Kits for professors and reading clubs to present common workflows

[mitar]

PeerLibrary is something new and not every professor or reading club organizer might understand how they can use it in their workflows. We could create some suggestions how could PeerLibrary fit there and improve what they are doing. And have some ready materials to demo/show/explain.

[Klarster]

A very good idea here would be using the video of how peerlibrary is used (like a tutorial of some kind - probably the one you requested in #34), and at the same time show how it facilitates work from 3 perspectives: teachers, students, researchers.

[mitar]

There are multiple workflows possible. What I had in mind here is a very concrete tutorial. For example. For "all students reading one paper together" workflow we would explain:

• how to create group for students
• what are suggested privacy settings for this group
• how to add all students to the group
• how to then add a publication and give access to the publication
• how to instruct students to make annotations inside the group
• how to then use annotations to do a short follow-up in the classroom and pick few good ones and
• what to do with annotations at the end: should they make it public for anyone, should they keep it closed: how can student decide this for themselves, or how can professor decide this for them

[mitar]

So maybe with screenshots and arrows and step by step guides.

[Klarster]

Exactly. I'd love to see that, too! So, tutorial for educators.

[mitar]

We could try even something new: interactive tutorial. You go to PeerLibrary and start a tutorial on that workflow, and it guides you around the page with arrows what you have to click. Something like this: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-tutorials

[Klarster]

Yes, yes, tooltips! Maybe a walkthrough with first interaction?

[mitar]

So, I would like that our site is intuitive enough that first time users do not need to have a tutorial. But yes, that could we also do.

But what I had mind here is that we use this in a bit alternative way. So that for few special cases, we have special tutorials which guide you how to do something particular. So instead of having a tutorial for first time users which makes an arrow and says "here you can configure your permissions", "here you can bookmark your publication", we would have a tutorial which would say "click here and make a group private so that your students have privacy", after user does that, another bubble would appear saying "now go to collections page", then on collections page "now create a private collection for your reading material", if user makes it public, it says "you didn't do it private, are you sure"? And so on.

[Klarster]

How will you know that a professor is using PL, and not someone from the general public, and show the walk-through to professors/educators-only? Will there be a separate version for professors and researchers?

[mitar]

As I said, I would not use that as a "first use" feature. But something you trigger. Maybe you go to about page and you click on button "guide me through creating a XY classroom use case". Or that button could be somewhere else.

[mitar]

(BTW, this is not so easy to implement, so I would not count on it for now. I am just brainstorming here.)

[raaswol]

Maybe we can take a day and a few of us can be on a promo-kit team and build this stuff in a few hours! Anyone interested?