Cranium Cafe

You should only log into Cranium from the PAL Canvas Homepage by clicking on the "Cranium Cafe" button. If you are prompted to log in again, please use your Canvas credentials.

Cranium Cafe has a few different sections you'll need to be aware of. You can find these on the left hand menu:

• English PAL Class: This is what you're land when you first enter Cranium Cafe.

• Campus Calibrate: This is where you can see the Cranium Cards for all the PALs who are working during the fall.

• Help (bottom of the page): This connects you with Cranium representatives if you are having technical issues and a PAL Coordinator is unavailable.

Browser Compatibility

Cranium Cafe only works with Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Please download one of these if you don't have it already, and use this browser for all your PAL work.

• For Chrome instructions, click here

• For Mozilla Firefox instructions, click here

• Not sure what you're using? Click here to check.

Your Cranium Card is an important way for students to communicate with you, sign up for sessions with you, and easily access your sessions online. You embed your Cranium Card directly on your PAL Group Homepage so it is easy for your students to find.

• • To set up your Cranium Card, please use these instructions (Step-by-step with screen shots) or watch this video. Be sure to follow these Field Instructions .

  • After your instructor has published their class, follow copy & paste this button to your PAL Group Homepage. Then hyperlink your Cranium Card URL to this button following these instructions.

Your Cranium Calendar is the best way to let your students know when you can meet them and to get them to commit to an appointment with you. Please set up your Cranium Calendar carefully with the following steps:

• • To set up your tutoring times in your Cranium Calendar, watch the video on PAL Schedule Appointments in Cranium Cafe.

  • The end date for your recurring tutoring times should be that last day of instruction not finals.

  • To set up your group session times in your Cranium Calendar, please use these instructions or watch this video tutorial.

  • Consider making your own video to show your classes how to make an appointment using your Cranium Cafe card.

• • Students will receive a session confirmation and reminder email that includes the day, time, and sign-in link for the session.

  • You can select "Schedule & View Meetings" in the ConexEd navigation menu to check your appointments each week. (Click on "My Office Appointments.")

While students attend online PAL groups on a walk-in basis, they must set appointments for in-person PAL groups.

• • In-person PAL groups are not set up on your Cranium Cafe office hour calendar but through "Schedule & View Meetings" in the Cranium Cafe navigation menu.

  • The end date for your recurring PAL group times should be that last day of instruction not finals.

  • To set up your PAL group session times in Cranium Cafe, watch this video tutorial.

  • Share the following PAL group appointment setting link with your students. https://chaffey.craniumcafe.com/group/in-person-pal-groups/workshops

• • When students set appointments, they will receive a session confirmation and reminder email that includes the day, time, and on-campus location for the group.

  • You can select "Schedule & View Meetings" in the Cranium Cafe navigation menu to check your appointments each week. (Click on "My Office Appointments.")

If you've applied for a Success Center Sling Shift, students in any class at Chaffey can set an appointment with you through Schedule Appointment button on the Arts, Communication & Design (ACD) Success Center Canvas course.

• • To set up your tutoring times in your Cranium Calendar, watch the video, Office Hours for Success Center Tutoring.

  • The end date for your recurring tutoring times should be that last day of instruction not finals.

  • Success Center Sling shifts are 4 hours long, so you'll need to schedule a 15-minute break sometime in the middle of your shift. Watch the video, Scheduling Breaks on Cranium Cafe for the details.

  • For a general overview on how students will make appointments, watch the Success Center orientation video on the Success Center webpage. Consider making your own video to show your classes how to make an appointment.

• • Students will receive a session confirmation and reminder email that includes the day, time, and sign-in link for the session.

  • You can select "Schedule & View Meetings" in the ConexEd navigation menu to check your appointments each week. (Click on "My Office Appointments")

During finals week, PAL tutors will be doing essay tutoring only during one-on-one tutoring hours. To limit your students to essay tutoring in Cranium Cafe, you will need to

• Adjust your regular recurring office hours so they end on the last day of instruction not finals.

• Create office hours for finals week that have a single reason code: tutoring session.