The material already contained in the modules is well-thought-out and easy to follow.
This is shaping up to be an excellent module.
Some General Suggestions/Comments:
- Most important: Several pages and/or sections of material are
not yet present.
These include "Stochastic Models" () and the Poisson Distribution
"discover" page (). ( DONE August 1999 )
- The ending of the module might be a bit abrupt.
Perhaps some sort of summary would help "round it out." ( NOT DONE - content developer's discretion )
Page-Specific Suggestions:
- The crib sheet () is great!
One link is, however, missing: that for "starting stock". ( DONE August 1999 )
- The applet has a lot of options to play with.
However, the interface can be a bit confusing at first; perhaps a more thorough explanation
of the applet's functionality should be included on the pages on which it appears. ( NOT DONE - content developer's discretion )
- start page: The image is too big. Links standards specify a maximum height of 360 pixels
for all components (maximum width: 500). After shrinking the image, you could place it to the left
of the text (i.e. "IMG ALIGN=LEFT"), minimizing the need to scroll down. ( DONE August 1999 )
- :
- The "derive!" button links are dead.
- The second 'derive' button has a tendency to wrap around.
The button should be next to the equation at all times.
- The derivations should pop up in their own windows. Unless this is done,
it becomes pretty easy to lose one's place in the module navigation.
( DONE August 1999 )
- Please convert to new think box standard for all questions. ( DONE August 1999 )
- In , please remove the blue border from the
graphical map. Indicate via some text that the map is clickable. ( DONE August 1999 )
- The page should be rounded out a bit.
One note: the H2 tags should be *outside* the A tags around the word "Glossary". ( DONE August 1999 )
- New terms should be introduced in a uniform fashion. In ,
new terms are in boldface. In , they are regular italic.
Other variations exist also. Please choose a style for presenting new terms (strong italic is probably the best),
and stick with it throughout the module. ( DONE August 1999 )
- Grammar Problems/Typos:
- : "if there was" -> "if there were".
- : "keep a paper and pencil" -> "keep paper and pencil" (remove the 'a').
- : "fixed periodof" -> insert space between 'period' and 'of'.
( DONE August 1999 )
- There is a minor bug in the "Poisson" applet. To see it, try this:
Select "fixed order size" from the drop-down list. Raise "mean demand"; by the time you
have raised it to 2.70 or so, you should begin seeing "switchbacks" in the plot. ( NOT DONE - content developer's discretion )
- The size of "indexpic.gif" on must be reduced.
Maximum height = 360; maximum width = 500. ( DONE August 1999 )
- Netscape Communicator 4.5 for Windows
- : copyright notice at bottom is wrong size
and too close to body of text. ( DONE August 1999 )
- : copyright notice at bottom is wrong size.
This should be taken care of when the questions on this page are converted to the new think box standard. ( DONE August 1999 )
- Explorer 4.5 for Macintosh
- No problems other than those found in baseline testing.