Slate Scholar Classroom lets you build courses or tutorials in Slate that can be used for group or self-guided training.

Each course is made up of lessons that can take the user to a specific page in Slate and display content that describes that page or guides them through a task there.

Accessing Slate Scholar Classroom

Select the Slate Scholar icon from the dashboard on any Slate page.

Navigating Slate Scholar Classroom content

Select a course from the list, and then select the first lesson. Move through the lessons using the lesson list or the forward/back blue arrows.

The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow or Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow may also be used.

To exit Classroom, unselect the lesson or the course and select the Lightbulb icon.

If the lesson or course is not unselected, Classroom will continue to display when navigating to another page.

Creating a new course

To create a new Slate Scholar Classroom course:

1. Select the New Course icon.

2. Configure the following settings:

   • Status: Only Active courses will display in Classroom.

   • Title: The title will display in the course selection drop-down, so it should be descriptive, but not more than approximately 50 characters.

   • Description: Used internally only.

   • Course Introduction: Formatted text and links that will appear at the top of the course information for every lesson. May be useful as a description of overall goals, or links to resources that will be used throughout. The description is often left blank.

3. Select Save.

Creating a new lesson

To create a new lesson:

1. Select the New Lesson icon.

2. Configure the following settings:

   • Status: Only Active lessons will display in the selected course.

   • Course: Select the course to which the lesson belongs.

   • Title: The title will display in the course selection drop-down, so it should be descriptive, but not more than approximately 50 characters.

   • Order: An Integer (1, 2, 3...) to indicate where in the course the lesson should appear.

   • Target Page: The Slate page (e.g. /manage/deliver) to display when the lesson begins. If the target page is blank, the lesson will display new content but remain on the current page. Leave blank if the lesson continues from the current page.

   • Lesson Content: Formatted text and links that will appear for this lesson.

3. Select Save.

✨ Tip: Use the WYSIWYG editor or the Source to add HTML content, including tables, styles, images, and GIFs.

Editing existing course or lesson content

Select the desired course and lesson.

To edit a course, select the icon.

To edit a lesson, select the icon.

To add a new lesson to the selected course, select the icon.

Create Slate Scholar Custom Content

You can create custom content for a specific page that appears in Slate Scholar when the user opens Slate Scholar on that page.

In the following example, we add help content that appears in Slate Scholar only on the page /manage/reader:

To add Slate Scholar Custom Content to a given page (in this case, /manage/reader):

1. Go to a Slate page.

2. Select Slate Scholar.

3. Copy the help tag you want to apply the content to.

   • The help tag is the URL slug for the Slate page, in this example: /manage/reader.

   • Custom content cannot currently be associated with a folder-specific tag, such as /manage/query/-folder-Daily Visit Queries.

4. Go to Database → Slate Scholar Custom Content.

5. Select Insert.

6. Enter the following configurations in the dialog box:

   • Status: Active

   • Help Tag: Paste the tag that was copied in Step 3.

   • Title: Give the article a name

   • Body: This is where the article contents will be generated

7. Select Save.

Video will only display in Slate Scholar Classroom and not in Slate Scholar Custom Content.