My last fix involved improving the formatting of Likert survey questions. The fix worked great on the survey questions themselves, and all was well until . . . . . . I revisited the quiz from the Building Blocks of Arguments topic, which had several fill-in-the-blank questions that now looked like this: Yikes! In the…
Fixing the formatting of Likert scales in survey questions
With only a few more days until Capstone deadline, most of my fine-tuning is focused on quizzes. My latest obsession: fixing the formatting (spacing, mostly) within the quiz questions that take the form of a survey, specifically a Likert scale: It was driving me mad that the backgrounds of the numbered selections were so narrow…
Adjusting and adding animated icons
On my punch list for the project is adding animated icons to the quiz response messages, especially if the user actually answered all the questions and/or got most or all of them correct. This is the best I could think of to stand in for any badge-collection feature/activity I had originally wanted to include. At…
Clearing and clarifying info on the homepage
As the countdown to deadline approaches single-digit numbers, I want to settle items on the homepage so I can move on to other enhancements within the site and the lessons. Here’s a list of homepage issues and how I handled them. Before and after screenshots are at the bottom of this post. Plus one very…
Mitigating quiz and topic progression woes
Throughout the lessons, enrolled test users have reported myriad instances of being told to “go back and complete” previous quizzes or topics when they get to a subsequent quiz or topic, even if they have indeed completed the prerequisite quiz or topic. To try to eradicate this problem with the quizzes, I changed settings in…
Adding lists of resources
Though I’ve already culled myriad critical-thinking resources, getting them all into a consistent, standardized format was initially daunting. Fortunately, there are many websites and applications that help you do just that. For better or worse, for now I’m entrusting my bibliography to bibliography.com. Though I selected MLA format, I’m removing much of the information in…
Boxing the breadcrumbs
While creating content for the “Course navigation” topic in the “How to take this course” lesson, I took myriad screenshots. When adding these screenshots to the topics pages, I noticed that background color of some topic pages were the very very very light gray intended, while others will still pure white, as shown in the…
Fiddling with registration and log-in pages and links
It has been said that you may not find problems with your project until you try to describe or explain your project or parts thereof to somebody else. This has certainly been the case as I started to zero in on the “How to take this course” lesson, which is basically a user guide dressed…
Enhancing basic website pages
I’ve been seeking and inserting appropriate illustrations into the basic website pages (registration, contact, etc.). Below are the latest registration-related pages. I may also add illustration for “registration success” at some point. I futzed with the “About” page for a few hours, including futzing with an old photo of mine in hopes to make it…
Enhancing the contact page and form
In a previous post, I discussed the creation of contact form for the contact page. It was a basic form; when a user submitted the form, they got a completion/feedback message with an appropriate illustration. The feedback message and illustration are still on the contact page; they replace the form after the user hits the…