Create a new room
If it is not relevant for you to create rooms, but instead go directly to one or more rooms that are already complete with furnishing and participants, however, it may still be sensible to look through the steps below to give you an insight into some of the options - select what is suitable.
Rooms are created by finding this option in the room selector:
If this option is missing, it means that you do not have the right to create rooms. To change this you need to get in contact with the person who administers Fronter.
You may be aware that each room has got a set of tools in the left margin - furnishings. To create a new room you have to do the following:
- Choose where to place the room (choose relevant corridor)
- Enter an easily recognisable room name
- Choose a piece of furniture (tool package in the left margin)
The placing/ corridor will be self evident if the institution has got a well-organised structure. You choose from the drop down menu:
In this case we will create a subject room for English year 6: Because we are manually creating this room as opposed to rooms automatically generated by MIS import, this room is being created in a corridor within the area of 'manually created corridors/rooms'. (1). Notice that the concept Organisation Unit is used for corridor. Then you have to enter the room name (marked (2)). Choose a sensible room name.
The fields Duration and Description are optional and only meant as informative fields.
Give the room a description.
This is particularly important if you are going to allow the room to be seen by other Fronter users via the FronterBridge functionality. When browsing available Fronter Bridge rooms the description will then give you useful information about the room and what you can expect to find there. We would advice that you also ad in the name of you school. Use the Fronter Editor if you want to make the description little more catchy (this is often the first text/picture the participants see when they enter a room). The description field in the room can be switched off via Customise room today option in the dropdown menu at the frontpage. Tick off View room description.
The tool list is chosen from the drop down menu marked (3). Here are a number of templates for you to use, but you need to know what they contain before you make your choice. The administrator can make such tool lists to fit in with your particular institution/ department. - make sure this happens!
Then we make sure there is a tick in the field marked (4). What you will achieve is that the archive tool, which is frequently used to organise the subject matter will be extended to its full width. This will become clearer when we look at the use of the room a little later in this course.
