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Getting Started Article Count: 7

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The following topics introduce VU Collaborate's basic user interface, navigation tools, and how to manage your account settings.

Student Guides Article Count: 1

Welcome to VU Collaborate Online Student Guides. This section of the site provides help guides to assist you with implementing the technical aspects of the system. If you are a new user to VU Collaborate, we suggest that you first visit the ‘Getting Started’ section.

Student Guides include the following areas:

ePortfolio Article Count: 14

My ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on and sharing items that represent your learning. You can include documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, course work, etc. to demonstrate your improvement or mastery in a certain area. You decide what items you want to include in your portfolio, how you want to organise them, and who you want to share them with. When you share items with your peers, mentors, potential employers, etc. you can give them permission to view items, edit items, see or add comments and see or add assessments depending on what type of feedback you want.

Learning Spaces Article Count: 0

This section covers all aspects of VU Collaborate Learning Spaces.

Accessibility Article Count: 5

These articles provide information on web accessibility and how people with disabilities can navigate and interact with websites.

Checklist Article Count: 2

This section highlights the checklist tool in VU Collaborate, used to track important or required assignments, readings, or other items to complete.

About Checklist

A checklist is a way to highlight important or required assignments, readings, or other items to complete. This tool may list all the items you need to complete at once or may have additional items appear as you complete others.

Each checklist contains one or more categories, into which checklist items are organised.

The checklist on VU Collaborate has two different interfaces when accessed from the unit module or unit tools section.

Read the guide Using Checklists or see the short video below to learn more.

Content Article Count: 1

This area provides information on accessing and downloading unit materials, completing activities and monitoring progress using the Content tool.

About Content

Each unit space in VU Collaborate contains material necessary to complete the individual unit.

Learning Space provides three main areas to easily navigate and consult content:

Bookmarks lists the topics you have bookmarked.
Course Schedule provides a list of important upcoming events.
Table of Contents lists all material relevant to the unit.

Learning space areas

See Viewing, Downloading and Printing Content for more instructions on navigating the content in VU Collaborate.

Useful Apps Article Count: 7

Check out the latest mobile Apps

Locker Article Count: 4

This section contains articles about using the Locker tool to upload and store files in VU Collaborate.

Groups Article Count: 1

Groups in VU Collaborate may be created by your teacher specifically for your tutorial class, allowing them to personalise the space for each individual tutorial group. You may also be enrolled/requested to enrol into groups for group tasks, such as discussions or assignments, these small groups enable you to discuss ideas exclusively between your group members.

To see a short video on how to add yourself into a group in VU Collaborate, see the video below:

Assessment Article Count: 0

This section covers all aspects of VU Collaborate Assessment tool.

For information on Online and Final Tests (or Exams or Quizzes), read this information.

See this video for how to submit an assessment to the dropbox.

Assessment Dropbox Article Count: 2

These articles are about submitting your assignments online using the Assessment Dropbox tool.

Quizzes Article Count: 1

These articles provide information on using Quizzes tool to take a quiz, review your quiz results, and see class statistics for a quiz..

Turnitin Article Count: 3

These articles are about using the integrated Turnitin tool with VU Collaborate submitted assignments.

Respondus Online Assessment Article Count: 3

These guides provide all the information you will need for doing online assessments using the Respondus LockDown Browser in VU Collaborate. These type of online assessments may be called quizzes, tests or exams by the instructors of a unit and are completed on a desktop or laptop computer on campus unless specified otherwise by the instructor.

See this video for an introduction to Respondus LockDown Browser.

Communication Article Count: 0

This section covers aspects of VU Collaborate Communication tools.

Calendar Article Count: 3

Calendar is a tool within VU Collaborate designed to help you manage and edit important events throughout your studies.

Open any guide listed below to discover information on how to use Calendar.

Chat Room Article Count: 1

This section explains how to use and manage chat room sessions.

Discussions Article Count: 4

This section contains articles about posting, reading and replying to messages using the Discussion tool.

Email Article Count: 3

These articles provide information on how to compose and manage email messages using the Email tool within VU Collaborate.

Instant Messenger Article Count: 1

This section covers sending and receiving messages, viewing logs and adding/removing contacts with the Instant Messaging tool.

News Article Count: 1

These articles cover all aspects of the News tool including managing news and subscribing to News' RSS feed.

Virtual Classrooms Article Count: 1

Echo360 ALP Article Count: 9

These articles cover Echo360 Active Learning Platform (ALP), VU Collaborate's integrated video content tool.

Campus Pack Article Count: 4

Grades & Progress Article Count: 0

This section covers all aspects of VU Collaborate Grades & Progress.

Grades Article Count: 1

These articles provide information on the Grades tool which enables to check your grades on assignments and tests.

User Progress Article Count: 2

These articles are about keeping track of all of your course-specific assignments and feedback using the User Progress tool.

Course Design & Administration Article Count: 0

Menu Headings Article Count: 7

Troubleshooting Article Count: 2

These troubleshooting help articles will give you advice about browser compatibility and other technical requirements to enable effective use of VU Collaborate.

Draft Documents Article Count: 18

Lynda.com Free Courses Article Count: 1

Being a student at VU gives you access to Lynda.com online courses for free. There are courses on many different things at Lynda.com. You can learn about any Microsoft Office or Adobe products, web design, project management, presentation skills and much more. Find the link to Lynda.com here and in VU Library Databases.

The guide below has links to courses for Microsoft Office and Adobe products at the beginner level computer skills for students (both Mac and Windows versions).