Talk:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Amphibians/Sandbox

Feedback from DesignerThan

I had a look and the templates and I must say ... very impressive work. The feedback I have is a question of liking. I would like it more if the single requirements were headings so the table at the top could be a table of content so it is possible to jump directly to the instructions.

Why did you add the collapsable boxes? Edit: Upps forgot the signature :/

I guess I would do it something like that Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Amphibians/Sandbox2. It is not perfect. For example the template for the headings is missing. I just implemented it so there is some visuals. --DesignerThan (talk) 18:39, 29 October 2020 (EDT)

I've not been able to transclude the requirements from a different page, get them to show up as headings, and still have the [edit] link take the user to the page where the answer keys can be edited. Adding heading markup in the template makes it insist on opening the ansreq template's edit page which will be protected from editing except by admins. I don't think it's possible to get all three of those things without delving into the mediawiki php, which is something I absolutely do not want to do. I got two out of three, and the blue boxes clearly set the requirements apart from the answers.

Putting the answers into a collapsible box groups them together nicely, especially when it comes to the sub-requirements. If you collapse requirement 11, 11a and 11b collapse with it. It also provides a visual indicator that the subrequirements belong to their parent and allows instructors to pre-collapse all the answers and project only the questions onto a screen when teaching. The answers can be expanded as desired during the presentation, so they can ask the students to propose answers before revealing them.

I plan to remove the table of contents from the answer keys since their main function was to show the requirements, which we can do as in the original Sandbox rendition.

The blue boxes make is super easy to scroll though the answers to the next requirement, and that got pretty good reviews from the team who requested these changes in the first place. They also requested a link to the printable requirements-only page, which I have provided, though that could certainly use some huge aesthetic improvements. --Jomegat (talk) 19:27, 29 October 2020 (EDT)