Tours are part of Cuseum's core app functionality. Use them as the most straightforward way of walking your members through exhibitions and guided step-by-step visuals.
Creating a Tour
Log in to your Cuseum account
Click the "Content" drop down menu on the left panel and click on "Tours"
You're now inside the Tours list (reference image below - yours will look empty at first):
You have two buttons on the top area (+Add Tour - Rearrange Tours), one search box on the left and a pencil icon next to each tour on the far right side of the screen:
+Add Tour: It will take you to the tour creation area
Rearrange tour: It will take you to a "grid view" where you can rearrange your existing tours in any order of your preference
Search box: It allows you to quickly search for any specific tour you created (useful when you are constantly updating existing tours)
Pencil icon: This is the "edit tour" button. Click on it to edit existing tours
Click on "+Add Tour". The tour creation area will appear:
Make sure you fill in all the mandatory steps:
Title (Mandatory):
the tour's name
Visible on the app
Duration (in minutes - Optional):
How long it takes to complete the tour
Visible on the app
Location (Optional):
The physical location/street address of the tour
Visible on the app
You can use it to highlight any text-based location (i.e "first floor" or "Museum Gardens", or "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC")
Image (Mandatory):
The cover of your tour (shown in the app's tours menu and also when you access the tour)
Visible on the app
Alt text (Optional):
Accessibility description
Not visible on the app
Start Date (Optional):
When the tour starts
Visible on the app
It affects visibility of the tour in the app when used
If you add a start date, the tour will be hidden/not visible until the selected day comes
When this field is empty, the tour will always be visible on the app
End Date (Optional):
When the tour ends
Visible on the app
It affects visibility of the tour in the app when used
If you add an end date, the tour will be visible in the app until the selected date comes. The tour will then be hidden the day after
When combining both start date and end date, the result is a tour that will only be visible for a specific amount of time based on your selection
Options (internal settings):
Visible check box:
Allows you to control the visibility of the tour in your app
Start date/End date will override the visibility of the tour
Make sure this check box is always checked regardless of start/end dates being used or not, because this check box defines the absolute visibility of the tour in your app (unless you want to fully hide the tour so nobody can see it, in this case the check box should be unmarked)
Featured check box:
Highlights the tour on the app's Home Screen
Highlights the tour on the app's tours section
Refer to our article "Home Section" to learn how to use the Home section
Show finish notification:
Finish tour notification modal
Description text box:
The tour's description/summary
Visible on the app
Use it to briefly describe what members are about to see in this specific tour, or what/who the tour is about
The description is shown in conjunction with the "image" you selected earlier (you may think of this as the tour's intro).
Once all these items are complete, your last step is clicking on "create":
That's it! Your tour is now created and you will be immediately redirected to the tour editing section so you can start creating tour stops inside this tour.
Tour stops are the body of your tours. You can create independent content (text/audio/video/image) inside each tour stop and also combine them with the objects you created before (tour stop + objects).
You can create as many tour stops per tour as you need as long as you maintain consistency and a path that is easy to follow by your members (don't forget about using content that is enriching/entertaining/engaging too). Experiment with your content and have fun while doing it! You'll see that your tours and tour stops come to life really fast the more you feed them with your desired content/visuals. Feel free to contact [email protected] in case you need some guidance and content examples/references to get started.
See our next article called Tour Stops - How to Create, Edit and Add Objects for next steps.