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 a Course

Each course must be registered independently with a unique course title. If the same course is being taught in different semesters, semester information should be included in the name to disambiguate the classes. The registration process involves the entry of institution and course information, as well as student names and email addresses (strict adherence to privacy policies is assured).


Figure 3-3: Registering a new course on BOLD-UNI

Collaborating instructors for courses can be chosen at this step, but instructors must already be registered with instructor logins through BOLD-UNI. Co-instructors have the same level of access to student data as the primary instructor.

Once registered, the instructor will be provided with student login information for the course. Every student within that course will use the same account information (username and password) to access the site and to submit/analyze their data. The use of a single account simplifies the management of accounts for instructors, without compromising their ability to track contributions made by individual students.