Quick Start Guide


Video Tutorial
1. Registering an Account

An introduction to the BOLD Student Data Portal website. This video provides an overview of the system and describes how to register and create a course.

2. Submitting Data

This video follows the submission of a DNA barcode record from the specimen data all the way to the sequence. It focuses on the student interface, but it allows instructors to follow the steps students will need to undertake in order to create their records.

3. Overseeing a course

This video provides an overview of the tools available to instructors to monitor student work and participation. It also describes the steps needed in validating and approving student-generated data for publication on BOLD and GenBank.

 

Registering an Instructor Account

New instructors may create a BOLD-UNI account by visiting the Instructor Login page and choosing the 'Create Instructor Account' button.

Please note: Standard BOLD accounts cannot log in to BOLD-UNI. If you already have a standard BOLD account, you must use a new email address to sign up for a BOLD-UNI instructor account. If you no longer need your BOLD account and would like to convert it to a BOLD-UNI account, please contact us at uni@boldsystems.org.

Figure 3-1: Login screen for instructors, which can be accessed from the BOLD-UNI homepage by clicking on the instructors link.
Figure 3-2: Creating a new BOLD-UNI instructor account