Initial Publication Date: May 26, 2015

How to organize or create a list of Steps for a new Unit Page

After submitting a new unit and any needed supporting steps you'll need to link the two together. When your Unit is first created it will include an automatically generated 'pageset' tag that appears under the 'Steps' heading of the unit page. You'll populate this PageSet with a series of steps (which can include both those you've submitted, as well as others that exist in the collection) in a particular order. After populating the PageSet the unit page will automatically generate links to these pages and build navigation between them so students can be pointed to the first page in the set and move through in the order you've indicated.

To populate the PageSet first visit and edit the Unit page which you can do from your account page. After clicking the edit link there will be a button in the sidebar to enter the 'Full Editing Tools'. This will put you into an editing mode with additional options. In particular you'll see there is now a 'Page Set' option in the green right sidebar. Expand this option and click the 'Edit' link next to the name of the PageSet that has already been created for this Unit.

This will put you into the PageSet editing interface. You'll be able click on existing steps (on the right) to add them into your PageSet (on the left). Instructions within that page cover adding/removing and reordering items within your PageSet. Be sure to hit 'Save' before you leave the page. Then contact project leadership about making your new Unit and it's supporting PageSet live.

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The feature you'll use to create ordered sets of pages for the Unit pages is a feature we are calling "Page Sets". It is essentially an ordered collection of pages that are linked together with the navigation menu on the left and the next/previous links at the bottom of each page. An example page set already exists in the Steps module and is used at the bottom of the Streamflowunit page.

To create a new a new page set, start by navigating to the "Steps" module through the Sites/Projects page or the link below.

http://serc.carleton.edu/admin/dynamic_pages/module_pages.php?module_pages_id=2457

At the bottom of the module page list under "Create a new page", select the "Page Sets" box and click create. Give it a useful title, similar to the unit activity it will be used on. Then click on the pages to add them to the textarea on the left. The order you add the pages them will be the initial order in the page set. You can change/update the title later if needed as well as all of the pages you add.

Once you hit submit, it will create a new page set for you. Take note of the id number it mentions in the the message at the top because that is the number you can then use with the

tag at the bottom of a unit page to enumerate the step pages in the order you just created. That tag can be used multiple times on any page.

To edit a page set you must go back to the Steps module and right under the create a new page set link there will be a list of all the page sets you created in this module (not all the page sets you have created overall). They live within a module for editing purposes, but the

tag can be used in any other module (like the Units module). The edit interface is drag and drop style, so you can click and drag the items to rearrange their order. To delete a page, right click on an item and there will be an option to delete one. New pages/steps can be added from the list at the right or by manually providing a url at the bottom.

While you can safely start using this feature now, it is still in development and more instructions/features will be added over time. Let me know if you have any problems, questions, or requests.

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