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What an automatically generated course list looks like
Some program pages display a course list that is generated automatically from the SIS. These look like this (this example copied from the BCom Entrepreneurial Management):
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If you edit a program page where there is an automatic course list, you'll see this if you expand the 'Courses' section of the webpage while in edit mode: (for Cecilia: https://www.royalroads.ca/node/1162/edit)
Other programs
What a custom course list looks like
But because some programs feel that this doesn't provide adequate information to the reader, they have chosen to display "custom course lists" instead. Here's an example of a custom course list (from the BBA program):
If a program is using a custom course list, the "automatic update connection" is effectively broken and any updates must be completed manually by staff in the program who have permissions permission to edit website content.
If you edit a page where there is a custom course list, you'll see something like this:
How to build a custom course listing:
Go to the your program page and click on "edit"
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You can click on "Add Text block" if you wish to add some descriptive text to explain what courses the reader will be viewing. Here's a sample:
Here's what the first text block looks like when you are editing:
And here's what that will those two text blocks look like when it's published:
somewhere you can add text to explain the courses being listed. Some examples:
- Heading: Options for entry. Text: You can choose to start in Year 1 by doing the Year 1/2 - Common Foundations option OR If you have already completed the first two years at another institution you can start at Year ¾ - Degree completion option.
- Courses listed below may be offered in multiple ways (i.e., online or on-campus); however, students in the BA or BSc in Environmental Practice Degree Completion program can only take the online version.
- For order and dates of courses, please see the program schedule on the Overview tab.
For Custom Course Listing you add a title (e.g., Year 1 and 2 – Common Foundations; Required Courses; Elective Courses, etc.), you can add a description if you need to (e.g., you need to choose two of the following courses, etc.), and then you link the courses. See screenshot of sample:the page is published (you can see the whole page here):
You can delete or duplicate a text block or custom course listing by clicking on the ellipsis and choosing which you want to do.
You can order these text blocks and custom course listings however you want by changing the order.
You can delete or duplicate a text block or custom course listing by going to the ellipsis next to the collapse button and clicking on what you want to do.
To delete a course that you have added, you have to:
- Make sure the course is at the end of your list as you can’t have an empty listing in the middle of your listing – to do that just change the order of your courses and make the one you wish to remove the end number of your list
- Save the changes
- Go back to edit and now that the course is at the end of the listing you can just highlight the text and delete it
- Save changes
To add a course select “add another item” in the course list and it opens up another box to link courses. Currently, you have to find the course by title – start typing the title and it will bring up your options. Unfortunately, if the course you are searching for shares the same title as a course in another program it can be a matter of hunting for it. For example, Thesis. There are many programs with a course called Thesis. You need to select it, save it, go to view and see if the course you selected is correct. If not repeat process.
NOTE: Hopefully we will have this changed by YP soon – we have asked that the selection of courses be changed from title to course number.moving the components around using the handles on the left.
To add a new course to the listing
To add a new course to the list, click 'Add another item':
... then start typing the course name. When you see the course you want, select it from the list of suggestions.
As of Nov 9, there is a slight challenge with finding a course that has a name similar to other courses. A good example is "Thesis". If you start typing "Thesis", you'll see a drop-down list of many different suggestions, like this:
Currently, your only option is to select one of them, save the page, then view the page to see if you've got the right thesis. If not, go back into edit mode, remove that course name, type "thesis" again to get new search results, then pick the next one in line, save the page, view the page... repeat this process as necessary.
We have requested that the results list show the course number so that you don't have to hunt around, but until that's changed, it will be necessary to use this workaround.
To delete a course from the listing
When you have added a Custom Course Listing component and are entering courses, your screen will look like this:
You are not permitted to have a blank space in the middle of your course list so if you want to delete - for example - the course that is 2nd in the list, you must first move it to the very bottom of the list. You ARE permitted to delete the text from the very bottom course.
- using the handle, move it all the way to the bottom of the list
- save the page
- edit again
- expand the component that contains the course you wish to delete
- scroll to the bottom (where you moved the course to be deleted)
- highlight the text (the name of the course) and delete it