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ABC School Demo

Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School is an open-source education platform for cooperatively evolving and democratizing tools and techniques that empower communities to imagine and build equitable and sustainable futures through design. The platform provides a space for sharing, testing, and evolving innovative approaches to

• announcements for relavent news and events,
• syllabus for structured educational content,
• contributor pages for connecting,
• and a tool foundry for specific opens source technology development.

Just the Class is a template that extends the popular Just the Docs theme, which provides a robust and thoroughly-tested foundation for your website. Just the Docs include features such as:

• automatic navigation structure,
• instant, full-text search and page indexing,
• and a set of UI components and authoring utilities.

Getting Started

Getting started with ABC School is simple.

Get invovled the ABC School Platform community

1. Create an account on Github
2. Read our community guidelines.
3. Review existing feature requests or outstanding issues and consider contributing to them.

Bug reporting and fixing

New Content and Enhancement

Proposing Edits to Existing Content

Submitting New Case Studies

1. Download the markdown templates for case studies
2. Open .md file in a recommended markdown editor and edit the text.
3. Review formatting and community guidelines before submitting.
4. Submit a pull request to add your file to the appropriate folder.
5. If your pull request is accepted, download and submit a community contributor template and submit.

Submitting New Courses

Submitting New Exercises

Submitting New Assignments

Cloning the ABC School Curriculum

1. Create a new repository based on Just the Class.
2. Update _config.yml and README.md with your course information. Be sure to update the url and baseurl.
3. Configure a publishing source for GitHub Pages. Your course website is now live!
4. Edit and create .md Markdown files to add more content pages.

Local development environment

Just the Class requires no special Jekyll plugins and can run on GitHub Pages' standard Jekyll compiler. To setup a local development environment, clone your template repository and follow the GitHub Docs on Testing your GitHub Pages site locally with Jekyll.

Just the Class has been used by instructors at Stanford University (CS 161), UC Berkeley (Data 100), UC Santa Barbara (CSW8), Northeastern University (CS4530/5500), and Carnegie Mellon University (17-450/17-950). Share your course website and find more examples in the show and tell discussion!