Queen’s Online for Learning and
Teaching (QOL)
Educational Technology Unit
Learning and Teaching Support
Information Services
What is Queen’s Online for
Learning and Teaching?
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A Managed Learning Environment (MLE)
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Learning materials available online
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Independent of place and time
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Administrative tools (e.g. linked to Queen’s
databases)
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Queen’s Online - Tutors
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Provide learning material electronically
Access names/email addresses of
enrolled students and send them emails
Track student access to resources
(optional)
Moderate & participate in subject
specific discussion lists
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Queen’s Online - Students
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Queen’s Online gives students access to
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Learning materials
Subject specific discussion lists
 Communicate with Tutor
 Communicate with other students
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Queen’s Online
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To access Queen’s Online you need to
go to the following website
http://www.qnet.qub.ac.uk
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This site can be accessed from any
computer connected to the Internet
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Login
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Unique Username
and Password
All students are
automatically
registered
Student number is
your username and
your University
password
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Module List
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Top Menu Bar
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Queen’s Homepage – Takes you back to QUB
homepage. This will log you out of QOL
Help –provides a full manual Opens in a separate
window
My Homepage – takes you to your QOL
homepage
Logout – very important as otherwise the next
user on that machine may access QOL with your
username & password
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Left Panel
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Provides a range of services
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Access the current module
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Access list of your modules
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Module Details
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Module Description
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Text taken from the book of Modules
Additional text may have been added by
your tutor
Information also available in Resource
Map – Module Information.
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Staff Involved
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This option will show the names and emails
of staff members
Those listed can add/modify resources &
moderate discussion forums
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Module Resources
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Module Resource Map
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The main working
area for Staff and
Students
Where your tutor
uploads course
resources
Where you download
and/or read
resources
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Module Resource Map
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Folders & Files
Like Windows, folders are
collapsible
Listed Alphabetically
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Your tutor may have listed
the items either by
themes or weeks or any
other logical combination
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Icons – Resource Types
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The W icon represents a a Word
document
This icon represents an image
This is a PowerPoint presentation
The globe icon represents a link to a
web site (e.g. http://www……)
This icon links to a web resource
available within the Queen's Online
system (.htm)
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Recognize File Extensions
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Word processing files (.doc)
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Presentation files (.ppt)
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Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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Image files (.gif or .jpg)
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Text files (.txt)
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Spreadsheet files (.xls)
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Database files (.mdb)
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Open a Resource
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To view a pop-up
description of a
resource hold the
mouse over the
text
To open a
resource click on
the text
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Tracking
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QOL can track which students have
accessed a particular resource and how
often
It is up to the tutor which resources are
tracked
Your tutor will inform you how much
they will be using tracking and for what
purposes
Tracking can be switched on/off for
each resource
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Communication Tools in QOL
Communication Tools
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Tutors can send/participate in
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Email to Students
Discussion Lists
Student can participate in
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Discussion Lists
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Email
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Tutors can choose to email all students
or select individual students from a list
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Discussion Forum
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Discussion Forum
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Start a New Topic
Subject
Message
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Post Reply
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Notes on Discussion Forum
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Long discussions may run over more than one
page, so remember to look for additional page
links during long discussions
For security reasons, you may not attach files to
any posts. You may cut and paste text into your
post or use HTML to provide hyperlinks to
outside documents
The administrators have the power to censor
certain words that may be posted. Censoring is
automated and certain words may be censored
out of context. Words that are censored are
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replaced with asterisks
Discussion Forum
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Tutors can set guidelines for the use of
discussion forum
Tutors can choose to moderate and
participate in discussion forum
Tutors may also choose to only
moderate discussion forum without
participating
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Basic Guidelines
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Remember that you are addressing a group.
Don’t say anything you would not say
publicly. Remember forums are archived
Note that humour and sarcasm can be
misunderstood
Don’t SHOUT, be rude or angry
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Using QOL
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Help
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4 page handout on Queen’s Online
Additional help available online from the Help link
in QOL
Tips
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Access QOL on a regular basis
Access your Queen’s email on a regular basis
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