Change to lecture 1 to parameterize the title page and footline.

Lectures/L1_IntroToCourse/IntroToCourse.tex

-%\documentclass[13pt]{beamer} % some colour, looks good with logictheme style
-\documentclass[handout]{beamer} % for handout
-
-\usepackage{logictheme}
-\usepackage{amsmath}
-\usepackage{bm}
-\usepackage{ulem}
-
-\usepackage{hhline}
-\usepackage{multirow}
-\usepackage{multicol}
-\usepackage{array}
+%\documentclass[handout]{beamer} 
+\documentclass[t,12pt,numbers,fleqn]{beamer}
+%\documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}
+
+\newif\ifquestions
+%\questionstrue
+\questionsfalse
+
+\usepackage{pgfpages} 
 \usepackage{hyperref}
+\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,
+    linkcolor=blue,
+    citecolor=blue,
+    filecolor=blue,
+    urlcolor=blue,
+    unicode=false}
+\urlstyle{same}
 
 \usepackage{booktabs}
 
-\title[Intro to Course (slide \thepage)]{Software Engineering 2AA4 (Software
-  Design I) and Computer Science 2ME3 -- Introduction to Software Development}
-%\subtitle{???}
-\author[Smith]{Dr.~Spencer Smith}
-\institute{Computing and Software Department, McMaster University}
-\date{\today}
-\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{logo}{../McMasterLogo}
-\logo{\pgfuseimage{logo}}
+%\usetheme{Iimenau}
+
+\useoutertheme{split} %so the footline can be seen, without needing pgfpages
+
+%\pgfpagesuselayout{resize to}[letterpaper,border shrink=5mm,landscape]  %if this is uncommented, the hyperref links do not work
+
+\mode<presentation>{}
 
-\setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=red!75!green!50!blue}
-%\setbeamerfont{alerted text}{series=\bfseries}
-\setbeamerfont{alerted text}{family=\rmfamily,series=\bfseries}
+\input{../def-beamer}
 
-%\setbeamertemplate{footline}{\insertpagenumber}  % only has the page number
+\newcommand{\topic}{01 Introduction to the Course}
 
-\newcounter{temp}
+\input{../titlepage}
 
 \begin{document}
 
-% ==================================================================================
-% Slide 1
-\maketitle
-% ==================================================================================
+\input{../footline}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
 \begin{frame}
 \frametitle{Introduction to Course}
+
 % This class is more uniquely software engineering than any previous one
 % What distinguishes software engineers from computer scientists
 % The beginning of the software design sequence of courses
 % Goal is for this to be your favourite class
 % bring textbook
 % ask TAs to come to first class? - not necessary with tutorials
-\begin{itemize}
-
+\bi
 \item Administrative details
 \item Course outline
 \begin{itemize}
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 \end{itemize}
 %\item Assignment 1
 %\item Pictures
-\end{itemize}
+\ei
 \end{frame}
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Wednesday, Jan. 18th, from 12:20 pm to 2:20 pm in lab ITB237.
 \begin{frame}
 \frametitle{Learning Objectives}
 
-\href{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/smiths/se2aa4_cs2me3/tree/master/CourseOutline/LearningOutcomes}{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/.../CourseOutline/LearningOutcomes}\\
+\href{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/smiths/se2aa4_cs2me3/tree/master/CourseOutline/LearningOutcomes}{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/.../LearningOutcomes}\\
 
 \end{frame}
 
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ Wednesday, Jan. 18th, from 12:20 pm to 2:20 pm in lab ITB237.
 
 \item Ghezzi et al. (2003) (required) % mention web-page
 
-\item Hoffman and Strooper (1995) (other), {\tt http:// citeseer.ist.psu.edu/428727.html}
+\item Hoffman and Strooper (1995) (other)%, {\tt http:// citeseer.ist.psu.edu/428727.html}
 
 \item VanVliet (2000) (other)
 
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ logic and discrete mathematics
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
 \begin{frame}
-\frametitle{Software Engineering in System Design}
+\frametitle{Software Engineering in System Design} \label{lastframe}
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item A physical system is often controlled by a software system called an embedded system

Lectures/def-beamer.tex

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+%% \usepackage{stmaryrd}
+
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+
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+
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+
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+    \setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
+    \setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
+  }%
+  \item[]}{\end{list}}

Lectures/footline.tex

+% Footline for 1D04 Slides
+
+% Display title page and displays footers
+
+\setbeamertemplate{footline}{} %so the title screen does not have a footline
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\begin{frame}
+\titlepage
+\end{frame}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
+\begin{beamercolorbox}{sectioninhead/foot}
+\hspace{1ex}\bblue{\hrulefill}\hspace{1ex}
+
+\vspace{1ex}
+\hspace{1ex}
+{\tiny \instructSmall \hfill 
+\courseCode~\season~\yr:~\topic \hfill 
+\insertframenumber/\ref{lastframe}~~}
+%\insertframenumber/\ref{lastframe}}
+%\hfill {\small \insertframenumber} \hspace{10ex}
+%{\small $$\insertframenumber$$}
+\vspace{1ex}
+\end{beamercolorbox}}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Lectures/titlepage.tex

+%Title page information for 1D04 lectures slides
+
+% Define year specific parameters - used in title page and footer
+
+\newcommand{\season}{Winter} %use to switch between Winter and Fall
+\newcommand{\instructor}{Dr.~Spencer Smith} %use to switch instructor
+\newcommand{\instructSmall}{Dr.~Smith}
+\newcommand{\yr}{2017}
+\newcommand{\courseCode}{SE 2AA4, CS 2ME3}
+\newcommand{\courseTitle}{Introduction to Software Development}
+
+%\setbeamerfont{structure}{series=\bfseries}
+%\usefonttheme[stillsansseriftext,stillsansserifmath]{serif}
+\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} 
+\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}[ball]
+
+\title{
+  {\normalsize \bf 
+    \borange{\courseCode~(\courseTitle)\\ \season~\yr}}\\[2ex]
+  {\Large \bf \topic}}
+
+\author[Smith]{\instructor}
+
+\institute{
+  Faculty of Engineering,
+  McMaster University}
+
+\date{
+\today
+%January 2011\\
+\bc
+  \includegraphics[scale = 0.2, keepaspectratio]
+  {../mcmaster-logo-full-color.jpg}
+\ec
+}
+
+\renewcommand{\borange}[1] %orange is too hard to read
+{
+   \bred{#1}
+}
\ No newline at end of file