Need Help with History assignment

How to use Sutori to Create a Timeline

Begin by planning out your timeline. What topic will you explore? What are the cause-and-

effect steps you will explain? How many major “chapters” or “sections” will your timeline have

(for example, a “Before the Main Event” section, a Main Event section, and a “Long Term

Consequences” section.

Start by going to https://www.sutori.com/. Click on the “Sign

Up” button in the upper right corner and create a free account. While you are signing up for a free account, you will get the features of a paid account for 30 days.

Once you have an account, go to https://help.sutori.com/en/ to

learn about the tool. In particular, read the articles in the “Create and Share” section of the help page:

Once you have read about how to create a timeline, go to your account page by clicking on your

profile icon at the top right of the page. Then go to your Stories tab at the top center of the

page.

Click the “Create Story” icon. Use a blank template, not one of the provided ones.

**Important** Your timeline MUST include your real name or your chosen pseudonym for you

to receive credit for this assignment!

Then write an introduction to your timeline, explaining the topic you will explore and add your

first “Chapter,” which should be the preliminary events that set the stage. Then hover your

cursor over the central blue line to add events to that chapter (and later to start a new chapter)

Keep adding items! You need 5 events with 2 items each (one text, one multimedia – image,

video, or audio). You can ALSO add quiz questions in addition if you wish. Please don’t add

forums. This total does not include the headers.

Make sure you add a caption for all your embedded media. You do this just by clicking in the

box. The space for adding your caption will appear:

See the next page for an example. Once you have added all your items, go to the very bottom

of your timeline. There you will see an area to add your conclusions and your references. Click

on the words “Add Conclusions and Sources” to add your conclusions and sources!

Here is an example showing two events, each with a text item and a multimedia item. First

there is a description of the Mongol expansion with an embedded Crash Course video. Then

there is an explanation of how plague reached Europe because of this, with an uploaded (open

source) map image.

One last note on finding images that you have the right to use. You should always

respect copyright and it’s actually easy to search for open-source images. Just go to

https://images.google.com and enter your search terms. On the next page, click “Tools.” Then

click “Usage Rights.”

Then select “Non-commercial Reuse” from the Usage Rights drop-down menu. This will ensure

your search only brings up images you can reuse for non-profit purposes such as this

assignment!

This isn’t as important with the Youtube videos, because your viewers will always be able to click

on the “Youtube” icon at the bottom right of the screen to view it in the original context.

And if the creator of the YouTube video doesn’t want you to embed it, they will set the video so

that’s not allowed. But that means you should ALWAYS check your video links to make

sure they play! If you get a notice that it can only be viewed on YouTube, you know that’s

because you aren’t allowed to embed it!

It’s also good to check that the person or group who posted the video are the ones that created

it! For example, Crash Course videos should always be posted by Crash Course and you should

see this logo under the video: