Welcome to my collection of multi-media tutorials on technology activities and skills that I believe to be helpful if not necessary in order to operate at a high level in Humphreys College online environment. At the very least these tutorials just might jog your memory of past instruction that you may have had here at Humphreys in ADM 120 Computer Applications or an equivalent course or courses at another educational institution.
Each of the tutorials will open in a new window. Each tutorial is downloaded from the Humphreys College website via the Internet in small packets, allowing the player to begin playing before the complete file has been downloaded to your computer. The media player has a slide button that can be clicked and dragged to any position on the file, paused, stopped and started again. In addition you can access the file menu on the player to save the recording to your hard drive at home or to a USB drive. The tutorials are paced rather slow and are meant for novice PC users, intermediate or advanced users may wish to advance the player to sections of the tutorial that they believe to be relevant to their individual needs.
| Login to Humphreys College Online | This tutorial begins with Internet Explorer open and with Internet access established. Demonstrates navigating to the Humphreys College website, the online interface (Moodle), and the initial login as a student. A quick look at a typical online course with multi-media presentations and directions on how to edit student personal data such as change the student password and how to add a personal image to replace the default user icon. |
| Responding in an online Forum | Online forums are the heart of the asynchronous classroom. They replace the typical face-to-face interactions that happen between instructor-students and student to student in the traditional brick and mortar teaching environment. Often the instructor will grade these interactions and therefore the student should take care to respond in a course relevant and academic manner. |
| Uploading assignments | Just as students in a face to face environment must deliver course
materials in a written format, students often must submit written
assignments online. Whether these assignments are completed as
Word documents, Access Databases, PowerPoint Presentations or Excel
files, they all are submitted to the online instructor through the
upload interface.
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| Copying from a storage device (USB drive) to a folder on the hard drive | Students may find the need to work at home and often students will accept the default location (My Documents folder) in order to save their work. This short tutorial demonstrates how to use Windows Explorer to transfer the files to another drive, folder, or removable media (USB drive). |
| Windows Explorer and Folder Mechanics | Open the Windows Explorer - create a class folder on your hard drive or USB drive - save a Word file to the newly created folder - submit the Word file as a class assignment - with the first peek at the instructors course view. |
| Obtaining a free archiving program - installing - using | The Humphreys College Online course environment (Moodle) accepts one file per assignment. It is possible that an instructor may consider one week's or one module's assignments as one collectable assignment. In some cases this may require that the student submit more than one file through the collection interface. The student can utilize a utility program which is broadly classified as an archiving program. This tutorial demonstrates how to search for, find, download/install and use the software to submit one zip file that contains a number of separate files. Each of the links demonstrate two of the more popular free utilities available for download via the Internet. |
| Setting Up a Course on the Humphreys College Online Environment | This tutorial demonstrated the first few steps required in the construction of a course in the Moodle online environment. |