Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
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Anthony Hersh provided the majority of the instruction to professors and students throughout the project. "Back end" support was provided by Dr. William Deal. The emphasis of the approach was given to showing the students how to use the tools by creating structure and content in class. We created real and sample Scalar web pages in class with no steps left out. After the basics were introduced the instructions were predominately led by the student's questions and intentions related to their developing projects. Our approach evolved as we learned what the students needed to learn and wanted out of the software solution.