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…
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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…
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…
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…
Adapting menu items to reflect user status
Test-user feedback is trickling in; I’m starting to address some of the lower-hanging fruit. Thanks to classmate Matt who pointed out that the (then-current) menu displayed a “Register / Log in” link whether or not the user was logged in. Taking that a little further, there was also a “Profile” link that really only should…
Creating and adding a certificate of completion
Certificates for completion are often expected from online and other courses. Critical Thinking Cap will, for now, just offer certificates of completion for each lesson, except “Lesson 0,” or the “How to take this course” lesson. No need to have a certificate for completing the entire course since the entire course won’t exist for quite…
Grappling with quiz styling
The default stylings of LearnDash quizzes — especially quiz feedback — is abysmal. The most egregious aspect of the styling, in my view, is the between-paragraph or between-element vertical spacing. As an example, the screenshot below shows the the default styling (other than the colors I’ve already updated) when the user selects the “View Questions”…
Adding an infographic to a LearnPress materials tab
First, the infographic I had intended to create a simple progressive infographic on the building blocks of arguments for the lesson topic of the same name. Thankfully, the image I was already using as the topic’s main image could easily be edited to become each “step” of the infographic progression: The final version of the…
Revamping initial course content and tweaking feature images
The initial Critical Thinking Cap course offering — for Capstone purposes — was to provide one relatively small lesson that anybody could take whether they were registered with the site or not, plus one meatier lesson for which a user would have to be registered before enrolling. Both of these lessons would be linear, that…