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   <ul>
   <li><a href="#ssecr-contributing-guidelines" id="toc-ssecr-contributing-guidelines" class="nav-link active" data-scroll-target="#ssecr-contributing-guidelines">SSECR Contributing Guidelines</a>
   <ul class="collapse">
+  <li><a href="#editing-course-materials" id="toc-editing-course-materials" class="nav-link" data-scroll-target="#editing-course-materials">Editing Course Materials</a>
+  <ul class="collapse">
+  <li><a href="#avoiding-conflicts" id="toc-avoiding-conflicts" class="nav-link" data-scroll-target="#avoiding-conflicts">Avoiding Conflicts</a></li>
+  </ul></li>
   <li><a href="#accessing-course-materials" id="toc-accessing-course-materials" class="nav-link" data-scroll-target="#accessing-course-materials">Accessing Course Materials</a>
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@@ -160,6 +164,24 @@ <h2 id="toc-title">On this page</h2>
 
 <section id="ssecr-contributing-guidelines" class="level1">
 <h1>SSECR Contributing Guidelines</h1>
+<section id="editing-course-materials" class="level2">
+<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="editing-course-materials">Editing Course Materials</h2>
+<p>There are three options for editing the course materials:</p>
+<ol type="1">
+<li>Send materials to Nick Lyon for integration into the website</li>
+<li>Work directly in GitHub
+<ul>
+<li>only available if the page(s) you’re editing <u>do not</u> have code chunks</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Connect GitHub to your preferred code software (e.g., RStudio, VS Code, etc.) and push local changes to GitHub</li>
+</ol>
+<section id="avoiding-conflicts" class="level3">
+<h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="avoiding-conflicts">Avoiding Conflicts</h3>
+<p>If either option 2 or 3 sounds like a good fit for you, we need to be careful we do not cause merge conflicts! Please make a post in the <code>#lter-grad-course</code> channel of the NCEAS Slack organization for <em>both</em> when you start working on the website <em>and</em> when you’re finished.</p>
+<p>If you’re working in a developer environment (i.e., option 3 above), please pull regularly so that you are editing the most up-to-date materials.</p>
+<p>At this point, we are <strong>not</strong> using GitHub branches and/or forks so please just work directly in the ‘main’ branch.</p>
+</section>
+</section>
 <section id="accessing-course-materials" class="level2">
 <h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="accessing-course-materials">Accessing Course Materials</h2>
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-<p>Communicating via email is fine though we also have a channel (<code>#lter-grad-course</code>) in <a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/">NCEAS</a>’ Slack organization if that is preferable.</p>
+<p>Communicating via email is fine though we also have the <code>#lter-grad-course</code> channel in <a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/">NCEAS</a>’ Slack organization if that is preferable.</p>
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-<li>Be sure that each task is <strong>SMART</strong> (i.e., specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound)</li>
+<li>Be sure that each task is <strong>S.M.A.R.T.</strong> (i.e., specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound)</li>
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