Getting Started
This learning website is built with Moodle. Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS) software package.
Before You Begin
Please review the following notes in order to optimize your course experience.
Optimal Viewing
The website is best viewed at screen resolutions of 1024 x 768 or above. If you wish to see more text in your browser's viewing window, please consider setting the text size to "smallest" in your browser's settings (View > Text Size).
Popup Blocker
For your convenience, most of the hyperlinks open in a new window. This requires that the popup blocker be turned off for the learning site.
Cookies
Moodle requires cookies to be enabled. The cookies are used only for two reasons, as explained below with an extract from the Moodle Help Page
Two cookies are used by this site.
The essential one is the session cookie, usually called MoodleSession. You must allow this cookie into your browser to provide continuity and maintain your login from page to page. When you log out or close the browser this cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server).
The other cookie is purely for convenience, usually called something like MOODLEID. It just remembers your username within the browser. This means when you return to this site the username field on the login page will be already filled out for you. It is safe to refuse this cookie - you will just have to retype your username every time you log in.
Front Page
Once you login at the course site, you arrive at the SHAPE Learning Front Page.
Course Entry Options
There are three differnt modes of access to content:
Free content: in Course Samplers.
Subscribed content via enrollment key: provided by course teacher or site administrator.
Subscribed content via Paypal payment: (not shown) The course fee may be paid using the secure services of Paypal, an eBay company. PayPal accepts payment either via a PayPal account or with credit cards. Access to the course is automatically enabled once the fee is received.
Here are the Course Access Steps:
Select the course you want to participate in.
If you are prompted for an "enrolment key", use the one that you have been given. This will "enroll" you in the course.
If you are prompted for payment, please pay the stated course fee using Paypal. You can now access the full course.
About SCORM Activities
SCORM (Sharable Content Object Resource Module) is an e-learning standard to enable tracking of e-learning content and portability of e-learning content between CMSs. Software and tools developed to meet SCORM standards support tracking of an individual learner’s content. This capability provides features which enable the learner to start where they left off in a learning object. Additional features include the tracking of performance on quizzes and the recording of responses to surveys.
We have used SCORM activities to deliver presentations, quizzes and surveys. The learner can leave a presentation mid-way and return to it at a later time to continue from where he left off. Quizzes and surveys require completion in a single attempt – here, SCORM functions track the responses and assess the final grade.
Presentation Views
View features and options for presentations.
(No audio, views progress automatically. You may use the green playback control bar at the bottom of the page to pause/play, or click on the playback control bar to advance or return to previously viewed content.)
Quiz Views
View features and options for quizzes.
(No audio, views progress automatically.)
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