/foundations-2-markdown

Introduction to Markdown for formatting plain text files.

foundations-markdown

Lesson content: Introduction to Markdown

Description: This brief module provides instructions that give newcomers experience using Markdown, a markup language for adding formatting elements to plain text files.

Time to complete: 15-20 minutes

Audience: undergraduate students; graduate students; faculty; information professionals

Prep:

Objectives:

  • Use Github to create an index.md file
  • Apply Markdown syntax to render a simple web page that includes headings, paragraphs, line breaks, emphasis, links, images, lists, and block quotes