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Personalizing the LATTE Shell

In the header, you can simply type in your course title, meeting times, your name, etc. by editing the label. However, it requires extra steps to replace the existing photograph with yours. There are two different options. If you like the stylistic circle and are comfortable with simple html code, follow the set of instructions below. However, if you prefer a square photo or prefer to simply use the toolbar, then follow the second set of instructions below.

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Replacing Your Photo (Circle Format)

Go to your course shell in LATTE and click on the brown Turn editing on button.
Click Edit settings to the right of the Course Overview label.
To enlarge the label to see all of the elements, grab the bottom right corner of the box with diagonal slashes (see red circle in left image) and drag the window to your preferred size (see second image).
Go find a digital image of your photograph whether on a Brandeis faculty page or your LinkedIn page or elsewhere. (Type in your “name” and “Brandeis” in a search box to quickly find your photo.)
Right click on your photo with your mouse or trackpad and click on Copy Image Address (see text in red box below).
Go back to the window with the text editor and select the html icon (the last button on the tool bar).
Go to line 10 (at red arrow) in the html text and copy the image address between the quotes on line 11 that follow <img src=”[copy image address here]”. Be sure not to delete the quotes around the image address you have copied.
Next replace the alternative text for screen readers with your name at alt=“a headshot of [your name, PhD]”.
Click on the html icon again in the toolbar to confirm that your photo is now replaced. You can edit your name under the photo and other text in the text box by highlighting the text and typing your name.

Replacing Your Photo (No Circle Format)

Go to your course shell in LATTE and click on the brown Turn editing on button.
Click Edit settings to the right of the Course Overview label.
To enlarge the label to see all of the elements, grab the bottom right corner of the box with diagonal slashes (see red circle in left image) and drag the window to your preferred size (see second image).
Go find a digital image of your photograph whether on a Brandeis faculty page or your LinkedIn page or elsewhere. (Type in your “name” and “Brandeis” in a search box to quickly find your photo.)
Right click on your photo with your mouse or trackpad and click on Copy Image Address (see text in red box below).
Go back to the window with the text editor and click once on the photo so that it is highlighted with a square show over the photo.
Next select the image icon on the toolbar.
In the Image properties window, highlight the text in the Enter URL box and paste the Image address of your photo to replace the text and click tab. The image address should end with “jpg,” “png,” or “svg.” You should see your image in the box.
In the Describe this image… box, replace the text with your name.
Adjust the size to 200 in the left box and the other box will auto-adjust if Auto size is checked.
Finally, Save image.
Your photograph will be square or rectangular as you see in the one to the right. You can edit your name under the photo and other text in the text box by highlighting the text and typing your name.

Uploading Your Syllabus

Go to your course shell in LATTE and click on the brown Turn editing on button
Click Edit settings to the right of the Course Overview label (see image above).
To enlarge the label to see all of the elements, grab the bottom right corner of the box with diagonal slashes (see red circle in left image) and drag the window to your preferred size (see second image).
Click on the Syllabus icon to highlight it and then click on the link icon in the toolbar.
In the Create link popup window, select Browse repositories.
In the File picker window, select Upload a file and then Choose File and find the syllabus on your desktop.
Click Upload this file which takes you back to the Create link popup window.
Click Create link.
Next highlight the text Review the syllabus under the syllabus icon.
Click on Browse repositories
This time, select Embedded files (in blue to the right). You will see the file that you just uploaded listed in the files. Select the file and a popup window will open with the name of the file to select. Click through until you get to the Create link.

Linking Your Syllabus to the Get Course Syllabus Link

A simpler way to link your syllabus is to first upload your syllabus at Upload Course Syllabus in the LATTE Course Tools block on the left side of your course site.
After you upload your syllabus, a new link will appear here, called Get Course Syllabus.
Right click on Get Course Syllabus and in the popup window select Copy Link Address.
Follow Steps 1-4 in the instructions for Upload your syllabus above to open up the Create link popup window.
Paste the link address that you copied in Step 4 and click on Create link.
Do the same for the text under the Syllabus icon, Review the syllabus. Please note that you must change the link for both the icon and the text in order to point to your syllabus.