The Project Description is  1-2 sentence project description that appears in your transcript. 

It should be:

1-2 Sentences (written in the third person) that clearly and objectively identifies the project and its use. Do NOT include the name of the project in the description. This should be your clearest, best and most concise writing as it will be seen by colleges, your parents, and your home school. Eventually, it will also appear under the project title for all the world to see.

Samples:

• A portable heated IV for extreme climate situation and/or high altitude climbers suffering from hypothermia or dehydration.
• A sculptural device that helps users practice the slow movement associated with Tai Chi by incorporating speed sensors into lit wooden dodecahedrons and leading the practitioner through a formal sequence.    

To edit the Description:

• Click on the gear next to your Project Name
• Scroll down to "Description for Transcript"
• Enter the description
• Click "Save"

The website is an online place to receive announcements and homework assignments, have online group discussions, post student projects, and share useful resources. The site is optimized to allow for images, videos, text, and other media. It is also optimized for collaborative work based on a project system. Think of it as a virtual appendage to the studio space.

You can use the site to:

• share studio information and announcements centrally and per section
• share your ongoing project with studio peers and instructors
• archive different projects in the form of an online portfolio
• share resources like precedent projects, inspirational images, articles etc.
• collect project images to make presentations

Initial Starting Instructions:

Log in

• Go to https://karam.nuvustudio.com
• Click on Login on the top right hand corner of the page. 
• Click on “Forgot Password”
• Enter your email address
• You will get an email with instructions to reset your password (please be sure to check your JUNK folder if the email does not arrive)
• Click on the link and it will take you to a page where you can create a password.
• After creating a password, you will be logged in automatically.

Profile

Once logged in, click on your name in the upper right hand corner and choose EDIT PROFILE. Under AVATAR, click CHOOSE FILE and choose a representative image. A headshot image works the best. This will serve to help learn names and create a graphical experience on the web page. You can fill in short bio information, etc. as you’d like.

Site Organization:

Studio Page

In the main Karam 101 Studio page, there are (6) basic tabs:

• Feed: A feed of all posts within the studio. This is searchable by username (using @Name), studio specific tags (using #tag), and general search.
• Info: Posts about the Studio. This includes the studio description and fundamental introductory information about course structure. Only instructors can post here.
• Announcements: Can be used for general announcements about the course including homework, cancellations, special events, etc. Only instructors can post here.
• Assignments: Each student Challenge is posted here in sequential order. Only instructors can post here. Each Assignment has two tabs:
  • Challenge
    • A description of the challenge, prerequisites, support material, institutions, etc. 
    • A tutorial on how to complete the challenge
  • Examples: Examples of completed student work for the particular challenge
• Learning Resources: Lectures, tutorials, and useful technical information are posted here within lesson blocks.  Many of these lessons support the Challenges found in the Assignments tab. Only instructors can post here.
• Projects: Projects are where design work can be logged, organized, and presented. Each student had a single project for all of their design assignments.
  • Projects are, by default, visible to the entire class. Only the owner  of the project can post in the project, but others can comment (unless the privacy settings exclude them.) 
  • Clicking on the gear next to the project allows you to change the name, choose a representative image from posts within the projects, and make basic changes. 
  • Projects are divided into four tabs: Updates, Resources, Portfolio, and Writing (Note the default thumbnail image will go away once you start posting pictures. You can also choose a representative image for the project as described in the Other Features section below.)
    • Process: Process is where 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.
    • Resources: This is where students within the project can collect and share content students have not created such as precedents, inspirational images and readings etc. specifically related to their project.  
    • Portfolio: This tab is meant for final work. It can be used to make special curated posts (students can do this at the end of the project or for reviews etc.) which can be used in presentations or set for public (world) viewing. This tab should ONLY have posts for final work and students should have (1) post for each assignment. Students can access images from other posts (see below) and DO NOT need to re-upload images.
    • Writing: This tab is where students can post writing assignments for feedback or workshopping.  For example, "The Brief" is a writing assignment in all studios. Students post their drafts in the Writing tab for feedback and post the final version insert the Portfolio Tab.  

Creating and editing Posts:

The site is post based. In general, every post should have visual content. If you are posting a link to a website with images or a video, you should post some of the images directly onto the platform. The information below applies to all areas of content creation.

• Anytime you want to make a new post simply click inside the box where it says "Enter Title Here"
• You can add text in the text box and use formatting options.
• If your instructor has specified tags, you can select and add them to your post from a list below the text box.
• Use the images icon to pick and image from your hard drive
• Use the existing images icon to pick an image from either elsewhere on the site or another URL.
  • When posting in a project, existing images can be chosen from any tab within that project. This is useful for creating presentations in the Final tab.
  • When posting in a studio wide tab, images can be chosen from all posts within the studio.
  • To fetch images from another site, click on Existing Images, then From Another Site and enter the url. Not all sites are compatible with the fetcher, and images must have a minimum resolution of 500px in either direction.
• Use the embed icon to embed youtube and vimeo videos
• Use the file icon to place a pdf or other file types
• Use the video icon to add a video from your hard drive.
• Once your images are uploaded, you can edit the post and add captions or rearrange images.
  • To add captions or titles to the images, edit the post and fill in the fields next to each image. Titles and captions will appear under the image in the post. This is a good tool for presentations and labels. 
  • To reorder images, edit the post and click and drag on an image to reorder it up or down.
• Tags are to help organize information.  They are defined by the Instructor and can be chosen when a student makes or edits a post. To tag a post, click on the tags at the bottom of the text box.
• You cannot combine photos and videos in a single post. 

To edit, delete or copy a post, change its privacy settings, or copy its link, simply click on the little wheel icon on the top right hand side of the post.  

Once you have copied a post you can paste it into another section (for example you can copy a post from your updates tab and paste it into portfolio). To paste click on the little three bar icon on the right of the menu bar and if you have already copied a post and it is in your clipboard you should get the option of pasting it in.

Other Features:

Navigating the site

• Clicking on the NuVu icon in the upper left will return you to your School’s homepage.
• When in the Tab view, simply navigate between tabs.
• When in a Project view, click on the Studio image on the right navigation bar to return you to the studio.
• Clicking on the Three Bars next to your name in the upper right corner of the screen gives you a list of Studios you are a member of.
• Clicking on your name in the upper right corner brings you to your profile page and a list of projects you are a member of.
• Clicking on the Gears Icon brings you to options for the post/project. 

Managing Posts

Pasting, Compressing, Sorting & Arranging of posts is controlled by clicking on three bars to the right of the tabs. 

• To paste a post, copy the post as described in the Editing Posts section above. Navigate to the page where you would like to post, Click on the Three bars and select Paste Post.
• Posts can be compressed for easier viewing of topics by selecting Compress.
• Posts can be sorted alphabetically or by date and is not persistent.  
• Posts can be arranged by clicking Arrange. Posts will automatically compress.  You can then drag and drops posts into the order you wish. When you are finished, click Done Arranging at the bottom of the post list. This new order is persistent and arranged posts will appear above new posts.

Representative images

Representative images can be chosen for a project by clicking on the settings gear

Tags

Tags are to help organize information.  They are defined by the Instructor and can be chosen when a student makes a post. To tag a post, click on the tags at the bottom of the text box.

To search available tags, click on the TAG icon at the top of the feed. The feed can be filtered to show only posts with certain tags. This is useful for assignments (eg, a tag that says Assignment 1), or for types of drawings (eg sections, plans, etc.)

The instructor can create tags by clicking on the gear next to the studio name.

Privacy Settings

ALL posts have privacy settings. This allows some things to be shared with other students (notes, resources, assignments) OR for the post only to be visible to the student and the instructors (ie-completed homework assignment.)

• Only Me: Only the student/coach who posts and the instructor can see.
• Project: Everyone in the project and instructor can see. If you are the only person in the project, this acts like Private.
• Studio: This is the default. All students and instructor can see.
• School: Everyone within the school (karam.nuvustudio.com) can see.
• Public: Everyone on the web (with the proper URL can see.)

Notifications

At the bottom of each post there is a checkbox that says Notify participants of this update. This will send an email to members of the class or project.  This is useful for sending class-wide announcements (for posts in the Studio or Topics tabs) or members of an individual project (for posts in the Projects tab.)