Quick Start Guide
Video Tutorial
1. Registering an Account

An introduction to the BOLD Student Data Portal website. This video provides an overview of the system and describes how to register and create a course.
2. Submitting Data

This video follows the submission of a DNA barcode record from the specimen data all the way to the sequence. It focuses on the student interface, but it allows instructors to follow the steps students will need to undertake in order to create their records.
3. Overseeing a course

This video provides an overview of the tools available to instructors to monitor student work and participation. It also describes the steps needed in validating and approving student-generated data for publication on BOLD and GenBank.
 

Course Management

Once a course has been registered, instructors can select Course Management on the Instructor landing page to view the following details for each course: course information, a list of students, and the barcode records the students are in the process of generating.

Example Instructor Account

A sample instructor account and course registration has been established for tutorial purposes. Please login to the system with either of the following credentials to explore the Course Management functionality.

Account 1
Username: mpage
Password: BarcodeSDP

Account 2
Username: jclement
Password: BarcodeSDP

Management Console
Management Console Figure 3-5: Management console for instructors. From this page instructors can monitor and validate student work from multiple courses. A logging system keeps track of the work students are doing and displays it on the activity wall
Course Information
Course info Figure 3-6: Course info popup. Clicking on Course Info next to a course will display course summary and a list of each student’s progress.
Course Record List
record listFigure 3-7: This interface provides a list of the taxonomy, Sample IDs, Process (BOLD) IDs, sequence lengths, and record flags for all the records in the course. The record flags are defined in a legend on the page. Each Sample ID and Process ID are linked to a specimen page and a sequence page, respectively. When more than 3 records with sequences have been submitted for a given course, a range of analysis tools is also available in the left menu.
Specimen Page
Specimen PageFigure 3-8: This pop-up page provides an overview of the submitted specimen data for the record including identifiers, taxonomy, specimen details, geography, collection location, and specimen images. Under the Contributors section of this page, attribution data includes a list of students and their contribution to the generation of the record. An instructor may annotate specimen records, by adding comments through the "Add Tags and Comments" in the Annotation section.
Sequence Page
Sequence Page Figure 3-9: This pop-up page displays the nucleotide sequence, amino acid sequence, illustrative barcode, raw trace files, primer information, and sequence quality for the genetic data generated from the specimen. An instructor may annotate specimen data elements by adding comments through the "Add Tags and Comments" in the Annotation section.