DaSL Course Templates

The purpose of this course template and guide is to make course publishing maintenance across multiple different platforms less painful.

This template and guide helps you:

• Edit and write a course in RMarkdown files and have it published to multiple different platforms:
  • Leanpub
  • Bookdown
  • Coursera
• Have Github action robots do your repetitive tasks like spell check and re-rendering.
• Use automagic conversion to ease the lift of prepping the material for different platforms' formats.
• Use our Docker image for consistency across authors as well as to help you avoid dependency hell.

Courses that have been made using this template:

• Documentation and Usability
• Leadership for Cancer Informatics Research

To Get Started

• Go to the Wiki page
• Please take a look at the code of conduct.
• If you encounter any problems or have ideas for improvements to this template repository or this getting started guide, please file an issue here! Your feedback is very much appreciated.

{Course Name}

This course was created from this GitHub template.

You can see the rendered course material here: {Link to rendered bookdown and/or to the Leanpub. Will look something like: https://jhudatascience.org/{Course_Name}}

If you would like to contribute to this course material, take a look at the getting started GitHub wiki pages.

About this course

This course introduces {info on what this course introduces}

Learning Objectives

This course will teach learners to:

• {You can use https://www.bobpikegroup.com/trainer-blog/5-steps-to-writing-clear-and-measurable-learning-objectives to define some learning objectives here}
• {More learning objectives}

Encountering problems?

If you are encountering any problems with this course, please file a GitHub issue or contact us at {Some email or web address with a contact form}.

All materials in this course are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License unless noted otherwise.