Settings

The settings dialog allows you to adjust various parameters of the current page:

• Don't Release Page Until All Prerequisite Pages are Completed - Select this option if you would like the page to appear/be accessible only after previously 'Required' pages have been completed/accessed. You can use this on both subpages and top-level pages (pages that appear in the left margin). If you use it on a subpage, the student won't be able to click on the page until all prerequisites have been completed. If you use it on a top-level page, the student will be ablet to click on the page in the left margin, but will get a message listing the pages that have to be completed first.
• Require this page - This page must be completed before the student can access later pages.
• Custom CSS File - This permits you to supply a style sheet to be used with the page. This can be used to change fonts, add backgrounds, and make other style adjustments. Because preparing style sheets can be difficult, your system administrator may choose to prepare style sheets for you. If they have done so, the menu will show a list of system-wide style sheets. You may also upload your own. They will be available for any page in the site. If you name the file default.css, it will be the default for your site, i.e. it will be used for any page that doesn't specify a style sheet. Your system administrator may supply a system-wide default. It will be used for any page that doesn't specify a style sheet if you don't have you own default.

The following options only appear on top-level pages, i.e. pages that show in the left margin:

Hide this page from users. - Use this when you're not ready for students to see the page yet. It will not appear in the left margin.

Hide this page until the following date - Use this when you want a page to become available at a certain date or time. Note that the page will show in the left margin before then, but won't be usable. (There is no way to specify release dates for items in the left margin.)

More information about style sheets

If you are writing a style sheet, you may find it useful to know some classes that you may use, and the sections of the page that they control:

• You can of course use body to change things like fonts and sizes for everything. However they may also affect buttons and other functional objects, so you may prefer to use classes for more specific things. Here are the major class you might want to change in your stylesheet: item-icon: This is for the icons that show on resources. The only thing useful I can think of is setting display:none is you don't want icons in your site. You may, of course, use body for any changes that should apply to the whole page.
  • breadcrumbs: the section with links to the page above, used in subpages and other items
  • title: the main page title
  • mainlist: the table containing the primary content. (Do not rely on this being a table. It could become a list in a later version.)
  • itemlink: the <a> for resources, etc.
  • itemtext: the text inside the <a>
  • itemdescription: the description field added by the author
  • textbox: the text inside a text block inserted by "add text"
  • commentsDiv: the whole section with student comments
  • commentDiv: a single student comment
  • author: the author's name in a student comment
  • specialCommenter: the author's name if the current user is the author
  • commentBody: the text of a student comment
  • studentDiv: the whole section for student pages
  • studentTitle: the heading "Student Pages"
  • studentLink: the <a> for an individal student page

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