ARK Manual Videos
Get the most out of the developing potential of the ARK!
Learn in-depth insights behind its architecture
and get guided through its functionalities.
Intro to the ARK
The ARK
An introductory video to sum up our mission, our vision, who are the target users for this platform, and how it can be used for spreading Education for Sustainable Development.
Platform Overview
A quick tour through the ARK, showing how to personalize your profile, how to navigate communities, events, and the full range of features accessible from the side menu.
A Vegan Alternative to Facebook
Have you ever considered to change your diet? Eat less meat? Changing your habits is not easy, but can improve your health and help saving the planet. The ARK does the same with your screen time.
Overview Effect & Bioregions
The ARK introduces you to learning how to look at the World map beyond the traditional contrapposition of national states, and connect with nature starting from your local Ecoregion.
Bioregions and Commons
as Learning Spaces
Learn how to list and collect the specimen and species which build your bioregional identity and track it on the ARK
ARK Impact Points
What is the idea behind them? What are they good for?
Impact Points are the unit to measure the time you spend on Education for Sustainable Development.
ARK Leaderboards
Check how many impact points crew members and communities around the world generated and find out how do you rank:
will you try to make it to the top?
The ARK's Learning Paths
Select your interests in your personal profile. Select the focus area of your community. Select the subject your events will assign impact points in. Explore our full list of Learning Paths!
ARK User Roles
Learners, activity facilitators and Community mentors have different functions on the ARK platform: assign to each member the appropriate role and related responsibilities.
ARK Badges
Design and upload badges to empower your community members' achievement. Emphatize with every ARK crew member through the platform badges on their profile.
How to use the ARK
Create and Edit ARK Badges
Learners attending activities in your community can see their achievements certified showing a badge on their profile. Learn how to attach them to a course, edit them or create a new one.
How to create an activity
The first step to take on the ARK is to create an online activity for your community. We made the process easy, so you can upload an event or a course. Learn the difference in this manual video.
Edit an event
In 7 steps you will learn how easy it is to create an event on the ARK: efficient content display, easy ticketing, and game-changing impact points assignment.
Booking Notifications
Set up your community and activities to get notified for all the new bookings. Set up your email address and connect it with instant messaging services, such as Telegram, Matrix and Slack.
Customise Payment Method
Provide your ARK Community members with all the instructions they need to pay for participating to activities you organize.
Webpage Embedding
A good idea to promote your work is to share the activities from the ARK through your website or your next blog post. Find out how to generate and embedding code in your Community Page.
Customize Activity Link
Edit your event or course URL to personalize it, and make sure that your duplicated activity link is not confusing for your community members.
Mapping tool
Map the trees of your bioregion with this new functionality. Save your specimen pictures. Take notes about tree species, girth and soil sealing.
