Guidelines

This short guide should help you both as an author or as a reviewer. It presents a technical overview on how modular training materials can be created and are meant to be organized. You can use this as a reference while you prepare for the submission of modules to EVITA project or as a reviewer for evaluating a module.

Author Guidelines

Reference

Learning outcomes

This material is for potential authors who are about to create or update modules for contribution to the EVITA project.

By the end of this module, learners should be able to:

  • construct new modules in the format recommended by EVITA

  • revise existing modules

See also

Credit

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Note

To module authors: For code you may use any OSI-approved license as mentioned in https://spdx.org/licenses/, such as Apache License 2.0, GNU GPLv3, MIT. Please make sure to update the deed above and LICENSE.code file accordingly.