Course Outlines
The course outlines feature allows Content Creators to create and edit course outlines. Anonymous users can browse through these outlines in a listing page view and find more details about a specific course.
Before creating course outlines, add terms to the following vocabularies:
- Course outline category: Create terms in this vocabulary to filter course outlines by area of study (e.g. Philosophy or History).
- Course outline term: Use terms in this vocabulary to filter and group course outlines by academic term. The default values are Fall, Winter, and Spring.
- Course outline subject: A list of course subjects (e.g. HIST, PSYC).
- Course outline academic department: A list of academic departments.
- 1.On the Administration bar, select
Add Content
. - 2.Select
Course Outline
. - 3.Enter a Course name and Course code.
- 4.Fill in any optional fields. If you decide to add a course instructor URL (can be used to link an instructor's profile or personal website), then entering a name in the "Course instructor" field is required.
- 5.Attach the course outline document.
- 6.Click
Save
when you are done.
- 1.On the Administration bar, select
Structure
>Menus
. - 2.Select Main menu:
add link
. - 3.Enter a menu link title (e.g. Course outlines).
- 4.Enter the link path
course-outlines
.
To create a menu link that lists course outlines for a single term, enter the path
course-outlines/[term-id]
, where [term-id] is the term ID of a term in the Course outline term vocabulary.- 1.On a course outline listing page, click
Customize this page
. - 2.Select the cog icon (settings) for "View: C01 - Listing page for Mulitple Course Outlines."
- 3.In the "Category" field, enter the term ID of a term in the Course outline category vocabulary.
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