Inviting
A basic premise of the XO is that learning happens through
collaborating with others. One way to start a collaboration is to send
an invitation to others.
Step 1: Launch an activity
Before you issue an invitation, you should launch an activity—Chat in this example—by clicking on the taskbar icon.
Step 2: Leaving Chat
You'll have go to either the Group view or the Neighborhood view to issue invitations.
Step 3: Find a friend
In this example, we use the Group view.
Step 4: Invite a friend
Hovering over a friend's icon will bring up the invitation menu.
Note that it says “Invite to Chat Activity”, since Chat is your
currently selected activity.
Step 5: Invite another friend
Most actvities let you invite more than one friend to participate.
Step 6: Receiving the invitation
Your friends receive an invitation on their activity taskbars (found on the Frame). In the figure, see the second Chat icon (in your colors, since you are the one who sent the invitation).
Your friends accept the invitation by clicking on these colored Chat icons on their taskbars.
Step 7: Multiple invitations
You can have more than one invitation pending.
You need not accept an invitation.
Step 8: Working together
Once the invitations have been accepted, the shared activity is joined. (Note that the icons representing everyone in the Chat appear on the Frame.)
You
invite collaborators from the Group
view or the Neighborhood view.