Card Author Guide

Card Templates: General or Classroom 

In the card Edit screen, first choose which template you wish to use.

What's the difference?

Are you sharing content not related to classroom instruction?

• Choose the General template.

Are you sharing content for a class or course?

• Choose the Classroom template. 

About the Classroom template

A Classroom card adds these fields: 

• Time - Expected duration of your activity.
• Materials - What does someone doing your activity need?
• Course - Unpack the context and specifics of your content.
• Prerequisites - What should students know before doing this activity?

See the Classroom template in action with these published cards: 

• Card #3841: Interactive Class Demo and Bidding Game for Teaching Construction Estimating
• Card #3806: EM-Infused, Client-Centered Design in First-Year Engineering
• Card #3792: Graph Theory Introduction

Lastly, you can update your existing cards to the Classroom template.

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Card Title 

"The Journey to the Top: Board Game to Instill Entrepreneurial Mindset." 

"Building Solutions for Real Customers." 

"Flying Forces: Adding Lift to Statics."

Your title is one of your first opportunities to get people interested in your card. Be descriptive!

• Avoid using internal course names/designations. 
  
• Avoid single term titles such as "Statics."
  

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Featured Image

The image is another way to draw people into your card. Aim for a picture directly tied to your content. 

The Journey to the Top: Board Game to Instill Entrepreneurial Mindset

• Use rectangular photos that are wider than they are tall.
• Engineering Unleashed provides a selection of stock photos.
  

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Authors & Editors

You can have as many authors and editors on a card that you wish. 

All authors and editors on a card can:

• Edit the card.
• Submit the card for a review.
• Use the Author Notes for private chat.

The difference between an author and an editor is that editors will not be listed publicly on the card. 

Authors

1. When you first create a card, add yourself as the author.
2. Then add any other members you want to be listed publicly on the card.

Editors

• Add members to help you build or check over the card. 
• Editors will not be listed publicly on the card.

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Summary 

Describe your content in a brief statement. This will help others grasp the main point(s) quickly.

Examples:

• "Board game teaching entrepreneurial mindset to first year students."
• "Programming teams apply EM tools to develop educational software for clients."
• "Explore campus pain points via guided interviews, then delve deeper with a 'Pain Chain Reaction' activity to uncover cascading challenges and holistic solutions."

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Course (Classroom)

"Course" appears when you select the Classroom template at the top of your card.

Include tips and information specific to the activity, such as how to implement it and what it covers.

Design ideation through photo journaling

• Type directly in the box or paste from a text editor like Notepad.
  
• Use the Rich Text Editor to insert paragraph breaks, headers, and other formatting.
• Taking time to format to make your content easy to read.

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Time (Classroom)

"Time" appears when you select the Classroom template at the top of your card.

How much total time does your activity take?

Design ideation through photo journaling

• You can add more context around this in the Description field.

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Materials (Classroom)

"Materials" appears when you select the Classroom template at the top of your card.

List items that would help others implement your activity or replicate your concepts.

Design ideation through photo journaling

• Type directly in the box or paste from a text editor like Notepad.
  
• Use the Rich Text Editor to insert paragraph breaks, headers, and other formatting.
• Taking time to format makes your content easy to read.

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Prerequisites (Classroom)

"Prerequisites" appears when you select the Classroom template at the top of your card.

List courses that should be completed or knowledge/skillsets people should have before doing your activity.

Design ideation through photo journaling

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Description

How would someone else teach your activity, conduct your survey, or do your project? Provide a complete picture from start to finish. 

A Survey of EML Practices: Co-Op Employers

• Type directly in the box or paste from a text editor like Notepad.
  
• Use the Rich Text Editor to insert paragraph breaks, headers, and other formatting.
• Taking time to format makes your content easy to read.

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YouTube Link

Include a relevant YouTube video to play on your card! Paste the link into the field.

Here's an example of what it'll look like to viewers:

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Instructor Tips

List anything that would help others teach this activity or anticipate outcomes.

Organic Synthesis: When and Why

• Type directly in the box or paste from a text editor like Notepad.
  
• Use the Rich Text Editor to insert paragraph breaks, headers, and other formatting.
• Taking time to format makes your content easy to read.

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Learning Objectives

Use this box to list outcomes and objectives that someone using your content should be striving for.

Tracking Human Body Motion - Let's Get Moving!

• Type directly in the box or paste from a text editor like Notepad.
  
• Use the Rich Text Editor to insert paragraph breaks, headers, and other formatting.
• Taking time to format makes your content easy to read.

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Assessment

Add tools or forms of assessment you used to measure student learning.

Pain Chain Reaction (A Painstorming Exercise)

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Entrepreneurial Mindset

Which of the three Cs - Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value - best fit your card? 

Student Worksheets for Value-Driven Design

1. Ensure the Cs you select apply to your activity.
2. After you select a C, add supporting details in the expandable field below it.

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Complementary Skillsets

Select appropriate skillset aspects from Design, Opportunity, and Impact categories.

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Card Category

Choose up to two categories for your card. This helps frame it for others as they search.

What context(s) does your card fit into most? 

• Campus & Outreach. Your card may contain resources for faculty such as book clubs, implementation strategies on campus, or outreach to K-12 or industry.
• Classroom & Courses. Your card shares resources, activities, entire courses, and other examples of entrepreneurial mindset (EM) within the classroom context.
• Co-Curricular & Extra Curricular. Your card may contain shorter activities in a club setting, write-ups of student organizations, hackathon/design sprints, or EM speaker series.
  
• Engineering Unleashed Resources. These cards are general resources that connect to the community and mission.
• Examples include branding guides, card templates, and how-to guides for using Engineering Unleashed. 
• Professional Learning. Do you have tips, techniques, or examples of how faculty can grow professionally with EM?
• Cards in this category are focused on sharing faculty development approaches, professional development resources, or other items connected to faculty professional growth and development. 
• Workshops & Events. These cards are connected to events like the KEEN National Conference as well as techniques for how to showcase EM with a workshop or at an event. 

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Tags and Keywords

Tags supplement your card's other fields, plus can help people find your card in search.

Enter words and phrases that describe your content and approach, such as:

• active learning
  
• statics
  
• student engagement

• Tags have 'type-ahead." If the tag you're entering already exists in the system, it will appear for you to select.
• Tags are case-sensitive. For example, if "Getting Started" as typed already exists in the system, typing "getting started" in your card's Tag box will update to "Getting Started."
• You can delete your tags. Changed your mind about a tag, or misspelled one? Click the X next to the existing tag on your card to delete it.
• Tags and Disciplines work together. When you choose your Disciplines, you don't need to include the same keywords in your Tags. This is because both Disciplines and Tags are searchable items.

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Engineering Disciplines

Select up to 3 disciplines that best align with your content.

Or pick one of the following:

• All Engineering Disciplines. 
• Comprehensive: All engineering disciplines + all non-engineering disciplines. 

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References & Acknowledgments

Add citations, acknowledge colleagues, and link to reference materials.

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Folders

Upload or link to supporting materials in the folders. You can create as many folders as you like.   

CURIOSITY: What do we mean?

• Materials can include presentations, lesson plans, links to websites, student artifacts (names redacted), and short movie clips.
• Organize resources in separate folders depending on type. Here's an example: 
  

Year One! - Introducing EM to first year students

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Related Cards

Does your card align with or reference other cards already published? Add them to the Related Cards section. 

CURIOSITY: What do we mean?

You can add cards by. . .

• Title. Start typing the title and the system will find the card.
• Full URL, such as: https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2882
• Card ID. The number at the end of the card URL, such as "2882." This ID is also located under the image when viewing a card.

Just like with the Folders, you can organize sets of cards in separate Related Cards folders.

Note: Related Cards must be published, not draft cards. Are you building a card that will link to other related cards you are also building? You will need to publish those related cards before you add them to your main card.

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Related Groups

Does your card align with or reference a group on Engineering Unleashed? Add it in the Related Groups section.

• Start typing the name of a group and the system will bring up all possible selections. 

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Change Log

Click the Change Log to see when your card was created, published, and updated, and by whom.

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