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Essential Content for Teaching with LibGuides

Helpful boxes to include in many IUB LibGuides.

Welcome to the Essential Content for Teaching

Introducing the Essential Content for Teaching with LibGuides

This LibGuide is a template guide for you to use when creating LibGuides. Its recommended that you first browse through this guide in the preview mode to get a sense of what the pages and boxes look like to an end user. After that, you are free to use in any of your guides. It is especially helpful for Course Guides because the pages correspond to a number of the steps involved in writing a research paper.

Using the essential content

You can use any of this content in a variety of ways. If you like the content "As Is" you can Map Boxes directly into your LibGuide. If you'd prefer to customize the content in any way then you can Make a Copy of the content into your LibGuide. The two key differences are that

  1. Mapped Boxes automatically update whenever the original content in this guide gets updated; copied boxes do not
  2. Copied boxes are fully editable; mapped boxes are not.

As an example, the box below this one is a Mapped Box from the LibGuides Guide

How to reuse content

Map boxes

Mapped boxes allow you to change the content in a box as it appears in multiple different places. If you change the content in a mapped box in its original place, that content will change across all of the places its mapped to. This is useful if you have multiple Course Guides with similar content.

To add a mapped box to your LibGuide:

  1. Click Add Box - Column 1
  2. Move to the Reuse Existing Box tab
  3. Search for the guide the original content is on
  4. Select box you'd like to map into the guide you're working on
  5. Change box name for this instance, if appropriate

Screen shot of the Reuse Existing Box window

Copy boxes

Copying boxes allows you to use the box as a template but change the content to be more relevant to its new context without changing the content in the original box. The steps for copying an existing box is nearly identical to mapping a box, but it has one extra step. You'll need to scroll down in the Reuse Existing Content tab down and click the box that says "Copy"