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What you need to know to make Scholar Creator work for you

When I was crafting my course announcement for Digital Scholar 2016, working in Scholar Creator threw me for a bit of a loop. As a result, I never got a handle on how to set up the visual layout and structure of my course announcement. This personal shortcoming was the most disappointing aspect of my project.

I may not have yet mastered all that is possible in Scholar Creator, but I have learned a lot between then and now, and hopefully I can save you a bit of frustration with a few helpful hints.

You will save a lot of time and frustration if you create a structure for your course announcement first. The structure of your announcement will most likely follow the course announcement rubrics, even though it doesn’t have to:

The title of the course
A call to learn – why learners should take the course
Practical information
Schedule and workload
Intended learning outcomes
Learning activities
Applicability
Scaffolding
Assessment
Credential of value and cost

Here is a great video to get you started on creating structure to your course announcement in Scholar Creator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkzMQiORkE

Finding where to access the structure of you project in Creator is a multi-step process.

First, click on “About this work ” as shown in the screenshot below:

One you have clicked on “About this work,” a set of new tabs will appear. Within these tabs, you will click on “Structure” as shown in the following screenshot

After clicking on “Structure,” The following screen will appear. Do you see the bar with “element heading” in light text? This is where you will type in the heading titles for the various sections of your work.

After you type in the name of these headers and click “Save,” your new structure header will appear at the bottom of the list of headers you have created.

If you create this section headers in the order they will appear in your document, you will be all set. But let’s say you forget one, or you need to add an additional one and it that to appear between two pre-existing headers. You may need to move your headers around.

To move structural headers around or to edit, there are small icons to the right of them that allow you to “Move,” “Edit,” and “Delete” as shown in the screenshot below.

Here’s a pro tip that might not be intuitive. To see these icons—YOU HAVE TO HOVER YOUR CURSOR ON TOP OF THE SECTION YOU WANT TO EDIT. That is the only way that these editing icons appear. It took me a long time to figure this out! You can see this in the screenshot below:

Once you hover over the sections, you can then click on the pencil icon to edit the title, or click on the red “x” to delete the header completely.

To move header sections you have to drag them to where you want them to be. You do this by hovering your cursor on the “move” icon (the four-sided arrow icon to the left of “edit” and “delete” buttons as show above), then pulling the section header—while holding down your left clicker—to the location you want it moved.

To insert content within these section headers, make sure you click on each header before working in the text box on the left. Otherwise, your content will not be in the correct order.

I hope this helps make working in Scholar Creator a little easier!