ACCESSING THE E-LEARNING PLATFORM

i. After login into your home page as shown in Figure 1 below, click the E-Learning link

Figure 1

ii. The interface in Figure 2 is displayed after clicking the E-Learning link in Figure 1.

iii. Select the appropriate academic year, Year, Semester and Group. By default, the current Academic Year and current Semester is selected ass well as all groups (regular groups (A, B,…) and Weekend group (W)). Click the OK button

Figure 2

iv. The sample interface in Figure 3 is displayed after performing the task in 1iii-Figure 2. This page displays registered courses for the semester when E-learning materials are uploaded by the respective course lecturers. (Note: A registered course is not shown among the list if no e-learning material is uploaded the respective lecturer.)

v. The page displays the course code, course name, Program, Year, and name of course tutor for each of the courses. It also displays the LEARNING MATERIAL, ASSIGNMENT AND FORUM fields which links you to contents of the e-Learning platform. The E-learning materials are available under the LEARNING MATERIAL field. Assignments requesting your responses and submissions are available under ASSIGNMENT field. The FORUM field allows you to access the discussion forum to ask questions and take part in discussions relating the given course.

Figure 3

E-LEARNING MATERIALS ACCESS

i. Under LEARNING MATERIAL field in the table in Figure 3, the number of e-learning materials uploaded by the course tutor for you is indicated under Files (Eg. 3 as indicated in Figure 3).

ii. To get details and access these files, click the Details link under Action of the LEARNING MATERIAL field for the respective course.

iii. The page in Figure 4 is displayed after clicking the Details link.

Figure 4

iv. From the listed files, click the Download link under the ACTION field to download a given file OR click Open (if enabled) to directly open the file in the browser.

E-ASSIGNEMENTS ACCESS

i. The number of assignments uploaded for you to respond to is indicated under Files of the ASSIGNMENT field. To view details and access these assignments, click the Details link under Action of the ASSISGNEMT field as shown in Figure 3.

ii. The following sample page in Figure 5 is displayed indicating the list of the assignments. To access the assignment, click the Download link or Open (if enabled) to download or view the content of the assignment file.

SUBMIT ASSIGNEMTNS RESPONSES TO COURSE LECTURERS

i. After responding to each of the assignments. Prepare your file in pdf or word document file formats and upload by clicking the Click to upload link under the Submit Response field as shown in Figure 5. If the files are more than one for an assignment, put all together in a zip and upload. Zip file types different from pdf or word document files before uploading.

Figure 5

ii. After clicking the Click to upload file link, the page in Figure 6 below is displayed. Click the Browse button to browse and select the file for upload.

Figure 6

iii. Enter any comments for the assignment where necessary in the Comments text box.

iv. Click the SAVE button to complete the file upload.

v. When the upload is successful, the message as shown in Figure 7 is displayed. If this message is not displayed, it means the upload is not successful and you have to try again by paying heed to the error message that appears.

Figure 7

vi. When the submission is successful, the link under Submit Response is replaced by the text “Re-Submit” and YES is shown in the Response sent field for the given assignment as represented in Figure 8 provided the submission deadline is not due. You can re-submit your response in case you made a mistake in the previous submission until the submission deadline elapses. Re-submitted responses replaces the previous uploaded response for the given assignment. If the given submission deadline elapses, Submitted is displayed when you uploaded your assignment response. Submission Closed is however displayed if the submission deadline is not met and your assignment response is not uploaded.

NOTE: For each assignment, only one file can be uploaded (pdf, word or zip)

Figure 8

FORUM DISCUSSION

Forum discussion is provided to enable you to discuss or ask questions relating to the topic and course concern. The number of discussion messages for the respective courses are indicated under Messages of the FORUM field in Figure 3. Go to the forum by clicking on the Go to Forum link under Action of the FORUM (field Figure 9).

Figure 9

i. A sample page (Figure 10) that allows you to view and read messages at the discussion forum and text boxes to allow you to contribute to discussions is displayed. You can view and read messages sent by members of your class including the course tutor.

ii. You can contribute to the discussion by entering the subject of your message in the first text box and the actual message in the second text box. Click Send Message to send the message to the forum.

Note: To go back to the previous page, it is recommended to click the GO BACK link if available instead of the Go Back button on the address bar of your browser.

Figure 10