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Team collaboration space is open!

Today we have expanded our Campus Innovation Center to include a collaboration space for the student teams participating in our Challenge. This is being launched as a pilot being run through RBC Applied Innovation. Sometime on Monday Nov 17th, all the students registered for the Challenge will receive an invitation to register for the Campus Innovation Center, powered by Igloo Software, subject line “You Are Invited”. This is completely optional; if any students have an established or preferred method to collaborate they should continue to use it. If not, or they want to help with the pilot, they can give this “space” a try.

What can we do with it?

Teams will be able to edit the team’s space, share documents and discuss in a team forum. And only the members of that team have access to the specific team’s space. At the end of the Challenge (shortly after Dec 5th) the collaboration spaces will be closed. We’ll send an evaluation out to anyone who uses the space and community to gather their feedback. REMEMBER this is an optional, experimental collaboration space. We cannot guarantee all data, be sure to back up your files in an alternate location.

The Public Space:

The public area of the Campus Innovation Center is dedicated to showcasing innovation at Canadian colleges and universities. The public space, featuring a few universities who provided some seed material, is an open forum. Please feel free to share and comment, and to tell others about it. Once you’ve signed up for the team space you are a member of the community as a whole and you can upload and comment on the Campus Innovation material too! Not on a student team? You can sign up for access to the Campus Innovation Center and be able to fully participate in the public discussion and contribute to a school’s profile.

How do I get to my Team space?

We included the team space sign up instructions in an advance email, but I thought I would repeat them here.

Sign up and login instructions for your team space:
1. Click the link in the Igloo invitation email.
2. Complete fields as required: Name, email address, password and “captcha” security code.
3. On the Community home page select Teams from the top navigation options.
4. Scroll down to until you see a folder marked “Group 1”, “Group 2” etc. in the document repository at the bottom of the page. Click this folder. (NOTE: If you are not logged in you will not be able to see Group or Team Folders.)
5. From the Group # page select the folder named for your team from the document repository and enter your team space.
6. Enter your team space.
7. (recommended) Bookmark this page.
8. (recommended) Review the features of Igloo collaboration spaces.

Your team folder has a copy of the Innovation Challenge submission template in the document repository.

You have full edit rights to your space and can alter it as you see fit. Only your team mates and the RBC Applied Innovation administrator can view this space, but please keep the content professional and appropriate. I’ll stress once more that this is an optional space; feel free to collaborate in whatever fashion you and your group feel works for you. But we’d love for a few teams to try this one out and tell us what they think.

Posted by Tim on November 17, 2008 1:49 PM

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