How to prepare a Rotisserie session

How to prepare a Rotisserie session

In this section, we give you guidance of how to prepare the Rotisserie.

Creating an account:

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;

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, go to 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” from you email, 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 got to do is start preparing the questions and organizing the dates when these questions will be sent to your students.

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 Rotisserieand setting up the questions

1.The Rotisserie offers you many options: project home, syllabus, reading, resources, rotisserie discussions, message boards, and manage project.

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

3.To set up the questions for your course, select “Rotisserie Discussions” and, then, “Add a Rotisserie Discussion”.

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

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

6.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.

7.After having the Rotisserieorganized, select “Create Rotisserie”.

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