Skip to Main Content

LibGuideLines

Your home for all LibGuide processes, policies, best practices, and support

Naming Course Guides

Use the following standardized method for naming Course Guides to ensure consistency and help users find information.

2 or 3 letter discipline code + space + 3 digit course number (with section number, if applicable, separated from the discipline code by a dash) + colon + space + brief title + parenthetical instructor name)

Example:

  • HIS 351: History of U.S. Healthcare (Campbell)
  • AAS 264/ENG 260: Introduction to Black Writers (Hemenway)
  • HIS 301-023: History of U.S. Healthcare (Carson) [example of course number with section number]
  • BIO 325 [example of general guide for many sections]

Do not include the date, semester, abbreviations, jargon, varying punctuation, or year in your title. Place the date in the description below the course information:

HIS 351: History of U.S. Healthcare (Goan)
Spring 2024

Remember to edit this each semester you use a given course guide  to reflect the current schedule. Please "unpublish" your course guides if it is not being used for the next semester. Remember to change the year & semester in your description!

Add your Course Guide to the Course Guides page

Assign your guide the "Course Guide" type so that it will appear on the Course Guides page.

Adding a Course Guide to your Subject Guide

  1. Create a page called "Course Guides"; please make it the last tab in your Research guide.
     
  2. Add a page for each course and make it a subpage of the Course Guides page; also place it onto the actual course guides page for those users who click the page tab rather than use the drop down. If you prefer one approach over the other, just use the one that works best for you. Name each course using the course dept. three-letter code, course number and section number, if needed, i.e., use the title of your course guide [e.g., ENG 290-003 (Clarke)]. Indicate you want it to appear as a subpage. You can add the course title in the 'Description' box. Then put the URL for your course guide in the 'Redirect URL' box.
     
  3. You should also add each course guide, with its link, to the actual Course Guides page (in case your user clicks on the tab name instead of looking at the sub-tab drop-down):

Unpublishing Course Guides

If your course guide is not being used or if the curse is not being offered during the current semester, please unpublish it. Check at the end of each semester to unpublish those guides you do not need the following semester.