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This guide walks you through making a dynamic timeline in Mandala Visuals. We'll show you how to set up your spreadsheet, then use that data in Visuals. Then, you'll use customization settings to make your timeline look the way you want. The final timeline will look something like this: |
- Create a Google Spreadsheet
- Format your spreadsheet
- Log in to Visuals
- Connect your Google Drive to Visuals
- Create a new visualization
- Invite student contributions in class
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Visuals pulls data from your Google account to make visualizations. To start making a timeline, put your data into Google Sheets.
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Now you're ready to enter your data.
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At this point, you should pull up our Timeline guide for quick reference. This tells you how to format your data so Visuals can read it. In general, you'll use individual chart guides in our Visualization Index to find out about formatting.
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We've entered four events in the example to the left. This data was taken from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation's website.
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leave the rows themselves blank. In class, each student will add a row to the spreadsheet, creating a single event. Before they can do that, however, you should make sure rows are formatted correctly.
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If you pull up our Timeline reference guide, you'll see that the first row you filled out contains data labels. We need to “freeze” this row. "Freezing" helps Audio-Video read the data you entered.
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Now your data spreadsheet is ready to go, and for student contributions. Next, you can move to Mandala Audio-Video to set up the basic visualization before class begins.
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Enter your Netbadge credentials to finish logging in. Now we'll make your visualization.
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6. Create your timeline
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From the Visuals homepage, Create a visualization.
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To finish making your timeline, give the visualization a title in the "Title" field at the top of the page, then choose Public under the "Visibility" options at the bottom of the page.
Save your visualization. You're all ready for your class to create a collaborative timeline together.
7. Invite student contributions in class
Now you're finished with your project. To learn more about making visualizations, you can use this Visuals in Mandala guide.