queen’s online for learning and teaching (qol)
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Queen’s Online for Learning and Teaching (QOL)
Educational Technology UnitLearning and Teaching Support
Information Services
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What is Queen’s Online for Learning and Teaching?
A Managed Learning Environment (MLE)
Learning materials available online
Independent of place and time
Administrative tools (e.g. linked to Queen’s databases)
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Queen’s Online - Tutors Provide learning material
electronically Access names/email addresses of
enrolled students and send them emails
Track student access to resources (optional)
Moderate & participate in subject specific discussion lists
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Queen’s Online - Students
Queen’s Online gives students access to
Learning materials
Subject specific discussion lists Communicate with Tutor Communicate with other students
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Queen’s Online
To access Queen’s Online you need to go to the following website
http://www.qnet.qub.ac.uk
This site can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet
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Login Unique Username
and Password All students are
automatically registered
Student number is your username and your University password
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Module List
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Top Menu Bar
Queen’s Homepage – Takes you back to QUB homepage. This will log you out of QOL
Help –provides a full manual Opens in a separate window
My Homepage – takes you to your QOL homepage
Logout – very important as otherwise the next user on that machine may access QOL with your username & password
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Left Panel
Provides a range of services
Access the current module
Access list of your modules
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Module Details
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Module Description
Text taken from the book of Modules
Additional text may have been added by your tutor
Information also available in Resource Map – Module Information.
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Staff Involved This option will show the names and
emails of staff members Those listed can add/modify resources
& moderate discussion forums
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Module Resources
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Module Resource Map
The main working area for Staff and Students
Where your tutor uploads course resources
Where you download and/or read resources
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Module Resource Map
Folders & Files Like Windows, folders
are collapsible Listed Alphabetically
Your tutor may have listed the items either by themes or weeks or any other logical combination
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Icons – Resource Types The W icon represents a a Word
document This icon represents an image This is a PowerPoint
presentation The globe icon represents a link
to a web site (e.g. http://www……)
This icon links to a web resource available within the Queen's Online system (.htm)
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Recognize File Extensions Word processing files (.doc)
Presentation files (.ppt)
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Image files (.gif or .jpg)
Text files (.txt)
Spreadsheet files (.xls)
Database files (.mdb)
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Open a Resource
To view a pop-up description of a resource hold the mouse over the text
To open a resource click on the text
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Tracking QOL can track which students have
accessed a particular resource and how often
It is up to the tutor which resources are tracked
Your tutor will inform you how much they will be using tracking and for what purposes
Tracking can be switched on/off for each resource
Communication Tools in QOL
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Communication Tools
Tutors can send/participate in Email to Students Discussion Lists
Student can participate in Discussion Lists
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Tutors can choose to email all students or select individual students from a list
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Discussion Forum
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Discussion Forum
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Start a New Topic
Subject
Message
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Post Reply
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Notes on Discussion Forum Long discussions may run over more than one
page, so remember to look for additional page links during long discussions
For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. You may cut and paste text into your post or use HTML to provide hyperlinks to outside documents
The administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be posted. Censoring is automated and certain words may be censored out of context. Words that are censored are replaced with asterisks
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Discussion Forum
Tutors can set guidelines for the use of discussion forum
Tutors can choose to moderate and participate in discussion forum
Tutors may also choose to only moderate discussion forum without participating
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Basic Guidelines Remember that you are addressing a
group. Don’t say anything you would not say publicly. Remember forums are archived
Note that humour and sarcasm can be misunderstood
Don’t SHOUT, be rude or angry
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Using QOL Help
4 page handout on Queen’s Online Additional help available online from the
Help link in QOL
Tips Access QOL on a regular basis Access your Queen’s email on a regular
basis