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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
Course Home Page http://gippslandlearnlocal.trainingvc.com.au
Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
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 [email protected] or Katt [email protected]
