INCLUDES National Network Online Community User Guide
Accessing the site
The NSF INCLUDES online community platform provides both public content that is accessible to anyone, and private content/functionality that requires people to have an account and sign-in to use.
Registering for an account
The INCLUDES National Network is open to anyone interested in increasing access and broadening participation in STEM. Please visit https://www.includesnetwork.org/register in order to sign up.
After you submit the registration form, you will receive an email from NSF INCLUDES National Network when your account is activated. Once activated, you can connect with colleagues, add a message to the Bulletin Board, advertise a job, promote an event, and/or search the resource library.
Signing in
If you already have an account, you can sign-in at https://www.includesnetwork.org/login using your username and password.
Your account will be locked for four hours if invalid login credentials are submitted 20 times over a four hour period.
Login sessions last for a week, unless you manually sign-out or clear your browser cookies.
Resetting your password
You can reset your password by visiting https://www.includesnetwork.org/password-reset/ and entering your WordPress username or email address. You should receive a password reset email shorting after submitting the form.
Your account will be locked for four hours if 20 password attempt requests are submitted over a four hour period.
Account settings and public profile
We encourage you to keep your account settings and public profile up to date in order to facilitate networking within the online community. By default, your profile will be included in the member directory, but you can opt to exclude yourself from the member directory if you would prefer. See the following sections for instructions on updating your account settings and public profile.
Account settings
To edit your account settings, use the account menu in the upper right of the screen.
After expanding the account menu, click on “Account” to navigate to your account settings.
From here, you can update your first name, last name, and email address.
Public profile
In order to navigate to your profile, use the same drop down menu as before, but select “View Profile”.
Once you are viewing your profile, click the gear icon and then “Edit Profile”.
From here, you can update any of the fields that you completed when you initially registered on the site. If new fields have been added since then, you can also update those here. After you finish making changes, scroll down and click the “Update Profile” button.
Member directory
Network members can be found using the directory at https://www.includesnetwork.org/members/. If you do not wish to be listed in the directory, you can set “Hide my profile from directory” to “Yes” in the privacy section of your account settings.
Migrated content
All content from the previous platform has not been migrated to this new virtual space. We are committed to co-creating this platform with you. We appreciate your flexibility, patience, and understanding during this transitional period.
Please note! The items in the Resource Library that have been migrated are currently attributed to a member of the INCLUDES Online
Community Team. If there is a resource that you shared, please email nsfincludeshub@sri.com and we will restore you as the author
Job board
Please use the dedicated job board for posting or searching for job opportunities.
Searching for Jobs
The main jobs archive is located at https://www.includesnetwork.org/jobs/, which contains all active job listings.
User profile pages also include two tabs for job postings. For a given person’s profile page, the “Jobs” tab displays all of the jobs that they have posted. If you are looking at your own profile page, you will also see a “Job dashboard” tab which gives shows more detail and allows you to edit, mark as filled, or delete jobs.
Posting Jobs
The recommended way to post jobs is to use the form at https://www.includesnetwork.org/job-post/ to fill out the job details. You can see and manage all of the jobs that you have posted by visiting https://www.includesnetwork.org/jobs-dashboard/.
Resource library
The new National Network online platform has a reorganized resource library. Affinity groups will no-longer have separate resource libraries – all resources are located in the central library at https://www.includesnetwork.org/resources/.
To organize the resource library, we have set up two separate taxonomies: resource subjects and resource types. An example of a resource subject would be English as a Second Language (ESL), whereas an example of a resource type would be Conference paper. You can filter by subject or type using the drop-down menus below the search bar.
If you would like to submit a resource to the library, please use the form at https://www.includesnetwork.org/user-resource-submission/. A staff member of the Online Community will review your submission and either directly publish it or request edits to improve qualities such as search-ability.
To help us save on storage space, we would prefer if you linked to YouTube video uploads instead of directly uploading the files to the website. Uploads have been capped at 100Mb, so large videos will not be able to be uploaded at all.
RSS Feeds
Users can subscribe to the RSS feed by pasting the URL https://www.includesnetwork.org/feed/ into their RSS viewer of choice. The RSS feed will provide the 30 most recent public posts. The feed includes posts from the bulletin board, research, blogs, and more!
The NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub: Collaborative Strategies for Inclusive Change podcast has a separate RSS feed, which you can add to your RSS viewer with the URL https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/nsf-includes-coordination-hub-collaborative-strategies-for-i.