Demo of Author View for Queens Faculty
This chapter demonstrates basic features used in authoring. It also illustrates the ease of using the editing interface. This chapter is for demonstration purposes for Queens University of Charlotte faculty.
Heading 2 Default Appearance
This is a sample paragraph. Its primary purposes are to illustrate text entry from the author's view and appearance from the reader's view. Heading 1 is used for the chapter's title. Headings beginning with Heading 2 are available in the Formats dropdown box.
Heading 3 Default Appearance
This is a sample paragraph. Its primary purposes are to illustrate text entry from the author's view and appearance from the reader's view. Heading 1 is already being used for the chapter's title. Headings are available in the Formats dropdown box.
Heading 3 There's actually content here!
Headings show your chapter's structure to diverse learners in multiple ways. For example, you can enable navigation to section headings within the chapter once you've applied heading styles. I enabled that navigation and you can see an icon with "Jump to" options at the very top of this chapter. Navigation settings are available below the editor.
We can insert images. First, we need to upload them to the book's media library. Then we can insert them into a chapter. Or we can insert the URL of an image we found online. Don't worry if some of the formatting you apply doesn't appear quite as you expected when you're using the WYSIWYG editor. Click Save chapter and then take a look. For example, when editing, the horse below doesn't appear centered even though I choose "centered" as the Class. But it will appear centered when I exit editing mode.
Important Features
Blocks
Blocks are another great feature you can access from the Formats dropdown box. Most of this chapter uses the Paragraph block. The italicized text at the top in the reader view illustrates the "Abstract" block. The end of this chapter shows use of the References block with hanging indentation.
It is easy to end up with more than one block style applied to some text. Go back to Formats --> Headings and look closely for the gray bars to see if that happened when you are puzzled by the appearance of a chunk of text.
Time to Get Interactive!
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- easy
- hard
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Quizzes
It is super easy to insert quizzes as reading checks and checks of understanding. Go to Tools and choose Practice Quiz. You'll put in 2 choices in the pop up and then you can enter more choices once you return to the WYSIWYG editor. Bold the correct choice. Here's an example:
What is heading 1 used for?
- The book title
- The chapter title
- The section level within the chapter
- A subsection of a section within a chapter
Free Response Questions
Styling
There are some preset callouts that you can use to call attention to things like learning objectives, exercises, good and bad things, and just plain information. From Tools, choose Callout Div. Then if you type a specific word as the Additional class, it will apply a particular color. This is a quick way to create visual consistency across your chapters. The specific words are listed in the User Guide. Here's an example of the "info" additional class:
Tips
One of the things you might notice here is that white space is really important. It got very cluttered and hard to see what the purpose of the different items are as a reader. Effective use of heading styles and color can also help. I will provide guidance and resources on things like visual aesthetics, managing a large project like writing a textbook, and how to apply principles of multimedia learning to help you create materials that will support our students at Queens.
References
This illustrates use of the Reference block, which applies hanging indentation. Blocks are accessed from the Formats dropdown box.
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