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[edit] Generative questions originating the article
- How can we best structure course support materials so that work in them becomes cumulative, year by year, with participants next year being able to start with achievements by participants this year, aiming to advance them?
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[edit] Scope and tone of coverage
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[edit] Expansive variables
You can provide the needed information for most variables briefly, with little or no mark-up — dates, brief topic titles, names of persons, times, days, etc. A few variables, particularly those for assignments and related information, invite longer, more complicated material. A variable name consists of a verticle bar, | , a name, usually brief, A4 or Instructor-1, followed by an equals sign, = . Simplistically, whatever occurs then to the right of the equals sign until the next variable name constitutes the data assigned to the variable. MediaWiki will interpret it as it would any other block of stuff, rendering text according to formatting mark-up it finds within it, making links or calling templates. You can make them embed in the main syllabus or provide a link to them, depending on what code you put into the variables. Subfiles make sense if an entry in the syllabus template may be long or very frequently revised. Where such a subfile is likely, the template may default to it, which you can remove by putting comment code around it <!--- before and after --->, entering an item directly after in the appropriate slot. This will preserve the option of a subfile — just get rid of the comments and put then put the material you want in the subfile. Elsewhere the template includes but comments out code for the potential subfile. To activate it, remove the comment code.
[edit] Talk
I am having difficulty finding the link or tab to create a new course page, the instructions say that I enter a course number in the new page section to the left, but the only thing that is close is "new pages", which takes the user to the list of all new pages. Any thoughts or help? --Sethhalvorson 14:55, 3 November 2007 (EDT)
