Some edX courses will be launching in a few weeks so I've had to take a detour from my clean up to finish up a few features that will be needed. One of them are for there to be different "Modes" for the tool for three seen cases so far:
- Default Mode - what currently exists
- Read-Only Mode - Instructor will guide users through a text/image/video but does not want them to annotate
a. For this mode there will probably also be a toggle to allow "replies" to instructor annotations or not
- Zen Mode - Usually will only apply to Images--it's basically just a way to display Mirador for deep-zoom images within the tool--but it will work on all media types. This is particularly handy for a target object that is already in our database and that is being/will be/may have been annotated elsewhere. Annotations will be completely off for this mode.
To explain 3 a bit more, there was one particular course (ChinaX) where students were shown an image with no annotations (the huge huge scroll I like to use for demos) then they did a few readings and later on in the course they would see the image again but this time were allowed to annotate given all they'd learn in the intervening lessons.
@arthurian Is there any "mode" you've seen from your use cases that should be added to the list?
Some edX courses will be launching in a few weeks so I've had to take a detour from my clean up to finish up a few features that will be needed. One of them are for there to be different "Modes" for the tool for three seen cases so far:
a. For this mode there will probably also be a toggle to allow "replies" to instructor annotations or not
To explain 3 a bit more, there was one particular course (ChinaX) where students were shown an image with no annotations (the huge huge scroll I like to use for demos) then they did a few readings and later on in the course they would see the image again but this time were allowed to annotate given all they'd learn in the intervening lessons.
@arthurian Is there any "mode" you've seen from your use cases that should be added to the list?