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…
Adding a contact form
Since I’ll soon be asking classmates and friends and family to start testing CriticalThinkingCap.com and offering feedback, I’ve been trying to add as much intended functionality as possible. Today’s feature to add: Contact form for the “Contact us” page. I haven’t added a contact form to a website in quite some time; I was amazed…
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…
Created project task list
A quick shout-out to Google Docs here. Usually I group working with Google Docs with working with most Microsoft products, experiences within which I find myself immersed against my will in a festering hellscape littered with demons tasked with preventing me from doing what I actually want to do. I needed to do a huge,…
Quiz settings and stylings
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,…
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…