Title: Tips for Teachers - "Getting started"
Course: US Election 2012 - Leuphana Copy > Section: Getting started

There are several activities to get to know this kind of online-work together with your students. For the warm-up we have provided a chain of activities which are mostly linked by "conditions". This means: only if your students have done one thing, they can go on doing the next thing.

This is how it goes:

1. Ask your students to write their personal profiles. There is a short explanation Introduce yourself to the project. For support you might want to open up the sample profiles, which are hidden. To do this
  - Turn editing on - in the upper right corner of the page
  - click on the "closed eye" next to the greyed-out activity to "open" the eye and make the example visible.
2. Look at some profiles together in class, discuss and approve.
3. Ask your students to answer at least one of the questions in the forum Your knowledge and impressions about the U.S. election 2012.
4. After they have saved their post, the Trial Vote becomes available to them. Ask them to vote, then, in the settings of this choice, limit the possibilty to vote again by setting an end-date. So you have something to discuss at the end of the project and after the election.
5. After the Trial Vote some general resources reflecting the opinion of experts become available for further study.

If you want to limit the access to certain resources and activities during the project, you yourself can

- make activities and resources invisible or visible by closing and opening the "eye" next to the link on the course page,
- control access by setting conditions (date, grade, number of forum posts, etc.) on the settings page for the activity or resource.