Teaching Adapt at university level (Ft. Laura Leonard)

10/05/22 • 22 min

In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Simon talks to Laura Leonard. Laura is a freelance Instructional Designer and eLearning developer who teaches an eLearning module for learners studying the Masters in Interactive Digital Media (MSc) at Griffith College in Dublin.
Laura shares why Adapt was the chosen Authoring Tool of choice for first-time authors, why they choose to have every student install the Authoring Tool locally on their own computer and some examples of projects that students have completed.

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Adapt's place in the market (Ft. Tom McDowall)

In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, Chuck and Simon talk to Tom McDowall. Tom is the owner of Evolve Learning Design, a member of the eLearning Network's board of directors and host of the IDTX conference and the iDeas podcast. In October 2020, Tom created a video guide covering how to install the Adapt Authoring Tool on a computer. It was a very popular video with over 4,500 views and 95 likes.
We discuss whether Adapt is a high-end authoring tool or a budget tool. Adapt is the most configurable authoring tool allowing developers to tinker and configure to their heart's content. At the same time, Adapt is totally free to use and download and thus, often gets on the radar of individuals who are looking to break into e-learning and create their first portfolio piece. We consider the duality of its position in the market and how e-learning teams should think about Adapt.
Tom shares his thought process for which sort of projects might, and might not, be best suited for Adapt. We compare Adapt to some other popular authoring tools, even finding some funny car analogies.

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The UI Kit announcement

In this episode of The Adapt Tips Podcast, we're making an announcement of a product that we have been working on for at least a year and are ready to start selling to the Adapt community in the next few weeks - The Adapt Tips UI Kit.
The UI Kit is an Adobe XD template that we have created to enable designers to quickly and accurately create prototypes of Adapt themes.
We were inspired to create this product from the experiences we had working with designers who didn't have the familiarity we did with Adapt. They didn't know what components and extensions were available and came with Adapt out-of-the-box. They didn't know which theme changes could be achieved in seconds and which would take hours. We believe that this product will solve these issues by replicating the layout and structure of Adapt.
Designers can drag and drop components onto a page to create a prototype Adapt course in minutes. They can access the colour picker and change any of the colours of the theme and see their change cascade throughout the whole course. Adobe XD exposes all the colour variables picked, so once the prototype is complete and signed off internally and by the client, the developer will be able to jump in straight away.
If you are interested in finding out more about the UI Kit Simon will be presenting it live at the IDTX conference on the 8th of March at 11:45 am GMT / 7:45 am EST. You can sign up for the event for free here.

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