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Registering for an account allows you to save your work and preferences, search external media, create Media Groups and Presentations, customize your settings, create annotations, and upload your own content.
Upon registration you can select default viewing settings. These settings (thumbnail size and number of thumbnails per page) will stay intact each time you login until you change them.
Upon registration an Active Media Group will automatically be created, titled "My First Media Group". This group will be private until you choose to change it's properties.
Your user settings will also determine your default collections. You can view other collections than these as you browse by selecting them from the Collections page, but each time you login you will by default be viewing the collections selected here.
Create a user account in the LUNA Viewer:
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Choose your Active Media Group
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Default Collections
Select from the collection list in the user settings which collections you would like to access each time you login to LUNA .
The selected collections will be the collections immediately available to you each time you login and will be included in your subsequent searches. These collections can be from your institution, and/or collections from the LUNA Commons .
The LUNA Commons ( www.lunacommons.org ) contains additional free content from other LUNA collections. The media in these collections is available for you to use in your Media Groups and Presentations .
Active Media Group
A Media Group allows you to save select media into a group for later use, or to share with others. As you browse LUNA and select media to save into a Media Group , you'll be saving this media into your Active Media Group .
Upon registering a user account, an Active Media Group is automatically created. This group is private, you can always change the properties of this group to make it public later.
You can only add media to your selected Active Media Group.
When you create a new Media Group you have the option of selecting it as your Active Media Group.
There are several ways to check which of your Media Groups is your Active Media Group: in your user settings; by opening the Active Media Group tab in the lower left corner while browsing; and from the Active Media Group pull down menu located near the Keyword search box.
You can only have one Active Media Group selected at a time.
To quickly change the Active Media Group during your LUNA session, go to the pull down menu located near the Keyword search box and select a different group. Or, go to Edit Settings/Default and select a new Active Media Group from the pull down menu.
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In the example below the Help Tip will appear every time you perform an Advanced Search, create a Media Group, or create a presentation.
