:14

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/database.js:382:16

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:131:25

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/contentmanager.js:1473:9

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:131:25

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/bower/index.js:123:14

    at fs.js:334:14

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:104:5

    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)

iMac-de-23monalisas:adapt_authoring 23monalisas$ node server

info: [29 Jun 2015 05:07:39 +02:00] configuration loaded from /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/conf/config.json 

(node) warning: possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 serverStarted listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit.

Trace

    at Origin.addListener (events.js:179:15)

    at initialize (/Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/tag/index.js:73:7)

    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/tag/index.js:109:1)

    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

    at require (module.js:384:17)

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/contentmanager.js:513:27

error: [29 Jun 2015 05:07:39 +02:00] Error: failed to connect to [localhost:27017] 

error: [29 Jun 2015 05:07:39 +02:00] Database Connection failed, please check your database 

events.js:85

      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event

            ^

Error: listen EADDRINUSE

    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)

    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1156:14)

    at listen (net.js:1182:10)

    at Server.listen (net.js:1267:5)

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/application.js:328:34

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/application.js:300:12

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/database.js:451:14

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/database.js:382:16

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:131:25

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/lib/contentmanager.js:1473:9

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:131:25

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/plugins/content/bower/index.js:123:14

    at fs.js:334:14

    at /Users/23monalisas/Desktop/ADAPT/adapt_authoring/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-config/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:104:5

    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)

iMac-de-23monalisas:adapt_authoring 23monalisas$ 

 

 

Feedback from Adapt Builder users

I’ve been lucky to spend some time with more than 100 Adapt users at 2 events we ran in the last week in Leeds and London. It’s always great to spend time with actual end users of products you’ve been involved in building and as always I learned a huge amount. I thought I’d share some of the feedback here since many of the people on this forum have been responsible for building various bits of Adapt:

1. There is a real sense of excitement in Adapt from the end user community. Users are taking the opportunity presented by Adapt to rebuild vast parts of what they do with e-learning in general and the flexibility that Adapt is giving them is allowing them to really up the game
2. More users than ever are building their own content using Adapt Builder. This is at odds with many of my previous experiences which was that enterprise users would be slow to adopt new approaches but Adapt seems to present the opportunity to change this which is great
3. Users are getting up to speed really quickly with Adapt Builder and building some great e-learning content really quickly using the tool

Of course there’s always an appetite for more and I’ve come back with a list of requirements as long as my arm. I think the list below is a good and up to date list of requirements from a representative sample of Adapt users so I thought my top 10 was worth sharing too:

1. Branching scenarios delivered at a component level and buildable / editable in the builder
2. Improved assessment functionality
3. Improved hot graphic editing in the builder – the users I’ve spoken to are struggling with this
4. Ordering and rating component
5. Version control in the builder
6. Better menuing options
7. Automatic publish to an LMS
8. Extended capability around themes
9. Gamification – I think that means leaderboards, points collection and possibly some sort of extension to integrate with Open Badges
10. Workflow that enables subject matter experts to comment on modules as they are being built

All of the above will feed into our development plans @learningpool over the next few months and no doubt Mark and the team will work with the contributing community to make some of this happen. It was great to meet some of the people on the forums face to face too and here’s hoping we can build on the momentum we’ve started.

Happy to hear comments on any of the above

Paul

 

Out of curiosity I  added a second course to the authoring tool.

When i try to preview it it loads a totally blank window. No content in the source and no loading icon...

Nothing in my cmd prompt either.

Any clues?