how private or public should my timeline be?<\/h4>\nissues around privacy, intellectual property, and audience will need to be considered when having students create or contribute to timelines. you\u2019ll need to decide if the timelines should be limited to only the students in your class or be made public. sometimes making a timeline public helps to raise the stakes for the students, knowing that anyone could read their work. on the other hand, students may be uncomfortable leaving their name attached to an online work for posterity. you\u2019ll have to weigh these benefits and drawbacks when deciding to make student-generated timelines public or private. for instance, timelines on controversial topics created by first-year undergraduates might need to be private, whereas timelines created by seniors intended to be used by a specific audience (say, high school teachers) should be public.<\/p>\n