Navigation in Connexions
Summary: Overview of Connexions navigational aids
warning:
The information in this module is outdated. Please see
Viewing Connexions Content
and Roadmap Tutorial for
the latest information about navigating within Connexions.
- When viewing a module, user needs to know
- where am I?
- where have I been?
- where could I go? (encourage exploration)
- Connexions Roadmap
- allows students to easily and intuitively navigate course path
- helps students, instructors, and authors better visualize links between topics
- Mozilla-based Roadmap
- module view (center)
- course view (left)
- cnx view (right) - not yet implemented - mockup (best viewed with Internet Explorer)
- tool bar (top)
- Roadmap features
- course view saves current location when leaving course path
- all tools designed in conjunction with usability experts from Rice Psychology Department
- Web navigation a wide open area of research
- challenge: intuitive aids (graphical?)
- open-source and open standards will encourage development of a plurality of different Roadmaps
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Last edited by Elizabeth Gregory on Aug 4, 2004 12:45 pm GMT-5.