Do you have a learning or research commons project that you want to highlight on our resource site for students: UBC’s Learning Commons? If so, here are the steps to follow to get it done. Create your page in the Learning Commons namespace. See Learning Commons:Namespace Orientation. This will your index page for your content. […]

Thank you for contributing your content to the Learning Commons! The Learning Commons website’s mission is to be a resource-hub for students, written in a student voice, with a student perspective in mind. In past focus groups, students consistently said that they valued the site’s student-centered tone, and preferred it over a more formal, administrative […]

What to Include First, you’ll want to set up your page in the Learning Commons namespace. To do that, follow this workflow. Once you have your page (index page) set up, you’ll want to create the following subpages. Do this by adding a slash after your index page and the following titles: /Description. A brief […]

To edit a post and/or page, login with your CWL into the Learning Commons WordPress Dashboard. On the left sidebar, select either “Posts” or “Pages” depending on which one you wish to edit. From there, you can browse for your page/post or search from the top. Place your cursor over the post and simply click […]

All these custom fields are used by the same widget: Learning Commons Custom Fields, to store information on the author, license and administrator of a page. These custom fields store information for each page: what is the page author, the page license and the page administrator that can be contacted if something is wrong with […]

On the Learning Commons website, Posts represent the pieces of content that appear on the front page of the website in the carousel. They can be modified just like Pages, except that instead of accessing the ‘Pages’ tab, you need to click the ‘Posts’ tab to create, publish, edit or delete posts. Archived posts are […]

Posts are only used to post Features on the Learning Commons homepage. 1) Write Post Title. 2) Write Post Content: including pictures, etc. 3) Categorize the Post under ‘Features.’ 4) Add a Feature Image: located on the right-hand side. (more on how to create the image) 5) Write Post Excerpt: the post excerpt is the […]

Most of the content on the Learning Commons site is created as Pages rather than Posts. Posts are primarily reserved for Features. Pages are typically used for more static content that won’t be updated daily or weekly. Posts are reserved for content that is more dynamic. We chose posts for Features, since they are updated […]