2. CONTENTS
I. Welcome
1) Enrolement Procedure
2) The OLA Virtual Classroom
3) Requirements
II. The Online Labour Academy
1) Entering the Virtual Classroom
2) The Home Page
3) The Personal Profile
4) To Insert a Profile Picture
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3. CONTENTS
The Online Labour Academy
5) Entering a Course
6) Weekly Outline
7) Explanation of Icons
8) The Forum
a) Enter to the Forum
b) Responding to an Entry
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4. CONTENTS
The Online Labour Academy
9) The Chat
10) Writing and Reading a Personal Message
11) Viewing Your Qualifications
12) Responding to a Questionnaire
13) Logging Off
III. Revision
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6. I. WELCOME TO THE ONLINE LABOUR
ACADEMY!
Thank you for choosing the Online Education
Service of IFWEA.
Now you can:
Improve your skills in labour subjects and continue your
education in a virtual environment
Control and create a study environment that fits your
needs and is up to your standards.
Improve your knowledge with the help of your personal
trained tutor.
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7. 1. Enrolement Procedure
First you have to get in touch with us, so
we can register you in our educational
system.
You will receive an E-Mail, giving you all
the information necessary on the Online
Labour Academy (OLA)
You will then receive your username and
a personal password, which will enable
you to log in to the virtual classroom of
the IFWEA.
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8. 2. What’s OLA Virtual Classroom ?
The virtual classroom is a space
where you can, at any time and from
any place, access at learning
materials, communicate with other
members of your course and where
you receive all the information
required for a successful virtual
learning experience.
Furthermore you will find a lot of
additional materials in the virtual
classroom, such as useful links,
interesting publications and illustrative
videos, which will help you to
understand your materials of study
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9. 3. Requirements
You need a software to display pdf-files as well
as an office programme that is able to process
word and PowerPoint files.
Furthermore you need connection to the
internet. If you don’t have an internet
connection at home, you can use the internet
cafe.
Some of the programs we use in the virtual
classroom are Adobe Reader, MS Word 2007,
MS PowerPoint 2007 and MS Excel 2007.
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11. 1. Entering the Online Labour
AcademyYou’ve already received a username and your personal
password? Great!
Now we can enter to the virtual classroom of the IFWEA.
The internet address of the OLA is:
www.ifweaonline.org
Open your internet browser and write the URL you find
ahead in the address bar:
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12. To enter to the
Online Labour
Academy you
have to write your
username and your
personal password
into the intended
spaces.
Then you click on
“Sign In” to enter
the virtual
classroom.
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13. 2. The Home Page
Welcome to the home page of the OLA!
When entering the platform, we access to the page of a course.
This page is divided into three basic areas: Headline with the
navigation bar (A), middle column with the topics of the courses (B)
and blocks (C).
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14. The description of the
course is situated
under the main
banner.
We are going to
practice in the virtual
classroom as Señor
Maestro, he is a
member of the course
“Communication for
effective advocacy”.
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15. 3. The Personal Profile
To enter to the personal
profile, let’s click on “My
profile” in the left column
“Navigation”, and another
one on “View profile” in
order to view the personal
profile of Señor Maestro.
Now let’s click on “Edit
profile” in the right
section “My profile
settings” in order to
change the personal
information
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16. As we can see from
the view of his
personal profile after
edition, information
has been updated.
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17. 4. To Insert a Profile
Picture
Note : The picture must be a JPG
file and with a 100 x 100 pixels
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To add a
profile picture, we
click on “Add” in
the section “User
picture”.
(You can also
drag and drop
files below the
arrow to add
them directly)
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Note : If Señor
Maestro wants to
change his profile
picture, he repeats
the same process,
selecting “Delete”
before adding a new
picture.
20. Now let’s return to the homepage of the
virtual classroom. To get back we have to
click on “Home” at the top of the page.
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21. 5. Entering the Course
To enter the course,
we just have to click
on the title of the
course
“Communication for
effective advocacy”,
which we can see
on the left side of
the main banner.
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22. 6. The Weekly Outline
This is the main page of the course “Communication
for effective advocacy”.
In the middle of the page we can see the “Weekly
Outline”, giving us all the important information on the
content of the course.
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Note: OLA courses are
organized by weeks
(The Weekly Outline)
or by topics.
24. 7. Explanation of
Icons All documents in the course have their own symbol depending
on its type. It help us to recognize documents much faster. A
simple click on their names permits to download and open
them.
Let’s take a look at the most important ones:
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25. To enter to the
forum, we just have
to click on the title.
Note: The forum is a
medium that enables
members to have
asynchronous
discussions.
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8. The Forum
a) Enter to the forum
26. b) Responding to an Entry
We can
respond to
an entry by
clicking on
“Reply”,
underneath
the text.
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27. In the new
window we will
find the text to
which we want
to reply on the
top of the page.
Underneath
the entry we
can see a box
“Your reply”
and we can
write an
answer .
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28. 9. The Chat
The chat module
allows the
participants to
have a real-time
synchronous
discussion via the
web.
To enter the chat
of the course let’s
click on “Chat” in
the weekly outline.
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29. In order to participate, we have to access to the
course and click on “Click here to enter the chat now”.
We can write our message in the text field and then
click on “Send”. After a few moments it will be visible to
the other online participants in the chat room.
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30. 10. Writing a personal message
First, let’s return to the main
page by clicking on
“Home”. On the right side,
we can click on
“Messages”.
We have to select the
recipient of our message
and click on “My
contacts”. In the drop-
down-menu, we first select
the course in which we
participate
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In the next window, we will see all the members we can send
our message to.
To select the tutor of Señor Maestro, “Julian Montoya”, we
just have to click on his name.
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Here we can see
that the communication
is only between us and
Julian Montoya.
After we write the
message on the text
box, we have to
confirm it by clicking on
“Send message”.
34. 11. Display one’s Qualifications
To see the
qualifications
let’s click on
“Grades” in the
section
Administration”
on the right
column of the
course page.
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35. In the example of
Señor Maestro,
the qualifications
are divided into
five
parts/exercices.
Each exercise
gives at most 20
points, which
means the
maximum score
he can reach in
this course is
100.
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36. 12. Responding to a
questionnaire
To respond to a
questionnaire,
let’s click on
the document
with the Quiz
icon.
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37. By clicking on “Begin
questionnaire”, we
start with the survey.
Please bear in mind
that in any case you
should always
answer all the
questions given in
the questionnaire.
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38. In the superior part we
can find the navigation
of the questionnaire,
showing us the photo
of the user as well as
the total amount of
questions.
On the right sight we
can see the questions,
with few answers to
choose among.
By clicking on “Next”
we continue with the
next questions.
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39. When we finish a quiz
and sent it to the tutor,
we will receive an
immediate feedback,
showing us our score
and a short comment.
Sometimes, you can
click on “Retry the
quiz” but it is
important to know
your tries could be
limited.
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40. 13. Log Off
Finally let’s log
off by clicking on
“Logout” at the
top right of the
page.
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42. III. Revision
Now you know all the basic functions of the Online Labour Academy of IFWEA.
We’ve just learned:
1. What is a virtual classroom
2. How to enter to the OLA
3. The basic structure of the main page
4. How to view and change the personal profile
5. How to enter a course
6. The general structure of the course in the OLA
7. Glossary of symbols
8. What is a forum and how does it work
9. How to reply to an entry
10. How to take part in the chat and send personal messages
11. View one’s qualifications in the course
12. How to respond to a questionnaire
13. How to log off
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