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The Our Journey tool is designed to support you to represent a journey through studying. You can use it to talk about and reflect on the highs and lows of being a student so far, and what your goals are for the future.

Event cards

A journey is created by producing cards that describe different events in the journey. When you start, the first card will be open for you to work on it.

Each card can contain:

• An event: Pick the event item that best describes the type of event you want to include. There are lots of different cards. To get you started, ones that you might find at the start of a journey could include 'Considering study', 'Registering', or 'Finding information'.
• A description: You can add a short text description to each card to say exactly what happened.
• An emotion: How were you feeling at the time of the event? Pick the emotion that you feel best represents this from the range of options.
• An optional note: Some times you might want to say a bit more about what was going on, how you were feeling, or how these events fit together. Add a note to do this.

Creating the journey

You can create cards for each memorable event and these combine to tell the story of your journey as a student. Click on any card to select it (it should then show a blue outline), then click again or press enter to edit it. When you reach the end of the available cards on the page, clicking on the final arrow card will create more cards for you, up to the limit of 65.

Once you have created some cards, you may find that you need to alter the order of them or make space for more. When the editor is opened on a card, a menu appears next to it with the title 'Move'. This menu gives you the options to swap cards around or add a new card in between existing ones.

Keyboard navigation

• Move through the cards using TAB to go forward and SHIFT + TAB to go backwards.
• Pressing RETURN will open the editor on that card.
• Once in the editor, you can TAB between the items and use the ARROW keys to select events and emotions.
• Pressing ESCAPE when in the editor will exit the editor so that you can move to a different card.

Saving and loading your journey

You can come back to your journey to add to it if you save it.

To save your journey, open 'Menu' and find the 'File' section.

First choose a file name, and click save. A HTML file will be downloaded to your computer that contains your journey.

To load a journey, just open the file that was downloaded when you saved it. This will load the Journey Creator tool in your web browser and display your saved journey.

Printing your journey and creating a pdf

You can print the journey using the 'Print' button in the file section. Most computers will provide the option to print to a pdf file as well as on paper. You may need to play with the settings to get the best output.

Changing the view of the journey

The view section of the options menu allows you to change the background colour, choose whether you want background images, and change the colour of the cards.