- Hellooooo!
- Status update
- How is everyone doing?
- Acknowledgements: on about page
- 1475: Lin is using Ariane’s video resource guide – will verify it fits.
- Ariane will make Lin admin on the VRG
- 1372: Marianna – Collecting video resources. Working with Suman – will make him an admin on the 1372 course hub.
- Organization of Lessons: Are we numbering them? Or name by topic? Should numbering skip exams?
- Inviting course coordinators to join our meetings? (Henry, Holly, ??Ezra/Thomas)
- Pass along links to course coordinators
- Would be great to have their input but not being paid
- Lin: Henry modified course outline for 1475. Will reach out to Henry (cc Jonas) – will use his new course outline, will keep track of any changes.
- Invite to a meeting in August
- Accessibility issues – making content accessible
- Some basics to keep in mind:
- People using screen readers (translate the text on the page to speech).
- Download links (include explanatory text, avoid opening in new tabs, use text rather than URL in link.
- Question: linking to external resources that you might want to access without losing your place on the OpenLab? (e.g.: include text “link opens in new tab” or “to open link in new tab, right click…etc”)
- Ariane – attended webinar by AMS – accesibility expert in UK. Especially critical in math! (pdf is the worst format for screen readers)
- Color contrast – text on colored backgrounds
- subtitles for videos – (waiting to hear back – maybe Youtube is preferred?)
- Alt tags for images
- ASSIGNMENT: Read through these two posts on accessibility on the OpenLab:
- WAVE – tool for checking all contrast on a page at once
- On Dashboard/Plugins:
- WP Link Checker plugin – check for broken links
- TablePress plugin – for making nice tables
- Some basics to keep in mind:
- Design:
- Similar enough so folks recognize “course hub”
- Distinct enough by course so folks make connections between course resources (course hub, model courses, Video Resource Guides)
- Existing resource design – each course has a color:
- Could consider a pic/graphic theme –
- Pexels has free photos – https://www.pexels.com/search/math/
- or take pictures ourselves – notebooks, textbooks, blackboards, etc
- IDEA: Use color scheme for each course, e.g. 1475 is blue, but different visual elements for each different site (e.g. different elements).
- QUESTIONS:
- Ariane: embedding video from Dropbox?
- JONAS: reach out about embedding video – why is it small sometimes? Compare MAT 1275 lesson 14 vs lesson 16? (sometimes is converts video block to HTML block?!)
- Lin: how to duplicate a lesson?
- “clone” option appears in bulk edit dropdown but not in mouseover menu (?)
- for Ariane: OG summer salary/webwork dev?
- Focus on 1275, then clone and update for 1275CO
- Focus on Course Hubs now – worked on WeBWorK in June, and will in August, also build resource page for 1575 (?). Will coordinate with Kate (and use videos recommended by Samar)
- Will look into existing VRG – ask for cloning assistance if needed.
- Menus & Sidebars:
- As you create lessons, add them to the “Lessons” Menu
- For now, don’t worry about the menu in the sidebar (Jonas is going to do some work on this).
- Spoke to Sandie a few days ago re: online training in August
- Sandie: in the module that we’re building, use 1275/1275CO as an example/model.
- NOTE: for fall, looking like we have many more 1275 sections than 1275CO sections (new placement criteria?)
- NOTE: Lin is also involved in SStF. Sandie says we have have funding going forward (next year) – RT. (last year: Andrew, Ariane, Lin – not sure about this year, also probably no Developmental work in this program this year??)
- Ariane: embedding video from Dropbox?
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