Section Settings

The Settings section permits you to identify and configure your scenario. It contains the following 5 tabs:

1. Identification
2. Program Information
3. Pedagogical guide
4. Sharing and access rights
5. Submit

1. Identification tab

By clicking on the Identification tab, you can give your scenario a title and indicate the author's name along with names of collaborators if it was done as a team. Click on Add, at bottom left of table, to add a name. If the timeline is shared, the other users will be able to see who is the author.

You can return at any time to modify this information.

2. Program Information tab

The Program Information tab lets you identify more precisely the grade level, the program discipline, the QEP program focus, and the social phenomenon (society) associated with the scenario. Simply click on the various arrows to expose choses in the drop-down and fold-down menus, and choose accordingly.

3. Pedagogical (Teacher's) guide tab

The Pedagogical guide allows teachers to detail their educational and pedagogical intentions for the scenerio, the cross curricular and subject competencies they hope to develop in their students, instructions they want to give, and any corrections to the activities. Of course, this area is intended for scenario designers and won't be accessible to students.

4. Sharing and access rights tab

The Sharing and access rights tab allows you to designatethose who can have access to the scenario and to choose how they may use it. You are able to share your scenario in four different "modes" as indicated below:

• In the Read mode, users can only View the shared scenario, without being able to modify it. It is also possible, using this mode, to give a direct Internet address for your scenario to another user to permit them to view it. Again, the person viewing it in this way cannot modify it;
• In the Copy mode, users can access a unique copy of the scenario in their own account. The scenario will appear in their "My scenarios" list, and they can then modify it without affecting the original;
• In the Scenario mode, users obtain a copy of the timeline (which they can modify) and the Student workbook from the scenario. This is the mode students must use in order to complete their scenario. (i.e. Tasks involve working with a timeline and reading from and writing in the workbook.);
• In the Collaboration mode several users access the same copy of the scenario, and they can each contribute modifications. This mode allows you to create a scenario with several authors. Warning: only one collaborator at a time can open the scenario, in order to avoid the work of one to be erased by the work of another.

To share a scenario in one of these modes, you need to note the access code (given by the server) and then give it a password of your choice. You must then send this code and password (by email or in person) to other wanted users. By clicking on the menu Shared scenarios in their account, they will then be able to enter the correct codes (bottom of page) and access the scenario according to the intended mode.

Attention: you must give a different password for each different access mode, even if the access code is the same!

Once a user access your scenario, you will see their name appear in the list under each sharing mode. Therefore, it is possible to know which students have accessed your scenario, and if you actually click on the open button there you can open each student's scenario and follow their work. At any time it is also possible to take back the sharing rights and prevent access.

5. Submit tab

The Submit tab offers you the possibility to offer up your scenario to the ensemble of users registered on the Timeline application on our server, where it will eventually become part of the Public Resources available to all. Clicking on the Submit tab will reveal clear explanations as to how to proceed.