Hello,  

First of all I would like to compliment you all on this great initiative. I’ve listened to the recordings of the webinar and Adapt looks impressive. I like the way you’ve designed navigation and the way you’ve arranged flexibility in switching between devices ( from a learning point of view).   

I’m looking for an e-learning authoring tool  for designing solutions for K-12 education and teacher training. In my dreams I see really beautiful scenarios about combining mobile learning, ‘desktop-learning’ (how do you call ‘non-mobile’ e-learning....) and face to face instruction. Reading about Adapt,  it looked heaven send. But if it looks to good to be true, it often is to good to be true J. I hope I’m not overlooking something here.......

 Perhaps it helps to know some  more about the CED-Groep. We are based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Our website (http://www.cedgroep.nl/applications/english.aspx) only has a few words in English but perhaps you can visit it to get a feel about us. When I talk about my work with friends ( at anniversaries etc), I always say that we help teachers to do their work.  We do that in two different ways. One way is that a school hires one of our consultants. The consultant helps the principal and the team to solve their problem. When a lot of schools experience the same problems we do our other type of support; research and development. Together with a group of teachers we try to design and implement a solution, not just for one school but for all the schools in the Netherlands. To do so we have to look for funding; sometimes by the government, sometimes by private funds. We used to be a municipal organization, but the way of funding organizations like ours changed a lot in the last five years or so.

There are about 10 organisations like the CED-Groep in the Netherlands. We are the biggest. I think being the biggest is not something to congratulate yourself on, but it kind of gives you an idea about the scope of our organization .

 Our field of expertise is primary, secondary education and special needs. We like to use e-learning more often (when appropriated of course). Joining this initiative looks promising. My colleagues and I aren’t technically skilled but we are passionate about learning.  So perhaps Adapt can be part of my dream scenario and perhaps we can be of use for you.

 Kind regards

Lisette Ligtendag

Manager R&D/innovation

CED-Groep

Date- 1/11/2013
Participants: Deborah, Nils, Paul, Ryan, Tony

Agenda: Walkthrough of MVP and Wireframe

Making sure Content Developers. Designers, Developers are all happy with what is being prototyped and that all elements are being included/considered.

• Check Instructional Designers view on including extra things not included from developers point of view.
  
  

 Ryan - Walkthrough of MVP and Admin User

• User Admin/Super Admin responsible for user creation/password reset and assign users a login (possibly there email address).
• Theme (CSS/Template files) will be created offline (by Developers) and uploaded (by Developers). Then Normal Users will be able to Select Theme.
• Debugging - login as user.
• Multiple themes for single Tenancy.
• Themes will control all colours etc in the output framework.
• Theme used to change the Layout ??
• Themes will be initially very simple & possibly minimal (with a view to adding other improvements in the future).

Ryan - Walkthrough of Normal User logging in

• Products probably listed from Latest Updated in descending order.
• Asset Manager possibly updated in the future to include Flickr, Twitter integration.
• Different views for Preview:
  • Print Preview - minimal styling with all on one long page.
  • Saving the package and linking to it to preview.
    • Live Preview - future enhancement.
    • Glossary/Search to span the full Course.

Paul - PDF Walkthrough

Attempts/Pass marks - where are these set ??

• ASSESSMENT: ??
  • Set at the Article Level
  • Only 1 type of Article, but this can contain different attributes.
  • Ties into tracking or just tracking everything ??
  • Possibly flag certain Questions/Components as assessment elements.
  • Quiz - need certain Score.
  • Update the Course while creating it at each element as needed and flag for assessment.
  • RESULT ARTICLE: ??
    • Not currently available but if it was created it would change User path - Go back if Fail, Continue if Pass.

Tony - Wireframe Walkthrough

• Initially very simple for New Users (add more features/functionality in future).
• Module Overview:
  • Add New Module/Edit existing Module/Import Module.
  • Page Overview: (Double Click on Module ^ to get here)
    • Old Sections are now Pages.  (Diagram here)
    • Old Pages are now Articles. (Diagram here)
    • Possibly make fewer Pages and more Articles.
    • Page Editor:
      • Opens in a new tab
      • Menu for Exit/Export and more in the future.
      • Layout drop down - result could potentially be controlled by Theme
      • Global Settings (for all Pages), Individual Settings (for specific Pages).
      • Add an Image:
        • Uploading from Desktop (first version).
        • Image Vault as a future enhancement.
        • Image Editor:
          • Set Ratios for image cropping (will always stay as a square or rectangle when resizing).
          • Page Editor:
            • Global Settings - Font Colour, Font Size, BG Colour, Opacity, Border Styles
            • Page Settings - Similar properties but specific to Individual Page.
            • Page Content Editor:
              • Change settings that were already set in the previous Editor (if needs to be updated while your working or something does not look correct with a colour).
              • Button - [[ + Article ]] - Add another Article below.

• • Button - [[ + Block ]] - Add another Block below.
  • Changing the Order will be done using a Drop Down:
    • 1... 2... 3... etc. Can be reordered by changing the Number (weight of the component).
  • Future enhancement - Drag and Drop functionality for changing the order or adding new components.
  • Components are Limited to 2 Side by Side (depending on the component).
  • Components will have set configurations: Full, Left or Right

Feedback from - 4th / 5th -11-2013.

• Annotate/Comment Mockflow.
• Please see attachments for first drafts of the ADAPT Builder MVP for both Admins and Editors.