Registering an user on the virtual platform is done from the front page (hei4future.dk). Everyone may register and all users have administrator priviliges, this means that all users may also admin other users and manage content. Please note that the "Forgot" email is not working. If you forget your email and login you must contact a colleague to help administrate the user.

Logging into the system is done from the front page (hei4future.dk). If you forget your password please reach out to a colleague who is already added to the platform.

Please note that this features has not been implemented yet.

Searching is the main functionality in the Virtual Platform. A search may be performed from all pages within the system. A search is typically done to find a resource or be inspired to find new resources for a particular topic. When a search has been completed the main area in the User Interface (UI) is displaying the search results. The user may now filter the content (using the left side pane) or interact with the resource by clicking the resource.

The resources filter in the left hand side is used to filter the search results. By checking a checkbox the results will filter and only the results with the selectec filter will be displayed.

Tags are also a way of filtering the results. Tags are automatically added to a result based on the aggregated tags derived from the communities that a resource belongs to. Read more about this in the "fingerprint" section.

The languages are used to filter based on languages. Please note that for the filter to work it is required that a resource is tagged with a language. This is typically done when you add the resource through the Google Chrome Extension.

The search results are the center part of the main pane. The search results displays various information about each resource. The resource is typically tagged with some types, tags and languages. If these are available then this information is also displayed in the search results. Please note that in the bottom of the search results a list of communities that also matches the search phrase is displayed. The user is able to research further into a community or follow a single resource into the details about this resource. If the users enters a community then the user is able to add themselves to that particular community.

This section contains information about your own profile, your username etc.

This is a list of the communities that you are a part of. You may join communities or leave communities as you wish. Private communities can not be joined, the owner need to add you.

This is a list of all the resources that you have added to the platform. This means that if you use the Google Chrome Plugin and add a lot of new resources, then you can always find your own contributions in this list.

This list of communities is a list of all the communities that you are currently a participant in. Clicking on the community takes you to that community and you may interact with it here. Inside a community you have a list of resources that belong to this community. Once inside a community all the resources inside this community are related and affected by the tags of the community.

The central part of a community consists of all the resources that are available inside this community. These are resources that the members of this community has added to the community and as such they are related under this community. This relationship might be usefull in other situations, because this may inspire other users of the virtual platform to find new resources and be inspired to maybe explore new content and other (related) topics.

The tags inside a community may one of the most important elements. The tags are used to determine the context of this community. The tags are a type of description of a community. The tags are important, because they are used to describe all the resources inside this community. All resources within a community will also be tagged with these tags. It is not possible to tag a resource directly, because they must always be a collaborative effort to tag a resource. The same resource may be in several different communities and will be tagged differently. This is a central mechanism and this is used to help you as a member to be inspired by a resource by seing that the same resource is also tagged with tags that may not be related directly to the topic that you lecture about. This "signature" og tags on a single resource is later referred to as a "fingerprint".

The members part is the members that are a part of this community. The members of the community will also have this community in their list of available communities in the main search engine. It is possible to add new members - this is especially usefull when the community is a private community.

The notes are a way of supporting a community with the ability to write textural notes for a single community. The notes may be quick notes available for the entire community, schedules, agendas og todo lists for this community. This is the only way you can add your own content to a community - other resources must already exist on the internet.

The Resources and Languages section contains information about how the categories of resources are within the community. A resource may be categorised as a "Video", "Article" or something entirely different. This may be done manually on each resource. When a resource is added it is also tagged with the language of the resource. This language is automatically read from the online resource and added to the resource in the database.

The inspiration is a list of resources that are related to the resources that already exists within the community. This list of inspiration is calculated based on how many tags other resources have in common with this community - and the resource is not already inside this community. This means that every time a member of the platform adds a resource to a community this list of inspiration is updated and becomes more and more relevant for this community.

Clicking a single resource that resource is shown along with information about when (and by who) it was added to the platform. It is also possible to set the "category" of the resource, that is - is it a video, an article or something else. This list of categories may be added in the administration part of the system. The title, description and any language of this resource is added automatically when a resource is added to the platform and read directly from the web page. It is possible to edit some of these settings - others are locked.

The "Fingerprint" of this resource is the list of tags shown in the bottom. This fingerprint is the single most important part of this virtual platform. This is the derived tags for this resource. These tags represents the aggregated tags of all the communities where this resource is added. The list is sorted descending after how "important" each tag is - that is how many times the resource is a part of a community with a specific tag. Hovering the mouse on each tag shows a percentage of how many times this resource is a part of a community with the given tag. A resource with only a single tag of "Manufacturing" on 100% means that this resource in solely inside communities that is tagged with "Manufacturing". The majority of all the resources will have a long list of tags with various percentages. Clicking a tag will perform a search only within this given tag. This "Fingerprint" is used to generate inspiration for others and for other users to examine a single resource and see that this resource is tagged with "Leadership" on e.g. 12% would inspire the user or make the user wonder why an article on "Manufacturing" may be tagged with "Leadership". This is to inspire further collaboration with the lecturers / professors that lecture in "Leadership" and start to work cross-departmental.

The administration is typically used by an administrator to modify resources within the system. This is the area where you have full control over everything inside the system and may add, delete or update all the parts of the system.

The dashboard holds a simple overview of how many resources, types, tags, communities (workspaces) and users are in the system.

The list of resources represents all the resources within the system and allows a full overview and edit the resources directly.

The types represents the different types that each resouces may be categorised as (e.g. video, article, youtube, etc.). This list is then available inside the search engine of the system when looking at a single resource.

The tags represents all the tags that may be added directly to a community, this is also the only place typos may be fixed on a tag.

The list of communities represents all the different communities in the system, a full overview where it is also possible to edit and manage each community.

The different users are added in the system here. It is possible to add new users or change the password of an existing user. NOTE! this is the only place where a usser may change the password - but it also allows you to change the password for other users as well. This separation of roles has not been added to the system.

The Google Chrome Plugin is used as a quick access to adding resources from the internet into the platform. When an user "stumlpes" over an interesting article on the Internet a single click on this Google Chrome Plugin allows you to added it to the platform and make it a part of one or more of your own communities.

Installing the Google Chrome Plugin may be done from the Install page

The Google Chrome Plugin must know who you are as an user and as such you need to "Log in" to the Google Chrome Plugin. This process is simple and is not protected by security measures. All you need to do is to provide your email (it assumes that you are already an active member in the virtual platform).

Clicking the plugin in your browser allows you to add this resource to the system (you will be able to find it in your list of resources after) and select which of your communities it should be a part of.