Learn how to set up and maintain your camp's Quick Links document for scholars. Use this guide to understand what to include, how to organize daily updates, and best practices for keeping scholars' essential resources in one accessible place.
The Quick Links document is your camp's hub for scholar-facing resources. It lives in your camp's Scholar Folder in Google Drive and should be updated throughout each day so scholars can always find what they need without hunting through Slack or asking the instructional team.
Quick Links serves several purposes:
- Gives scholars a single place to access all resources for the day and revisit materials from previous days
- Provides camp-specific versions of resources (like your customized slide decks) rather than the generic versions published by the KWK team
- Organizes resources by day so scholars can easily look back at content from earlier in camp
- Creates an additional community-building touchpoint — collaborative playlists, theme day reminders, shared content folders, and other culture-specific materials can all live here
Before Day 1, bookmark it at the top of your scholar-facing Slack channel so scholars can find it at any point during camp. Not sure how to do this? Check out the Slack guide.
What to Include
Quick Links is a living document! Include whatever is most useful for your scholars on a given day. At minimum, update it with:
- Slide decks for each lesson
- Coding environment links (CodeSandbox projects, starter files, etc.)
- Practice activity instructions or prompts
- Session recordings (virtual camps add these at the end of each day)
- Any tools or external resources referenced during instruction
You might also include collaborative playlists, theme day details, capstone project resources, and After Party links, whatever is most useful for your scholars on a given day. Do a final pass at the end of each day to make sure nothing was missed before scholars sign off.
Examples
The samples below show the first two days filled out for each modality. Remember, these are just examples! Include whatever makes the most sense for your scholars and your camp.