• To create an account, you must first go to the mainpage of Eyes On Campus:
  www.eyesoncampus.com
  
• On the upper right corner, navigate to "Create Account"
  
  Input all fields with a red asterisk (*)
  
  

  Make sure to input the spam verification text as well as check the agreement to Terms of Service.

• Upon Registering, you should receive an email in your mailbox with a link to confirm the validity of the account.
  
  

  Make sure to click on the link in the email to validate your account. You are done! Now you can login and start contributing!

• To login, navigate to the "Log in" link on the upper right corner of the homepage
  
  
• Enter the username and password you chose when creating your account
  
  

To add your campus, first verify whether your campus already exists in the Eyes on Campus catalog. To do so, simply search for by the full name of your University or an acronymic designation in the search field from the homepage:

If your campus is found, you should see the listings that exist in our catalog under "title matches"

If your campus and discipline is found, please contribute to the existing listing in the catalog to avoid redundancy and to maintain a single repository for each campus and discipline.

If your campus is not found, select the discipline to which you would like to associate your campus from the discipline tabs on the homepage. In our example, we will add Undergraduate discipline to the University of San Diego, in sunny San Diego California.

• First select the "Undergraduate" tab from the homepage. You will be redirected to the main Undergraduate homepage.
  
• Select "Add a New School" link located on top of the "Featured School" section. You will then be redirected to a form requesting information about your campus.
  
• Enter all required fields as designated by the red asterisk (*).
  

Your newly added campus must go through a verification process to ensure the validity of the campus that you have inputted. This is the only verification step that you will face when entering content into Eyes on Campus. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The Eyes on Campus team assure you that your campus will be verified and approved as soon as possible. The Eyes on Campus team is working around the clock to validate, approve and monitor entries of new campuses to its catalog. Your patience and cooperation is deeply appreciated.

Once you have created a user account and the campus of your interest, you can freely populate the campus with valuable information about both the academic and social components of the campus. Academic components include the following:

• Adding a Subject
• Adding a Class
• Adding a Professor Reviews/Ratings

Prior to adding classes or reviews, you must first create a subject to which the classes you add, will be associated. The following section will take you through how to add a Subject. We will take UCSD as the exemplary campus.

• Login to Eyes on Campus with your recently created username and password.
• Navigate to the campus where you would like to add a Subject. In our case, we will navigate to the "Undergraduate" tab and select "University of California San Diego"
• Scroll to the "Subjects/Class Visits" section and select the "Add Subject" hyperlink.
  
  
  
• You will be navigated to the following form. Please fill out the form in its entirety including the name of the Subject and the description of the Subject. In this case, we will add "Economics" as the Subject and add a short blurb describing the Subject to the users.
  
  
  
• Hit the "Submit" button after you have entered appropriate information. You will then be directed to a new page created specifically for the Subject that you have chosen.
  
  
  
• You can navigate back to the main "University of California San Diego" main page by using the navigation trail listed above the Subject declaration.
• Once you have created the Subject, any user can edit/modify the Overview description. This is done so that the description text evolves over time and becomes a more accurate depiction of what that Subject really provides to the students.
• Once you have created a Subject, you can create classes within that Subject matter. This is covered in the following section.

You are most likely interested in adding a class because you either directly or indirectly have knowledge about the class. Perhaps you have audited the class during a campus visit, sat through it for a few weeks before dropping it, or perhaps you took that class in its entirety. Whatever the situation may be, the Eyes on Campus community is interested in your opinion about your experiences with the class and the professor who taught that class. Therefore, during the "Add a class" process, you will be required to submit a "Review" of your experiences. This is your turn to voice your opinions and your opinions will be treated with the utmost respect and enthusiasm. After all, the success of Eyes on Campus is directly attributed to the voices of the user community. So please don't be shy; let your thoughts be known!

• To ensure validity of entries of classes, Login to Eyes on Campus with your recently created username and password.
• Navigate to the campus where you would like to add a Subject. In our case, we will navigate to the "Undergraduate" tab and select "University of California San Diego"
• Scroll to the "Subjects/Class Visits" section. You will now see "Economics" since that is the subject that you created in the previous section. If the subject, under which your added class will go, does not exist, please add the appropriate subject. (See Add Subject section)
  
  
  
• Select the Subject by clicking on the hyperlink in the "Subjects/Class Visits" section. You will be navigated to the main page of that Subject.
  
  
  
• From the Subject main page, select "add a class". You will be navigated to the following form.
  
  
  
• Fill out the form in its entirety.
  
  • Course Number - Catalog number of the class
  • Course Title - Catalog title of the class
  • Description - Your description of what the class is meant to cover and teach. This is usually in the syllabus of your class however we want your opinion on what you think the class is supposed to teach and what it actually taught.
  • Professor Name - Name of the professor who taught that class
  • Date of Visit - When did you attend this class? If you were there for the entire quarter/semester, enter the last day of the quarter/semester.
  • Review Type - Were you an enrolled student or did you just visit the class?
  • Teaching Method - How was the class taught? Was it primarily case studies, lecture? Was it lab oriented through simulations? Was it a class that was taught for the first time and as such, was experimental in nature? Perhaps it was a combination of multiple methods. You can choose more than one!
  • Rating - Star rating of the class. You are all familiar with this system.
  • Your Review - Finally how did the professor do? This is crucial to the success of subsequent students who read your review and base their decisions based on your input. Please take careful thought and consideration when entering this information.
  
  
  
• Hit the Submit button. You will then be navigated to the "Subjects" main page where you will be able to see your recently added class and review.
  
  
  

1. Once your campus has been approved, you will find its listing under the discipline to which you have associated your campus. In the case of this example, we had created University of California San Diego under the Undergraduate Discipline
   
   
   
2. You can also filter based on the State of your campus by choosing your State from the dropdown menu.
   
   
   
3. Select the School you have created. You will then be taken to the homepage of that specific school.
   
   
   
4. Remember that blurb description you inputted when creating the school? Well, you can now change that description and so can every other user that browses this school. To edit the "Overview" of the campus, simply navigate to the "edit" link next to the "About" section. You will be quickly redirected to a simple text editor view like below.
   
   
   
5. As you can see, the overview text can be seen. You are free to edit and modify appropriately.
   
   
   
6. To commit your changes, simply select "Save Page" at the bottom of your screen. As you can see now, we have the added text reflected on the main page of UCSD.
   
   
   

Add a custom section

1. Eyes on Campus allows you to no only utilize the predefined sections on the campus mainpage, but also allows you to create customized sections in virtually any wiki page of Eyes On Campus. The wiki pages are the main pages for campuses, and the overview pages for Hotspots/Residence/Transportations/Dining. To create a new section, click on "Edit" which can be found on the bottom center of the mainpage of your campus.
   
   
   
2. Once you click on "Edit", you are routed to the familiar wiki screen that looks like a text editor consisting of text that has already been inputted for all of the sections on the campus mainpage.
   
   
   
3. Similar to the Campus Tours and Student Culture designation, you can create your section anywhere on the webpage by including the following syntax around the title of your section. For exemplary purposes, let's add a section called "Athletics" to the UCSD mainpage after the "Student Culture" section.
   
   Text Input: == Athletics ==
   
   
   
4. Click on "Save Page". You will then be routed back to your campus mainpage where you will see your newly added section.
   
   
   
5. You can now edit the section you have created by clicking on the "edit" link adjacent to the section header. To edit a section, follow the notes and screenshots in the "Edit Overview" section of this readme.

Add Youtube Link into your section

1. Eyes On Campus allows you to add youtube videos directly into your article. This is done by embedding the html link of your youtube video to the textual content that you have produced for a section. For exemplary purposes, we assume that you have gone through steps 1-4 in the "Edit Overview" section above and you are now ready to embed a youtube video link into your section.
2. Once you have identified where within your section you would like the YouTube video embedded, simply click on the "You Tube" button from the menu directly above the text editor. This will embed a YouTube tag within your active textual document. Simply cut and paste the YouTube URL of your video of interest in between the YouTube tags.
   
   For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l7WwgmvugI
   
   
   
3. To commit your changes, simply select "Save Page" at the bottom of your screen. As you can see now, we have the added text reflected on the main page of UCSD.
4. To verify whether your video was embedded properly, simply return to the campus homepage. You should be able to see the embedded video in your edited section.
   
   
   

Add a Picture into your section

1. Very similar to the process by which you embed a youtube video, you can embed your favorite pictures to the section your are editing. Perhaps you want to include a picture of you're the hotspot that you added, or perhaps a picture of students getting crazy on campus; you are free to upload your picture content as long as it abides by policies documented in the Terms of Service.

2. For exemplary purposes, we assume that you have gone through steps 1-4 in the "Edit Overview" section above and you are now ready to embed a picture into your section.

3. Once you have identified where within your section you would like to embed a picture, simply click on the "Embedded Image" button from the menu directly above the text editor. This button is located towards the middle of the menu and you can see the label of the icon by hovering your mouse over the menu icons. This will embed a YouTube tag within your active textual document. The tag will be labeled as follows:

   
   [[Image:Example.jpg]]

4. Change the name of "Example.jpg" to an appropriate name you want for this picture. Keep the label name simple. In this case, let's name the picture "UCSDLibrary.jpg" because we want to embed a picture of the architecturally unique UCSD Geisel Library.

   
   
   
   

5. To commit your changes, simply select "Save Page" at the bottom of your screen.

6. Once you are redirected to the campus homepage, you will now see a hyperlink within your section with the text "Image:UCSDLibrary.jpg".
   
   
   
7. Click on that hyperlink. You will be directed to the following page where you can select the picture that you would like uploaded from your computer.
   
   
   
8. Find the Source file on your computer by hitting the "Browse" button and locating the picture. Also input a brief summary describing the picture that you are uploading. If you would like to monitor this page after uploading the picture to ensure that your contributed content is kept intact, simply check "Watch this page" checkbox. Furthermore, to protect against space restrictions and website latencies, Eyes on Campus suggests that you limit the sizes of pictures that you upload to less than 500K in size. However, the Eyes on Campus team understands that with the ever evolving digital camera markets and the pixel wars that exists, the sizes of pictures are inevitably going to get larger. We hope and encourage our user community to abide by our suggested restrictions however we understand if you can't. If you can't, please check "Ignore any warnings" so that triggered warnings due to large picture sizes are ignored.
   
   
   
9. Click "Upload file" to upload your image to the Eyes on Campus servers. Once uploaded, you will be directed to the "File History" screen where you will be able to see different versions of the picture that have been uploaded over time.
   
   
   
10. To navigate back to the Campus homepage to confirm the upload, simply click on the hyperlink at the bottom under the "Links" section. You will be guided back to the section where you embedded the image.
    
    
    

Eyes on Campus allows the student community to provide an in-depth view on the social and communal aspects of campus life. Eyes on Campus has separated the social portion of the website into the following categories:

• Residence
• Hotspots
• Transportation
• Dining

All of these sections are structured identically. The objective is to categorically associate the student's social experiences into one of the aforementioned categories. Campus life extends far beyond the books and classes. The future success of a student is directly correlated to the overall college experience which goes well beyond the books.

A student is allowed to enter elements into each of these categories. Furthermore, the student can review the element that has been added to the category. For example, if you took a date to a Dining, you can review that dining by adding an entry in the Dining section of the Campus that you attend. Similarly, if you took BUS 14 to the Gas Lamp district from UCSD, you provide Bus 14 as a transportation option in the "Transportation" section.

To take you through the entry process, we will continue with University of California San Diego as our sample campus and will be adding a Dining review associated to the campus. (Note. Dining options do NOT need to reside within the premise of the campus. Students can create entries for any Dining, residence, hotspot, transportation that is relevant for the campus. The determining factor of relevancy is left to the student)

1. Login to Eyes on Campus with your recently created username and password.

2. Navigate to the campus where you would like to add a Subject. In our case, we will navigate to the "Undergraduate" tab and select "University of California San Diego"

3. Click on the "Dining" tab just above the map for the school. Doing so, takes you to the Dining section of UCSD. The color scheme changes from blue to orange.
   
   
   
4. To add a Dining option, simply click on "add a Dining" link. This will guide you to a form that must be filled out to add the dining. In our case, we will add a Dining.
   
   
   
5. Fill out all required and non-required fields to be thorough. The description text box is for you to enter your opinion on the general type of the dining. This is like an abstract section for the dining, not your opinion about your experience at the dining. For example, if you went to a really fancy dining, the description would be that the dining requires formal attire and a full evening's time.
   

   Tags are required. Tags are used to categorize things to user entered words. For example, you can associate an expensive dining with the following tags just to name a few:

   
   fancy, expensive, formal
   

   You are free to be creative with your tags. Just note that other users will be able to see your tags and if they find a fit for their dining with your tag, they will associate the same.

   
   
   
   
6. Click on "Submit". You will then be redirected to the main page of the dining that you have just created. In this case, we are redirected to the main page for "Cotixan".
   
   
   

7. You can edit the overview of the dining by following similar methodologies outlined in the general "Edit Overview" section of this help document.

8. Once you have created the entry for the dining, users can now rate and review the dining based on their experiences.
   

   Add a Review

   To add a review, simply select "add a review". You will be navigated to the following form which must be filled out.
   
   
   
   
9. Once you have filled out the details, hit "Submit". You will be redirected back to the main page of the dining, which in this case is Cotixan. You will be able to see your review along with reviews of others for this dining.
   
   
   

10. You can navigate to the entire list of Dining by navigating to the main "Dining" page by selecting the "Dining" associated to your campus. You can do the same for the respective Hotspots, Residence and Transportation sections as well.

    Upon our recent entry of Cotixan, the main "Dining" page looks like:

    
    
    
    

As you can see, you have multiple ways of finding the dining you are interested in. You can search by name by selecting the first letter of the dining of interest. You can search by tags. So if you want a late night fix for your tummy that's cheap, you can simply click on either of the "late night" or "cheap" tags. In our case, both tags are associated with Cotixan. By selecting a tag, you are taken to the following page where you will find all of the Dining associated to that tag. In our case, we only have Cotixan.