[FM Discuss] Putting training exercises into Booki

[Michael McAndrew]

FYI Going to be working on this in bits and bobs until the end of the week
and going to get it printed early next week.

Michael

On 1 April 2011 19:59, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  hey,
>
> i can help with this   a bit on monday if you still need  hand...
>
> adam
>
> On 04/01/2011 08:38 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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