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Markdown Basics

This section will help you get acquainted with Markdown, the language used here in Amelius. Lesson descriptions, item content, and announcements all support rich formatting with Markdown.

Headings

# This is a heading

## This is a level 2 heading

### This is a level 3 heading

#### This is a level 4 heading
#
This is a paragraph.

Paragraphs get a blank line between them.

This is a heading

This is a level 2 heading

This is a level 3 heading

This is a level 4 heading

This is a paragraph.

Paragraphs get a blank line between them.

Special formatting

You can _italicize_ words, or you can **bold** them. You can also
create words that are in `monospace` fonts.

You can italicize words, or you can bold them. You can also create words that are in monospace fonts.

Lists

Here's a bulleted list:

* First thing
* Second thing
* Third thing

Here's a numbered list. Notice that numbering doesn't matter.

1. Item one
2. Item two
3. Item three
3. Item four
3. Item five

Here's a bulleted list:

  • First thing
  • Second thing
  • Third thing

Here's a numbered list. Notice that numbering doesn't matter.

  1. Item one
  2. Item two
  3. Item three
  4. Item four
  5. Item five

Links

You can make a link like this: <http://google.com>

Or like [this](http://google.com)

You can make a link like this: http://google.com

Or like this

Quotes and preformatting

You can quote things:

> This is a blockquote which you can use to quote something from a book or other source.

And you can preformat text, which is great for displaying programming code.

~~~
function foo() {
  return(
    "This is some code"
  );
}
~~~

You can quote things:

This is a blockquote which you can use to quote something from a book or other source.

And you can preformat text, which is great for displaying programming code. 

function foo() {
  return(
    "This is some code"
  );
}

Tables

Need to make a table of data? Here's how it looks:

Header 1    | Header 2
------------|-----------
Row 1 col 1 | Row 1 col 2
Row 2 col 1 | Row 2 col 2

Need to make a table of data? Here's how it looks:

Header 1 Header 2
Row 1 col 1 Row 1 col 2
Row 2 col 1 Row 2 col 2

Using Images

Use services like Dropbox or Google Drive to store your images, and share them. Or use another public web site to host your images. Then use Amelius to embed the images by linking to them. Amelius doesn't support uploading images yet. 

![Image caption](http://placehold.it/350x150)

Image caption

Using Other Media

You can drop the embed code from a Youtube video right into an Amelius lesson item.