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A long term plan is to get editing right within the website, rather than just on GitHub. [gollum](https://github.com/gollum/gollum) / [gollum-lib](https://github.com/gollum/gollum-lib) seems like a really good base, but this will not...

enhancement

There are a few "notes" in this repo (in PDF format) and they should be moved to Google Drive

help wanted
good first issue

- All references to regular Drive files need to be linked to the Team Drive file

help wanted

- INF1-CL and INF1-FP don't exist anymore, they are now one Informatics "INF1A" course. But they are still distinct within the course, so we just kept it as-is. - This...

Provide an index of past papers and their (attempted) solutions for every course. - Should be a dropdownsearch to select/find the course you want. - Should contain links to exampapers.ed.ac.uk...

enhancement
future

Sometimes when users open certain files (PDFs, Word files), Google Docs "helpfully" converts the file to a Google Doc. This is wasteful. We should write a script to auto-delete files...

enhancement
future

replace the instructions on `/file` with a conversion tool. this is fairly simple. no jquery please. drive folders: `"https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0AIKEqWfeWuQQUk9PVA".match(/https:\/\/drive\.google\.com\/drive\/u\/\d+\/folders\/(.*)/)` docs: `"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1xVJs_RvV3KBbk1bKjsDvYUyUitER4jVbuae-nUFx8/edit".match(/https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/(.*)\/edit$/)` files that drive can render: `"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2AAOQQZ_8BxNnpNajA0dEF6WGs/view".match(/https:\/\/drive\.google\.com\/file\/d\/(.*)\/view$/)`

enhancement

It turns out that #25/#35 is bad UX. I added this feature and even I sometimes forget to click "semester 2" when looking through courses. **Option 1** Show each course...

enhancement

Some courses disappear and appear. Courses that aren't running are marked as archived. Archived courses are hidden from the website (even when viewing "all"). Archiving courses manually is a wee...

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