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

Welcome to the fourth monthly user update (10/4/2021)!

In this user update for the NuVu Platform, we've looked to add some critical new features to the website. The Toolbox, updates to the Grading System, Transcripts, the Template Hub and much more have all been added since the last update a month and a half ago. This change log encompasses the updates from the middle of August to the beginning of October.


Summary/TLDR of New Features:

  • The Toolbox

  • Grading System Updates

  • Transcripts

  • The Template Hub

  • Hidden Tabs

  • Slide Editor Actions on the Front End


FEATURES ADDED
BUGS FIXED

  • Updated colors for collaborators and increased font size
  • Table letter and line spacing 
  • Text weight menu stylistic change (NuVu Pink added!)
  • Only Me Privacy setting makes posts only visible to the user (even NuVu Admins can't see it!)
  • Line tool got reworked, works much better now
  • Inserting a template gives you feedback while it's working
  • Template hub lets you create studio or personal templates
  • Hidden sub-tabs 
  • Updating inactive students list
  • Only School admins can delete a studio now
  • Updates to sidebar for coach level permissions

  • Table typing issues when outside of a cell
  • Table row issues
  • Table column selection issues
  • Deleting content from inside of tables issues
  • Horizontal Distribution stopped working and has been fixed
  • Cursor Movement Issues when editing collaboratively
  • Slide Duplication and object insertion issues 
  • Text object opacity issues with showing up in studio view
  • Selecting group objects and moving them bugs
  • Slide thumbnail not updating correctly
  • Hidden Tabs appearing on feed tab
  • Cmd+x now works properly between slides
  • Template Hub bouncing you to home page if you don't have admin permissions



Check back next month for more information! Feel free to contact us with thoughts, concerns, request, etc. at noah@nuvustudio.org

-Noah Saldaña, Platform Coordinator

Introduction

With so many upload options and buttons, it often gets confusing on what to upload and where. This post will serve as an introduction to what file formats we support and where to upload. Images, Embeds and Files are all covered in this post. 


Image Formats
Our website supports JPEG, PNG and GIFs. This includes uploading via the Media button or directly in the Slide Editor. These main three formats should encompass all file types that our users will be using. If there are file formats that you wish to have added, please contact us at support@nuvustudio.org.

Embeds
Content that needs to be shared from another site is best added to our website via embeds. Embedding content is most useful when adding content to your presentation such as: Youtube or Vimeo videos and Google Docs. Youtube or Vimeo videos will appear as an embedded video, ready to click and watch. Google Docs will appear as an embedded document. You'll be able to scroll through it, but not edit. Make sure your Google Doc link is set to public viewing before embedding it or it will not appear. 

Attaching a File

Rhino, Illustrator, Unity or other files that need to be uploaded and shared within a studio should be attached. This allows other users to quickly download content you want to share. 

Introduction

This post serves as a transition from the old to the new slide editor. It will highlight the main differences and main improvements made in the new iteration of the slide editor. Lastly, it will be a broad overview of the differences, to see much more in-depth information on what the new editor has to hold, check out the information in the Guides and Documentation tabs of this studio.