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Library Guides Life Cycle: Creating a Guide

The Getting Started LibGuide redirects here

Have You Received Approval to Make a New Library Guide?

Do not start creating a new Library Guide until you have received approval to do so.

See the previous tab Guide? Topic Page? Box? for the approval process.

Course Structures, Subject Outlines and Resources

Our Templates

 To use the templates, you will need to be logged into LibGuides

Creating a Guide From the Templates

In LibApps

Go to      Content   > Guides  click + Create Guide above the list of all guides.

OR >  Home  and scroll down to the LibGuides Shortcuts box, then click Create Guide.

1 - Choose reuse

Use the Copy content/layout from an existing guide option - Choose Local Guides and click in the "Select a guide" box > type "Template - subject guide blank". Select the guide from the search results. Leave 'copy assets' unticked.

2 - Guide Name - please use the naming conventions as per the Standards and Guidelines guide. This will be updated before the guide is published. 

3 - Guide Description - leave this blank

4 - Guide Group - Please select SkillsPoint Subject Guides from the Group options. This will ensure that your new guide has all the font and colour aspects required for a Library Subject Guide

Guide description box

5 - Guide Type –  please select the Internal guide option for now. The guide type will be changed before publication.

6 - Create Guide - click the button - your new guide displays.

NB. It is recommended that you use Chrome for editing your LibGuide

Blank template

Follow the steps as shown in the Subject Guides tab

At step 1, select 'Template - Higher Education Blank' OR 'Template - Higher Education Blank Lite'

At step 6, select 'Higher Education Guides' group from the group options. This will ensure that your guide will have the purple banner, fonts and settings required for a Higher Education guide.

Group assignment selection Higher Education

 

There are two versions of the Higher Education template:

  • The Template - Higher Education Blank is used when you have unit readings ranging over course years –  eg   Year 1, Year 2, etc tabs
  • The Template - Higher Education Blank Lite Lite is for shorter courses that don’t have as many readings or are arranged as topics that may not be tackled in a particular order.

Lite template examples:  Graduate Certificate in Leadership and the Diploma of Adult Education for limited readings and the Diploma of Sustainable Practice which only uses topics.

Optional vs Conditional

You will notice that the Higher Education Template uses 'conditional' whilst the VET template uses 'optional'.

Optional - the guide editor can choose whether the option is useful or appropriate for their guide

Conditional - this is determined during the conversation with Susan Mansley (see above). The context of the Higher Education course will determine what tabs are used or not used.

Follow the steps as shown in the Subject Guides tab.

At step 1 - Do not select a guide as a template

At step 5 - Select General Guide