Download the iNaturalist App on Google Play Store or the Apple App Store and create an account on a mobile device. Alternatively, create and account at iNaturalist.org.

Create a login for your classroom account. So that we can identify your school (for prizes!), create your class username as follows:

Username: schoolname_teacherlastname (for example: loonelementary_jackson)

Students over the age of 13 can also create individual accounts. If you are having students create their own accounts, have them create their usernames as follows:

Username: schoolname_firstnamelastinitial (for example: loonsecondary_michaelj)

Once logged in, click on the Sunshine Coast Bioblitz page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/18th-annual-sunshine-coast-bioblitz.

Near the top right-hand side of the page, there will be a join tab. Click this tab to join the Sunshine Coast BioBlitz group.

There will be a description of the event. Scroll to the bottom and there will be another tab that says, yes please join. Click it. 

You are now registered in the project.

To add your class or student observations to the group project, click on the plus sign icon. The App will ask if you want to take a photo, chose image (from your gallery), record sound, choose sound or create an observation without media. If you have location services, then the coordinates will be included in the observation. The date and time are automatically included. If you included a photo, then suggestions will be provided from iNaturalist on what the organism could be. If there is no photo added, you will have to enter what you think the organism is.

Once you submit the observation, then it will be recorded in the project as long as the coordinates are on the Sunshine Coast. Note: This will be the same for a desktop except you will have to upload photos and will have to enter the date, times, and the coordinates.