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Using the Clone and Invite Wizard

Note: For security reasons, Team Allocation Links and the Clone and Invite Wizard are disabled by default. To enable them for your account, please contact support quoting your Kialo Edu username and institution.

The Clone and Invite Wizard is the easiest way to get individual students or groups into their own copy of a discussion, and is particularly useful when using Kialo with large groups of students.

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Important Notes Regarding the Clone and Invite Wizard

Before using the Clone and Invite Wizard, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following Kialo terms and functions:

When using the Clone and Invite Wizard, a template discussion is cloned to create a discussion for each user or team specified. Each specified user - or team of users -  is invited to their own clone discussion.

Optionally, specified users or teams can be invited to all cloned discussions created by the Clone and Invite Wizard. This is useful if there are additional teaching staff who should have access to all student discussions, such as for grading purposes.

The record of changes and comments on claims in the template discussion can optionally be included in the cloned discussions. This record is useful to include if you want to leave additional information or clarification for students inside the discussion, such as further information about specific claims.

If using the Clone and Invite Wizard to invite groups of students into discussions, these groups must be organized into teams beforehand. The Clone and Invite Wizard works by creating a new discussion for each user or team listed, so without teams for your groups, you won’t be able to add multiple people to one discussion through this process.

For organizational purposes, the Clone and Invite Wizard will append the name of all clone discussions with the user or team invited to each one.

The Clone and Invite Wizard is especially effective when used alongside Team Allocation Links, allowing you to organize students into equally sized teams and then invite those teams into their own clones of sample discussions.

Ensure that the discussion you want to clone has all the necessary information included before using the Clone and Invite Wizard. After the discussion has been cloned, changes made to it will not affect clone discussions.

Finally, to use the Clone and Invite Wizard you must have Admin or Owner rights in the discussion you intend to clone.

Walkthrough: Using the Clone and Invite Wizard for Individual Students

Follow this walkthrough if you want each individual student to have their own clone of a discussion to work in.

  1. First, create the “sample” discussion that each student should receive a copy of.
  2. Open the Clone and Invite Wizard interface for the sample discussion:
    1. On the My Kialo page, navigate to the ‘Own’ section.
    2. On the card of the discussion you have created, click on the ‘Menu’ icon (the vertical three dots).
    3. Select ‘Clone and Invite Wizard’.
  3. Under ‘Invite each to their own cloned discussion’, enter the usernames or teams of students, separated by spaces.
    1. If you have entered one or more teams for this step, check ‘Create a separate clone for each team member’.
  4. (Optional): If students should have a role other than Writer in their discussions, adjust this.
  5. (Optional): If there are any users or teams who should be invited to all cloned discussions, such as additional teaching staff, enter their username(s) or team name(s) under ‘Invite each to all cloned discussions’.
  6. (Optional): If the users or teams invited to all cloned discussions should have a role other than Writer, adjust this.
  7. (Optional): If you have included comments or edits which should be visible to students, check ‘Clones shall include comments and changes of the source discussion’.
  8. Click ‘Start Cloning’.

The ‘Cloning started successfully’ window appears. This process usually takes a few minutes, but can be up to an hour depending on how many clones are being created and how large the template Kialo Edu discussion is.

Walkthrough: Using the Clone and Invite Wizard for Student Groups

Follow this walkthrough if you want each group of students to have their own clone of a discussion to work in. Student groups must be organized into teams before doing this.

  1. First, create the “sample” discussion that each student group should receive a copy of.
  2. Open the Clone and Invite Wizard interface for the sample discussion:
    1. On the My Kialo page, navigate to the ‘Own’ section.
    2. On the card of the discussion you have created, click on the ‘Menu’ icon (the vertical three dots). 
    3. Select ‘Clone and Invite Wizard’.
  3. Under ‘Invite each to their own cloned discussion’, enter the teams of student groups.
  4. (Optional): If students should have a role other than Writer in their discussions, adjust this.
  5. (Optional): If there are any users or teams who should be invited to all cloned discussions, such as additional teaching staff, enter their username(s) or team name(s) under ‘Invite each to all cloned discussions’.
  6. (Optional): If the users or teams invited to all cloned discussions should have a role other than Writer, adjust this.
  7. (Optional): If you have included comments or edits which should be visible to students, check ‘Clones shall include comments and changes of the source discussion’.
  8. Click ‘Start Cloning’.

The ‘Cloning started successfully’ window appears. This process usually takes a few minutes, but can be up to an hour depending on how many clones are being created and how large the template Kialo Edu discussion is.

Further Reading

Kialo has many features and tools that are useful when working with large groups of students. Further reading relevant to working with large groups of students:

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