Chapter 8. Publishing Guidelines: How To Ensure Quality

Although you have developed a detailed blueprint for the course, it only specifies what is to be presented and how. The blueprint does not cover many of the more technical aspects of developing content. A second series of plans addresses these issues and serves a crucial role in ensuring the quality of your online learning program. This chapter addresses these guidelines, which include the following:

  • style guidelines for spelling, capitalization, punctuation, usage, terminology, and typographical arrangements

  • technical standards for authoring

  • technical standards for the viewing system

  • template standards

  • production specifications.

This chapter explains how each category of guidelines applies to ...

Get Designing E-Learning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.