Design Question

[William Prothero]

Scott:
You are absolutely correct. I have noticed, though, that busy profs prefer to use apps they are already familiar with and adding an app to look at student work for a single assignment would most likely put them off. So, I’m wanting to get student work in a format that can be either viewed with common apps (e.g. word, excel, etc) but possibly with a custom livecode app as an option.

I’m still working to finish the student part of the app itself, but this design rumination is very helpful.
Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Nov 17, 2020, at 4:42 PM, scott--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> For getting it FROM the student, why not just use a livecode stack file. It could contain everything and be highly editable. For returning it TO the student you could use a pdf. 
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>> On Nov 17, 2020, at 11:18 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Richard,
>> I kinda like the pdf idea. Seems it would give me a way to encapsulate and format the text and images and perhaps a fairly defined pdf format would make it straightforward to edit it using Livecode as well.
>> Best,
>> Bill
>> 
>> William A. Prothero
>> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
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>>> On Nov 17, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> William Prothero wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It seems the effort to make this app work with learning management
>>>> systems would be huge, something I’m definitely not up for.
>>> 
>>> It may not be.  I've made standards-compliant courseware in the past (a while ago; the data format was XML <g>), and it wasn't as bad as I'd thought.  With so much work on the modern standards I'd imagine they're far better documented and based on more common conventions than they were in yesteryear.
>>> 
>>> But maybe the key question is: are your customers asking for LMS interoperability specifically?
>>> 
>>> In some segments it can make the difference between being a contender and not being considered at all.
>>> 
>>> But I've seen many other segments that seem to have abandoned hope of a standards-driven world of interoperable courseware, quite happy to kludge together whatever they need to eventually arrive at a means of tracking assessment.
>>> 
>>> If no one's asking you for LMS compatibility, there would seem to need to bother.
>>> 
>>> If PDF suffices, it's certainly easy to do in LC.
>>> 
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>>> Richard Gaskin
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