editing stepstone production path - dsandeep97/BiologyAnimation GitHub Wiki

Before you email Daniel to add your apps into the production environment, you first need to edit the live StepStone paths that dictacte where your app is going to go on the slide.

  1. Go to the StepStone learning path editing website: https://stepstonelearning.net/
  2. Log in with whatever credentials match your project. The account portal for all modules is TAMU-NIH-1 Module Name Username Password Cell Biology Cells PEER1 Stress Stress PEER2 Ecology Ecology PEER3 Clinical Trials ClinicalTrials PEER4 Infectious Diseases InfectiousDiseases PEER5
  3. This is where things can get a bit confusing. Once logged in, you should by default be at the Path Builder Tool. For your module, this will contain all of the relevant paths that are used by the module in production. If you choose a path and click ‘Edit’, you will be shown all of the internal steps that the path contains. 19
  4. Each step, displayed as the blue boxes, is linked to its previous and next steps. To edit a specific step, click the step tab on the left of the page. This will display all of the relevant information (title, text contents, media, etc.) for that specific step. In StepStone, this will be one single slide in a path of the module. Use this feature of the tool to change anything you want about the step your app will go on, from text contents to background. The most likely occurrence will be that you want the slide to be completely empty because your mini-app SHOULD be completely independent and contain all information and interactions necessary on the slide. In that case, you might find it easier to simply delete the step from the path altogether and insert a new, completely empty step in its place.
  5. Once you have all of your steps edited for the current path and your changes saved (which should be required by the system whenever you switch steps), you need to publish the new path. Go back to the ‘Manage’ tab and click ‘Publish’ for the path 20 you’ve just edited. You will be asked for an ID for your new publication. Give it a unique ID, different from any of the IDs published for this path previously. If you try to name it a non-unique ID, the section will flash orange.
  6. With your path published, go to the Course Packager tool.
  7. In the list of courses, click on the module you’ve edited paths for, and click edit.
  8. In this course’s ‘Paths’ tab, find the path you made changes to, select its dropdown, and click ‘Choose’ to select a new path for the course. 21
  9. After selecting the ID of the path you published in Step 5, click the save button at the top of the page to apply this selection to production.
  10. Now, you should see whatever changes you’ve made appear in the live corresponding StepStone module. At this point, you can email Daniel Shuta and tell him that your app is ready to be applied. The general procedure for doing that is: a. Have your most recent app version uploaded to the apps folder on the FTP server. b. Tell Daniel where the app should go; we followed the format: (app directory name) : (path name in StepStone) : (step/slide title)