Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Curriculum Phase 1

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12: Re: Curriculum Phase 1 (response to 1)
Posted by Michael Feldstein on
Please do keep in mind that Philip didn't invent the course progress indicator widget. Many, many, many courses implement different forms of progress indicators. Chances are good that potential users of dotLRN will be well aware of these conventions and will have well-developed preferences. It behooves us to look carefully at how this sort of widget is usually implemented in the industry rather than simply (re)inventing visual conventions ourselves.
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14: Re: Curriculum Phase 1 (response to 12)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on
At this point I do not really care about the backend, but I do care about the frontend. Let's forget about frames (sounds like it would unnecessarily complicate things) and focus on content that is ON OTHER servers. What about a popup window with a genuine progress bar and a simple list of milestones (with links to extended information)?

Nice point about visual conventions Michael. Do you have anything that we could look at to get some ideas? Here are some UNFILTERED results WITH PICTURES from a quick search (could not find anything specific to education):

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-progind/

http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/language/progress_indicator.html

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/progressdialog.asp

http://www.sun.com/smrc/web/components/g5_progress_indicator.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/CQA/default.aspx

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020109.htm