Kits for professors and reading clubs to present common workflows about outreach

[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?