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+layout: post
+title:  "New User Guide"
+date:   2015-12-26 8:00:00
+categories: news
+---
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+In order to make your life easier, we have published the first draft of our [3.0 user guide](https://www.gitbook.com/@iliosproject/){:target="_blank"} as an online interactive book. You can now click thru and navigate more easily from section to section, search for just what you need, and of course download it to peruse at your leisure as you have always been able to do. More importantly, this format allows us to rapidly update the document as needed in order to respond to changes and updates, and to provide you with pretty much instant access to those updates.
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+We also are building a "Quick'n'Easy" version of the guide, to provide brief, simple instructions targeted at the most common uses and users.
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+Both these books are still in draft, but please feel free to review them, use them, and give us feedback and suggestions!

index.md

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 - [Read the FAQs](https://github.com/ilios/ilios/wiki/FAQS){:target="_blank"}
 - [Subscribe for Updates](/subscribe)
 - [Demo Site Information](/demo)
-- [Latest User Guide](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3cfxfzdspzf10wp/KbaFS5LKkM){:target="_blank"}
+- [Latest User Guide](https://www.gitbook.com/@iliosproject/){:target="_blank"} *(new!)*
+- [Looking for the User Guide for 2.4.8? It's here!](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3cfxfzdspzf10wp/KbaFS5LKkM){:target="_blank"}
 
 ## Latest News
 

timeline.md

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 Since we began the Ilios Project six years ago, we have journeyed through multiple phases of growth and development. Beginning in 2015, we look to move into the next critical phase of growth.
 
-&nbsp; **ILIOS - The Tool** : with the impending release of version 3 of Ilios, we have begun extending the application to meet the rapidly changing needs of the health professions community in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Building on and extending the capacity of the published curriculum standards designed for the AAMC Curriculum Inventory, and leveraging the capabilities of current technology APIs to simplify communication across disparate systems, we look to provide ongoing and increasing support for complex competency based curricular models, for clinical and experiential learning modalities, and provide ever greater flexibility for interprofessional education. Over the next 36 months, we intend to provide the most effective mechanisms available in curriculum management for IPE, EPAs, Mapping, and the support clinical and other complex modalities of learning.
+&nbsp; **ILIOS - The Tool** : with the release of version 3 of Ilios, we have begun extending the application to meet the rapidly changing needs of the health professions community in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Building on and extending the capacity of the published curriculum standards designed for the AAMC Curriculum Inventory, and leveraging the capabilities of current technology APIs to simplify communication across disparate systems, we look to provide ongoing and increasing support for complex competency based curricular models, for clinical and experiential learning modalities, and provide ever greater flexibility for interprofessional education. Over the next 36 months, we intend to provide the most effective mechanisms available in curriculum management for IPE, EPAs, Mapping, and the support clinical and other complex modalities of learning.
 
-**ILIOS - The Community** : with the continuing adoption of Ilios by professional schools across the globe, and partnerships with other premier schools, we continue to expand and improve the open source community of users, contributors, and leaders for Ilios. Our goal is for the community to be self-supporting, continually growing, technically active, and widely distributed by the end of 2017.
+&nbsp; **ILIOS - The Community** : with the continuing adoption of Ilios by professional schools across the globe, and partnerships with other premier schools, we continue to expand and improve the open source community of users, contributors, and leaders for Ilios. Our goal is for the community to be self-supporting, continually growing, technically active, and widely distributed by the end of 2017.
 
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