Monday, July 12, 2010

Formatting Issues

As ive been creating the template, i was working on the lecture folder and when you transfer over the instructions i noticed that the numbering function seems to be different. It no longer makes everything line up nicely. Im not sure if this is just a bug or just something that needs to be redone but it could cause some issues when long lists are transfered over.

To see what im talking about go to the test template>course content>week 1> lecture and you will see the weirdness :(

Horizontal Rule

Much to my dismay, BB9 did little to fix the horizontal rule feature in the text editor. In BB7 the horizontal rule would only display if you were lucky and never edited that area again. Now in BB9, the horizontal shows when you are actually editing, but does not show up once the text is submitted.

More on the Contacts Tool

This might be done automatically in the course template, but to add a faculty information/contact template to the course menu:

1. Click the "+" button on the course menu.
2. Select "Create Tool Link"
3. For name, put "Faculty Information"
4. Select "Contacts" from the dropdown menu to select this tool.

This will give you the basic template for faculty information that lists everything we require the faculty to provide. To add a biography section, go to the "Faculty Information" content area (once it is created) and select "Create Folder." Name the folder "Faculty Biography" and from there you can enter the faculty members education and work history that pertains to the field that they are teaching.