Forum LAMS Lounge Forum: Re: Thoughts from users at the University of Sheffield

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Ian,

Thanks for the thoughts. Certainly some of this may be addressed by what we are looking at in branching, but I'm doubt it will be as completely flexible as all your staff want. But the work we are doing now on branching won't be the end of it, so keep the ideas coming!

As for your staff member who likes to throw a lot of information and let them make up their own mind - I hope he uses lots of Optional Activities.

One of the things that does take a fair amount of work (for the LAMS developers) when we make sequencing more complex is the actual layout on the authoring screen. For example, one idea that has been suggested more than once is to put a sequence of activities within an optional activity - so instead of having to do 2 of 4 possible single activities within an optional activity, the learner might choose to do 2 of 4 possible "mini designs".

Much of the work to do this has already been done on the "back end", but how do we represent it on the authoring screen? What would make sense to users? How would we represent it in the progress bar in learner? In the learner progress tab in monitoring?

So we are also open to any ideas you or your staff have on what would feel natural to them. Now, we can't guarantee we will do it that way - we have to throw out many of our own ideas as they just aren't feasible technically.

Regards,

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Malikoff