USERGUIDE GOSTUDYIT.COM

Innhold Chapter 1 – The homepage ..................................................................................................................... 1

Settings ................................................................................................................................................ 2

Note ..................................................................................................................................................... 2

Invite friends to your homepage ......................................................................................................... 3

Find your campus ................................................................................................................................ 4

Chapter 2 – Create a campus .................................................................................................................. 5

Manage campus .................................................................................................................................. 7

Chapter 3 – Create a course .................................................................................................................... 9

About GoStudyIt .................................................................................................................................... 14

Chapter 1 – The homepage

When a user has created his account, or has been imported from a

campus he has his own feed.

This is your homepage and it is only you who decides what should be

posted there. You will always be directed to this pave if you press your

home button.

If you want to change your profile picture, you can do it at gravatar.com

In the search bar, you can find friends, cities (to find campuses near you,

or create a campus) or a campus. You can also press the Invite button

and invite members at gostudyit to see your notes.

The archive serves as a tag, so you can mark your notes.

Home

Profile

picture, you

can change

this with

gravatar.com

Search bar for people, places and campuses Settings

Invite users

to your

own

personal

network

Start a new note

Archive

Notifications

Settings

You can change your email address, password and profile picture.

Note

To write a note, create your headline and your note. Furthermore, you can

determine how visible your note will be. If you want to attach rich media

or a website to your note, press the attachment button at the bottom right

Headline

notes attachments

There are two options for attaching something - you can paste a link to a

website or you can embed rich content from a page by inserting one of

two HTML codes <iframe> or <object>.

Option two is that you can upload a file. At the moment a file can be an

image, an office, Kodu or notebook smart board.

For more information about your home: See this movie

How can a post with an embedded document will look like:

Invite friends to your homepage

If you press the «invite»-button you will enter this page:

Here you can enter the name of the person you want to invite to view

your published posts. If the person you wish to invite has not created an

account yet, you can fill in the e-mail address where you invite him to

create an account and join your network (this feature is not yet

functional).

Those who participate in your network can see notes that you have

chosen to publish as seen by your network.

When you look at the notes of someone in your network and find a note

that you think is very good, you can choose to share this to your page.

You do this by pressing the button, then the note is copied to

your page. You can then choose to archive it in your archive with your

additional notes.

To archive the note, drop and drag to the archive you want, if

you want to create a new archive, release note of "new archive".

Find your campus In the search bar at the top you can find your campus. For example, by typing Gostudyit you will find

our campus.

Courses

Faculties

Join

campus

Logo

To subscribe to a course you must first join the school campus. Then you can go to a public course

and . As a subscriber you will get notifications when a coursefeed is updated with

lectures or assignments. There will also be created a shortcut to the campus and the courses you

subscribe to on your homepage.

The school can choose how they are organized in factulties, this can be compared to subjects or

classes. A faculty can be divided into subcategories so that it can stand example grade 9 can be

divided into subcategories.

Chapter 2 – Create a campus

If you are a teacher and want to create a campus you must find your city

in the search bar:

When you have found your city you can create your campus.

You choose “register a new campus” at this location

It’s free to register a campus, but in the future we will provide additional

learning resouces wich you can buy.

Once you have registerd your campus you will be “campus admin”.

Furthermore, you will get a shortcut to your campus at your homepage.

As a campus admin you have additional rights.

Manage campus

By pressing the "edit"-button behind the various headings, you can

change the look of the front of your campus.

Manage Campus Create a course

Slogan

Banner Logo

Welcomming text

faculties

Your logo image should be scaled to 200 pixels wide and 125 pixels high.

Before uploading your logo the name of the campus will show.

A banner image should be 800 pixels wide and 200 pixels high. If you

have not uploaded a banner there will be a map of your location instead of

the banner.

The slogan is the name of the school. The field will be blank until you

change the slogan.

The welcome message is where you present your school and what

happens there.

Faculties set up is to make it easy for members to identify their courses.

Everyone who press will get status as a member of the

campus. As a campus admin you can organize your members so that they

have the rights they need, and you can also subscribe your members to

courses. To organize campus members press "edit" and you get a list of

all your members.

To organize members, please check the individual members and assign

them into a course that they will be attending.

You can also give members the role of campus admin or campus teacher.

By editing a member you can assign him to theese three roles

Subscriber – a member that can subscribe to public courses

Campus Teacher – can create courses

Campus Admin – can organize the whole campus and import new

members

You can also remove the member from the campus, if necessary.

Chapter 3 – Create a course

To create a course you should be in the faculty your course is supposed to

be, later on you can choose to move the course to another faculty by

using drag and drop.

To give a course a name, we recommend that you set up classes and

ages, this will make it easier to locate the course later on. A course can be

a subject such as mathematics, but we recommend that course splitting

the subject into topics. For instance 2014 - fractinos - 9th grade, and

then publish everything related to the topic of this course. Later on you

can create a new course called equations or the new theme that you want

to do in your class.

You have three options for visibility at a course:

Visible to everyone

Visible only to campus members

Invite only

It is you as the creator of the course who can determine the degree of

sharing your learning resources. It is important to note that anyone who

has the role of teacher or admin has access to all courses at the campus.

You can also edit the visibility and name pf the course whenever you

want.

A course looks like your homepage, and you can do exactly the same in a

course as you can do with a personal note. At all courses everybody who

has the role of campus admin or campus teacher can post content.

The only difference between a homepage and a course is that students

can subscribe to a course, and by subscribing to the course they will get

notifications about lessons updates or assignments. To subscribe to a

course, the user must press button at the top right of the

course. All who subscribe will get a notification when they have an

assignment and when the deadline for the for the assignment is. They will

also receive a notification when the deadline approaches.

To make an assignment, select "create as assignment" and you will then

get the following screen message:

You will have to insert the deadline for the assignment and decide what

kind of assignment you are giving.

If you choose "Essay assignment" this will look like a normal note, where

the user can embed external content. Selecting "Multiple choice" you will

also be able to set up a multi-response assignment. The student will still

be able to write text notes or add any content that they want to attach to

ther assigmnment. As a teacher you will get notifications when a student

has started o work on the assignment, and after the deadline the student

will not be able to edit their assignment. The student has still the

opportunity to set the visibility of their assignment, but even if it is set as

visible only for themselves, the teacher can see and give comments to the

assignment.

This is a teacher view of an assignment.

To respond to an assignment press the green button "RESPOND two

assignment." This button is only visible to those listed as "subscriber"

If you choose "multiple choice" as task type you will get the following

screen:

You can enter as many options as you want to a question and create as

many questions as you want

About GoStudyIt

Gostudyit is an easy-to-use, subscription based social learning network

for the sharing of knowledge, practices and learning resources in

schools.