Tutorial/FAQs
Hello and welcome to the Collaboratory!
This website is dedicated to connecting users with creators. You’ll find a lot of content on this site and in various stages of development, so let’s talk about how this works!
Getting Started
The first step you will take is to create a Signum Plaza account. From your Signum Plaza account, you can subscribe to the Signum Collaboratory or purchase downloads from the Signum Store.
In order to access and interact with Signum Collaboratory content, you’ll need one of our three subscription plans.
Touring the Collaboratory
The Library
Your Collaboratory experience begins in the Library. In the Library, you will find public works, submissions for publication, and even some developing works still in progress. Every work that you can purchase and download through the Signum Storeis also available for viewing for our subscribers here in the Collaboratory Library. You can view our Library catalog in a tile or list format, and you can filter the display through the Library navigation menu:
When you click on one of our projects, you can access the media files which are displayed to the right.
While viewing any of our media, you are invited to take an active part in our production! You can make comments on any media: text, audio, or video. The comments you make will also be marked with a timestamp for where you are in the file:
Project Rooms
Go behind the scenes with our star creatives as they develop their forthcoming works! When you first arrive on this page, you can see a complete list of our ongoing projects, which you can also filter using the top buttons (similar to the Library). You have access to one or more project rooms through your subscription. To change or add to your current project room(s), access the room and then choose the “Add Project Room to Your Subscription” button.
When you’re in one of your chosen projects, the media displayed are not the completed elements in the Library for that project. Here is where you can provide feedback on drafts, outlines, raw videos, and other elements of the work in progress. The project creator will receive a notification of your comments and input as you help to shape these projects.
Creator Circles
Circles are where a creator’s patrons can connect with and support their favorite creators directly. Regular meeting invitations and recordings of previous meetings will be accessible in these areas. Meetings are an opportunity to provide feedback or listen while creators work through the next phase of their upcoming project(s).
What’s New?
Curious as to what’s new since you last logged in? Here you will find New Content, which highlights new work in your project or creator subscriptions, and also new work that has been added to the Library. For a fuller and more robust list of What’s New, go to the “Latest Content” page in the Library.
FAQs
- What is the difference between all these subscription plans?
Essential – You will receive access to all works in the Library and one Project Room. Project Rooms are where our creators are working on an upcoming project in development, such as a book or lecture series.
Premium – Access to all works in the Library and two Project Rooms.
Patron – Access to all works in the Library, three Project Rooms, and one Creator Circle. While Project Rooms are for one specific project, Creator Circles include access to every project that the creator is working on.
- What is the difference between the Signum Collaboratory and the Signum Store?
The Collaboratory is a subscription-based service which gives you viewing access to all of our content as well as the ability to interact with our creators and our community of readers. Downloading is not permitted from the Collaboratory library.
The Signum Store, on the other hand, is for one-time purchases and downloads of any of our published content onto your personal devices. It does not require a subscription.