Within each course, you can expect to find any of the following elements:

Support Resources

These forums provide places to communicate questions to the instructor of that module.

• Technical Support Forum:  Posts in this forum can be viewed by all course participants. Have questions about navigation, difficulties accessing links or downloading files? Check the posts in the Technical Support Forum to see if your question has already been asked by another student. Your answer may already be available. If not, post a new question and be sure to provide sufficient detail about the issue you are having.

Required Lectures and Readings

These sections will include a variety of resources for you to read and understand before moving on to the activities and assignments. Resources can include:

• Moodle Books:  The Moodle book module allows you to read information online without any additional software such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.  There is an option to print books if desired.
• Outside sources: There will often be a Moodle page listing links directing to outside sources of reading material.

Required Activities and Assignments

These sections will include a variety of activities and assignments that you must complete by the specified due date.  Activities can include:

• Databases: Complete entries to collaboratively create a valuable resource
• Forums: Asynchronous discussions
• Glossaries: Look up a term you are not familiar with or browse through to learn something new
• Online text assignments: Submit work by typing directly into Moodle or pasting (Ctrl+V) from a source document
• Uploading of files assignments: Submit work by uploading a file

Optional Readings and Supplemental Resources

This section will include additional materials to consider reading and saving for future reference. It is strongly recommended to browse through the optional and supplemental items for further knowledge. Like the Required Lectures and Readings section, Moodle book modules and outside resources will be used to present the information.