Learning

The Learning Index Page

The Learning Index page serves as a resource for journalists to bolster their investigative journalism skills. It includes sequenced lessons, and exams throughout the course.

Basic structure

The Learning section is structured like a tree.

The Learning Index Page is the trunk, which branches off to multiple modules called Learning pages. Each learning page can be either a Lesson, an Assessment or an Assignment.

You determine what kind it is by the child pages (leaves) you create under them.

You can create:

1. Learning Session pages - For lessons

2. Question pages - For MCQ type questions and answers

3. Assignment pages - For long form assignments that will be reviewed.

Editing the Index Page

The blog index page is located in Learning. It contains some information about the learning module as well as a list of lessons.

You can edit the Learning page from the CMS by following the menu:

Pages -> Home -> Investigative Journalism

From here you can create and edit the various lessons and tests/assessments

You can also edit the information on the index page by clicking on the Edit button where you enter/edit the title, intro, instructor, audience, description and the featured image.

Lessons

[Bayo: Creating/removing/editing/ordering lessons]

Add Lesson Page

Step 1

From the Learning page on the CMS (reached by Pages -> Home -> Investigative Journalism) click on the Add Child Page button. This will take you to a form where you enter the details for the Learning Page.

These are the title, outline, body, duration (in hrs) and goals of the lesson.

Click on Publish to save your changes and make them available on the site.

Step 2

Hover your cursor over the newly created Lesson page until you see a popup menu with Add Child Page as one of the options.

Click on this menu item for it to open a page to select the kind of child page to add.

Select Learning Session Page then enter the title and the body for that learning session.

After saving the learning session, you can add new learning sessions to make up that particular lesson.

Remove Lesson

You can delete a lesson by hovering your cursor over it on the Investigative Journalism page until you see the popup menu appear with the option More following which you get to the Delete menu item.

Add Question & Answer Page

From the Learning page on the CMS (reached by Pages -> Home -> Investigative Journalism) click on the Add Child Page button. This will take you to a form where you enter the details for the Learning Page.

These are the title, outline, body, duration (in hrs) and goals of the lesson.

Click on Publish to save your changes and make them available on the site.

Step 2

Hover your cursor over the newly created Lesson page until you see a popup menu with Add Child Page as one of the options.

Click on this menu item for it to open a page to select the kind of child page to add.

Select Question Page then enter the following:

1. title
2. question
3. explanation - This will be shown when a user fails a particular question.
4. answers - Here you enter the list of possible answers the user is to choose from. There is a check button for you to specify the correct answer.

Enter all the question pages that make up that module.

Add Assignment Page

From the Learning page on the CMS (reached by Pages -> Home -> Investigative Journalism) click on the Add Child Page button. This will take you to a form where you enter the details for the Learning Page.

These are the title, outline, body, duration (in hrs) and goals of the lesson.

Click on Publish to save your changes and make them available on the site.

Step 2

Hover your cursor over the newly created Lesson page until you see a popup menu with Add Child Page as one of the options.

Click on this menu item for it to open a page to select the kind of child page to add.

Select Assignment Page then enter the following:

1. title
2. question
3. examiner - The examiner must have an account on the CMS with an email set. This email is used to notify the examiner when assignments are submitted.

There is usually just one Assignment page per module (that is learning page)

Order of modules.

The modules are have a default order (by time they were created), but you can change the order for modules from the Investigative Journalism page on the CMS.

Just click on the sort symbol beside title to get to the ordering set up, then you can drag each module up or down to change its order.

Exams

[Bayo: How to set a reviewer's email address. All things email]