sjzeil / cowem

Static site generator for course websites, based on markdown

CoWeM: Course Websites from Markdown

CoWeM is a static site generator for for building course websites, including lecture notes, slides & organizational pages, from Markdown documents. The CoWeM system itself is a small collection of Gradle plug-ins and associated support libraries.

Course content can be portrayed in various HTML-based formats, including single and multi-page documents and slides. Conditional text allows a single Markdown document to serve as the source for both a full set of lecture notes with explanations and a sparser set of slides. Support is provided for automatic pretty-printing of program source code and for the rendering of mathematics from LaTeX expressions.

This content can be deployed as an ordinary website or as a SCORM package suitable for importing into Blackboard or other Learning Management Systems.

• Currently in version 1.22.4

• Website

• User Reference Manual

• The CoWeM system itself is a small collection of Gradle plug-ins and associated support libraries. Courses built in CoWeM include a small set of files that will "bootstrap" the fetching of CoWeM code and the Gradle build manager onto nearly any system with a working Java runtime environment without requiring a special installation procedure.