The document provides a visual guide to navigating an online learning course on Moodle, outlining the key areas like course sections, activities, resources, forums, blogs, virtual chat rooms, and how to access materials, participate in discussions, submit assignments, and get technical help. It includes screenshots and explanations of the course home page, navigation tools, information blocks, opening book materials, creating discussion posts and blog entries, uploading assignments, and downloading resources.

1. Prepare For Study – A visual Guide
PREPARE FOR
STUDY
Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
http://gippslandlearnlocal.trainingvc.com.au/

2. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Course Home Page
http://gippslandlearnlocal.trainingvc.com.au

3. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Course Navigation tools
• Navigation– shows the navigation to
all areas and courses within Moodle
that you have access to
• Activities – click to get a list of
Assignments, Forums, Glossaries or
Resources
• Search forums – useful for searching
for key words in conversations

4. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Course Information Blocks
• Calendar– shows when events and
webinar sessions and virtual café chat
room are occurring
• Settings – shows your profile settings
and your grades for submitted
assignments
• Online Users– useful for seeing who is
online at the time for connecting with
people in real time.

5. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Course Sections
• See next slides for details of
what you will see in each
section

6. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Orientation
• Click on the Book icon or title
to see the Table of Contents
• Navigate through the
pages/sections of the book
Content of book pages

7. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Four Course Sections to View

8. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Opening the Books
• Click on the Book icon or
name to open it
• When the book is open in
the settings panel you have
the option of printing the
book or the chapter
• When the book is
open there is a
Table of contents
to allow you to see
all of the chapters
or sections in the
book

9. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Navigating Sequenced Web Pages
• Click the arrow
keys to navigate
the pages of the
Book chapters

10. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Participating in Discussion Forums
• Click the Discussion icon or its title to
participate in the forum.
• When you come to the discussion forum
it will show you how many replies have
been made since you were last there
• Click on the topic to open and
read

11. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Answering a discussion topic post
• When the topic is open, click
on reply to make a post
• Write a reply to the post in
this area
• Subscribe to the forum here
to receive notifications of
new conversations
• You are able to add attachments
to your post here.
• Then click on “Post to Forum”

12. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Creating a discussion topic
• Click on Help Desk & FAQ in the
Communications course section
• Click on Add a new discussion topic
• Give your topic a subject, then write
your question in the message section.
If you have taken a screenshot to show
the issue you are having then attach it
to your post via the attachment area
• When finished click on Post to Forum

13. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Creating a Classroom Reflective blog post
• Click the Classroom Reflective Blog link
• Here you can either make a new post or access all of your posts
and save a copy of your participation
• Click the New Blog Post button to make a post

14. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Creating a Classroom Reflective blog post
• Give your blog post a title
• Write your reflective blog post in the message area
• Give your post some tags to make it easy for people to search for
blog posts using keywords
• Choose if you want to allow classmates to comment on your post
• Finish by clicking Add blog post
• Click the New Blog Post button to make a post
• Your post appears – notice
you can add a comment by
clicking on it if the author has
allowed this action.

15. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Joining E-Ways Virtual Cafe
• Click the E-Ways Virtual Cafe link in the
Communication Course Section
• This is a real time live text chat room
• It will tell you when it is open and you can enter
• You can also view past chat transcribes.

16. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Downloading from Resource Library
• Click the General Resources link in the Resource Library Course Section
• Click the link of the file you wish to access in
the resource file Section
• Save the file to your PC or usb drive

17. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Uploading to the Project Room
• Click the link of the assignment you wish to
upload in the Project Room Course Section
• Click on Add Submission
• Click on Add to navigate to your
completed assignment and add to
this area.
• Alternatively you may prefer to open
to drag & drop your assignment file
into the box area.
• When the appears in the work area
click on save changes

18. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
Uploading to the Project Room
• If you clicked on Add in the previous
step, a file picker box will appear
• Make sure that Upload a file is
selected
• Then click browse, locate the file on
your PC
• Then click on the Upload file button
• Your file will then populate the file
area – click on Save Changes
• Your page will then refresh and your
assessment will show as submitted

19. Visual Guide to the Online Learning Space
How do I ?
• If you require further
instruction on how to do
something within the course
please post your question into
the Helpdesk and FAQ forum
or contact
Junita junita55@gmail.com
or Katt katt@Ramblinkatt.com