Assignments are organized and presented information for which students have a clear deliverable. This may include reading assignments and student responses for discussion. The writing assignment will also go here. The goal is to have clear topics of exploration, material that supports the topic, and the student response to the topic in one place both to facilitate understanding at student, coach, and organizational levels. Example: 

https://tetco.nuvustudio.com/studios/renubots-v1/outlandish-energy-v1#tab-prompt

https://hillside.nuvustudio.com/studios/hacking-hillside/intro-assignment-1-the-secret-life-of-tiny-spaces#tab-assignment-url

Assignment protocol and sample intro assignments can be found here:

https://toolbox.nuvustudio.com/studios/assignment-library

• Prompt
  • Assignment Post
  • Each Assignment must include the following categories
    • Image/Video (clear & interesting)
    • Exercise Title
    • Purpose and/or Learning goals
    • Description
    • Instructions - include step by step instructions of how the Assignment will be followed
    • Deliverables - A clear description of what the student is expected to produce, and where to place their post. Include hyperlinks to where students should post their responses, when applicable. Be clear about what is expected in their deliverables.
  • Resources (if required)
    • Assignment-specific precedents
      • A source
      • A reason why it is applicable
      • Analysis (if applicable)
    • Student example(s). Ideal assignments will include at least one example of a finished assignment. In some cases, this means the Coach will need to create their own product for the example
    • Deliverable example(s). May include the expected presentation format
  • Response - Where students post deliverables
  • Presentation - Not included by default but can be added for assignments with multiple parts

Platform Collaboration

Often times when you're in a studio, you have a partner. A few questions arise: Who is going to post our work? Can we work on a post together? These questions can be answered by talking about the collaboration features on the Platform. Go to any post you've created and click on the gear in the top right. Go down to the bottom option in the drop down menu: Collaborators. From here, you can manage your Collaborators on your post. You can add and remove people from this list. Once added, that user will have editing privileges on your post. They can edit the post name, the body text and even the presentation. Be careful about editing at the same time. The last person to click "publish" after editing a post will override the content. See the video above for an example of this.

The Feed is an aggregation of all posts in a Studio. No content should be directly posted to the Feed, but should be posted into one of the categories above. You can use “@Student_Name” to see all posts by a specific student in the feed. Useful for reviewing a student's progress and daily assignments. 

After projects are established, the Project tab is where default student deliverables are to be posted.

• Documentation: Students create regular posts describing their project's progress (see below for posting instructions). Posts can have privacy settings which limit their visibility to project members or the studio as a whole. This is meant for ongoing updates, sketches, files, etc. Students can update this daily and include sketches and finished drawings and model photos. 
• Precedents
  • Design Precedents 
  • Technical Precedents
  • Post requirements
    • A source
    • A reason why it is applicable
    • Analysis (if appropriate)
  • Writing
    • Outline
    • Revisions
  • Portfolio - All posts here (except for the script, should be made public)
    • Final presentation post w/ final brief as the body text
    • Video of project
    • Script 

Resources are information, lectures, or tutorials for students that do not have a deliverable.

The name of the resource should be addended with the day of the studio it was taught in parenthesis. i.e.- Conceptual Precedents (2), Interviewing Skills (6)

• Precedents
  • A source
  • A reason why it is applicable
  • Analysis (if appropriate)
• Technical Information
  • In class tutorials
    • General enough to be taught elsewhere
    • Easy to follow
    • Clear Goals
    • Able to be understood independently
  • At home tutorials
    • Free standing
    • Ideally NuVu generated but outside content OK
    • Able to be understood and having a clear goal
    • High Quality
• Lectures
  • Have a clear scope
  • Be visually interesting
  • Should be on the platform. Prove Keynote, PPT, whatever source file

• Each afternoon coaches in each studio must:

  • Create a post in the Updates tab in which they write out exactly what is expected from the student that evening and where to post the information

  • “Notify All Participants” in the post. 

  • Be sure to link to location where you expect students to post

• Benefits

  • Clear understanding of pacing of studio after the fact

  • Clarity for students in where to look for homework

  • Clear deliverables for students for which they can be held accountable

Example: https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/studios/wearable-bioreactors/homeworks

Introduction

When a post is ready to be published, there are some final settings to consider at the bottom of the Create A Post view.

Privacy

When you publish a post, you have options for who will see the post. The default setting is usually School.

Project: Students explicitly listed as members of that Project.

Studio: Any student enrolled in your Studio.

School: Any student enrolled in the School.

Public: Visible to anyone who visits the link, no login required.

Comments

You can allow or disallow Comments on your posts by clicking the radio button. Any students enrolled in your Studio, along with Faculty and Staff, will be able to comment on a post. The default setting is Allow.

Notify Participants

Checking this radio button sends an email alert to everyone in the Studio or everyone in the Project, depending on where the post is located. 

Publish

At the bottom of the Create a Post window, you have three options:

Cancel

Cancels your draft post. No work is saved or preserved.

Save

Saves your post as a Draft. This Draft is only visible to you. If you add a collaborator to a draft post, they will be able to see it as well.

Posts that have been Saved as drafts appear only as a black title - no body of the post will be visible. Saved posts may also appear as Untitled Post in grey, if you did not title the post before Saving. Click the gear icon next to the title to edit this post or Publish.

Publish 

Publishes your post to the site. Post is visible to the user group defined under the Privacy setting. 

Refer to our Video Tutorials to learn more. Introduction to Creating Posts.

Introduction

Modifications to an existing Saved or Published post can be made by clicking the gear icon at the top right of the post. If no gear icon is visible, you do not have permissions to edit the post. 

Edit Post

You can edit a Saved or Published post by clicking on the gear icon and selecting Edit Post.

Delete Post

Deletes selected post from the site. If copies of the post exist elsewhere on the platform, they will be preserved.

Copy Post

You can copy this post to any location on the site where you have permission to create content. 

Click the Paste button (to the right of the Create a Post prompt bar) in the tab where you would like to place the copied post.

Collaborators

You can add Student collaborators to any post that you make. Adding another user as a collaborator means that they will be able to edit the post, and that the post will appear on their User Profile page. 

Note that only one user can edit a post at a time. Coordinate with your collaborators to ensure that you are not attempting to edit a post at the same time. 

Additional Info

If your post includes a presentation, a few more options are available.

Edit Presentation

Clicking Edit Presentation will take you directly to the slide editor. 

Export Presentation

Clicking Export Presentation will start a download for the selected presentation on your computer. Each slide will be exported into its own JPEG file with an encompassing folder for all the slides. 

Delete Presentation

Clicking Delete Presentation will delete the currently selected presentation. This is a permanent action and should be used sparingly. 

Toggle Header

Clicking Toggle Header will change the formatting at the top of a presentation. With a Header on, information such as: Profile Picture, Name, Date and Privacy settings are shown at the top of a presentation. With a Header off, all information shown with the header on will be hidden. The only information shown will be the name of the post.

The Google Form for bug reporting asks you to provide screenshots or videos of the bug.

This post will talk about the different ways to record or screenshot on your computer.

Windows:

On Windows 10, enable the Game Bar (Settings > Gaming > Game Bar). Next, type Windows Key + G.

Check out this guide for more info on Windows 10 Recording

Mac:

To open the Screenshot Toolbar type: Shift + CMD + 5. This will open up the toolbar at the bottom on your screen. 

See the Apple Forms for more information about the different options.

Both:

OBS is an excellent free software that can be used to record your screen. 

Download it at this link

Check out this tutorial to learn how to record

This form serves as a way for Coaches and Students to report bugs on the NuVu Platform. Please describe in detail what the issue is and upload video(s) or screenshot(s) of the issue in action. 

If you need to provide more info:

Reach out to Noah in-person, talk to your Coach to set up a meeting or email me at support@nuvustudio.org

https://forms.gle/CjBnvkifUAwihQpr5