Adapt Recap

In the October 24 edition of Adapt Recap, Simon covers the upgrade to the Media Component, Ignacio Cinalli's reaction extension and the Adapt Unlimited End of Year Sale.

• https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-media/pull/299
• https://github.com/nachocinalli/adapt-reaction/ (also requires https://github.com/nachocinalli/adapt-xapiEvents)
• https://www.adaptunlimited.net/demo
  
  

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In the September 24 edition of Adapt Recap, Simon covers the new mobile body attribute and the introduction of how feedback is given on questions with the display correctness attribute.

• Mobile body attribute
• Display correctness attribute

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In this first episode of Adapt Recap, Simon covers changes to CK Editior in the Adapt Authoring Tool and a new Memory component created by Ignacio Cinalli.

• Get a demo of Adapt Unlimited and a 14 day free trial
• Contribute to the discussion of features of what should be included in CKEditor
• Download Ignacio Cinalli's Memory component

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In this episode Simon introduces the future format of the podcast - Adapt Recap. 
This episode acts as an announcement covering the reasons for recent hiatus and rationale for the new format.

This new podcast series will consist a monthly 5-10 minute update of the last month of Adapt developments. Focusing primarily on new features of the Framework and Authoring Tool, as well as any cool new Framework plugins and Authoring Tool modules.

The first episode will go live a week after this one, so make sure you are subscribed on your favourite podcast app or by creating an account on the Adapt Tips website - https://adapt.tips/#/portal/signup/free 

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Simon talks to Kat Rose and Mark Baldwin from Eggu.

We discuss the styling options available in Adapt, the steps that are required to coordinate between client, designer and developer, and the benefits that good accessibility brings to everyone.

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Simon talks to Matt Horton from We Know Training about the process that a  larger size e-learning agency goes through to create themes in Adapt for their clients.

We discuss the styling options available in Adapt, the steps that are required to coordinate between client, designer and developer, and the benefits that good accessibility brings to everyone.

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Simon talks to Steve Rick from The ECITB about how they're using Adapt to create xAPI content for their Learning Record Store.

We discuss the benefits of xAPI, how they deploy it for their customers and the sort of decisions they are hoping to be able to make from the data they collect.

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, we're making an announcement of a product that we have been working on for at least a year and are ready to start selling to the Adapt community in the next few weeks - The Adapt Tips UI Kit.

The UI Kit is an Adobe XD template that we have created to enable designers to quickly and accurately create prototypes of Adapt themes.

We were inspired to create this product from the experiences we had working with designers who didn't have the familiarity we did with Adapt. They didn't know what components and extensions were available and came with Adapt out-of-the-box. They didn't know which theme changes could be achieved in seconds and which would take hours. We believe that this product will solve these issues by replicating the layout and structure of Adapt.

Designers can drag and drop components onto a page to create a prototype Adapt course in minutes. They can access the colour picker and change any of the colours of the theme and see their change cascade throughout the whole course. Adobe XD exposes all the colour variables picked, so once the prototype is complete and signed off internally and by the client, the developer will be able to jump in straight away.

If you are interested in finding out more about the UI Kit Simon will be presenting it live at the IDTX conference on the 8th of March at 11:45 am GMT / 7:45 am EST. You can sign up for the event for free here.

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Simon talks to Laura Leonard. Laura is a freelance Instructional Designer and eLearning developer who teaches an eLearning module for learners studying the Masters in Interactive Digital Media (MSc) at Griffith College in Dublin.

Laura shares why Adapt was the chosen Authoring Tool of choice for first-time authors, why they choose to have every student install the Authoring Tool locally on their own computer and some examples of projects that students have completed.

• MSc in Interactive Digital Media
• Living Abroad Guide (a student project)
• Laura Leonard

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In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Chuck and Simon talk to Tom McDowall. Tom is the owner of Evolve Learning Design, a member of the eLearning Network's board of directors and host of the IDTX conference and the iDeas podcast. In October 2020, Tom created a video guide covering how to install the Adapt Authoring Tool on a computer. It was a very popular video with over 4,500 views and 95 likes.

We discuss whether Adapt is a high-end authoring tool or a budget tool. Adapt is the most configurable authoring tool allowing developers to tinker and configure to their heart's content. At the same time, Adapt is totally free to use and download and thus, often gets on the radar of individuals who are looking to break into e-learning and create their first portfolio piece. We consider the duality of its position in the market and how e-learning teams should think about Adapt.

Tom shares his thought process for which sort of projects might, and might not, be best suited for Adapt. We compare Adapt to some other popular authoring tools, even finding some funny car analogies.

• Tom's Linkedin page
• Watch Tom's 3 part series covering the Adapt Authoring Tool
• Evolve Learning design website

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