Queen’s Online for Learning and Teaching (QOL)

Educational Technology UnitLearning and Teaching Support

Information Services

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What is Queen’s Online for Learning and Teaching?

A Managed Learning Environment (MLE)

Learning materials available online

Independent of place and time

Administrative tools (e.g. linked to Queen’s databases)

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Queen’s Online - Tutors Provide learning material

electronically Access names/email addresses of

enrolled students and send them emails

Track student access to resources (optional)

Moderate & participate in subject specific discussion lists

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Queen’s Online - Students

Queen’s Online gives students access to

Learning materials

Subject specific discussion lists Communicate with Tutor Communicate with other students

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Queen’s Online

To access Queen’s Online you need to go to the following website

http://www.qnet.qub.ac.uk

This site can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet

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Login Unique Username

and Password All students are

automatically registered

Student number is your username and your University password

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Module List

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Top Menu Bar

Queen’s Homepage – Takes you back to QUB homepage. This will log you out of QOL

Help –provides a full manual Opens in a separate window

My Homepage – takes you to your QOL homepage

Logout – very important as otherwise the next user on that machine may access QOL with your username & password

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Left Panel

Provides a range of services

Access the current module

Access list of your modules

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Module Details

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Module Description

Text taken from the book of Modules

Additional text may have been added by your tutor

Information also available in Resource Map – Module Information.

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Staff Involved This option will show the names and

emails of staff members Those listed can add/modify resources

& moderate discussion forums

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Module Resources

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Module Resource Map

The main working area for Staff and Students

Where your tutor uploads course resources

Where you download and/or read resources

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Module Resource Map

Folders & Files Like Windows, folders

are collapsible Listed Alphabetically

Your tutor may have listed the items either by themes or weeks or any other logical combination

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Icons – Resource Types The W icon represents a a Word

document This icon represents an image This is a PowerPoint

presentation The globe icon represents a link

to a web site (e.g. http://www……)

This icon links to a web resource available within the Queen's Online system (.htm)

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Recognize File Extensions Word processing files (.doc)

Presentation files (.ppt)

Portable Document Format (.pdf)

Image files (.gif or .jpg)

Text files (.txt)

Spreadsheet files (.xls)

Database files (.mdb)

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Open a Resource

To view a pop-up description of a resource hold the mouse over the text

To open a resource click on the text

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Tracking QOL can track which students have

accessed a particular resource and how often

It is up to the tutor which resources are tracked

Your tutor will inform you how much they will be using tracking and for what purposes

Tracking can be switched on/off for each resource

Communication Tools in QOL

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Communication Tools

Tutors can send/participate in Email to Students Discussion Lists

Student can participate in Discussion Lists

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Email

Tutors can choose to email all students or select individual students from a list

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Discussion Forum

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Discussion Forum

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Start a New Topic

Subject

Message

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Post Reply

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Notes on Discussion Forum Long discussions may run over more than one

page, so remember to look for additional page links during long discussions

For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. You may cut and paste text into your post or use HTML to provide hyperlinks to outside documents

The administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be posted. Censoring is automated and certain words may be censored out of context. Words that are censored are replaced with asterisks

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Discussion Forum

Tutors can set guidelines for the use of discussion forum

Tutors can choose to moderate and participate in discussion forum

Tutors may also choose to only moderate discussion forum without participating

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Basic Guidelines Remember that you are addressing a

group. Don’t say anything you would not say publicly. Remember forums are archived

Note that humour and sarcasm can be misunderstood

Don’t SHOUT, be rude or angry

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Using QOL Help

4 page handout on Queen’s Online Additional help available online from the

Help link in QOL

Tips Access QOL on a regular basis Access your Queen’s email on a regular

basis