Template for courses and workshops

Chi Zhang

2022-12-19

This template make it quick and easy to create a Quarto website for your courses and workshops.

By default, sidebar navigation is used here. This is particularly handy when the courses are organized by week or topics. If the user prefers, it is also convenient to edit _quarto.yml to switch to top navigation.

website:
  title: "Workshop Title"
  navbar:
    left:
      - href: index.qmd
        text: Home
      - href: about.qmd
        text: About
    right:
      - icon: github
        href: https://github.com
  sidebar:
    style: "docked"
    search: true
    contents:
      - part_1_prep.qmd
      - part_2_eda.qmd
  page-navigation: true

Website structure

This template has provided some useful content for users to get started:

Home page with basic information for the course/workshop, along with a tabular schedule
One example page without executable code
One example page with executable code (where a folder with example dataset is provided for illustration)
About page

Authoring and computation

Authoring with qmd is straightforward, especially for users with R markdown experience. To learn more about authoring and computation you can check here.