Inviting Students

by jzawacki on September 12th, 2008

I just tried to have a class sign up so they could begin working on pages for our project, but when I click on “Have your students join you”, or when we go to trintuition.com/apply all we get is a message that says “oops . . . Sorry. There is no such group.” I guess I missed something in how to get students involved. I would appreciate any help you can give, as the students were all excited to get started and very disappointed when things didn’t work. Thank you.

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  1. Ron says September 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Thank you for a very important question! I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I was away over the weekend and not able to get online to find your question.

    Last week, we put up a new version of the workBench with much more powerful tools for managing users such as students (Userlist).

    We also changed the application process somewhat, so that there is a special application page for each group. When you create a group, you’re now given it’s address in the group management window. You don’t need any other information to have students apply.

    It should be one of the options in the browser’s preferences. When you are opening the workBench, you may be opening the older version saved in your computer rather than the new version, hence the mix up in messages. We have in fact gotten rid of the old generic application page. In order to access the new workBench and these new tools, you may have to empty cache in the browser.

    We’re in the process of changing this information in the text turorial materials. Take a look at the tutorial on groups, particularly this page:

    http://www.trintuition.com/tutorial/apply

    Sorry for the inconvenience. If you have any more difficulties, please jump right back here with a follow-up question.

    Ron

  2. Candace Hackett Shively says September 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am

    The quick way to be sure you are not looking at the “old” version of a web page is to do a “hard refresh” (Control key plus clicking Refresh button) while looking at the web page. thia avoids having to clear your cache (something many do not know how to do).

    I hope you will let us all know what happens when you do get your students going. Perhaps you want to “field test” with a guinea pig student on a computer at the back of your classroom before scheduling an entire lab or laptop cart and full class group. You probably have one student who would LOVE to be the “field tester” and who could them be a helpful expert during frantic first moments with an entire class. I see from our project records that you teach elementary aged students, and I know they enjoy such a role! (High school kids do, too, but they won’t admit it).

    Candy

  3. jzawacki says September 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    Thank you for the suggestions. For a number of reasons I was just able to get back to this.
    I have just signed up one of my classes and it seems to work well. I will put in the other soon and try the site out with my students at the end of the week. I will let you know how things go then.

    Jane

  4. Candace Hackett Shively says September 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Glad to hear you are on your way. I am sure other folks who teach at your level will be interested in hearing your tips and tricks as you find them.
    Candy

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