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Project notes: Critical Thinking Cap

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Boxing the breadcrumbs

By Marcia on April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

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…

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Grappling with quiz styling

By Marcia on March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

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”…

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Quiz settings and stylings

By Marcia on March 6, 2023March 7, 2023

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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Initial foray into GeneratePress Pro

By Marcia on February 4, 2023February 4, 2023

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…

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LearnDash installed!

By Marcia on January 30, 2023March 4, 2023

I definitely need a refresher course in LearnDash because I can barely remember the little amount I learned last September(ish). Meantime, I’ll get going little by little. First steps include changing settings as necessary. LearnDash defaults to the following structure for courses: Courses, Lessons, Topics, Quizzes. Because CriticalThinkingCap.com is just one course divided into lessons,…

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Still setting up WordPress site

By Marcia on January 26, 2023March 4, 2023

Updated January 31, 2023 Most recent accomplishments Updated WordPress profile (mostly so the ugly default user name doesn’t show up on posts and such). Changed default permalink style to “post name” style. (This change would be useful only if I include some sort of blog on the site, such as a “news and updates” section….

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