Quickstart guide/pedagogical templates

=Introduction=

Pedagogical templates are used when authoring teaching content in WikiEducator. A number of templates are predesigned to save you time with more complex layouts required of instructional materials. They include a range of "instructional devices" (iDevices) or subelements of a content page and are usually signified by an icon. For example:

To understand Pedagogical templates see the Pedagogical Template tutorial

Wiki syntax for iDevice templates
A template is called using a predefined label and the text for your iDevice separated by " | " and all enclosed between two " " braces. For example, the following syntax will be used for a Self-assessment question:



. The example above will render as follows:

When an iDevice directly follows a section
The default margins of the iDevice templates are being changed as of January 2, 2008 so that the templates are easier to work with. For most cases all that will be necessary is a carriage return before and after the template for the spacing to look reasonable. However, if you have a template directly after a section heading (see below) you will need to add a    after the section heading instead of a carriage return or modifiy the TopMargin by adding |TopMargin=10px inside the call to the iDevice template so that the spacing looks reasonable.

In the example below we create an Objectives template directly after a section heading using,

====A Template Follows This Section====

which looks like:

Templates available
The table below lists the templates and corresponding syntax which you can use on WikiEducator.

Click [[Media:Pedagogical_Template.pdf|here]] to download a Pedagogical Template Cheatsheet


 * A place to Practice Templates


 * Future Templates


 * Free icons