To Do Before the Session

Please fill out this short anonymous survey: HTML Editor - Pre-Workshop Survey - this will help us have an idea of your level.

What You Will Need

Laptop computer with internet access.
Access to your learning management system and the ability to author pages (we will be demonstrating in Canvas). You will need to create and edit a page during the workshop.

Note: If you don't have access to an LMS or the ability to add a test page, or if you would like to work in Canvas like us, you can make an account with Canvas Free-for-Teacher.

Optional but Useful: A Stand-Alone Text Editor

We recommend authoring Canvas pages in an external text editor rather than directly in Canvas. Canvas sometimes removes or alters code it doesn't understand (from typos or non-supported HTML tags).

There are other benefits to using a text editor designed to support HTML development as well, here are a few features to look for that will make learning and writing HTML easier:

Syntax Highlighting: Color-codes HTML elements for easier reading.
Auto-Completion: Suggests tags or attributes as you type.
Preview: Allows you to see how the HTML will render (although it won't include your LMS default styles, so it will look a bit different).
Find/Replace: Quickly locate and change specific code or text.

Text editors:

Brackets - Free, Open-source. Supports multiple platforms.
Sublime Text - Mac, Windows, Linux support. Free to download and try. No enforced time limit for evaluation.

You can also just use a plain text editor, which you likely already have on your computer:

TextEdit on Mac
Notepad on Windows