On this page, you will learn to:
On the Projects screen, click New Project.
Provide information about the project:
1. Enter a Project title. Enter a brief description that will help you remember the contents or purpose of this project when you see it later. Be specific! "I&S Cultures Report" is better than I&S. You might have several I&S projects to research!
2. Select a Citation style. BHA uses MLA so please select this.
3. Select a Citation level. NoodleTools allows you to select between three levels: Starter, Junior and Advanced. The librarian will advise the best level for your project.
4. Click Submit to create your new project. if you change your mind, click “X” in the upper right corner to return to your Projects screen.
When you open your new project, the first screen will be the Dashboard. See the NoodleTools Help Desk tutorial “How to use the Dashboard.”
You can email a your source list and an HTML version of your notecards and/or outline to yourself or someone else. The recipient will be able to open the source list in a word processing program. The HTML versions of the notecards and outline can be opened in any Web browser.
The recipient is not able to log in to your personal folder or change your master project in any way – only a copy of your work is sent.
1. Open the project you want to share. Click the three dots next to the Search box in the upper right-hand corner.
2. Enter your name.
3. Enter the recipient’s email address.
4. If your want to include your outline or notecards, check the boxes to Include outline or / and Include notecards.
5. Click Send to email the source list and outline and/or notecards.
NOTE: The Google docs paper is not included in the email. If you want to email the paper to someone, log in to your Word online and email it from there.
Two or more projects in your account can be merged into a single project. This will not change the original projects. The new merged project will be added to your account, identified by a new description that you provide.
NOTE: Merging projects with different levels will result in a project set to the highest level (e.g., if you mergea Starter and Junior project, your new project will be Junior level.)
1. On the Projects screen, check the boxes next to the projects that you want to merge. NOTE: All projects must contain source lists of the same style (e.g. MLA)
2. Click Merge above the projects.
3. Enter a new Project title for the merged project.
5. Decide whether or not you want notecards to be transferred to the merged project. By default, Include notecards from original projects (if any) in merged project is checked.
NOTE: Checking both the “remove duplicates” and the “include notecards” options can potentially cause unwanted results. If duplicate sources have different sets of notecards, only one will be chosen.
You can only merge ONE outline. Under Include outline from… select which project’s outline you want to include in the new merged project.
6. Click Submit.
One or more projects can be deleted by checking the boxes to the left of the projects on the Projects screen, and click Delete above the projects. The selected projects will no longer appear in your account.
If you delete a project by mistake. you can "UNDELETE" it by selected the three dots next to the search box and choosing "undelete"
NOTE TO COLLABORATORS: If you delete a collaborative project from your Projects list you are simply removed as a collaborator from that project. The project will still remain visible to your teammates.
If you accidentally delete a collaborative project from your folder, ask one of your teammates to re-add you as a collaborator to the project. For more information, see “How to set up a collaboration with your classmates.”
