K101 eStuff

Nigel Gibson

03/10/2009 – Christ Church Canterbury

What I’ve got• Student home

– Finding– Signing in– What you might see

• Conferencing (CMC)– Finding– Setting up– Using

• eTMAs

Intro• Fast pass• “Show and tell” rather than “hands on”

– If you’d like to pretend you have a PC in front of you…..

• Not aimed at making you an expert – Confidence– Where to go for help

• This presentation will be available online

Student home

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FirstClass• From CD or• download from www.firstclass.com (get the foreign

version)• What is it?

Setting up

eTMAs• Creation• Submission• Retrieval

eTMAs - Creation• Must be a Word document unless the course stipulates

otherwise• Must be a Word 1997 – 2003 file type rather than docx

from Office 2007• If you are required to submit a number of different files

you will need to zip them

Submitting your eTMA

Submitting your eTMA

Submitting your eTMA

Submitting your eTMA

Submitting your eTMA

Submitting by email• Send your assignment as an attachment• Must be the same file format as demanded by the web-

based submission route• Check the process – it goes to etma@open.ac.uk but

you must adhere to specific protocol for the subject line• Don’t email your assignment to your tutor

Getting your eTMA back• You’ll get a message telling you it’s ready to download• If you sent it by email it’ll be returned the same way to

the same email address

Getting your eTMA back

Summary• StudentHome• Conferencing• eTMAs

Questions?• Presentation available at

http://www.slideshare.net/nogbad