Styling your prompts?

Styling your prompts?

by Jason McGensy -
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Our instructional design team began significantly reworking some of their approach to styling to styling prompts/instructions inside of Moodle activities.

We then started working with an OPM and their instructional design team for about a year and they had a different, but also highly stylized approach. (see attached examples)

I think both approaches look good and our students find it easier to determine what they actually need to do and by when and so on, but this approach has been difficult for our faculty to work with on their own and we are looking for a way to both display information nicely but also give the lay instructor a framework they can use without needing some hand-holding or knowledge of html.

What are you all doing? Any ideas are welcome.

Attachment FPU Prompt styling.png
Attachment OPM Prompt styling.png
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Re: Styling your prompts?

by AL Rachels -
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Hi Jason,

Using Jason Hunt's, Snippet tool for for the Atto editor, it is very easy to make templates like your examples. This one was less than five minutes. Once the template is made, teachers merely insert a resource Label in a topic, then click the snippet tool and select the layout they want. They then replace the boiler plate text with actual info.

The example I made in LibreOffice Writer, is just a table with column 1 narrower than the second, and with the background color of the cell set as needed. the first row has the two columns merged for the title.

Once I had the table made in LibreOffice Writer, I copied and pasted it into an Atto editor text area, switched to HTML view, then copied all the HTML so I could use it to make the Snippet bundle.


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