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Subject:Glossary functions and features in elearning From:Brad Jensen <brad -at- elstore -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:20:17 -0600
I'm an elearning vendor, and we are about to put a glossary
function in our Eufrates coruse module maker.
The way I see this happening, is from the text page, you can
highlight a word or phrase, and create a defintion using rich
text.
Words/phrase and definitions are uploaded to the Eufrates
server.
Then as modules are added or updated, the server parses all
module text, creating a link for every word or phrase that
appears in the glossary. It also parses itself, creating links
for words in glossary definitions that are also in the glossary.
Some questions I have for you all are:
1. Are there any favorite/semistandard colors for such links?
2. what would you do if such a word (dogwood) is inside an html
link (innertext)
3. what do you love and hate about the glossary definers you
have in other products now?
Also, we are doing a little project where we are converting a
software tutorial in Word to elearning. I'm wondering if an
automated tool to convert, says Robohlep, would be a winner.
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Brad Jensen brad -at- elstore -dot- com
President
Electronic Storage Corporation Tulsa OK USA
918-664-7276
LaserVault Report Retrieval & Data Mining
www.Laservault.com
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