Professional Project Content Builder

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Courses and learning objects sort of go stale after awhile. Content Builder allows you to archive expired content to get it out of your active flow. This screen provides the ability to toggle content from active/archived (via Ajax).

This content listing shows all of the active courses and learning objects by default.

For the technically minded, a course is simply a learning object that has a “course” flag set to true. There’s a course class wrapper that inherits from LearningObject so that things like Course.find(1) still work, when under the covers it’s doing LearningObject.find(1, :conditions => 'course = 1'). It just provides a course scope.

by Ryan Heath Last updated 28 days ago

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Start Date 10 Mar 2007 (about 1 year ago)
Timeline 2 months
URL http://cb.ircwv.com
Responsibilities Design, CSS, XHTML, Database, Ruby/Rails Coding

Content Builder was more of a proof-of-concept application. It really never moved past the prototype stage, but I’ll mention it anyway.

The concept was to provide a tool capable of building online courses/training that would be playable from several different players. A course structure is as follows:

1 course has many learning objects

1 learning object has many screens

1 learning object [can have] many nested learning objects

1 screen can have many assets

1 screen has one layout

Learning objects and screens can be reordered. A few other features include cloning, publishing, polymorphic tagging, textile support, and a few Ajax UI niceties.

Just a note, this design is far from my best work. I would more than likely redo the front-end completely, should this project move from prototype to the real-world. Mainly, this is just showing some of the functionality provided by this tool, and discusses the value found in some of the features.

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