Using the Boy/Girl Icons
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010We use the 4 Girl/Boy icons for three reasons on the Learning Commons: Interesting or noteworthy piece of information (example). For headers to organize content (example). To ask questions or communicate directly to the reader (example). To use the icons, simply paste the following HTML code into the editor box when creating or editing a […]
Wiki Workflow
Monday, November 8th, 2010Do 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. […]
Writing Style Guide
Friday, October 1st, 2010Thank 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 […]
Writing Style Guide (for Wiki)
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010What 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 […]
Creating a Page
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Most 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 […]
Checklist: Creating a Page
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Pages 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 […]