[[!meta title="org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 James Endres Howell"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/org-teach-nav)" raw="yes"]] # org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs James Endres Howell (he/him) - [[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/org-teach-before)" raw="yes"]] I will demonstrate how I used Emacs to produce all the materials for teaching an undergraduate molecular and cell biology course at a very large university. My org-teach package () is a collection of Org macros that customize export to LaTeX and Beamer in order to produce (1) textbook-style handouts, (2) slides for classroom presentation, and (3) quiz and exam questions, all from a single Org source document. It also provides a simple minor mode that facilitates authoring such source documents. We will discuss the benefits of producing course materials as plain-text outlines, and of exploiting the power of Emacs and Org mode for writing and managing book-length teaching materials. Last year at EmacsConf 2023, I presented some aspects of an earlier version of org-teach (). This talk will provide more background, more details, and some exciting new features. About the speaker: James Endres Howell has taught Molecular and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Toxicology, and Molecular Medicine at Penn State since 2006. Recently Dr. Howell has developed popular courses for non-science majors in Genetics, Ecology and Evolution; Science in Literature; and Science in Media. He has used Emacs daily since 1988. [[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/org-teach-after)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2024/info/org-teach-nav)" raw="yes"]]