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The Final Report for the Subject Guides Review Working Group is available on the staff site.

My Account

Your My Account page is your personal portal into the Guides system and your public user profile (https://guides.lib.unb.ca/profile/jcarter1)

Logins require valid UNB credentials and an active Guides Builder account. Click "Login" in the footer of any page. Contact Jeff Carter to have accounts created.

From here, you can edit and determine which information to display in the sidebar of your guides and what information to have on your profile page.

Users will always be able to see your published guides listed, but when logged in you will also be able to see and navigate to your unpublished content.

This is also where you go to create new Guides with the red "Create a new Guide" button.

  Create a new Guide

ALL Guides Builders are authors and editors.

That status relates to each particular guide you are associated with, i.e. you can be an author on one guide, an editor on another and have no status on yet another.

Authors

When you create a new guide, you become its Author (or owner). There can be ONLY one author per guide.

Only Authors can:

• delete a guide - if you are a guide's author you will see an admin function for Delete
• reassign authorship - when editing Authors will see a special author section at the bottom. Here you can reassign your guide and rights to any other Guide Builder.

Editors

All Authors are also editors of a guide. There is no limit to the number of editors on a guide.

After the initial saving of your guide, you will also be listed as an editor. This allows you to order the editors in the sidebar.

Editors can:

• add, remove or hide additional guide editors, including yourself
• create and edit all tabs/sections
• publish/unpublish guides
• link courses for a guide

Public Access

All published guides are publicly accessible. Although there is a mechanism under Guide Metadata to suppress a guide from public listings, they will always appear on your Profile page.

Unpublished guides are only visible to their authors and editors.

When logged in, Guides Builders will only have admin function access to guides they author or have been assigned as an editor.

Journal Collections

To create a new Guides go to your profile page and click the   Create a new Guide button at the bottom.

Your new guide will open immediately and you will be required to complete the Guide Metadata section. On subsequent visits to your guide, this section is collapsed.

Guide Metadata

• Title - this can be of your choosing even for course-level guides, but should fit within our current standards and best practices
• Category - this will determine which category page you guide appears on under Detailed Guides, e.g. History. You can select only ONE category. There is a Miscellaneous category for guides which do fit within our primarily faculty/discipline driven categories.
• Related Categories - you can also assign your guide to multiple categories under the Related Guides section, e.g. Business. Be respectful to the primary editors in each category. We suggest you consult them first before pushing your guide out. This section is optional.
• Campus - this should be set in most all cases to the campus at which the primary author works. In special cases, e.g. The NCLEX, both campuses may be indicated. Setting a campus does not prevent any user from seeing or accessing the guide. It is used primarily for D2L linking and browse list filtering.
• Hide this guide on "All" list - this option allows you to suppress the listing of this guide on any browse or listing pages. As long as the guide is published, it will still be accessible and listed on your profile page.

Metadata for Course Guides

Above is the is the default guide metadata at any level. Course metadata is used for setting the guide as a specific course guide, i.e. HIST 2243 or adding extended D2L linking. This is managed separately through the Course Linking tab.

Guide Types & Status

Subject Guides - Primarily our system is used to deliver subject guides, aligned to a large degree with the faculties and disciplines across the two campuses. We currently have 40 subject/category/disciplines into which we group these guides. All are listed here: https://lib.unb.ca/. You must choose a category for you guide when you create it.

Topical or Non-Discipline Specific Guides - we have a large number of guides which fall outside of discipline-specific categorization. They are still considered subject-level guides. Examples include Mobile Resources for Academics, STU at HIL, Zotero, Archives and Special Collections, Government Documents, Agriculture, etc. These guides will all be part of the Miscellaneous category, but should be added to various category pages as Related Guides to increase their use.

Course Guides - these are guides intended to represent a single course per campus, i.e. HIST*2432. You may further extend the granularity to include year, term and section, if required. Links in D2L will mirror the level of granularity set here.

Status Indicator

When logged in, a line of text in a blue box will appear just following the editor tabs informing you of the current guide's status.

Visual output for guide types is based on guide metadata AND link courses settings. You will see one of four guide types:

• guide will appear on the linked category page for History under the Detailed Guides listings

• guide will appear on the linked category page for History under the Detailed Guides listings
• each faculty with its own course calendar prefix will have a default guide for each campus used to match linking from D2L when no course guide exists

• guide will appear on the linked category page for History under the Detailed Guides listings
• has also been identified as a sub-discipline, e.g. History, Canadian. It can be configured to match a set of courses in D2L related to that sub-discipline
• configuring D2L matching is done via the Link Courses tab

• this guide is intended to be a course-level guide matching one specific calendar course on a campus
• it will appear on the linked category page for History under the Course Guides listings
• course guide configuration is done via the Link Courses tab

The guide will also indicate published/unpublished depending on its state.

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