New to me -- looks intimidating

[Bradley Miller]

Sorry if I missed this earlier, but this looks pretty intimidating if I am a student.  This is from the sample book, so maybe I missed a setting so that the lack of a conclusion would not create fear in the hearts of students.  I don’t see any stringparams for this build so I don’t think it is debug?!?

Brad

Brad Miller
Professor Emeritus, Luther College
Founder, Runestone Academy LTD
Blog: http://reputablejournal.com

Set up a time to meet with me.

[Chrissy Safranski]

Do you mean the inclusion of a conclusion could be intimidating because it's styled with red around it?

I think the styling is intended to draw attention to it so that it doesn't get overlooked after doing the tasks (and it seems to have worked!). I also don't know how many people regularly use a conclusion like that - I know that I don't often use one, but maybe I should do it more.

Unlike an introduction which might have instructions pertaining to multiple tasks, I see an argument that the conclusion should only appear with the last task, to make sense of all the tasks together. 

Chrissy

[Andrew Scholer]

Relevant recent discussion:
https://groups.google.com/g/pretext-dev/c/xEZYjLdjXrY/m/r3D5tlpVCQAJ

When used outside of RS exercises, there is a need for some indication that the conclusion is not just random paragraphs of text. It doesn't need to be the current treatment, but as of right now, that is the presentation. 

But yes, that presentation inside a RS exercise box doesn't work well. It would be easy enough to quash the styling on a conclusion in that context. (There are also some other issues, like an overly large top margin, that are coming from presentations designed for other contexts being used inside that one). I'm happy to PR that.

But my first thoughts are in line with Chrissy's. A conclusion doesn't seem like it should be presented as the reader is working on the first task.

In a static presentation, that content will appear once at the end, after all the tasks. In this presentation, it feels more like a "bottom statement" than a conclusion. It is tempting to put notes or hints or other content that applies to all tasks - a decision that won't make sense in other renderings.

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