Welcome to Introduction to CSS3 , taught by Colleen van Lent!

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, a method of styling your HTML documents with various colors, fonts, layouts, and spacing. But that is just the beginning. You can also do some "cool" stuff such as creating transitions or adding animations. There are so many things you can do with CSS, that we focus on the following:

• Rules and syntax (how to write CSS code)

• Simple styling (fonts, colors, borders)

• More styling (background images and opacity)

• Positioning - how to get the different parts of your page to go where you want them to go

• Pseudo-classes - styling things that aren't even there!

Throughout the entire course there will be an emphasis on the importance of accessibility. Not only will you style your site, but you will test it and other sites on the POUR accessibility principles to ensure that your styling is enhancing your site, not putting up unseen roadblocks.

Participation Strategies

Engaged learning looks different for everybody. In this course, we hope you will define your own measures of success and engage with the material in a way that best suits your needs. We recognize and celebrate the diverse ways learners engage in courses. As you go through this course, we hope you will reflect on your unique skills, needs, and aspirations, and engage in the course material in a way that aligns with your own goals. While the course provides time estimates for completion, you should feel empowered to engage in the material in whatever ways make sense to you.

Course Schedule & Grading Policy

Quizzes

The first three modules will each have a graded quiz. These quizzes are intended to reinforce your confidence in the material, not "trick" you. As often as possible each question will be linked to a specific lecture or reading. You can take the quizzes as many times as you like, but there is a limit on how many times you can take each quiz in a certain time period. Occasionally I include an ungraded quiz to help students track their current progress and prepare them for the graded quiz.

Peer Graded Assignments

There will be three peer graded assignments in this course: they are at the end of Week One, Week, Two, and Week Four. You are actually ready to start the final assessment by the end of the third week of class, I just wanted to provide some examples to accompany the final project.

You can see the grading breakdown below for each assignment:

Ground Rules

We expect everyone to be mindful of what they say and its potential impact on others. The goal is to have respectful discussions that do not violate the community space created for these conversations. Here are some productive ways to engage in this course:

• Participate: This is a community. Read what others have written and share your thoughts.

• Stay curious: Learn from experts and each other by listening and asking questions, not making assumptions.

• Keep your passion positive: When replying to a discussion forum post, respond with thoughts on what was said, not about the person who posted. Avoid using all caps, too many exclamation points, or aggressive language.

• Acknowledge discomfort: The topics discussed in this course might be challenging or hard to talk about. Stick with it and remember the benefits of having these tough conversations that surface from multiple perspectives.

We expect all learners to abide by our full Learner Engagement Policy . We will specifically be monitoring this course for language that could be considered inflammatory, incivil, racist, or otherwise unacceptable for this learning space, and we will remove language deemed such.

Academic Honesty

All submitted work should be your own and academic dishonesty is not allowed. Academic dishonesty can be defined as:

• Copying answers

• Copying words, ideas, or other materials from another source without giving credit to the original author

• Copying from your peers within the course

• Employing or allowing another person to alter or revise your work, and then submitting the work as your own

Please don’t share or reuse solutions to assignments which is an academic integrity concern. Please do not:

• Share complete assignment code in the course discussion forums

• Upload completed assignments to public websites with the goal of sharing solutions. (You can share your work and ideas for professional purposes though).

• Take a peer’s solution and submit it as your own

Course Support

Questions and discussion of course material should take place within the course itself. Please do not contact instructors or teaching assistants off the platform, as responding to individual questions is virtually impossible. We encourage you to direct your questions to [forum], where your question might be answered by a fellow learner or one of our course team members. For technical help please contact the Coursera Learner Help Center or use the support forums.

Accessibility

We are committed to developing accessible learning experiences for the widest possible audience. We recognize that learners with disabilities (including but not limited to visual impairments, hearing impairments, cognitive disabilities, or motor disabilities) might need more specific accessibility-related support to achieve learning goals in this course.

Please use the accessibility feedback form to let us know about any accessibility challenges such as urgent issues that keep you from making progress in the course (e.g., missing or inadequate alt-text, captioning errors).

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

We welcome all learners to this course. People like you are joining from all over the world and we value this diversity. We strive to create a community of mutual respect and trust, where people from all backgrounds, identities and views are valued and heard without the threat of bias, harassment, intimidation, or discrimination. We pay attention to your feedback, how different types of learners experience this course, and aim to make improvements so the course can best serve everyone. We hope you enjoy learning about topics that are important to you.