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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 Futures." 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 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  Connect your Google Drive to Visuals Create a collection 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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Add a Visuals collection

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

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 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. 

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 

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With your collection open: 

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Column width 50%  Image Added Column width 50%  From your collection's page, click Add Shivanode.

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Column width 50% Column         Choose Relationships, then Create under "Timeline."

You'll see the visualization editor and a preview of your timeline. Now we need to add your spreadsheet to the editor.

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

click Allow. You'll see a Google Drive window in Visuals with a list of your files.  

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Switch the status of the timeline from Draft to Published at the top of the page. Then, Save your visualization. You're all ready for your class to create a collaborative timeline together. 

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 6. Invite student contributions in class

For the class, you should have a way to project your visualization. Once you've set up the projector, you can open your visualization by logging into Visuals, then: 

Before the class, ask your students to bring:

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You'll see the timeline grow gradually, giving your students a sense of how information flows through time. 

You can make this timeline available to your students after class in UVaCollab. 

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7. Add the timeline to UVaCollab

Open your class site in UVaCollab.

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