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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:  Create a Google Spreadsheet Enter your data  Format your spreadsheet  Create a collectionLog in to Visuals Create a new visualization Invite student contributions in class Add the visualization to UVaCollab

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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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Log in to Visuals

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

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Column width 50% Column width 50%       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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Enter a title. You can also add a description if you like.  

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Column width 50%  Image Removed Column width 50%       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 

With your collection openMake sure to log in before making your timeline. Then: 

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