Scholar Guest User Guide

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1 Scholar Guest User Guide Contents Scholar Guest Account Access Scholar Guest Password Resetting Forgotten Scholar Guest Password 2 Changing Scholar Guest Password 3 Changing Guest Name in the Scholar System My Workspace Tools Membership Tool 5 Preferences Tool 6 Profile Tool 8 Resources Tool 10 Announcements Tool 10 Calendar Tool 11 Layout Features Message of the Day 13 Help 13 Calendar 14 Message Center Notifications 14 Recent Announcements 15

2 Scholar Guest Account Access As a guest to the Scholar system, you will receive an from the Scholar system giving a password to log into Scholar at The account address will be your username and you will use the password provided by the . You can reset this password and will learn how to do so in the next step. You will find the login screen in the top right corner of the Scholar screen. Click Guest Login to enter your login information. You will then be taken to the Guest Login screen. User ID: (example) guest@mail.net Password: (example) Scholar Guest Password Resetting Forgotten Scholar Guest Password 1. Click Reset Password on the Guest Login Screen pictured above, OR, 2. Go to a. Type the address you were originally sent the password to and click Send Password in the Reset non-vt Password box in the bottom right corner.

3 Changing Scholar Guest Password 1. Log into with your address and the password given to you. 2. Click on Account under the My Workspace tab 3. Click Modify Details 4. Type your new password in the Create New Password text box 5. Type the password again in the Verify New Password text box. 6. Click Update Details.

4 Changing Guest Name in the Scholar System The Scholar Guest Account displays the user as the address used to log in to the system. The Scholar guest can modify the account to show first and last name. This will NOT change the Scholar Guest Username. To change Guest Name in the Scholar system: 1. Log into with your address and the password given to you. 2. Click on Account under the My Workspace tab 3. Click Modify Details 4. Type your first name in the First Name text box 5. Type your last name in the Last Name text box 6. Click Update Details. My Workspace Tools Membership Tool The Membership tool displays all of the sites you currently have access to and sites that you can join. My Current Sites: To remove yourself from a site you no longer wish to be a member of, place a checkmark in the box next to the name of the site and click Unjoin.

5 Joinable Sites: You can search and join any of the sites listed. Place a check mark next to the name of the site you want to join and click Join. Preferences Tool The Preferences tool allows you customize your tabs, edit how you wish notifications to be sent to you, and change the language and time zone of Scholar. My Active Sites & My Hidden Sites: To change the number of active site tabs displayed, use the drop-down menu next to Tabs displayed. To make an active site hidden, click on the site within the My Active Sites window, then click on the arrow pointing towards the My Hidden Sites window. Click Update Preferences to finalize the change.

6 Notification Settings: To change the Announcements, Resources and Dropbox, Syllabus, and Archive notification settings, click Notifications, click the corresponding radio button options you prefer, then click Update Preferences. Language Settings: To change the language of Scholar, click Language then select the language you prefer. Click Update Preferences to finalize the change.

7 Profile Tool The Profile tool allows you to interact with other students, instructors, teaching assistants, and any other user on scholar. The following features are available: My Profile- You can add personal information. Search- You can find people. Privacy- You can set security settings.

8 Connections- You can see the people you interact with. Preferences- You can edit notifications setting for your profile. Resources Tool The Resources tool allows you upload and share important content with other users of your course or project site. The Resources tool allows you to create, share and upload the following items: Text documents HTML pages Citation lists Web links Images For more information on how to utilize this tool more indepth, please peruse the Inline Help within Scholar.

9 Announcements Tool The Announcements tool allows you to view all of your announcements from work sites. To change the view: Use the drop-down menu next to view in the upper left corner of the Announcements window. Select All, Group, or Public to view your Announcements in different categories. To change the number viewable on the page: Use the drop-down menu that says show 10 items... in the upper right corner of the Announcements window. Select Show 5 items..., Show 10 items..., Show 20 items..., Show 50 items..., Show 100 items..., or Show 200 items... to display the correlating number of announcements on your screen. Calendar Tool Calendar allows instructors or site organizers to post items in a calendar format. The calendar has day, week, month, year, and flat list views. You have the following capabilities within the Calendar tool: To add events: Click Add. Enter the information you wish to display, then click Save Event.

10 To merge calendars with course or project sites you are already a member of: Click Merge. Check the boxes that you wish to merge calendars with, then click Save. To change calendar permissions: Click Permissions. Check the boxes you wish to have permissions to, then click Save. permissions to change some settings to your calendar. Note: You may not have the

11 Layout Features Message of the Day This feature appears on the Scholar log-on screen or your home screen on the top left side of the page. It is a helpful tip produced by the Scholar team. Help The Help button is a set of documentation on all the different tools and features of Scholar. It appears as a blue question mark on Scholar and is found in two ways: 1 Found in the upper left corner of a box. 2 Found on the left-side tool bar.

12 Calendar The Calendar tool allows instructors or site organizers to post items in a calendar format. The calendar has day, week, month, year, and flat list views. To Change Your Calendar s View: Use the "View" drop-down menu to select Calendar by Day, Calendar by Week, Calendar by Month, or Calendar by Year. To view all of your scheduled activities in a list, click List of Events. Message Center Notifications The Message Center Notifications window is found on your My Workspace home. It lists the all of the messages that all your work sites post. You can click on any message to view the whole transcript.

13 Recent Announcements The Recent Announcements window is found on your My Workspace home. It lists all of the recent announcements that all your work sites post. To change the view: Use the drop-down menu next to view in the upper left corner of the Announcements window. Select All, Group, or Public to view your Announcements in different categories.