Information about the Rotisserie Session

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Rotisserie registration information

Here are registration instructions for participating in the online assignments and discussions that will take place in the Rotisserie when a session is open according to the calendar

Create an account

The first thing you should do to join the Rotisserie platform is to create an account in order to be able to log in to the Copyright for Librarians course Rotisserie project. Follow the instructions to register and create your login:

1. Go to the Rotisserie main website;

2. Click on the link “Register now”;

3. Fill in the form with your personal information or with information about your institution;

The login you choose will appear next to your answers, so now is a good moment to decide whether you want to choose a pseudonym or choose a login close to your name so that your colleagues will recognize you later during the discussion.

Please remember your login and password as you will need them to participate in the assignment and discussion sessions after each module.

It is important that you fill in the Time Zone space with your country or city information because deadlines are synchronized between all participants and should end at the same time for everybody, regardless of where you are located.

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 now registered and all set to start following a course on the Rotisserie. Now you have to choose our course.

Join the Copyright for Librarians project

1. Once you are logged into the Rotisserie as a registered participant, search for the Copyright for Librarians course project. You may click on “Browse projects” or directly go to the project which has been designed for your session eIFL's first session project is available here

2. Click on the link “Join to this project”.

3. After having proceeded with these steps, you will be part of the Assignment and discussion activities of the course. Whenever it is time for you to do homework and contribute to the Rotisserie discussions, you will receive H2O-Rotisserie e-mails giving you a warn.

4. When you receive the H2O-Rotisserie email, you should click on the link that was sent to you in the body of the email, wait for a browser window to open on your screen, then login into the Rotisserie website, and type the answer to the question you receive.

The H2O-Rotisserie email will inform you of the deadline. If you fail to answer any of the discussion topics within the stipulated period of time, your answers will not be part of the discussion in question.

Please pay attention to the way you address your colleagues and, also, trying to be as clear as possible in your answers, so others can profit from your ideas.


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