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    11= Berkeley Open Learning Technology (Bolt) =
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    3 Bolt is a software infrastructure for creating web-based training courses,
    4 and is designed to meet the needs of:
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    6  * Distributed thinking projects: volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks.
    7  * Volunteer computing projects: educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment, and attainment of given knowledge levels can be shown as a web site "status symbol".
     3Bolt is a software infrastructure for creating web-based training courses.
     4It is designed to meet the needs of:
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     6 * Distributed thinking projects, in which volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks.
     7 * Volunteer computing projects, in which educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment.
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    99These areas have the following properties:
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    11  * Churn: constant turnover, thousands of new students per day;
     11 * Churn: constant turnover (scores or hundreds of new students per day);
    1212 * Wide geographical distribution;
    1313 * Wide age distribution;
    14  * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by acknowledgement (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site).
     14 * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by recognition (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site).
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    1616== What Bolt does ==
     
    4141== Creating exercises ==
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    43 An exercise is a PHP script.
     43A Bolt exercise is a PHP script.
    4444Here's an example consisting of a multiple-choice question:
    4545{{{
     
    5858Each time the question is shown,
    5959the choices are shown in a random order.
    60 The correct choice is always the first element of the array.
     60The correct choice is the first element of the array.
    6161
    6262Here's an example that shows an image;