JCU - Teaching and Learning Development

PLEASE NOTE: The materials on this site are no longer current. They are only applicable to LearnJCU 2007-2008.

The current LearnJCU Support site can be found at http://cms.jcu.edu.au/lt/learnjcu

LearnJCU Toolbox

Fast Guides for Students
These documents provide some introductory information on the functions and features of LearnJCU.
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Introduction to LearnJCU How to access LearnJCU, find important information and navigate your way around an online subject web site.
Using Discussion Board in LearnJCU Written by Crystal Nielsen, M.A., E-Learning Services, for Northwest Nazarene University and made available here with her approval. Some screen images may not align with JCU screen images but features and procedures will be the same.
Submitting assignments via Safe Assign SafeAssign is JCU's plagiarism detection software. This guide tells you how to submit your assignments via SafeAssign in LearnJCU and how to view SafeAssign reports on your submitted documents.
Alternative method for submitting assignments in LearnJCU How to use the Assignment tool. Note: this tool does not check for matching text but may be used by your teacher to replace Safe Assign at times.
Emailing in LearnJCU How to use the Email tools in LearnJCU.
Creating a personal home page in LearnJCU Create a simple static web page for each of your LearnJCU subjects, to let others in your class know more about you and your interests.
Using Group Pages in LearnJCU This printable PDF document shows how to use the Discussion Board, Group Pages, and Email tools in LearnJCU. NOTE: as there are later, 2008 versions of Discussion Board and Email Fast Guides, use this only for the Group pages section. Due for revision mid 2008.
WebCam Installation These days some computers come with an inbuilt web camera. This guide takes you through the set-up for an external webcam, whatever the brand. Webcams are cheap (from $49 to expensive!) and very useful if you want to communicate with your colleagues and classmates at a distance. Webcams, if used with a web conferencing tool like Skype, (see box below this) can replace the face-to-face interactions that students miss when studying online. Both teacher and student need a webcam - whether external or inbuilt - and a conferencing tool (like Skype) to communicate. Note, the process on a Mac is similar and a movie will later be available for the Mac. If you have an inbuilt webcam in your computer you will not need to install an external webcam. But you will still need a conferencing tool - so read about Skype, below.
Skype Set up Guide Now you have a webcam, you need a program to 'web conference' with a fellow student. This guide steps you through setting up one conferencing tool, Skype, on a PC. The process on a Mac is similar and a movie will later be available for the Mac. Free and easy to use, Skype is a good first step to better communication with your teacher and others. Before you begin this tutorial, first download Skype for either Mac or Windows here.
WIKI GUIDES: Acknowledgement: The following Wiki Guides were written by Learning Objects, the company that developed our terrific Wiki, Blog, Podcast, Expo and Search tools. We have the developer's permission to revise these guides progressively for our LearnJCU environment, but until they are revised you will notice a lack of screen shots, and the use of words such as Course instead of Subject, etc. We appreciate your patience and hope the guides will suffice for now.
Quick Start Guide: Viewing and Adding Comments Students can view the wiki if the teacher has made the wiki available option. You can contribute to the wiki if you are a member of the group. This guide shows you how to: • Navigate to an existing page • View comments • Add comments
Quick Start Guide: Contributing to a Wiki You can add text, hyperlinks, images, and embedded media to a wiki. This guide shows you how to: • Navigate to an existing wiki • Add text to the wiki • Insert hyperlinks to an internal, existing, or external web page • Insert local or external images • Insert embedded media
Quick Start Guide: Viewing Wiki History Reviewing history allows you to view all the revisions made to any wiki page, to compare changes between different versions of the page, and to revert to any previous version. This guide shows you how to: • Navigate to an existing page • Select a page in the wiki • Review different versions of the page • Return to the wiki participation page

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