Quick Urban Analysis Kit

This is hard to force unless they want to, right?

As the first step, we would suggest to de-anonymize yourself by changing your login name in qua-kit (upper right corner of the site pages). If you put the same nickname at qua-kit as you have at edX, it is easier for others to find you.

Second, try to write an interesting but concise description of your proposal when submitting/updating a design. Third, you can copy a direct link to your design submission and publish it in edX discussion (or somewhere else?).

A. Make sure you get familiar with the controls. First, hold primary mouse button for panning, hold secondary mouse button (or primary + shift, or primary + ctrl) for rotating. These rules work for camera and for buildings. To move/rotate a block you first need to click on it (so it becomes red) to activate, and then drag using mouse to move/rotate.

B. Something may be wrong with your browser. Make sure you use the latest version of chrome/firefox/safari (chrome is reported to work best). If this does not work, we kindly ask you to submit an issue, so we could resolve it as soon as possible ( https://qua-kit.ethz.ch/feedback ). When you report an issue, please specify following:

• The browser you use (it will be very helpful if you can find out the version too).
• The Operating System (Linux/Windows/Mac?)
• Are you using mouse or touchpad?
• Are you able to only move or only rotate buildings, or nothing at all? Can you select a building by clicking on it (so it turns red)?

Due to the different nature of touchpads on different operating systems and browsers, it is difficult to make a touchpad behavior persistent across all of them. Touchpad may work to some extent, but we strongly advise you to use mouse controls.

On the other hand, if your screen supports multitouch, you can move camera and blocks using it - in a much more convenient manner!

Something may be wrong with your browser.

Make sure you use the latest version of chrome/firefox/safari (chrome is reported to work best).

If this does not work, we kindly ask you to submit an issue, so we could resolve it as soon as possible ( https://qua-kit.ethz.ch/feedback ).

When you report an issue, please specify following:

• Which link do you use to start the exercise? Note, at leastfor a first time, you must use “Go!” button on the exercise 1 page.
• The browser you use (it will be very helpful if you canfind out the version too).
• The Operating System (Linux/Windows/Mac?)

When working on a design, in lower right corner you should see a red "tools" button. If you click on it, you should see a blue "submit" button. Click on it, and you will see a submit dialog. Enter your comments about the submission and press "submit" button. You will be redirected to the main site page, and your design will be saved.

You can come back and work on your design by using "menu -> Work on a design" entry in qua-kit site.

We kindly ask you to submit an issue, so we could resolve it as soon as possible ( https://qua-kit.ethz.ch/feedback ).

Could you please clarify following points? This is important to find out exactly what your problem was.

• Which link do you use to start the exercise? Note, at leastfor a first time, you must use “Go!” button on the exercise 1 page.
• The browser you use (it will be very helpful if you canfind out the version too).
• The Operating System (Linux/Windows/Mac?)
• Are you able to move/rotate buildings?
• Do you have a blue submit button when you click on redtools button?
• You do have a submit button, does the "submit design" dialogwindow appear on click?
• What happens after you press "submit" in that window?

This may happen if you use a wrong link to the editor(or you are not logged in the system).

Make sure you use either of two ways:

• Use a button "Go!" on the exercise page at edX(it logs you in with edX credentials).
• If you are logged in currently (check it at upper leftcorner of qua-kit site), you can use "menu" button (upper left corner) -> "Work on a design".

All submissions are listed in the gallery ("menu" -> "Explore submissions"), though it might be difficult to find your own submission, as there a lot of them.

On the other hand, you can always open your design in the editing mode. Just go to "menu" near top-left corner of any page at qua-kit and then click on "work on a design". Alternatively, you can use the same "Go!" button as the first time. Both ways redirect you to your last submission.

Yes. Although it is not an explicit feature, it is your decision to shrink the total area of buildings by overlapping them.

Orange lines are meant as a guidance. They depict surrounding roads, zones, and buildings.

You should use an empty area in the center free of orange lines.

You can look it up in the gallery ("menu" -> "Explore submissions").

Icons and numbers show per-criterion rating on 0-100% scale (it is not a number of votes).

Yes. You can click "view" on a selected submission, then write a comment in the viewer windows.

You will also have to put up- or down-vote on a single criterion for this design.

Enter an editor mode ("menu" -> "Work on a design"), then open menu -> control panel (cogwheel icon).

You can only respond in a form of changing the description of your submission (when submitting a design update).

Yes, you do. There is no way to remove or add a block from the design.

Yes, you can.

Just go into an editor mode ("menu" -> "Work on a design") at qua-kit site and continue your work.

You can change it as many times as you want until the end of the course.

You cannot do so. All submissions are visible to everybody right after you save them. Therefore we strongly recommend you to finish the exercise before the voting task starts (week 6). At that time, you will vote for submissions of others.

Nevertheless, you still can update your design until the very end of the course. That is, you can respond to comments of other students by addressing any issues they could have noticed.

Right after you submit your design you get 60% of your grade automatically.

Then, your design is open for commenting and voting. In the second exercise other students vote for your designs and this make a peer-reviewed rating of all designs. Based on this rating, you get additional 0-40% (worst to best designs) of your grade.

Please note, voting is a long process so your grade will not change immediately. Instead, it will be updated once a day until the course ends (to take into account even latest user votes).

Right after you finish minimum number of comparisons, you get 60% of your grade automatically.

Remaning 0-40% you get while others vote: if your comparisons votes is similar to majority of other votes, your grade gets higher; if your votes contradict the majority, your grade gets lower. This is the essence of croud-sourcing approach and citizen science: majority decides!

Note, your grade is updated once a day as long as we receive other votes (to take into account even latest user votes).

This is a common situation. Look which criteria should you address more, and submit a new, revised version.

Your old votes get giscounted as new versions of your design appear. That is, if you submit a new version and get good responses, they count more than previous towards your final rating.

No, only the last version of your design appears in qua-kit gallery and is available for voting/grading.

Nothing bad. Your design will still be connected to your account.

Your nickname appears in the submission gallery ("menu" -> "Explore submissions"). Hence, if you change your nickname to match the one at edX, it is easier to find and comment your design submission for others. So, do it! :)