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Well-structured Overview
In this section some nice examples for ther overview of your book are covered. You might not judge a book by its cover but perhaps by its introduction:)
One thing students love is having all practical information about a course collected and updated on one page.
No more scrolling through the introduction lecture on Brightspace while veryfing assessment methods on the online studyguide or finding out about the schedule on MyTimetable.
The crossover module Data Science and Artifical Intelligence for Engineers, or in short DSAIE, aims to teach powerful data science tools to 2nd master students from the Civil Engineering and Geosciences faculty. In order to do that they use a combination of practical projects and theory provided to the students through their online interactive book. Let's have a look at it.
Logistics
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DSAIE Overview Page
While the left menu shows the first two chapters of the table of contents, the right hand side menu shows the contents of the current page which in this case is called Home where an introduction is given on the different units of the course, the responsible lecturers and the schedule. Additionally the book layout is explained to the students which can help clarify hot to use the interactive sections.
Tagged content
Clicking on Assessment in the contents menu will bring you to the corresponding paragrapgh.
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DSAIE Assessment methods + Tags
Logically, the assessment of the course are explained in a concise manner. Additionally, the lecturers have introduced some tags such as written-exam and group-assignment. Likewise, the reading material is also tagged with different sources so that student sknow where they can find more information.
Throughout the book, those tags might be used as follows:
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Additional reading reference
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{bdg-primary}`my_new_tag`
These badges as they are called are provided by the spinx-design extension. Different colours can be found through a bit of research online or here as a starting point.