For getting it FROM the student, why not just use a livecode stack file. It could contain everything and be highly editable. For returning it TO the student you could use a pdf. -- Scott Morrow
Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com booth 1-360-734-4701 ------------------------------------------------------ > On Nov 17, 2020, at 11:18 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Richard, > I kinda like the pdf idea. Seems it would give me a way to encapsulate and > format the text and images and perhaps a fairly defined pdf format would make > it straightforward to edit it using Livecode as well. > Best, > Bill > > William A. Prothero > https://earthlearningsolutions.org > >> On Nov 17, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> William Prothero wrote: >> >>> It seems the effort to make this app work with learning management >>> systems would be huge, something I’m definitely not up for. >> >> It may not be. I've made standards-compliant courseware in the past (a >> while ago; the data format was XML <g>), and it wasn't as bad as I'd >> thought. With so much work on the modern standards I'd imagine they're far >> better documented and based on more common conventions than they were in >> yesteryear. >> >> But maybe the key question is: are your customers asking for LMS >> interoperability specifically? >> >> In some segments it can make the difference between being a contender and >> not being considered at all. >> >> But I've seen many other segments that seem to have abandoned hope of a >> standards-driven world of interoperable courseware, quite happy to kludge >> together whatever they need to eventually arrive at a means of tracking >> assessment. >> >> If no one's asking you for LMS compatibility, there would seem to need to >> bother. >> >> If PDF suffices, it's certainly easy to do in LC. >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
