[FM Discuss] Putting training exercises into Booki

[helen varley jamieson]

i will try to find some time to look at this over the coming week :)

On 1/04/11 8:38 PM, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> Hey there (sending to FM-discuss and civicrm-book),
>
> Today we did a fair amount of work creating the user and administrator 
> exercise book for CiviCRM.  Still lots more completing of exercises 
> and proof reading, etc., to do but we think there is a decent 
> structure in place now and shouldn't be too hard to finish off.
>
> We transferred the exercises (actually we are now calling them tasks 
> for some reason) from the wiki to the book and came up with a standard 
> task format, which is basically:
>
>     * summary of the task
>     * instructions on how to do the task (numbered if there are a lot
>       of them)
>     * data that should be used in the task (in formatted)
>     * space for notes (you can write on paper with a pen or pencil, FYI)
>     * any tips about the task
>
> The book has three sections:
>
>     * intro
>     * exercises
>     * finding out more
>
> The exercise section is broken down into chapters which are one-to-one 
> with a hands one session that we will carry out during the training.  
> The chapters (h1) are further broken down into h2s to help people find 
> their way through the exercises.
>
> You can see the work in progress here: 
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm-user-and-admin-exercises/_full/
>
> We plan to make each task summary an h3 and then style the css with an 
> image to the left of the heading to show it is a task (rather than 
> what we are currently doing which is bolding them and sticking a image 
> above them.
>
> I think we'll handle the notes area by making an image with a fair 
> amount of vertical white space and a 'keep with before' to  avoid any 
> nasty page breaks and avoid any nasty page breaks).
>
> It would be great if we could get some div handling or something 
> similar for 'data' and for 'tips' to avoid us using but I know that 
> can be a huge pain so not holding my breath :)
>
> Hopefully I haven't gone into too much detail here and people are 
> still with me :)
>
> Would be good to get people's feedback on what we have done so far and 
> if people have any time to improve what we have done that would be 
> awesome.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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