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Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program Engineering Science Corps, UCLA Tutorial for Teachers

Welcome to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science (HSSEAS), Engineering Science Corps Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program. We are excited to have you join our team in providing these outreach services and having an opportunity to build community with you and your students. There are a few steps to participating in this program, including:

1) OTMP Info-session - Meet the Engineering Science Corps (ESC) staff to discuss program components and your classroom needs, schedule visitations, answer any questions about the program or online service,

2) ESC staff will create an OTMP website for your school/classroom and invite you to the site, 3) CCLE Training – The Common Collaboration & Learning Environment is the online tool used to deliver the OTMP. ESC

staff will provide a training to set-up and manage your school’s OTMP website. 4) You will need to create a UCLA account and logon using your UCLA Logon ID (see Getting Started handout for

instructions) to access your site.

Table of Contents

ONLINE TUTORING & MENTORING PROGRAM WEBSITE OVERVIEW ............................................................................2 NAVIGATING TO YOUR SITE ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 INTERFACE AND CONTROLS ....................................................................................................................................................... 2

STRUCTURING YOUR WEBSITE ....................................................................................................................................4 CREATING YOUR CLASS SECTION(S) ............................................................................................................................................. 4 ADDING SUBHEADER(S) TO YOUR SECTION ................................................................................................................................... 5

ADDING CONTENT TO YOUR SECTION .........................................................................................................................7 UPLOAD A FILE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7 ADD CONTENT TO YOUR SECTION - ACTIVITY/ RESOURCE TOOL....................................................................................................... 8 ADD AN ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION ............................................................................................................................................ 9 ADD A QUIZ .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 ADD A QUESTIONNAIRE (SURVEY) ........................................................................................................................................... 15

ACCESSING ONLINE TUTORING & MENTORING ......................................................................................................... 19 DISCUSSION FORUMS ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 SETTING UP DISCUSSION TOPICS ............................................................................................................................................... 19 LIVE TUTORING CHAT FORUM .................................................................................................................................................. 22 FORUM & LIVE TUTORING CHAT FORUM GUIDELINES .................................................................................................................. 22

OTHER FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................................................................. 23 EDITING YOUR WEBSITE .......................................................................................................................................................... 23 RESTORING DELETED ITEMS ..................................................................................................................................................... 24 CREATING AND MANAGING GROUPS ........................................................................................................................................ 25 REARRANGING CONTENT ACROSS SECTIONS .............................................................................................................................. 27 CHANGING EMAIL PREFERENCES & FORUM SUBSCRIPTIONS ........................................................................................................ 28

TEACHERS WHO HAVE AN EXISTING CLASS WEBSITE ................................................................................................. 29

LAUNCH ................................................................................................................................................................... 29

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Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program Website Overview Navigating to your site

You will be invited via email to your school’s Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program website. You can also navigate to your site by visiting: https://esc.seas.ucla.edu/ and selecting the link to the Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program. Navigate to “Affiliate Schools” and click on your high school.

Your website is run by UCLA CCLE - Common Collaboration & Learning Environment. This system is UCLA’s campus-wide online

course management system which the Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program utilizes to provide services to your school. For more

information on UCLA CCLE, please visit: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/content/about-ccle.

This tutorial will highlight commonly used functions. It is designed as a tool to help you get started. For a full-set of tutorials on

managing the CCLE website, please visit: https://docs.ccle.ucla.edu/w/Main_Page. (Under Need Help -> View self help articles)

Interface and Controls Each affiliate school will have a page set-up on our Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program webpage. Your page can be broken up in

sections to provide a space for your individual classroom/courses.

It is important to note that all teachers and students at your school will be sharing the same webpage and content posted will

be visible to all participants based on the access rights assigned to their role (see below). For this reason we discourage

teachers from using the online grading tools available on our site.

Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program website user interface

1. Username - Each user will be assigned a role that provides them specific access rights to our system and content on your website. It is important to keep this information confidential, as you will not want your students to have access to your account or to act on your behalf. Please make sure you remember to logout to prevent this.

2. Roles - Teacher – Instructional Assistant role (full access to edit site settings, course content, invite users, and view submitted work by students). Student – Student role (can participate in activities and view private course content but not alter them and can view their own assignments but not view others’).

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3. CCLE system navigation – Navigate around the CCLE Online Tutoring & Mentoring collaboration site. You can use this to quickly navigate back to your school’s Online Tutoring & Mentoring homepage. To navigate back to the Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program homepage please click the link located under your school’s logo.

4. Site info – located in the left column on your screen is a navigation menu that will allow users to more easily move around your site. Each course is divided into sections. These are automatically labeled with your last name and the subject you teach. To navigate to these sections, simply click on the section names in the Site Info block, located on the left side of the page. The section you are currently looking at is highlighted. If you want to look at the contents of the entire course simultaneously, select Show all.

5. Content area – This area is an area you can populate with information and activities associated to your class. Information on adding content will follow.

6. Editing - There are two ways to edit your course website.

7. Administration – There are 3 menus under administration. 1. Course Administration – has setting configurations that allow us to appropriately administrate

the system and ensure your student’s privacy is protected. In most cases, you will use the editing

tools instead of this.

2. Switch role to… The Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program will only use roles of the System

Administrator (ESC Staff), Instructional Assistant (Teachers), and Student. This function allows you

to switch your role and view what your students will see when they access the site.

3. My profile settings allow users to create a profile and set-up and manage email notifications.

The Control Panel

The Control Panel, which is the primary method to add content to your website, is organized into two tabs: Common and Advanced functions. You will find most tools needed to add content to your website in the Control Panel’s common functions tab.

Turn editing on

Click the Turn editing on button, which is the primary method to edit content already added to your site, is located in the upper right-hand corner. Red text should now appear on your page anywhere you can edit. Click on the red actions to edit your course webpage.

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Structuring your website Here is an example of a populated school’s Online Tutoring & Mentoring program website:

https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/Sample_High_School

We ask teachers to help structure their website to align with the training we provide our tutors.

The content you choose for your website is entirely up to you. We encourage teachers to populate their website to accommodate

their needs and best facilitate their student’s engagement. Some teachers will choose to fully integrate their school’s Online

Tutoring & Mentoring Program website into their classroom while others will simply make it a gateway to our tutoring and

mentoring services. If you prefer to use your own class website, skip to the “Adding content to your section” section.

Now that you have familiarized yourself with the Online Tutoring & Mentoring Website and had a chance to look at an example of a

populated school page, let’s begin structuring your school’s Online Tutoring & Mentoring program webpage.

Creating your Class Section(s)

Each school is provided a webpage that is shared amongst teachers. Each teacher may create their own sections for each class they

teach.

ESC Staff will set up the sections with your name and the section you teach, but we will go over how to add and edit your own

sections in case you want to make your own changes.

We ask that teachers divide their school’s website into sections by class. (i.e. separate sections for Algebra I and Algebra II)

NOTE – Remember that this is a shared webspace with all teachers and students at your school who will be able to view content

based on the access rights assigned to their role (teacher/student).

There are multiple ways to edit the

sections.

The quickest was is to turn editing on

and then clicking

Which is found on the top left of every

page.

The other way is to click on Control

Panel and then Modify site menu

sections.

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Edit or Add Sections.

You may either edit your own section,

or create a new section on this page.

Add a section by clicking Add new

section or by just renaming an unused

section (a blank section created by

default on CCLE named Week #).

Title your section

Last Name – Class Name

(ex: Wilson – Calculus,

Smith – Physics)

NOTE – one for each class.

VERY IMPORTANT:

- Do not change the landing page.

- Do not delete another teacher’s

content or sections.

Click Save changes when finished.

Adding Subheader(s) to your section

Navigate to your class page under Site

Info to begin setting up your section.

Begin by clicking

We will begin by adding subheading,

to organize your material.

Click on Add subheading

Example subheadings include:

Homework, Lesson Notes,

Assignments, Practice Exams

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Use these tools to change the

formatting of your Subheader.

Here, we are creating a subheading for

Homework.

Example subheadings include:

Homework, Lesson Notes,

Assignments, Practice Exams

Make your material Private to make

your content only available to enrolled

students.

Here you can drag and drop your

content to change the order.

Click Save Changes when you are

done.

To create multiple subheadings with

the same formatting, you may

Duplicate subheadings.

Return to your course page and click

Edit next to your subheading then click

Duplicate.

Note: You can rearrange your

content by dragging and dropping the

icon to the left of your content

On the duplicate, click Edit and then

Edit Settings.

You will be taken to the editor shown

previously. This way you do not have

to reformat each subheader.

(This is also how you edit any item.)

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Adding content to your section The next step is to populate the newly created labels in your class’ section of the website.

Common tools (Upload file, Add link, Add text) which can be accessed quickly in your section, under your section name. (As shown

below). Add link and Add text are similar to Add subheading, which was explained previously

VERY IMPORTANT: Please do not remove your Question Forum or Syllabus from your course section.

Upload a File Add documents that you would like your students to have access to. Examples of documents include a class syllabus, practice

quizzes, handouts, etc.

Navigate to your class page and begin by

turn editing on

Click Upload File

Add files by clicking Add, clicking the blue

arrow, or dragging files into the box.

Name – Choose a title

Description – Optional

Enable Public/Private – Do not make

content public. This will allow the general

public access to this content.

Add to section – Post to the appropriate

section on your school’s website.

You can drag and drop your new file to the

appropriate label in your class’ section.

Restrict access – Optional; This allows you

to control the period of time your students

will be able to access the document. You

can designate a start and end date and

time.

Save changes when you are done.

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Add Content to your Section - Activity/ Resource Tool

CCLE provides several resources to assist in setting up classroom resources and activities.

We will go over how to set up: Quiz, Assignment, and Questionnaire (survey) in the following pages. These are the staple

activities/resources, but please feel free to explore the other resources provided.

VERY IMPORTANT: Tools to have students submit assignments and quizzes directly through the CCLE system are available. If you

elect to have students respond to Written Assignments or Practice Quizzes through CCLE, note that all teachers participating in our

program at your school & ESC staff will have access to view your student’s submission & any feedback you provide them.

Go to your class page and Turn Editing On.

Press the Add an activity or resource button at the

bottom of the page.

The Add an activity or resource window will appear.

This provides a list of options, including adding:

Assignment Submission, Questionnaire(survey), and

Quizzes.

Clicking an activity will show a description of what it

is on the right.

Select an activity and click Add

Here, we are adding a Quiz to our page.

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Add an Assignment Submission

This is the landing page after you add

Activity via the Add an activity or

resource window.

Name the assignment and add a

description.

Next, we will go over the settings.

Most settings will have this icon next to

them: Clicking this will open a

window, which explains the function.

* Check the Enable box for functions you

would like to use.

Assignments can be set to be open for a

set time period (good for graded).

In this example, students will be able to

start submitting assignments Sept. 15 at

midnight and have until Sept. 22 at

midnight to submit it.

Enabling a cut off date will allow students

to submit late assignments.

In this example we are requiring students

to upload a .pdf document only.

You may check Online Text if you would

like the student to type their assignment

directly into CCLE.

You can control how many documents the

student can submit. Here, 2 documents

are allowed.

If you have selected Online Text you may

put a word limit on the student’s

submission.

Here, PDFs is selected so students may

only submit .pdf files. This can be

extended to other filetypes (e.g. .doc,

.ppt, .zip)

The other options may be ignored.

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Requiring the student to click the submit

button will save their submission as a draft

until they click submit. Students may be

forgetful and forget to click this button, so

it is not recommended.

Click Save and display to navigate to the

assignment page.

This is the assignment landing page.

Under Administration (to the left) you

may edit the assignment settings, view the

grades, and download all the submissions.

Under Grading Summary you can view

number of submissions and number of

ungraded assignments. Clicking

View/grade all submissions will lead you

to the submissions page.

This is what the students will see when

they attempt to submit their assignment.

Here, they can also view their grade.

You may click Add submission to test the

assignment page as if you were a student.

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Add a Quiz

This is the landing page after you add Quiz

via the Add an activity or resource window.

Name your quiz and add a description

(optional). The description will be shown

before the student starts the quiz.

Next, we will go over the settings.

Most settings will have this icon next to

them: Clicking this will open a

window, which explains the function.

* Check the Enable box for functions you

would like to use.

Quizzes can either be indefinitely open

(good for practice) or open for a set time

period (good for graded).

In this example, students will be able to

start taking the quiz Sept. 15 at midnight

and have until Sept. 16 at midnight to

complete it. There is no time limit.

This controls what the student can see after

answering a question.

Checking The attempt will allow students to

view answers and feedback for the quizzes.

For graded quizzes, it is recommended to

only check The attempt for After this quiz

is closed so answers are not visible until the

quiz closes.

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The questions may be shuffled.

Displayed on the right is the window

which gives an in depth explanation of the

function.

If you do not want the questions to be

shuffled, select As shown on the edit

screen.

The questions can either be viewed by the

student as 1 question per page, or multiple

on one page.

This function is for graded quizzes.

In this example, students are allowed 2

attempts at the quiz and the higher grade

of the two is recorded.

For practice quizzes, change attempts

allowed to unlimited.

If you want more restrictions on which

students can take your quiz, you may add a

password to the quiz which students will be

required to enter in order to take the quiz.

You may also restrict which groups are

allowed to view the quiz.

Click Save and display to navigate to the

adding questions page.

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This is the landing page for students. They

will see this page before starting the quiz.

Click Edit quiz to start adding questions.

You can also edit by clicking Edit quiz under

Administration.

Select Add a question… and the following

window will appear.

Select a question type to see its description.

In this example, we will select Matching

This is the landing page for Matching

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Insert the questions and the answers.

Click Save changes and continue editing to

continue working on the same page.

When you are done with editing the

question, click Save changes.

Your question will now be displayed. You

may change the amount of points the

questions and quiz are worth from this

page.

You may also change the order of the

questions using the arrows to the right of

the question.

Selecting Preview under Administration (to

the left) will allow you to preview and test

your quiz.

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Add a Questionnaire (Survey)

This is the landing page after you add

Questionnaire via the Add an activity or

resource window.

Name your questionnaire and add a

description (optional). The description

will be shown before the student starts

the quiz.

Next, we will go over the settings.

Most settings will have this icon next to

them: Clicking this will open a

window, which explains the function.

* Check the Enable box for functions you

would like to use.

Surveys can either be indefinitely open or

open for a set time period.

Setting the time to 00:00 will make the

quiz available until midnight.

The default options here will suffice, but

explore the windows for a more

customized set up.

*Allowing branching questions will allow

for more complex surveys, where the

student will see different questions based

on their answers.

Click Save and display to navigate to the

adding questions page.

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Here is the landing page after creating

Questionnaire/Survey.

Under Administration you may edit your survey,

edit the survey questions, and preview the survey.

Click Add questions.

Select your desired question type and click Add

selected question type.

In this example, we are selecting Dropdown Box

Here is the landing page for adding a question.

Use a Question Name in order to keep track of

your questions (important for later).

Check where or not the question is mandatory.

Insert the question.

Insert the possible answers.

Answers are separated by line.

Click Save changes

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Here is the landing page after clicking Save

changes

Here, you may add more questions and mange the

questions.

In this example, two more questions have been

created.

1. Change the order of the question 2. Edit the question 3. Delete the question 4. Toggle if the question is mandatory or

not (red=mandatory, green=optional)

Here is the landing page after choosing to change

the order of the question What is your favorite

month?

Click this box to have it appear after this question.

Click this box to have it appear after this question.

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After you launch your survey, and there have been

responses, your survey landing page will change.

Click View All Responses

To view statistics and responses

You can view which students have or have not

responded, and see either their unique responses

or a summary.

Clicking Download in text format will allow you to

export the responses to excel.

The summary view shows a quick statistical

breakdown of each question.

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Accessing Online Tutoring & Mentoring The following provides information on how to access our online tutoring and mentoring services from your site. Note that the

school homepage is already populated with Announcements, UCLA Engineering Forum, and Live Tutoring Forum. Each class

section also has a specific discussion forum.

Discussion Forums The Discussion Forums is an area where students can post questions to our UCLA tutors about their STEM courses as well as

questions about pathways in engineering. It is also an area where students can interact with one another about their coursework.

There will be 3 Forums located on your school’s main Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program website.

1) Announcements – for tutor and OTMP staff announcements, 2) UCLA Engineering Forum – for all students to ask questions about UCLA or engineering, 3) Live Tutoring & Open Forum – for live tutoring services and questions from students not enrolled in a participating class.

In addition, ESC will create a Forum for each of your classes where your student’s questions need to be posted.

About our tutors – Online Tutoring and Mentoring Program tutors are all current UCLA engineering undergraduate and

graduate students. Our program tutors are volunteers with demonstrated science and math skills as well as experience and

desire to work with and mentor younger students. Our tutors go through a training to work with your students and are supervised

regularly by ESC staff. Generally, UCLA tutors will respond to student posts within a 24 hour period. Teachers should notify ESC

staff if questions are not being answered within a 24 hour period. Please note that teachers are also able to and encouraged to

answer student’s questions and verify accuracy of response posts.

Setting up Discussion Topics Once ESC staff creates your class’ Forum, teachers should create Discussion Topics to organize posts in a way that will help

tutors locate new questions and increase the efficiency of responses.

To reduce clutter and be more organized, we recommend titling discussion topics by main topics of the course or by the chapters

discussed in class. This also helps tutors navigate the forums and answer questions.

In addition to any instructions you provide, please include these instructions in your discussion topics:

1) Please find the most appropriate Discussion Topic,

2) Look for previous posts regarding your question to avoid re-asking a question,

3) Please include

a. A copy of the original equation or problem,

b. Your work/progress,

c. Your question, and

d. Any reference that might help a teacher/tutor respond to your query.

e. Optional: add an attachment (example - photo or word doc file) including the original equation or problem and

your work/progress.

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Enter your class’s discussion forum.

Begin adding topics by clicking:

Please organize topics in a way that

would be easy for tutors to navigate.

Ex) Homework #1 Questions

Unit #5 Questions

Only teachers should create discussion

topics.

Complete the form as follows:

Subject: We recommend titling

discussion topics by main topics of the

course or by the chapters discussed in

class.

Message: Please include the

instructions providing at the start of

this section in addition to any

instructions you provide.

Subscription – decide whether you

want to receive email copies of forum

posts.

Attachments – attach one or more files

to a forum post, such as a worksheet,

lecture notes, image file.

Mail now – Check this box to announce

to the students that a new topic is

available.

Display – Optional; create start/end

dates for the topic.

Post to forum – click to post.

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Discussion topics will now appear in

the Forum page.

Your students can now post a question

by selecting the appropriate discussion

topic.

Please refer to the Quick Reference

Guide for detailed instructions.

Once students select the appropriate

Discussion Topic, they can post a

question by selecting, “reply.”

Students can choose to keep the

current subject line or change it to

reference something more specific.

For example – Instead of RE:Chapter 1,

students can change the subject to

Chapter 1, Homework set 2,

Question

17.

Message guidelines – Student’s

question based on the instructions you

provided them in the Discussion Topic.

Post to forum – click to post.

Teachers and tutors can respond by

clicking reply in the lower right corner

of the question post.

NOTE – Teachers and Tutors please

edit the subject line to include the

prefix, “Teacher” or “Tutor.”

Ex) – Tutor – Chapter 1 Question 17

(please remove the RE:)

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Additional important menu options

View – control how you view the

discussion post threads.

NOTE – We recommend using the

‘Display replies in nested form’ to more

easily identify if student’s posts have

been answered.

Delete – any inappropriate posting.

NOTE – There is no way to move a post

from one discussion topic to another.

If a post needs to be moved it must be

deleted from the incorrect discussion

topic and reposted in the appropriate

area.

Live Tutoring Chat Forum Live Tutoring Chat Forum will be available on Mondays – Fridays from 3:30 -6:30 PM. This is an opportunity for your students

to chat live with an Online Tutor. To participate in live chat, access the Live Tutoring Chat Forum on your school’s Online

Tutoring & Mentoring Program website and hit the “Live Tutoring Chat Forum” button. Live Tutoring Chat Forum works

similarly to the Discussion Forum but will be staffed by a person during these hours to provide an immediate response.

NOTE – Tutors will be unable to answer technical questions about the Online Tutoring & Mentoring website or CCLE. Please direct

these questions to ESC staff.

Forum & Live Tutoring Chat Forum Guidelines 1. Remember, your chat session will be viewable to your teacher and others in your class. 2. Your questions should be limited to content related to your coursework and questions about

engineering. 3. You must adhere to your institution’s policies established on acceptable use of internet resources. 4. Our tutors are trained to report inappropriate dialog with minors. Engineering Science Corps staff will address

these situations immediately with school site teachers and administrators. Inappropriate behavior can result in losing access to our programs.

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Other Functions This section will go over miscellaneous functions and tools that will help you edit content on your course page.

Editing your website Now that you’ve added content to your class section and Discussion Topics to your Question Forum here is a bit of information

on how to edit your site.

Edit settings – edit content you’ve

added,

Duplicate – allows you to copy

content in this section

Delete the page

You can also change the order

of items by clicking on the

next to each subhead

Note – This tutorial provides

the basic menu options that

are most commonly used.

For additional tips on editing

your page, please navigate

to the Help and Feedback

page by selecting the link in

the upper right corner of

your page.

A limited amount of editing

options is available in the

Discussion Topics. You can

edit the information you

provide for a Discussion

Thread by selecting the Edit

button and delete a posting.

Use this option if a student

asks a question that belongs

in another Forum and you

would like to move it to the

appropriate Forum.

For example, let’s say a student asks an engineering question in your course’s Chapter 1 Discussion Topic, you can move the

post to the UCLA Engineering Forum on your school’s main website.

Unfortunately you cannot move a post from one Discussion Topic to another. If a student asks a question in the wrong

Discussion Topic it must be deleted and reposted in the appropriate area.

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Restoring Deleted Items

Deleted items will be stored in

a recycle bin for 35 days. If you

have accidentally deleted

something, you will be able to

restore it to the area it was

deleted from.

Locate Administration on the

left hand side of any CCLE page.

Click Recycle Bin

Locate the item you want to

restore and click the restore icon

The item will be restored to the

page it was deleted form.

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Creating and Managing Groups This is an optional function. Groups are useful for teachers with many class periods. Groups with specific enrollment

keys can be made for different class sections, so students will self enroll into the class section and only have access to

the content to the school’s main page and the class section they are enrolled in.

NOTE: Students cannot self enroll into two groups. Teachers have to manually enroll students in multiple groups.

Scroll down and locate the

“Administration” block on the bottom

left.

Click on “Users” to expand

Click on “Groups”

This is the Groups page.

Click Create Group

On the Groups page you will only need

to fill out:

Group Name: Your class section

Enrollment Key: Give this to your

students so they can self enroll into your

group.

All other settings can stay at default.

Click Save Changes

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Manually Add/Remove Users

Start on the Groups page.

On the left, select which group you

would like to edit. On the right, click

“Add/remove users”

On the right, select the student(s)

you want to add to your group.

Then click “Add” in the middle.

You can remove student(s) by

selecting them on the left and

clicking “Remove”

You can select multiple students by

pressing:

Ctrl + Click

If the students’ names are next to

each other, you can click and drag

You may also search for students.

When you are done click “Back to

groups”

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Rearranging Content Across Sections

This function allows instructors to move content from one class section to another class section. This is useful for

teachers with multiple class sections. An example of its use is duplicating Subheaders from one section and moving

them into another one.

Be careful to not alter another teacher’s content. If you do, do not press Save Changes.

Click Turn Editing On and then click Rearrange

materials to the left.

You will be taken to this page.

Click Expand and the section you want to drag

content from and the section you want to drag

content to.

From here, drag and drop content from one section

to another.

Click Save changes once you are done.

If you make a mistake, refresh the page instead of

saving changes.

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Changing Email Preferences & Forum Subscriptions You may edit the subscription settings for your students on most content by selecting Edit Settings on the content and

navigating to Subscription and tracking.

You may Automatically Subscribe your students (and they can choose to unsubscribe themselves later), or Force

Subscribe your students, and they may not unsubscribe themselves. Forced subscription is not recommended for very

active forums. You may also Disable Subscriptions.

Change your Email Preferences

Under Administration, expand My profile settings and

click on Edit profile

You will be taken to this page.

Change the format of emails you receive from the

forums you are subscribed to in Email digest type.

Choose which option best suits your subscription

needs after clicking the question mark.

Change how you are subscribed to forums under Forum

auto-subscribe.

Click Save Changes when done.

You may unsubscribe/ subscribe to individual forums.

Go to the desired forum.

Under Administration click

“(Un)Subscribe to this forum”

You may also quickly change the subscription mode

here. (Optional, forced, etc.)

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Teachers who have an existing class website We realize some affiliate schoolteachers already have a webpage they are using in their classroom. Some of you may choose

to continue using your existing website and want to use your school’s Online Tutoring & Mentoring Program (OTMP) website

as a portal to the discussion forums only. For those of you electing to do this, please follow these set of guidelines:

1. Please inform OTMP staff that you intend to use your school’s OTMP website as a portal to the discussion forums only. This means you plan NOT to post any material on your school’s OTMP website.

2. Set-up your section/class on your school’s OTMP website (see page 4). 3. Upload your syllabus and create a link to your class webpage (see page 10). 4. Please follow the Accessing Online Tutoring & Mentoring guidelines (see page 17).

Your class section should look similar to the following:

Launch When you are satisfied with your website, you can send an email to your students inviting them to visit and join the online system.

Include the link to the website and your enrolment key. We will provide you and your students a ‘Getting Started’ and ‘Online

Tutoring & Mentoring Quick Reference Guide’ handout with instruction on how to access the Online & Tutoring Mentoring Program

website that you should hand-out in class or email as an attachment.