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This guide helps you create a collaborative, student-crowdsourced timeline in Mandala Visuals. John Alexander used this timeline for his course "Documenting UVA's Future." This course, inspired by the ouster and reinstatement of UVA President Teresa Sullivan, documented the event using oral histories. Since many students were not in Charlottesville during for the ouster, John Alexander helped them make a collaborative timeline of the proceedings in class, which included links to primary sources. This helped them understand the flow of information surrounding the ouster. Afterward, he shared the timeline with his students, so that they could reference it throughout the semester. To make a crowdsourced timeline:  Create a Google Spreadsheet Enter your data  Format your spreadsheet  Log in to Visuals Create a new visualization Invite student contributions in class Add the visualization to UVaCollab

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You'll 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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3. Format your spreadsheet

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Now go back to the visualizations editor. Adjust the "Initial zoom of timeline" by small increments, increasing the value to zoom out, decreasing the value to zoom in, until you can see the "start" and "end" events at the opposite ends of the timeline.

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You'll see a form with metadata fields, where you can add a title and restrict access to your HTML page. Fill out the fields as needed, then Finish. The new page will appear under the Resources. If you click on the site, you'll see the interactive timeline your students created collaboratively. 

This code also lets you add the visualization to a WordPress course site. Follow the Add an iFrame guide for help. 

Now you're finished with your project. To learn more about making visualizations, you can use this Visuals in Mandala guide. 

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