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Hebrew Flash Conversion Update

November 13, 2019 By Jake Engelberg

Hebrew Flash Conversion Update

I’ve now got access to a list of extracted flash interactives for the Hebrew site. This removes and human error that would come from manually scraping the page. It turns out there are around 100 flash interactives. However, most of these are multi-paged, and that isn’t something that Canvasser can natively handle (pages must be stacked manually by the user). It’s with this in mind and the complexness/repetitiveness of certain interactives that I’ve decided to take a deep look at all interactives and decide how they should be created.

 

I’m keeping a few things in mind:

  • Which creation tool the interactive’s format most closely matches (The two other creation methods are Quia flashcards and Quia multiple choice)
    • If it is to be created in Quia, is there a loss of cohesion, style, or formatting?
  • Difficulty to create in Canvasser
  • Potential to split an interactive between parts

 

It ends up being that many modules could be created in Quia (thanks to talks with Kevin), and it stands to be said whether using these tools instead will hinder the original goal of the interactive. This is why Canvasser is the best option disregarding creation, because it can replicate the interactive almost completely. However, they can become fairly difficult to create as each page complicates and the number of pages increases.

Filed Under: 2019 Fall-Winter | Spring-Summer 2020, Uncategorized

Jake Engelberg

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