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 […]

Most photos that are used on the Learning Commons site are downloaded from Flickr—selected from photos available from UBC-related Flickr accounts or searched under the Creative Commons Advanced Search option. Here is a screencast that illustrates how to go about doing this: Photos should be 600w x 300h and the most effective ones are evocative, […]

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 […]