SkillsFeed content structure

SkillsFeed basic building blocks are sites, lessons and test questions.

Sites

Site is a collection of lessons. It has its own title, tagline and is available under separate URL like: http://easy-uml.skillsfeed.com/. Site can contain any number of lessons.

Lessons

Lesson is the smallest learning content chunk. SkillsFeed agile learning philosophy encourages authors to provide tiny bits of knowledge, which can be read and understood very quickly (in minutes rather then hours or days). Lesson can contain formatted text (see: SkillsFeed Text Markup Reference), tables, images, attachments

Test questions

SkillsFeed assumes that multiple choice test is the simplest way to assure the lesson was properly understood. Author can attach any number of test questions to the lesson and define number of test questions that will be randomly selected for the test, time limit to answer the questions and minimum number of correct answers required to pass the test.

Learning

To start learning a lesson, student should find it (using "Find" area of the SkillsFeed) and join it after reading the lesson overview and eventually checking lesson rating details. Joining the lesson is needed to read lesson content, discuss it, rate it and access lesson test.

After joining the lesson, it can be found in "Learn > Lessons to learn" section of the site until student passes lesson test. Then it is moved to "Learn > Completed lessons". Some time after joining the lesson your membership expires. The lesson will be moved to the "Learn > Education history" list.

Joining the lesson allows you to:

• access full lesson content
• rate the lesson and publish opinion about it
• discuss the lesson content and read other students comments
• view the list of other people who joined the lesson
• access test assessing lesson comprehension

Teaching

SkillsFeed allows you to provide your own learning content. You can create up to 5 own learning sites and contribute as an editor to unlimited number of sites owned by other authors.

Site can be created in the "Teach" area which you can access from top level site menu. After adding new site you can add lessons and test questions to it. Lessons and test questions need to be published to be visible to other SkillsFeed users. It allows you to work in private on lessons or questions before making them public.

Text markup reference

SkillsFeed allows you to use wiki-markup in most text fields. Thanks to that you can easily and quickly author lessons and questions content.

Headings

1st level heading (biggest) = text = 3nd level heading === text ===

2nd level heading == text == 4th level (smallest) ==== text ====

Formatting

Bold / strong **text** Italic / emphasis ''text'' (2 x single quote ', not double quote ") Underline __text__ Subscript ,,text,, Superscript ^^text^^ Horizontal line ---- (or more -) **** (or more *)

Line break / new line end of line Paragraph 2 x end of line Center current line start line with ! Blockquote start line with one or more > followed by one space: > -- 1st level >> -- 2nd level etc. Code <code>    text text text </code>

Lists

Unordered list

Start with two spaces, then use * or + or - and 1 additional space. Next levels should be indented by 2 spaces (second level needs 4 spaces, third 6, etc.).

  * list item 1
    + list item 1.1
    + list item 1.2
      - list item 1.2.1
      - list item 1.2.2
  * list item 2
  * list item 3
    * list item 3.1
    * list item 3.2

Ordered list

Just like unordered list, only the bullet should always be #.

  # numbered item 1
    # number 1.1
    # number 1.2
  # numbered item 2
  # numbered item 3
    # number A
    # number B
    # number C

Advanced elements

Anchor

[# name]

URL / link

http://example.com                       -- inline
[http://example.com]                     -- numbered
[http://example.com Example Description] -- described

Image

{img src=http://www.skillsfeed.com/img/logo-10.gif}
or just
http://www.skillsfeed.com/img/logo-10.gif

Clickable image

{img src=http://www.skillsfeed.com/img/logo-10.gif link=http://www.skillsfeed.com/}

Table

Use single pipe to separate cells. Other table options:

• ~ - marks header cell
• empty cell || - creates col span
• = after | - centers cell content
• > after | to align cell content to the right
• < to align cell content to the left

Example

|~ head 1 |~ head 2 |~ head 3 |~ head 4 |
|~ cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 | cell 4 |
|| span 2 cols | third | fourth |
| first ||| span 3 cols |
|= cell 1 |> cell 2 |< cell 3 | cell 4 |