Classes and Course Material

Join a class

• Go to "Classes"
• Click on "Join/Drop a Class or Community Group"

Or

• Go to "Home"
• In the "Group" module, click on "Join/Drop a Class or Community Group". This page is divided in 3 parts:
  1. the current memberships for classes or communities
  2. the available classes
  3. the available communities
• Scroll down until "Join a Class" title
• Click on the "Join" button next to the class name. (Note that for some classes, the button is not "Join" but "Request membership".)

The class will appear automatically under "Your Current Membership" section (except for the classes that require an approval process for those classes, an administrator will send you a separate email)

Drop a class

• Go to Classes
• Click on "Join/Drop a Class or Community Group"

Or

• Go to "Home"
• In the Group module, click on Join/Drop a Class or Community Group. This page is divided in 3 parts:
  1. the current memberships for classes or communities
  2. the available classes
  3. the available communities
• Scroll down until "Your Current Memberships" title
• Click on the "Drop Membership" button next to the class name.

The class will disappear automatically from "Your Current Membership" section, and will appear under the "Join a Class section".

Navigate class content

The class portal holds the information referring specifically to the class: forums, FAQ, News, Documents, Calendar. To access the class content, you need to be registered to a class (see Join a Class). If you are already registered to a class, to access the class

• Go to "Classes"
• Click on the class name

Or

• Go to Home
• In the "Group" module, click on the class name

The class content opens in a new section on the same level as "Home", "Classes", "Communities", "Control Panel" and "Help". The class content includes several pages at the second level including class space, class calendar, class documents and more, depending of the customization chosen by the instructor.

The class space includes several modules, which content and location are determined by the instructor. The modules content refer only to the selected class.

Some of the main modules are:

• Class info: This area gives a description about the class and what topics will be discussed
• Forums: The forums area holds the discussion of topics from the class
• News: All news inside this module refer to the class only
• Full Calendar: This calendar is for the class only; it shows the different events within the class
• Documents: the documents area contains documents specific to the class.
• Learning Material: The learning materials contain the lessons in a specific format (SCORM, which is a web-based e-learning standard). It opens in a new page with its own layout and navigation.

Access course material

You can access the course material from the Learning Material module. This module appears in MySpace by default. It also appears in the Class Space.

• In the Learning Material module, click in the course name you are interested in

It opens a completely new interface with its own layout and navigation.

Navigate course material

Once you have opened the Course material (See Access course material), you are in a new interface with its own layout and navigation. The top navigation offers three arrows: previous, index and next. The left navigation menu offers to navigate between chapter and sub chapters. By clicking on a chapter title, the sub chapters appear. By clicking on the sub chapters, the pages appear. The "Class Space" icon and link at the bottom of the left navigation menu brings back to the Class space.