The pre-writing process of writing is often more important than the actual stringing together of sentences. Pre-writing is all about figuring out what you’re setting out to accomplish and how you’re going to get there. There’s no perfect way to pre-write. Some people draw a lot of pictures, others have shared how they draw clear… Continue reading Action Mapping: A Great Way to Get Started
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Ready for Review
You’ve spent the hours gathering materials, talking with SMEs, creating outlines, and getting your masterpiece of a storyboard completed. It’s time to send it to the Writing Manager for Review, but there’s one more step to do. Take the time to make sure your storyboards are clean and ready for review. Check out these general proofreading… Continue reading Ready for Review
Checklist for Your First Draft Delivery
Please go through this checklist and review and update your course accordingly before you let the managers know it is ready for our review. This will ensure a smoother review process for us and will result in fewer change requests being sent back to you. (Note: All these items are taken from the Artisan Online… Continue reading Checklist for Your First Draft Delivery
Special Delivery: Submitting an Online Course for Review
Use this checklist to ensure you’ve completed all the steps necessary for your work to be reviewed. Publish the course according to the standards specified in the project’s Design Document. Ensure that the published output is functional in the project’s primary browser (noted in the Design Document). Upload the published output to Artisan’s Web server.… Continue reading Special Delivery: Submitting an Online Course for Review
Under the Microscope: The QA Spreadsheet
Artisan utilizes several Quality Assurance (QA) spreadsheets, depending upon the project. These include: Internal QA QA/Browser Testing (QA/BT) Browser Testing (BT) Final Course Review (FCR) Client QA The difference between these spreadsheets is mainly the audience. Learn how to use one, and you’ve learned how to use them all! Rows Global Exceptions: These notes are… Continue reading Under the Microscope: The QA Spreadsheet
The Development Process—Revealed!
Build First Online Draft: Conduct technical reviews: Make first draft revisions: Make final revisions:
Tips for Becoming Our Favorite Developer
Use Celoxis to anticipate deadlines and plan your workflow. Ask questions before the deadline. Be the “director” of the online draft. Bring the narration to life! Load your authoring tool file to Egnyte at the end of every work session. Use the versioning convention to name your file properly. Call out concerns about the number… Continue reading Tips for Becoming Our Favorite Developer
Link to It!
You’ve published a course and uploaded it to the webserver via FTP. Now it’s time to create a URL so the project team can review the course. Follow this general structure for any URL you create:
The Writing Process Revealed!
Write first draft: Make first draft revisions: Make final revisions:
Using Egnyte
Egnyte is Artisan’s file-sharing system. We ask that you upload your files to Egnyte on a daily basis, to ensure we maintain the latest versions of all files. We do this so others can access them for review and editing, or in case of an emergency. Egnyte File Structure Each client is set up individually… Continue reading Using Egnyte