Fig 1.
Statistics about training events organized by the Galaxy community and visits of the GTN website over years.
(A) Number of events supported GTN materials, registered on the Galaxy Community Hub website [22], per year between 2018 and 2021. (B) Number of TIaaS events per year on Galaxy Europe (collected in May 2022). (C) Number of participants to TIaaS events per year on UseGalaxy.* (collected in May 2022). (D) Number of visits per year on the GTN website and per topics, initially tracked by Google Analytics and later with Plausible (collected in May 2022). The latest usage statistics are publicly available from https://plausible.galaxyproject.eu/training.galaxyproject.org.
Fig 2.
Content of material available on the GTN and feedback from learners.
(A) Evolution of number of topics, tutorials, and contributors over the months between 2017 and 2022. (B) Number and type of tutorials per topics available on the GTN on April 2022. The latest statistics are publicly available from https://training.galaxyproject.org/stats. (C) Type of supporting materials for tutorials per topics available on the GTN on April 2022. (D) Score of the embedded feedback in the tutorials per topics. Three questions are asked in the form: “How much did you like this tutorial?” (from 1 (bad) to 5 (great)), “What did you like?”, “What could be improved?”. The latest feedback results are publicly available from https://training.galaxyproject.org/feedback.
Fig 3.
Structure of a GTN tutorial and its features.
(A) Screenshots for parts of a GTN tutorial to show its structure. Title and authors are listed, followed by an overview box containing metadata about the tutorial (target audience, learning objectives, prerequisites, supporting materials, time estimate, etc). The tutorial content itself is a mix of theory (text) and so-called “hands-on” boxes describing practical steps to be performed in Galaxy. Question and answer boxes may be added at any point in the tutorial to allow students to self-evaluate as they progress. The end of a tutorial provides a box with take-home messages, references, and suggestions for further reading and follow-up tutorials. Additionally, a feedback form is embedded at the end of every tutorial. Access to FAQs, support channels, page view statistics, and translated versions of the materials are provided via the top menu of the webpage. (B) Features of a GTN tutorial grouped in 4 categories: rich metadata, structured content, strong (technical) support, and community oriented.
Table 1.
Implementation of the “Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR” [16] in the GTN.
Table 2.
Implementation of the “Ten simple rules for collaborative lesson development” [29] in the GTN.
Fig 4.
Typical process to create a new tutorial.
Authors usually start by identifying suitable input datasets and developing the workflow in Galaxy. Thus, a workflow can be automatically converted into a tutorial skeleton using the PTDK described in the next section. The tutorial is then tested, reviewed, and finally merged into the GTN.