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Wiki Workflow

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.

  1. Create your page in the Learning Commons namespace. See Learning Commons:Namespace Orientation. This will your index page for your content.
  2. Check that you have set up your page correctly once you have created it. If you see it on the index page for the Learning Commons, then you have created it correctly.
  3. Author your content on subpages within your wiki space. For example, your wiki space may look like this: Learning Commons: Land and Food Systems. An example of common subpages within a wiki spage will look like this:
    • Learning Commons: Land and Food Systems/Description
    • Learning Commons: Land and Food Systems/Services
    • Learning Commons: Land and Food Systems/HoursNote: Keep your subpage titles short.
  4. Review the Learning Commons:Writing Guidelines for tips on how to prepare your content and what you might want to include.
  5. Compile your subpage content into an information page for the Learning Commons site. You can do this easily using transclusion. With transclusion, you just add the reference code for each page that you want to include. It is best to call this aggregate page something generic like: About or Information.
  6. Request a page on the Learning Commons.
  7. Notify us when your page is ready to publish on the Learning Commons site.

If you need further support with any of this please contact Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.

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Creating a Page

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 frequently.

To create/edit a page, go to the “Pages” section of the Dashboard on the left-hand side. Under the “Pages” tab there are 2 links (if you can’t see them, you can expand the “Pages” tab by clicking on its arrow): ‘Edit’ and ‘Add New’.

To add a new page, simply click the ‘Add New’ link; to edit an existing page, either click the ‘Edit’ link or the “Pages” tab, and you will be redirected to a list with all pages where you can click on the page you want to edit, or search for it using the search box (after searching, you still have to click on the page to edit it).

In order to properly create a page on the leap website, you must ensure that:

1) It has a parent. To select a page parent, in the page editing/creating form, select the parent of the page using the “Parent” drop-down list under the “Page Attributes” section on the right-hand side.
2) It is properly tagged. To tag, enter any relevant tags in the list on the right-hand side of the page under “Post Tags.”
3) The template of the page is the “Default Template.”

All Learning Commons pages should normally have a parent page, unless they appear in the main menu on the page (e.g. Home, Get Started, Get Conscious, etc.) or they are in the title bar (Feedback, etc) and are exempt from navigation.

To publish a page, simply click the “Publish” button using on the right menu.

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Checklist: Creating a Page

Pages are used to create/edit all content on the Learning Commons, except for the home page (uses posts).

1) Write Page Title.
2) Write Page Content.
3) Select Page Parent: all pages that do not appear in the main navigation bar should have parents.
4) Tag the Page.
5) Create Related Links custom field: the default field name is “delicious-links.”
6) Create Author custom field: the default field name is “content-by.”
7) Create License custom field: the default field name is “license.”
8) Create Page Administrator custom field: the default field name is “contact.”
9) Review Steps 1-9.
10) Publish the Page (or save as a Draft).

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