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Jun 25, 2026

Lecture Builder

The Lecture Builder in the research portal authors and records lectures. One tool covers three uses, chosen by the lecture type:

  • Curriculum lecture — teaching content that feeds the structured training curriculum (#1099): outline, sections, readings.
  • Talk / seminar — a record of a public lecture or seminar: speaker, schedule, venue, slides and recording.
  • Standalone lecture — a reusable authored lecture built from ordered sections and media.

Open it from the research portal sidebar → Lectures (/research/lectures).

Creating a lecture

  1. Choose New Curriculum Lecture, New Talk, or New Lecture (standalone). The form adapts to the type:
    • Talk shows speaker, affiliation, schedule, venue, duration.
    • Curriculum shows the schedule and a curriculum reference linking it to a training session (#1099).
    • All types capture a summary, slides URL and recording URL.
  2. Save to open the lecture's page, where you build its content.

Content sections

A lecture's body is a list of ordered sections, each with a heading, Markdown body and optional media (image, video, audio or an embed URL).

  • Add section from the lecture page; it appends to the end.
  • Edit a section to change its heading, body, media or sort order.
  • Remove a section you no longer need.
  • Markdown is rendered to HTML; media is shown inline (images, players) or linked.

Resources

Attach resources to a lecture — readings, slides, videos, links or files. Each resource has a label, a URL and a type, and appears in the lecture's resource list for attendees/learners.

Status and publishing

Lectures move through draft → scheduled → delivered → published → archived. Use Publish on the lecture page to make it available; unpublish returns it to draft. Curriculum lectures published here are the material the training curriculum (#1099) delivers.

Tips

  • For talks, set the schedule and speaker so the lecture lists sort and read correctly.
  • For curriculum lectures, fill in the curriculum reference so the lecture ties back to its training session.
  • Keep sections focused — one idea per section makes a lecture easy to follow and reuse.
  • Training curriculum — issue #1099 (curriculum lectures supply its teaching content).
  • Journal builder — the other half of the research-portal content tools (#1105).