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.

Creating Terms for Vocabularies

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.

To Add Course Outlines

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.

Add a menu link

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.

Filtering by category

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.