Text is in some ways the easiest piece of this, but still problematic. The big question in my mind at the moment is html editors. I'm not thrilled with any of the wysiwyg editors that are available for Drupal, but then I haven't looked very hard at any of them. It's pretty clear that most faculty are not going to be satisfied with plain text, nor willing to deal with the BUEditor, so this is something that will require some research. Which of the wysiwyg editors is best, and what other alternatives can we explore? Can we write an 'import from Word' module? Does one exist? How is the recent lawsuit against Microsoft's implementation of xml in Office going to play in?
Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. Maybe what we should be offering is a conversion service from Word. We can take people's Word documents and turn them into searchable Drupal pages with suggestions for interactive content options, and end of chapter questions converted to page-specific self-tests. Not clear.
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Text is in some ways the easiest piece of this, but still problematic. The big question in my mind at the moment is html editors. I'm not thrilled with any of the wysiwyg editors that are available for Drupal, but then I haven't looked very hard at any of them. It's pretty clear that most faculty are not going to be satisfied with plain text, nor willing to deal with the BUEditor, so this is something that will require some research. Which of the wysiwyg editors is best, and what other alternatives can we explore? Can we write an 'import from Word' module? Does one exist? How is the recent lawsuit against Microsoft's implementation of xml in Office going to play in?
Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong. Maybe what we should be offering is a conversion service from Word. We can take people's Word documents and turn them into searchable Drupal pages with suggestions for interactive content options, and end of chapter questions converted to page-specific self-tests. Not clear.
Becky Kinney