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….
Typography
An ongoing mini-project of this website will be keeping the typography clean, legible, and attractive across devices. For example, I have to on the lookout for things like this happening on mobile screens: Fortunately, GeneratePress allows me to easily fine-tune typography settings for each device category (desktop, tablet, and mobile). So after futzing a bit…
Diving into GenerateBlocks
I had previously intended to use Elementor Pro to help lay out pages of my site that might need more structure than a simple flow of text and images, especially if I need to set up stuff in columns or rows. I’ve since learned that the combo of GeneratePress Premium and Generate Blocks can cover…
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…
Initial foray into GeneratePress Pro
Before I get started with mucking and futzing with settings within GeneratePress Pro (GPP) on the main site, I just wanted to see to what extent basic settings changes within GPP would affect content generated by LearnDash. For starters, here’s some LearnDash-generated content. LearnDash had already let me add my brand’s accent color (“rouge,” or…