Changes between Version 36 and Version 37 of BoltIntro


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    99and computes and records their exercise scores.
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    11 However, the strength of Bolt is its support for '''evolutionary adaptive courses'''.
     11Bolt supports '''evolutionary adaptive courses'''.
    1212Such a course evolves over time.
    1313At any point, it may contain any number of '''micro-experiments'''
    14 that estimate and compare the effectiveness of alternative lessons.
     14to compare the effectiveness of alternative lessons.
    1515On the basis of experimental outcomes,
    1616lessons may be changed, added, or discarded.
    1717The course may be made 'adaptive' so that different materials
    1818are shown to different types of students.
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    1920Thus, Bolt is ideal for developing online learning materials
    2021in situations where there is a constant arrival of diverse students,
    21 and in which course developers have the need and ability to continually
     22and in which you have the need and ability to continually
    2223analyze and improve the effectiveness of the materials.
    2324
    2425Bolt is implemented in PHP (a popular scripting language).
    25 If you know PHP, it's easy to add new features to Bolt
    26 (but you don't need to know PHP to use Bolt).
     26You don't need to know PHP to use Bolt,
     27but if you do it's easy to add new features to Bolt.
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    2729
    2830 * [BoltTutorial Tutorial]
    2931  * [BoltTutorial Part I: Courses and lessons]
    30   * [BoltTutorialExercises Part II: Exercises]
    31   * [BoltTutorialAnalytics Part III: Analytics]
     32  * [BoltTutorialExercises Part II: Exercises, review, and refresh]
     33  * [BoltTutorialAnalytics Part III: Experiments and analytic tools]
    3234
    3335 * [BoltRef Reference manual]
     
    3537 * [BoltAnalytics Analytics]
    3638
    37  * [BoltImpl Implementation]
     39 * [BoltImpl Implementation notes]
    3840
    3941 * [BoltGoals Context and goals]