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Using LibGuides to Create a Paperless Classroom: Organize

A flash presentation presented at ACRL 2017, Springshare Booth #1121.

Organize Your Instruction Guide

Your guide should be user-friendly. Spend some time thinking about how students and professors will navigate through your guide to find their individual courses before settling on an organizational scheme. Once you've chosen an organizational scheme, keep it consistent. 

Best Practices

  • Keep the tab names brief. Try to limit the navigation bar to a single row of tabs. 
  • If you are teaching many sections of less than 10 courses, use  course abbreviations as main-level tabs. Organize specific sections as a sub-page of the course. 
  • For each course page, determine your preferred heading. For instance, you may want to assign a date, course number, and professor to assist students with finding the correct page for their section. Ex. 02.12.17 - FCWR 101 (Smith). 
  • Keep all page and sub-page headings consistent.

Create an Organizational Scheme

Before you chose an organizational scheme, consider how your students might approach locating their course page. I organize my courses by date because even if my students can't remember the course abbreviation and number or the professor's last name, they know what day it is (or the day the class was scheduled to visit). 

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