Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Moodle lessons (yet again)

One thing we need to work very hard on for the 2.2 release of .LRN is: User documentation. Here is a list of useful documents which we should consider writing up (collaboratively), stolen from the materials on Moodle:

1. User course guide, describing the functionality of the software to a mere student.
2. Professor course guide, describing the functionality for an administrator of a course.
3. Administration guide (for .LRN Admins).
4. Administration guide (for Site Wide Admins).

Additionally the following material is useful:

• Introduction into .LRN modules (aka feature list). Already there in German.
• How to use .LRN for my classes (aka Train the Trainer) book.

My assumption is that it will be considerably easier to write our own documentation if we take e.g. Moodle's as a template. Having the guides available as SCORM courses, would be a tremendous enhancement as well.

I agree with you, Malte. Maybe a start point could be contact Deirdre Kane and see how is going updating the user and administrator manuals written by Sloan for 2.1 and following this discussion the manuals could be available in Word, PDF and HTML (and LORS!) format. Any notices from Sloan?

Dario Rog at Universitat de Valencia at Spain and people from aisec.net have end user manuals too in pdf and htm format. Bruce Spears have manuals and howtos in html. Bruce and Dirk were also scheming to build a little context-dependent help system into Dotlrn along the lines of Moodle's system. KNOPPIX cd has a demonstrator with a course in LORS format about building contents in docbook and then just package them as IMS CP i think using Reload Editor.

A clearly roadmap could be great to congregate these initiatives and open space for collaboration.

I think it should be possible to learn from Moodle (or other projects) improving the organization of forums, FAQ and how-to's... currently there is just one .LRN forum which might be subdivided into: newbies, administration, development, bugs, documentation, etc...

Many things can be found digging into the forums, but it can be time-consuming (and there is just a site-wide search on openacs.org)...

DeeDee,

Would you mind if I use your .LNR Manual content to create a IMS CP package?

Thanks,

Ernie