This file is README.org and is best viewed in org-mode in Emacs… go git clone, or read it online ;-)
This repository contains an example of how to manage some source files of teaching material, using org-mode in Emacs.
It uses org-reveal in addition to the standard LaTeX exporter.
The project sources are available in https://gitlab.com/olberger/org-teaching.
See its generated documentation at the Gitlab pages, either:
- as a slides deck,
- or a printable A4 PDF handbook variant of the above (including presenter notes),
- or a printable PDF handbook enhanced with remarks for the advanced users
These documentes serve as an example of its use, in addition of the frameworks’ documentation.
A more or less up to date snapshot may be found at
http://www-public.tem-tsp.eu/~berger_o/org-teaching/
Read the documentation first. See the contents of the provided HTML
and PDF files, or directly lesson.org under Emacs, equipped
with org-mode (org-mode should be there by default in recent Emacs
distributions).
These files represent the standard set of teaching materials in org-teaching, used for documenting the project, and as an example (note that these links may be best viewed in Emacs from a local clone of the Git repo, as Gitlab may not provide the best experience):
- slides in: ./slides.html (an additional variant is a regular HTML export in file:./lesson.html; another is “printed slides” in PDF)
- the handbook for the students: ./handbook.pdf
- the handbook for the teachers: ./teacher-handbook.pdf (this one has more details for this org-teaching documentation)
All these are generated from the corresponding .org files, which all
include the common lesson content from lesson.org. You may
prefer to read this file directly with Emacs.
The provided Makefile can be used to regenerate the documentation from its source, drinking its own champaign.
It uses the tools from the docker/ subdir for the Docker container powering the org-mode exporters (see docs at https://gitlab.com/olberger/docker-org-teaching-export/).
In order to use it, pay attention to the git submodules that need to be retrieved : elisp/org-reveal, reveal.js and docker/.
git submodule init
git submodule updateThe following features are provided:
A single org-mode source file contains the core of the lesson
including listings and/or executable bits managed with org-babel or
other classical org-mode features. In the provided example, this is
lesson.org.
This single file is meant for editing, and the rest of the files provide the framework for generating the different outputs described below.
We deliver the course by presenting a slides deck for each lesson,
using reveal.js. In the provided
example, this is slides.html.
Reveal.js displays slides as Web pages (using the Web browser in fullscreen mode) with a 2-dimensional structure of slides allowing the presentation of a main track of slides (horizontal ones), and additional slides (vertical ones), if need is, to dive into more details on a specific section of the lesson (typically for Q/A). Reveal.js also offers support for a “presentation mode” allowing the use of multiple displays so that the presenter can read additional notes. I’ve chose to “tune down” reveal.js to avoid fancy 3D animations, and stick to a more sober display, but YMMV.
The content of the presentation is also rendered as a handbook which
is provided to the students. It contains the same things as the slides
deck, including presenter notes, which are embedded in the
document. In the provided example, this is handbook.pdf.
This handbook is rendered with LaTeX as an “article” A4 PDF.
An additional document is produced which contains the same stuff as
the students handbook, but also embeds additional sections meant to be
read only by the teachers. In the provided example, this is
teacher-handbook.pdf.
- 2019/07 Update to docker-org-teaching-export 1.2
I’ve been teaching a course on Web architecture and applications (CSC4101) at Telecom SudParis and wanted to manage the sources for the different teaching materials using org-mode.
Org-mode allows me to save the sources of documents in a revision control system (typically Git), as it’s based on plain text.
It also allow the generation of different documents for different uses or audiances from a single source.
As I was teaching Web stuff, I also wanted to drink my own champagne using as much Web as I could (i.e. HTML).
This content is provided under the clauses of the MIT License, unless otherwise specified (in particular, copies of org-reveal and reveal.js are provided under their respective terms).
Copyright (c) 2016-2018 Olivier Berger and Institut Mines Telecom
[See also the LICENSE file].
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