Categorizing Links into Different Categories

[ConsenSys-Academy]

Creating more descriptive groups for links provided in sections

[dlsso]

Note: specifically intended to categorize links to help students decide where to invest their time, since it appears doing all "additional materials" links would be well over 40 hours per week.

In my mind I've been dividing them into

• Rehash of core material
• Expands on core material
• Bonus (non-essential or tangentially related, and like anonymity)

If instructors could categorize by priority that would be another extremely helpful way to organize them though. Maybe something like:

• Highly recommended
• Recommended if you have time
• Just for fun/enrichment

[ConsenSys-Academy]

@dlsso These are great points. Any reason why we wouldn't use your first series of categories?

In my mind I've been dividing them into

Rehash of core material
Expands on core material
Bonus (non-essential or tangentially related, and like anonymity)

[dlsso]

Those tell you what pretty well, but for the purposes of deciding where to invest time, knowing what the course authors think is important would be very helpful as well.

I would say just start with whatever is easiest though. In chapter 1 alone there are well over 100 external links, and total time on those looks like it could be a couple hundred hours. So anything that helps filter them at all would be extremely valuable.

[ConsenSys-Academy]

@dlsso Anything you might be able to help with? We won't be able to start this in earnest until end of the cohort but seems like you may have already done some of this work, even if you haven't written it down

[dlsso]

Yeah I haven't tracked them. Doing so in a helpful way would be a little tricky. Maybe a PR with code comments?