Cirrus@Austlit

Signing up for Cirrus: how to sign up for your course / courses.

• Annotation Assignments: How to Start: how annotation assessment items look from your assessment page.
   
• Uploading your Own Item: how to upload an object for annotation by you, your peers, or your tutor.
   

• Text Annotation: how to complete a text annotation assignment.
   

• Image Annotation: how to complete an image annotation assignment.
   

• Video Annotation: how to complete a video annotation assignment.
   

• Audio Annotation: how to complete an audio annotation assignment.
   
• Editing Annotations: how to edit your annotations, including adding replies, images, and URLs.
   
• Downloading Your Assignment as a PDF: for upload to Turnitin or your ePortfolio.

Cirrus offers two types of exhibitions (long-form online writing): if you are using the standard exhibitions, please use the first five links below. If you are using the parallax exhibitions, please use the sixth link.

Both forms of exhibition download as PDFs in the same way.

If in doubt as to which type you are using, check the instructions: the two look very different and you will be able to spot which is which from the illustrated instructions.

• Exhibitions: How to Start: how starting an exhibition looks from your assessment page.
   
• Adding New Tabs to Your Exhibition: how to start building more detailed content for the exhibition.
   
• Using Tile Sets: add interactive tile sets to your exhibition as a way of presenting lists and slideshows.
   
• Adding Content to Your Exhibition: a step-by-step illustrated guide to the kinds of content available, and how to use them.
   
• Editing, Rearranging, and Deleting Existing Content: how to shape your exhibition into the most effective form.
   
• Creating a Parallax Exhibition: using the Cirrus platform to create elegant, scrolling, long-form writing.
   
• Downloading Your Assignment as a PDF: for upload to Turnitin or your ePortfolio.

• Working in the Digital Environment: how building an online exhibition differs from more traditional university assessment tasks, such as essays.

• Resources for Working in a Digital Environment: a series of open-access resources available for your research.

• Accessibility: notes on making your exhibition as accessible as possible for your readers.

We also recommend that you consider completing UQ Library's modules on working online:

• Writing for the Web (approx. 20 minutes).
   
• Finding and Using Media (approx. 30 minutes).

• Troubleshooting: having trouble with something? Check this section for our most commonly asked questions.

• Downloading Your Assignment as a PDF: for upload to Turnitin or your ePortfolio.

• Publishing your Work: some guidelines to what we look for when publishing student work, and how the publishing process will go.