How to prepare a Rotisserie session

This section provides guidance for instructors preparing new Rotisserie sessions for new classes.

You may either reuse the questions we are providing in this course, or start preparing your own questions. You should be organizing the dates when these questions will be sent to your students and the deadlines they will have to respect to answer those questions. Two examples of calendar are available, one with one module per day, one with one module per month, depending on the availabilities of your participants.

While the self-taught course does not foresee live tutoring or moderation of answers to substantial copyright questions from the learners, or evaluate their answers, the Rotisserie platform hosting assignments is meant to ensure sustainable self-training and interactive discussion without heavy administrative or technical intervention during the sessions. If desirable, an administrator can modify the Rotisserie deadlines or add more rounds, for instance, if one question raises an interesting discussion that deserves to be continued after the initial deadline.

For more information, please visit the Help section of the Rotisserie.

Create an account

The first thing you should do to join the Rotisserie platform is create an account. Follow the instructions to register and create your login:

1. Go to the Rotisserie website;

2. Click on the link “Register now”;

3. Fill in the form with your personal information or with information about your institution; (It is important that you fill in the Time Zone space with the following information)

4. After filling in the form, select the “Register” button;

5. Read the “General Registration License” and select the button “I accept the policy”;

6. In another window, check your email and read the “Registration Confirmation Email” message sent to the email address that you typed into the form;

7. Using the “Confirmation Key” in the email you received, type in your new password and select the button “Activate Password”.

8. You are logged in and all set to start creating your own Rotisserie. All you need to do is start preparing the questions, or reusing the questions we are providing in this course, and organizing the dates when these questions will be sent to your students and the deadlines they will have to respect to answer those questions according to the calendar

Creating a project

1. After having created your account in the Rotisserie, go to the Overview page and select the “Create a project” link;

2. Fill in the form with the project's name, the starting and ending dates, the registration deadline, affiliation and keywords. After having written your project's description and settled your preferences in the project's options section, select the button create a project.

3. Go through the Project Licence Agreement and answer if you agree or not with the terms presented to you;

4. After having prepared your project, it is time to fill in the available sections on the Rotisserie;

Filling in the Rotisserie and setting up the questions

1. The Rotisserie offers many options: project home, syllabus, reading, resources, rotisserie discussions, message boards, and manage project. You may, but do not have to, use all the options. We have chosen to use the Rotisserie discussion option to host answers to assignments.

2. Select each of these topics and click on the Edit links to fill in each page according to what you intend to indicate on your project page.

3. To set up the questions for your course, select “Rotisserie Discussions”.

4. Select "Add a Rotisserie Discussion".

5. Fill in the options available in the "Create Rotisserie" section, and create as many rounds of discussions as you want.

6. To select the response type, the type of routing and/or to add a poll for each round, select “Manage”.

7. When setting up the schedule for the beginning of the Rotisserie, be aware that once the Rotisserie starts, there is no gap between each round. Whenever a round ends (according to the selected due dates), the next round will begin, launching a new question to the participants e-mails. Rounds dates may be modified before the end of the round.

8. After having organized the Rotisserie, select “Create Rotisserie”.

Quick Access

• Connexions
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The textbook modules are available on Connexions, but can also be accessed on this wiki

• Module 1
• Module 2
• Module 3
• Module 4
• Module 5
• Module 6
• Module 7