Alex Little

Had some of the results back from the evaluation at the Sled workshop and a number of people have mentioned about the left hand menu being too ‘close’ to looking like learning design and so being a bit confusing. I can see exactly where they are coming from as I agree, but the problem I have is what to do about it.

The current men system is set up as it is because the LD spec allows titles to be places at virtually all levels, eg activity structure, activities, items etc (made more complicated again by the ability to nest all these items), so different LD authors may decide to place the titles at different places. For example author A might decide to use the title tag within the item, author B might use the title tag within the activity and author C might decide to use a mixture.

This then makes it very difficult for the player to know which ones should be displayed (any blank titles or missing title elements are just ignored by the player anyway) – especially if the author has been ‘thorough’ and completed all the title tags for each element. The only way around that I can see is just letting the player display say the activity structure and item titles and them everything else is ignored, but then authors who have completed more might get confused as to why it’s not getting displayed.

Anyway, if you have any bright ideas as to how this could be resolved then please let me know!