A tour of the Prepare for Study course

1. PREPARE TO STUDY
Visual Guide to the
Online Learning Space
http://ynhservices.trainingvc.com.au/course/view.php?id=38

2. Course Home Page

3. 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

4. Course Information Blocks
Check Calendar for Upcoming Events and changes to the course in Recent
activity

5. Course Sections
• See next slides for details of
what you will see in each
section

6. Orientation
Click on the
Book icon or title
Click on any
to see the Table
Chapter title
of Contents
to read that
information
on screen

7. Four Course Sections to View
Classroom: Communication:
Resource Project Room:
Library:

8. Opening the Books
Click on the Book
icon or the title of This is the
the Book to open up image used to
the sequenced web indicate that you
pages are currently in
the Classroom
section
There are five
Books (small
sequences of
web pages) in the
Classroom
When you have a Book section
open, select Settings
and Print book or
chapter

9. Navigating Sequenced Web Pages
Click the arrow
keys to
navigate the
pages of the
Book chapters

10. Participating in Discussion Forums
This is the image
used to indicate
that you are
currently in the
Communication
section
There are seven
forums in which
Click the you can post:
Discussion icon or • First two are
its title to optional
participate in the • Last five are
forum. Either click required
Reply or Create
new topic

11. 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 here
Click here
to post

12. 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

13. Downloading from Resource Library
Select the file by
its title and save
it to your USB or
open on to your
desktop

14. 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