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Learning Lab helps people build real world skills through hands-on activities. This course streamlines the course building process, and gives you all the tools you need to help others learn.
If you'd like to get started in building courses for others, this is the course for you!
What you'll learn
This course will answer questions like:
- How does a Learning Lab course work?
- What are GitHub events?
- What's a step?
- How do I write responses?
- What topic is a good candidate for a Learning Lab course?
- How do I give a learner feedback?
- How do I list a course in the catalog and publish it?
After taking this course, you'll be able to:
- Design a course using your chosen topic
- Create your course on GitHub Learning Lab
- Break down your topic into smaller steps for GitHub
- Create a template repository
What you'll build
For this course, the best reference point is any other completed Learning Lab course! Take a look at the source code for all our courses. Feel free to dive into the config.yml file for each course and explore!
Prerequisites
We recommend you first complete the following courses:
- Introduction to GitHub to learn how to use GitHub and pull requests to edit files.
- Communicating using Markdown to learn Markdown, which is used to create response files and throughout the course creation process.
- Getting started with GitHub Apps for understanding webhooks, events, and the basics of the GitHub API.
Projects used
This course uses all original content, we didn't use any open source projects to create it.
Audience
Developers, teachers, and team leads.
Steps to complete this course 15
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Choose a topic for your course
Choose what you'd like to teach through Learning Lab, or borrow one of our suggestions for practice.
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Break your course into smaller steps
Break down what you'd like to teach into smaller learning objectives.
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Merge your learning objectives
Merge the pull request breaking down your course topic into smaller learning objectives.
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Reference the template
Edit the config file to reference your chosen template repository.
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Map learning objectives to events
Map the learning objectives you wrote to specific events from GitHub webhooks.
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Create an outline of learning objectives as events
Using the same strategy of mapping learning objectives to events, create an outline of events for your course.
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Choose the example that shows the three phases
Apply a label that corresponds to the example showing the three phases of a step.
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Create the first response
Write the first response, phase 1, for the first step of your course.
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Write the first Learning Lab action
Write the first Learning Lab action for a response into your course's configuration file.
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Write a gate
Write a gate to check the user's first step
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Write feedback for the learner
Write feedback into the feedback response for the learner to let them know they've done it right.
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Write the config logic
Write the config logic for both responses to the learner in their first step.
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Create course metadata
Add the course metadata like title and description to the configuration file.
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Import the course
Import this repository as a course on GitHub Learning Lab.
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Close the issue
To signal that you've tested your course, close this issue.
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Average time to complete
44 minutes
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All public courses on Learning Lab are free.
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What is GitHub Learning Lab?
Learn new skills by completing fun, realistic projects in your very own GitHub repository.