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Structure Checklist

The following checklists were developed by the Joint ADL Co-Lab for the purpose of evaluating instructional web sites.

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Instructional Designer

  1. The Web site is organized as an offshoot to a single homepage.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. An organizing metaphor is used to group related pages into a coherent site.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. Hyperlinks are used so the user can jump from one point of interest to another.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

  4. Breadth of menus is used instead of depth (multi-leveled menus).
    5. Yes No Not Applicable

Web Developer

  1. Style sheets or templates are used to provide visual consistency across related documents.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. File names are kept uniform to avoid potential problems with case sensitive servers.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. The author's name, email contact, and article revision date is on each page.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

  4. The full URL of the page is included so that the source may be recovered if the item is printed.
    5. Yes No Not Applicable

  5. A link to the homepage is provided on all pages.
    6. Yes No Not Applicable

For web sites with a linear structure

  1. For the linear structure, chronological or alphabetical ordering is used.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. If the information is not too complex and the users are novices in the field, the information is instructional in nature and a linear (or sequence) structure is used.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. If the site is a more-complex one, it is organized in a sequence, but each page in the main sequence has one or more pages of digressions, parenthetic information, or external links to additional information at other WWW sites or environments.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

For web sites with a grid structure

  1. A grid structure is used to correlate variables.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. The individual units in the grid structure share a highly uniform structure of sub topics.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. For an audience with considerable expertise in a topic, a grid structure is used.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

For web sites with a hierarchical structure

  1. More general concepts are divided into more specific ones, which are in turn divided into individual events or objects.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. Higher relationships and subordinate relationships are pointed out to the user.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. The home page contains links to the pages that house the main categories or concepts and the distances from the homepage to any other page is not too large.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

  4. If the information is complex, and/or the users are novices in the field, a hierarchical structure was used to divide it into topics and subtopics.
    5. Yes No Not Applicable

  5. Hierarchical menus are used in searching for straightforward tasks.
    6. Yes No Not Applicable

  6. When the hierarchy is not too deep (three levels or less) and the categories make sense to users, a hierarchical navigation approach is used.
    7. Yes No Not Applicable

For web sites with a web structure

  1. If the site is small and dominated by lists of links, aimed at highly educated or experienced users looking for further education or enrichment, a Web structure is used.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. If the information is complex, users are experts in the field and/or the pieces of information are highly interrelated a web structure is used.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. Network structured documents are used to improve search accuracy, but not efficiency.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

  4. Embedded menus are used for searching complex, not fully known task, and to encourage in depth searching behavior.
    5. Yes No Not Applicable

For web sites with an empirical structure

  1. The structure shoots off from one home page. From there, the user can access various pages, from which he or she can access again other pages or go back to the home page.
    2. Yes No Not Applicable

  2. The home page and the main pages are linked to every available other page.
    3. Yes No Not Applicable

  3. If less-abstract view of the content is needed and/or the users are novices in the field an empirical structure is used to organize the environment.
    4. Yes No Not Applicable

  4. If preferred, a combination of structures is used for complex sites.
    5. Yes No Not Applicable

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