The learningAssessment DITA topic type
This post describes the DITA learningAssessment topic type and how to use it to create questions and exercises for your students.
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Highly designed content (podcast)
Highly designed content uses presentation to call its audience’s attention to the most important information. This kind of content requires more attention to detail and exceptions to the standard layout than content with a purely functional design. In this podcast, we discuss strategies for producing highly designed content and solutions for exerting more control over your design in a publishing environment with automated formatting.
Beyond production: DITA transformations for QA
I’ve written in the past on how a QA mindset can improve the quality and consistency of your content. While having a robust test set and test plan are useful, there’s another tool that you can use.
LearningDITA podcast
In this podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Alan Pringle discuss Scriptorium’s DITA training resource, LearningDITA.com. What is the business case for providing a free e-learning resource, and what does it take to get it started? What are the challenges of growing and managing an open-source, community-based project?
Using the learningContent DITA topic type
A few weeks ago, the blog post DITA for learning content introduced the DITA Learning and Training specialization and described how the specialization can help those creating content for electronic delivery through a learning management system (LMS) or other eLearning tool. This post gives a more detailed view on the learningContent topic type.
Typical DITA projects – do they exist?
In this podcast, Alan, Bill, and Sarah discuss some of the characteristics of typical DITA projects.
LearningDITA.com survey
LearningDITA.com currently (as of writing this post) has eight courses and over 2,700 subscribers. So… How are we doing?
DITA for learning content: The Learning and Training specialization
Training organizations can use DITA for learning content. The DITA Learning and Training specialization makes it possible.
DITA to InDesign: getting your paragraph styles in order
Getting your DITA content into a high-design format like InDesign is a tricky prospect. The biggest stumbling block is the fact that there is no intrinsic link between your ICML and the template that you flow it into. In the end, your InDesign template (you’re using one, right?) is the most important part of a DITA to ICML workflow; it contains the actual styles that will control how your output appears.
New LearningDITA course: Publishing output from DITA sources
We are excited to announce our newest LearningDITA course: Publishing output from DITA sources. Our other courses show you how to create and reuse DITA content; this one shows you how to publish it to PDF and HTML.
