PREPARE TO STUDYVisual Guide to the Online Learning Spacehttp://ynhservices.trainingvc.com.au/course/view.php?id=38

Course Home Page

Course Navigation tools

• Online users – shows who is on at same time as you

• People – click Participants to see who is enrolled

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

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

Course Information Blocks

Check Calendar for Upcoming Events and changes to the course in Recent activity

Course Sections• See next slides for details of

what you will see in each section

Orientation

Click on the Book icon or title to see the Table

of Contents

Click on any Chapter title to read that information on screen

Four Course Sections to ViewClassroom: Communication:

Resource Library:

Project Room:

Opening the Books

This is the image used to indicate that you are currently in the Classroom section

There are five Books (small sequences of web pages) in the Classroom section

Click on the Book icon or the title of

the Book to open up the sequenced web

pages

When you have a Book open, select Settings

and Print book or chapter

Navigating Sequenced Web Pages

Click the arrow keys to

navigate the pages of the

Book chapters

Participating in Discussion ForumsThis is the image used to indicate that you are currently in the Communication section

There are seven forums in which you can post:• First two are

optional• Last five are

required

Click the Discussion icon or

its title to participate in the

forum. Either click Reply or Create

new topic

Creating a discussion topic

Key in your post here

Select your notification

preference here

Drag and drop a file for sharing

in here

Select your mailing time

preference hereClick here to post

What you see in a forum!Select the title of the

discussion to read posts

If this is your own posting you can edit, delete,

or Reply

Downloading from Resource Library

Select the file by its title and save it to your USB or open on to your

desktop

Uploading to the Project Room• Select the link to the Project

Room from the Grid on the home page

Select a project title to open the uploading area