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Organizer
TO SETUP A NEW CONFERENCE:
Faculty can setup a conference for their classroom, Staff can setup conferences for their departments.
- Read the Organizer Manuals:
- Organizer Duties & Responsibilities
- Organizer
Start-up Guide
- Organizer How-to
Guide
- Organizer
Managing Your Conference
- Rules and
Etiquette
- Policies & Guidelines
- Request organizer privileges and a new conference from the Caucus Conference Request Form by clicking on the button at the bottom of the CAUCUS CENTER homepage.
- Information Needed:
- name of conference(one word - no spaces)
- userid of the primary organizer
- open or closed conference?
- userid of other organizers (if wanted)
- listed or unlisted
- You will receive email notifying when your conference is ready, then you can
join your new conference - click on the 'customize' button to customize your
conference. You can make changes at any time.
How to Customize??
- Decisions to Make - Click on box to activate or deactivate
- Open or closed conference: If your conference is closed, you will have to obtain the userid of members and add them to your member list. (you can make it open, then close it after members have joined)
- read only or allow members
to post responses
- allow users to add items or not
- allow users to edit their own responses
- make conference name visible to
non members or visible to members only
- Prepare greeting (shows each time) and welcome (shows initial time)
- Enter Conference description and add any additional beginning material
- Announce conference in the 'Invite' conference if you want visibility and want
to extend an invitation to join your conference to the entire campus.
- Faculty can have their conferences 'open' so that their students can join, then can 'close' the conference, so it will be private for their class only.
Pearls of wisdom in setting up conferences:
- Minimize the number of items, especially initially. It is your
decision on whether to allow members to add items or not. You can
structure the conference to suit your needs.
- Make purpose clear in conference introduction or first item; set
rules for participation.
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