Week
12
Agenda
- take flash exam
- CBI review
- CBI testing
- Discuss take-home exam
Links
Atomic Learning is a company that produces tutorials for various software applications. Some are free and some require a paid subscription to view. This company has carved out a good niche providing visual help to customers learning to use software applications.
Here's a Center for Instructional Design from Brigham Young University. Spend a few minutes examining what services this center provides, and what areas of expertise are represented by the center's staff. Does our university offer these services? Note the links and tutorials.
Here's another Center serving the faculty of Seattle University. Similarities?
CBI Testing
As you develop your CBI, conduct some usability testing by viewing (and having others view) your instructional unit site in various browsers, (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.) and at different resolutions and on different computer platforms (various versions of Windows, Macintosh, Linux, etc.) if possible. This is how professionals check the usability of their web-based products.
As an example, you will find that if you used Microsoft Excel to create a chart for the web, the chart does not appear in some browsers. This is due to the non-standard HTML that Excel (and Word) generate.
If you do not have access to other computers, platforms, and browsers, you can download and try various browsers from this site. Try at least Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape.
Post a brief summary (50-100 words or so) of how you tested your site. List the browsers and platforms you tried.
