Updated March 7, 2023 In a recent post I briefly explored some quiz setting and styling options. The styling In general, I wanted instant and clear feedback on answers (feedback including colors green and red for correct and incorrect responses. A few sketches based on my explorations and preferences are below. These are subject change,…
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First critical error
It had to happen eventually — my first “critical error” during WordPress development. It happened while adjusting and testing quiz and question options as discussed in my post about exploring quiz flow options. After myriad changes and tweaks of settings of the “Argument quick-check” quiz and the three questions therein, I got the following error…
Exploring quiz flow options
LeanDash not only offers several types of questions for quizzes; within each question type, there are myriad options to consider for question flow (one at a time or all at once), feedback (after each question, at the end of the quiz, or no feedback at all, or just for correct or incorrect answers). You can…
Revisiting lesson content and structure
I had originally decided to design the Critical Thinking Cap course with the concept of microlearning in mind. I made that decision based on my enjoyment and engagement with two apps/courses: Noom and Duolingo. The original idea: microlearning The screenshots below demonstrate the simple and uncluttered visual design of each learning experience, both for lesson…
The hunt for elusive selectors
From this point in the project on, myriad rabbit holes will start opening up. The deepest, most dreaded of these rabbit holes will involve hunts for CSS selectors. I’ve already wasted spent a few hours on my first such hunt. Started with creating an innocent matching quiz. The user’s eyeballs, by default, would be seared…
First major snag
In my previous post, I covered my first tentative steps into the wonderful world of quizzes in LearnDash. These steps led to the first major snag of the project. The problem: When the user successfully completes a quiz, a “Click here to continue” button is supposed to be available, as it is when I was…
Questions and quizzes: first foray
I am not familiar with a lot of learning management systems in terms of course creation, but for the ones I have worked with (Canvas, Moodle, Rise), creating quizzes has been rather easy — add a quiz, then within that quiz author the questions, be they single or multiple choice, matching, true or false, etc….
Imagery
At first I was hoping to find a series of photographs / photo images on Freepik that worked well together and that could also support individual lessons and topics and subtopics. I had favorited several dozen such images, but I truly wasn’t feeling the love. I broadened my search to illustrations, but still within Freepik….
The LearnDash Course Grid
Updated February 7, 2023. LearnDash has at least two default versions of a course-grid template. The first turned up on my homepage, when I added a “LearnDash Course Grid” block. It takes on none of my styling instructions and it offers user status (eg.,”Enrolled”) as well as some metrics such as “Total Lessons” for each,…
Building sample lesson in LearnDash
Ah, the blank slate, LearnDash Course Builder style: After adding the bare outline of the sample lesson (sections, topics, subtopics, quiz), the Course Builder looks like this: Sections (here called WARM UP, TOPICS, CONCLUSION) are just an organizational feature offered by LearnDash. They’re just headers to help you divide up lessons and such — the…