Frequently Asked Questions

A lecture reviewer and a negative report moderator review the lectures in terms of relevancy and lack of offensive, disturbing, racist views or any content expressing religious/political views and accordingly lectures are kept or rejected from the system.

While browsing through a lecture you may save the slides of your interest by clicking on "Add to my Basket" icon located at the bottom of every slide. You may create a new basket and give it a title and add the slides of your choice into it. Then you may review the slides saved, in My Baskets space. You may re-order the slides, save the order, remove any of them or save them as PowerPoint presentation. You may compile slides from different lectures under the same basket.

No you cannot. The original slides of the lecture are processed into image slides that have to be used as is. However, you may make up your own lecture using slides from different lectures and then upload it into the system.

It is an application form filled in by a registered user to be allowed to upload lectures into the system. The request is reviewed, and a notification is sent to the applicant via e-mail telling him/her whether the request has been accepted or rejected.

Some lectures have the author's details on the slides where you may reach them. Otherwise it is hard to get into personal contact with the authors of lectures if not through submitting comments.

If you are an Ingestor, click on the icon on top of the lecture viewer and then click on "Add New" , where you may upload a translated version of the lecture.
If you are not an Ingestor, then by clicking on "Add New", you will have the Ingestor request form that you have to fill out and submit. The request is reviewed and you will receive a notification via e-mail of whether your request has been accepted or rejected. Accordingly, you may/may not have the privilege of uploading lectures including translated ones into the system.

You can e-mail us at ssc@bibalex.org and tell us whether you want to be an Ingestor, a Moderator, a Reviewer or an Editor, and we will get back to you.

When you submit a comment, it is instantly added into the system. However, it is marked as "Not reviewed" and hence it is being reviewed later by a Moderator, who decides whether to keep it in the system or to remove it if it contains any content that might be deemed offensive, disturbing, racist or expressing religious/political views.

Your submitted lecture has either received a Negative Report that was approved by the Moderator or has been rejected by a Reviewer who has to confirm the relevancy and eligibility of content.

After logging in, go to "My Profile" and then go to "My Favorites" and Select your fields of interests to be added to the list. "My Favorites" My favorites is a shortcut to your favorite field(s) of interest.

'My Basket' lists the baskets you have created to compile your slides of choice throughout lectures. You may re-order the slides, save the order, remove any of them or save them as PowerPoint presentation, thus helps you to make up your own presentation.

'My Library' is where you may keep a listing of your lectures of choice (as whole), to review later. You may add lectures from the system into your library or remove existing ones according to your preference.

'My Bookmarks' is where you may review the slides you bookmarked on specific lectures.

Registering in Science Supercourse gives you the benefit of having your own personal customizable space, where you may keep your favorite lectures, your favorite slides; make up your own lectures from the material in the repository, a shortcut to your favorite categories, etc. Additionally, being a registered member, you will receive e-mails notifying you of the links to the latest lectures added to the system based on your favorite categories. As a registered member you may also interact with other users of the system through submitting and receiving comments, rating lectures or submitting negative reports for certain lectures. Moreover, you may become a member of the Science Supercourse network and apply for being a Moderator, Editor, Ingestor or Reviewer.

Negative Reports are reviewed by Moderators who review the lecture to confirm the submitted Negative Report. Accordingly, the Lecture Reviewer will decide whether the lecture is either kept or rejected from the system.

You can add an author of a lecture upon uploading it into the system, or if there are lectures where the author is not added, you may add the author's name if you are accepted as an Editor of the lectures' metadata.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) links you to the most recently added lectures on the system in all the four areas of the Science Supercourse.

Lectures that are available in parts have icon on the left hand side of the lecture viewer, where you may click to obtain the other available parts of the lecture.

You will find icon on the top right corner of the lecture viewer that you may click on to display the available translations for the lecture. If you are an Ingestor (have the privilege to upload lectures onto the system), you may click on the "Add new" link and start uploading the translated version of the lecture.

By going to your profile, click on the tab "Ingestor info", where you will have a record of the selected areas approved for uploading lectures.

An expert is at least a PhD student in the specified area. Usually experts are given the privilege to review lectures' content and editing classifications due to the accuracy of the process.

Science Supercourse system is structured on different users levels. On the level of general users (undergraduate students or the public), users may not override each other's edited metadata. For example if you have edited some lecture information and a peer found that you have ingested wrong data, he/she will not be able to override your input. Your input is locked and cannot be overridden unless by means of an "Expert". (Refer to FAQ28)