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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 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: 

  1. Create a Google Spreadsheet

  2. Enter your data 

  3. Format your spreadsheet 
  4. Log in to VisualsCreate a collection
  5. Create a new visualization

  6. Invite student contributions in class

  7. Add the visualization to UVaCollab
 

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To set the data type, select your column. Click Format from the menu, then Number. Choose Plain Text. Do this for each column.

Now your spreadsheet is ready for student contributions. Next, you can move to Mandala Audio-Video to set up the basic visualization before class begins.

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Add a Visuals collection

Go to Visuals at https://visuals.shanti.virginia.edu. 

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Click on the Main Menu icon (  ) in the top right corner. Then, Log in via Netbadge. 


 Enter your Netbadge credentials to finish logging in. Now we'll make your visualization. To start, you need to create a collection to house it in. 

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Click  Image Added> Collections > Add New Collection.

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Enter a title. You can also add a description if you like.  

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Set "Group Visibility" to Public - Accessible To All Site Users. This will let you add the visualization in the collection as a UVaCollab resource later. Then, Save the collection.

Your collection will open. Now you're ready to add your visualization. We'll add it directly from this page. 

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5. Create your timeline 

Make sure to log in before making your timeline. ThenWith your collection open: 

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 Click  Image Removed> Collections > Create. A list of visualization types will open

 

 From your collection's page, click Add Shivanode.

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Choose Relationships, then Create under "Timeline."

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You'll see a list of your Google Drive accounts. If prompted, log in to the account that holds your data spreadsheet. Google will ask if you give Shanti permission to see your files: click Allow.  You may not have to do the last two stepsstep: you might see your Google Drive files directly.

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