Prepare For Study – A visual Guide

PREPARE FOR STUDY

Visual Guide to the Online Learning Spacehttp://gippslandlearnlocal.trainingvc.com.au/

Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space

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Course Navigation tools

• Navigation– shows the navigation to all areas and courses within Moodle that you have access to

• Activities – click to get a list of Assignments, Forums, Glossaries or Resources

• Search forums – useful for searching for key words in conversations

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Course Information Blocks

• Calendar– shows when events and webinar sessions and virtual café chat room are occurring

• Settings – shows your profile settings and your grades for submitted assignments

• Online Users– useful for seeing who is online at the time for connecting with people in real time.

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Course Sections

• See next slides for details of what you will see in each section

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Orientation• Click on the Book icon or title

to see the Table of Contents

• Navigate through the pages/sections of the book

Content of book pages

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Four Course Sections to View

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Opening the Books

• Click on the Book icon or name to open it

• When the book is open in the settings panel you have the option of printing the book or the chapter

• When the book is open there is a Table of contents to allow you to see all of the chapters or sections in the book

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Navigating Sequenced Web Pages

• Click the arrow keys to navigate the pages of the Book chapters

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Participating in Discussion Forums

• Click the Discussion icon or its title to participate in the forum.

• Click on the topic to open and read

• When you come to the discussion forum it will show you how many replies have been made since you were last there

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Answering a discussion topic post• When the topic is open, click

on reply to make a post

• Write a reply to the post in this area

• Subscribe to the forum here to receive notifications of new

conversations

• You are able to add attachments to your post here.

• Then click on “Post to Forum”

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Creating a discussion topic

• Click on Help Desk & FAQ in the Communications course section

• Click on Add a new discussion topic

• Give your topic a subject, then write your question in the message section. If you have taken a screenshot to show the issue you are having then attach it to your post via the attachment area

• When finished click on Post to Forum

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Creating a Classroom Reflective blog post

• Click the Classroom Reflective Blog link

• Here you can either make a new post or access all of your posts and save a copy of your participation

• Click the New Blog Post button to make a post

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Creating a Classroom Reflective blog post

• Give your blog post a title

• Write your reflective blog post in the message area

• Give your post some tags to make it easy for people to search for blog posts using keywords

• Choose if you want to allow classmates to comment on your post• Finish by clicking Add blog post

• Click the New Blog Post button to make a post

• Your post appears – notice you can add a comment by

clicking on it if the author has allowed this action.

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Joining E-Ways Virtual Cafe

• Click the E-Ways Virtual Cafe link in the Communication Course Section

• This is a real time live text chat room• It will tell you when it is open and you can enter

• You can also view past chat transcribes.

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Downloading from Resource Library• Click the General Resources link in the Resource Library Course Section

• Click the link of the file you wish to access in the resource file Section

• Save the file to your PC or usb drive

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Uploading to the Project Room

• Click the link of the assignment you wish to upload in the Project Room Course Section

• Click on Add Submission

• Click on Add to navigate to your completed assignment and add to

this area.• Alternatively you may prefer to open

to drag & drop your assignment file into the box area.

• When the appears in the work area click on save changes

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Uploading to the Project Room• If you clicked on Add in the previous

step, a file picker box will appear• Make sure that Upload a file is

selected• Then click browse, locate the file on

your PC• Then click on the Upload file button• Your file will then populate the file

area – click on Save Changes

• Your page will then refresh and your assessment will show as submitted

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How do I ?

• If you require further instruction on how to do something within the course please post your question into the Helpdesk and FAQ forum or contact

Junita junita55@gmail.com or Katt katt@Ramblinkatt.com