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Learnline
is the heart of NTU's online learning programme. Here
you will access lecture and tutorial materials (including
lecture audios and the E-Tutorial Room), check your grades,
submit essays and other assignments online, undertake online
revision quizzes (in some units) and participate in online
discussion board debates (again in some units). Learnline
can be found at http://learnline.ntu.edu.au.
As soon as you have access to Learnline, we strongly
suggest you browse around and familiarise yourself with
its layout and facilities (although you'll also be given
a familiarisation tour at the end of the orientation lecture
in week 1 - see below).
Enter
the following details into the log in box:
Username:
will be your student number, e.g. 123456
Password:
will be your student number, e.g. 123456
Click
Login.
NOTE:
Your access to Learnline may not be available until
Day 1 of each teaching semester. If you have not received
confirmation of enrolment (including your student number)
by Day 1 (Monday 28 July for semester 2 2003), or you are
unable to access Learnline using your student number as
explained above, first contact TLS (phone contact below).
If that fails to resolve the situation, contact Law School
lecturer Ken Parish on (08) 89466842 or email ken.parish@cdu.edu.au
.
On
your own personal welcome screen, you will see a box on
the right called ‘My Courses’, with a heading ‘Courses
in which you are participating’.
Click the title of the course you would like to view.
Your
course screen will have a menu down the left hand side made
up of a number of different buttons.
Click each button and read through the on-line information
and familiarize yourself with the objectives, content and
assessment items.
Then begin your studies.
Your
NTU student email account is automatically entered into
Blackboard. Your
lecturer may contact you through this address.
If you have not registered your NTU student email
account through the Uni Info Shop your lecturer will not
be able to contact you.
To fix this you have two options:
1.
Contact the Uni Info Shop and activate your student
account
OR
2.
Change the email address to your own personal email
address by going to ‘Tools’ box at the left on your
personal welcome screen. Click the bottom link ‘Personal Information’ and then
click ‘Edit Personal Information’.
From here, you can change your email address, i.e.
@hotmail etc.
For
assistance with the use of the learning system, login or technical
problems, contact TLS on (08) 8946 6483.
For
assistance with the content of the learning materials or feedback
contact your lecturer.
There will be an orientation lecture held in the E-Tutorial
Room at 4 pm on Friday 1 August 2003 (the Friday of semester
week 1). Duration will be approximately 2 hours. Attendance
(on the Internet) is absolutely essential for all external
and Alice Springs-based students. You will be welcomed
by Head of School Professor Ned Aughterson and receive critical
basic information on the degree structure and course and individual
study unit requirements from the course co-ordinator and subject
lecturers.
This lecture cannot be repeated, so please make arrangements
to be online at the above time (even if that means making
special work or childcare arrangements). Please also
make sure that you access and upload the E-Tutorial Room software
plug-in, and test to make sure that it's working on your PC
as explained below*.
* This applies to external but not Alice Springs students.
Alice Springs students will watch and listen to the orientation
lecture at a common on-campus venue to be advised at Centralian
College.
To install and test the E-Tutorial "plug-in":
- Log on to Learnline (see instructions above) and navigate
to the LWZ 001 Legal Process Research and Writing site.
- Click on the red hyperlink reading "CLICK HERE FOR
E-TUTORIAL ROOM".
- The E-Tutorial Room software "plug-in" should
load automatically (although you will probably find that
a box pops up asking you whether you want to load the software.
This may happen as many as 4 or 5 times. Click "yes"
each time. After this the software should load and
install itself on your PC automatically, without your needing
to do anything. This may take quite a few minutes
if you have a slow Internet connection, so be patient.
If the "plug-in" fails to load or install correctly,
close that window (using the "X" button at top
right) and read the hints you'll find under the "CLICK
HERE FOR E-TUTORIAL ROOM" hyperlink.
- Once the "plug-in" has been installed, a small
text box should pop up, and you'll be asked to specify a
user name or nickname. Please be sure to enter your
real first and surname (e.g. Susan Bradstreet) and not a
nickname as such (like Suzy69 or something). This
is because the user name or nickname is what is displayed
to other users in the E-Tutorial Room user list, and your
lecturer (and other students) need to know who you are.
- Once you've installed the "plug-in" and entered
your user name, you shouldn't have to perform these steps
again. On subsequent accesses the E-Tutorial Room
should simply open up almost as soon as you click
on the hyperlink in Learnline.
- You need to have a microphone (preferably a headset mike)
plugged in to the correct input socket at the rear of your
PC. Look for the group of 3 single round sockets;
on most PCs the microphone socket should be marked with
a microphone symbol (although you may need to look closely).
If you're having trouble with this step, get a friend with
some computer knowledge to help you.
- To make absolutely sure that both your microphone and
the E-Tutorial Room plug-in are working correctly on your
PC, log on to the E-Tutorial Room between 9am and 12 noon
on Monday 28 July, Wednesday 30 July or (at the very latest)
Friday 1 August. That should hopefully allow enough
time to fix any problems in good time so you'll be able
to log on for the orientation lecture starting at 4 pm on
Friday 1 August.
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