Manifold Handbooks

Basic Markdown Guide

Welcome to my brief introduction to some neat things you can do with Manifold! I'm writing this document in Markdown, a fairly lightweight plaintext markup language that lets me add quick, basic structure to my introduction. Matt Cone's Markdown Guide provides more in-depth explanations, and our Manifold Documentation offers a great overview of basics of preparing text in Markdown. For now I'm only using the single # [with text after it] to indicate a top level H1 heading (the title of my document) and maybe a couple ## [with text after them] H2 headers to show some subsections.

Adding media

I'm using Markdown today not only because it can be ingested by Manifold as a single document but because the Markdown also lets me embed iframes! I'm testing how these objects look within the reader. I'll also add these objects as resources in Manifold to see the difference.

StoryMaps

I'm interested to see what happens when I use a Knight Lab StoryMaps embed code. So I quickly made a brief description of the three partners collaborating on the development of Manifold: The CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding.

I have consulted the Manifold Documentation obsessively as I have put together just about any project on Manifold. I think it is helpful to revisit not only the correct way to type important headings as I prepare texts, but also the many options for reviewing editorial options as they appear after they're ingested. Manifold functionality is only growing stronger with each new release.

Podcasts

Here's a podcast from The State of Digital Publishing: The State of Higher Education Publishing with David Harris of OpenStax.

The embed code came up as an option when I clicked on the share arrow icon in the righthand corner of the podcast graphic.

Video

To embed video, select the embed code from Vimeo or YouTube and paste the HTML into your markdown document.

A manifold in physics

Manifold as presented by Matt Gold and Doug Armato

Quizzes

I wanted to see what a quiz constructed on H5P looks like in a Manifold text. Here goes! I made this quiz using a trial H5P account.

In this demo on H5P.org, I can get an embed code, but the content is temporary. For future quizzes, I will have to look into ways to produce HTML5 quizzes myself. WordPress has an H5P plugin, so that might be an option.

H5P does provide a number of useful quiz options (flashcards, multiple choice), so it seems worth checking.