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 Introduction; thanks for wanting to help

Thanks so much for your interest in helping us create a tutorial, why its useful, some statistics about website use, its going to be used in a MOOC, etc. Thank and help motivate contributors to continue to contribute. 

First, a quick introduction and tips for navigating through the Confluence editor

• Tips for editing in confluence

  • Instructions for working with text, images, attachments and links are available here.

  • A Latex Tutorial can help with tables, equations, and styling

• Note that they will need permission to edit these pages, and to email Dr. Bhaskaran with interest in helping contribute. 

• Add a "important places/buttons" tutorial to show all of the things that they might have to navigate to in order to create/edit tutorials. This page will be built as I go along 
• tutorial of how to edit the SimCafe Confluence Website

Creating the template. Here's the template for creating new tutorials. This template ensures that tutorials have a common structure informed by sound pedagogical practices even though developed by different authors.

• Create a step by step process to copy each page of the tutorial, so that people don't edit the template instead. Show how to create and link all of the pages to create the backbone for the tutorial, tell them to save the link somewhere so that they can get back to it (it won't be up on the SimCafe main page until it is complete) and then they are ready to start adding content
• Make sure all url's are renamed to something meaningful (the title of the page, and not pageID=3838282783, etc)

Start adding the content

• Guidelines for creating video snippets using Camtasia

• It is helpful to have a summary of all of your data separated into an outline of the tutorial. For example, refer to Dr. Bhaskaran's outline for the ansys problem

• After videos are created, make sure to add a text summary of the video. Create a template of text summaries for users to follow? 

! With SimCafe, we’re all a part of a large team devoted to ‘democratizing’ simulation; helping to get students and professionals more examples and experience with the world of simulation.

SimCafe started in #### at Cornell University, and at first included just #### (or a few) tutorials on several topics, mostly to help augment existing coursework at Cornell. Now, with ### tutorials in Mechanical, Fluent, and even Matlab and ####, SimCafe sees almost 150,000 unique visitors each year, from 150 different countries! With your help, we can continue to add to this still very young website and see many more users come through.

Starting in the Summer of 2016, content from SimCafe will be used in a Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC, for short) that, with a partnering with ANSYS, will offer students and professionals everywhere in the world with the chance to learn the basics of FEA and CFD softwares, and to gain practical experience using the ANSYS software. With an expected attendance of #####, the more that contributors like you add to the website, the larger the influence that we can all have in the world of simulation!

Thanks again for all of your support, and we look forward to hearing from contributors!

Add the "Go to next page" button ###############################Show them how to add the completed tutorial to the front page of the Ansys/Fluent pages, and how to create a discussion on Piazza for the students