KS3 – Virtual Days
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Course Information & Background 1
Course Dates 2
Online Netiquette 3
Holy Trinity VLE– How To…
Logging Into VLE & Password 4
Find my Lessons / Virtual Dropbox 5
How to upload a file / Mop up Session 6
MyMaths Lessons / Problems 7 Course Information & Background
Welcome to the online e-learning ‘Virtual Days’ lessons for our Pupils in KS3. These lessons are designed to last for two days and we hope will enable pupils to become members of and interact in an online community at Holy Trinity College.
The lessons are designed to support and enhance pupil learning in different areas of ICT. Over the six lessons pupils will utilise important ICT Skills and will gain experience of being an e-learner. Pupils will use the Holy Trinity Virtual Learning Environment to participate and communicate in.
It is hoped that pupils will gain experience and skills which can be used not only in the future at the school, but in later Education and employment , where they will no doubt embrace technologies of the 21st Century.
We hope you enjoy this course and see it as a worthwhile two days,
M McGirr E-Learning Coordinator, Holy Trinity College.
1 Virtual Days - Dates & Times
Year 8 Day Date Session Lessons
1 Monday 14th April 9am – 11am History 11am – 1pm Art 1pm – 3pm Maths 2 Tuesday 15th April 9am – 11am Geography 11am – 1pm Science 1pm – 3pm Home Economics
Year 9 Day Date Session Lessons
1 Monday 14th April 9am – 11am English 11am – 1pm Art 1pm – 3pm History 2 Tuesday 15th April 9am – 11am Maths 11am – 1pm Religion 1pm – 3pm ICT
Year 10 Day Date Session Lessons
1 Tuesday 15th April 9am – 11am English 11am – 1pm Geography 1pm – 3pm ICT 2 Wednesday 16th 9am – 11am Maths April 11am – 1pm History 1pm – 3pm Religion
2 On-Line Netiquette
What is netiquette? Netiquette is really a set of rules you need to keep to demonstrate good behaviour when working on the Internet. Here are some of the things you should always try to do when you are working in the Virtual Day Lessons. .
No. Rule
1 Remember when you are on-line all your comments and uploaded work is recorded. 2 When using the discussion board always be courteous and well mannered. 3 Never use inappropriate language on the discussion board; if you do you will be removed from this course. Do not use text language on the Discussion Boards. 4 Always try to help and support your classmates.
5 Try to complete tasks to the best of your ability, if you have any difficulties or problems use the chat facility to contact a teacher who will be online. 6 You can use the online chat facility to contact friends and discuss lessons etc, but remember all comments are recorded and monitored by teachers.
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be great3 fun Holy Trinity VLE (Moodle) – How to
Logging into the VLE Go to the website http://holytrinity.wholeschoolvle.com/ you will see the following screen.
Insert User Name & Password
Your Username is just your C2K user name that you use to log into the computer at school (eg joebloggs791).
Your Password is ‘changeme’, when you next log into the site you will be asked to choose a new password, choose something easy to remember and write it down here.
Password = changeme New Password = ______
Click on the link for Virtual Day, You can find it at the bottom of the page.
4 Find my Online Lessons
Click on the Link to find the Lessons for your Year Group. Then you can start the Lessons.
How to use a Virtual Dropbox In some Lessons you will have to send a file to a teacher. You use a Digital Dropbox for this. It is very easy to use. Follow these steps.
Step 1 – Click on the link
Step 2 – Click to Browse and find the file. Then Upload and Submit.
5 How to upload a file into a Discussion Board
Click and open the Discussion Board and you will find a screen like below.
Click on Browse. Find your file to Upload and then click on submit. You will have to upload a file for Art (Yr8/9) And History (Yr10).
The Mop up Sessions At the end of the Lessons all pupils need to complete the Mop Up session. This is a short Evaluation on the Lessons and Post a message on the Discussion Board on how you found the Virtual Day Lessons.
6 The My Maths Lessons If some of the MyMaths Lesson links do not open directly, you can get in by going directly into the MyMaths site.
Year 8 MyMaths Link If the Link in Year 8 Maths does not work please follow the steps below: 1.) Log into My Maths with the login: htc and password: sphere. 2.) Search ‘2D Shapes’ and click on the ‘Shape ad Position – OW’ 3.) Enter your own individual Login and Password to begin.
Year 9 – MyMaths Link Problems If the Link for Year 9 MyMaths does not work please follow the steps below: 1.) Log into My Maths with the login: htc and password: sphere. 2.) Search ‘Angles’ and click on the first ‘Angles – OW’ 3.) Enter your own individual Login and Password to begin.
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