OERu/Planning/Wiki text for course guide navigation template

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Instructions and conventions
The course guide is a generic resource recommended by the anchor partners for all OERu courses. The course guide includes the following components as illustrated by the AST1000 course example:


 * Introduction and course aims
 * Acknowledgement of the development team and opportunity for learner to "meet" the course authors
 * Welcome video from the primary author (Optional)
 * Getting started - instructions on how to register and get started
 * List of the key resources to be used in the course
 * Overview of the assessment strategy and links to objectives assessed and graduate qualities and skills.
 * Course schedule - which can be transcluded from a page reused in other sections of the OERu course.
 * List of all assignments required for the course including detailed assessment rubrics - -see for example: Assignment 1, Assignment 2 and Assignment 3.

Please follow these conventions:


 * 1) The navigation template for the Course Guide should be transcluded from a sub-page of the relevant OERu course.
 * 2) The subpage for the navigation template should be prefaced with an underscore (_) to distinguish this from ordinary content pages, for example: http://wikieducator.org/Course_name/Course_guide/_Nav
 * 3) Copy the wiki boilerplate text below to create a navigation template by saving it on the _Nav sub-page of the parent page, i.e. http://wikieducator.org/Course_name/Course_guide/.
 * 4) To transclude the navigation template from the subpage within the relevant sub-pages of the Course Guide, put a colon  in front of the page name of the navigation template contained withing two curly brackets, for example  representing the page where the navigation template is stored for transclusion.
 * For example the wiki text: transcludes the navigation template on this sub-page to each of the target page(s) using the wiki text   on the target page.

Wiki boilerplate text for OERu navigation template
These instructions assume the following nomenclature for the sub-components of an OERu course:


 * ''Course name --> Course guide --> name of subpage (eg Introduction and course aims, Course team, getting started etc.)


 * Step 1: Copy all the text contained in the grey box below and paste this on the sub-page you are using to create and transclude the navigation template for the Course guide (e.g. http://wikieducator.org/Course_name/Course_guide/_Nav )''. Remember to save your page.
 * Step 2: Replace the green text highlighted below with the relevant wiki page urls for your course. Tip: open this window in a new tab to view what text needs to be changed.

{ {TopicsWithSubpages
 * state = iframe


 * title = Link Display text eg name of course (#Hashtag)


 * image =


 * above =


 * topic1 = Course guide


 * section1 = Introduction & Aims Development team  Video signpost  Getting started  Resources  Assessment overview  Course schedule


 * topic2  = Assignments


 * section2 = Assignment 1   Assignment 2   Assignment 3


 * below = StudyDesk  OERu learner support

}}
 * note = Copyright

Example

 * Inserting the following syntax on the target OERu course page will transclude the navigation template from the navigation sub-page on every page it is used.

It will display as follows in the published view of the course guide.