Transcript: Getting Oriented

In this video, you will learn how to find the activities you'll need to complete your courses.

After logging in, you'll be taken to your home screen. From here, you'll be able to access all of the courses you're enrolled in. Select a card to start or continue working on that course.

The course path page has important information about your course in progress. Your current grade tells you what your grade is, based on completed and scored work so far. Your course grade tells you what grade you would receive if no more work is completed. The pacing bar shows you how much work you've done in the course relative to the course end date. The time on task section tells you the total amount of time you have spent working on this course so far. Activities are arranged by unit.

Let's take a closer look at some activities.In discussion activities, you will write a response to a question posed by your teacher, share ideas, and discuss with your classmates. Learning modules have a tutorial and a mastery test. We'll take a closer look at those in the next video. Course activities and unit activities are project like activities. Post tests assess how much you've learned from the unit.

The circular icon and bar at the side of each activity show where you're at with that activity. A green circle with a check mark means it's been completed or mastered. A yellow circle with a check mark means it's been completed but not mastered. An empty gray circle means it hasn't been started yet. And a half-filled blue circle means it's currently in progress.

Some courses may include pretests, which can exempt you from modules you've already mastered. A blue star with an E in it means that you're exempt from a module based on how you did on that portion of the pretest. You don't have to complete that module, unless you wanna refresher or your teacher suggests it. But you still have to answer questions about that topic in the unit post test and in the semester test.

At the end of the course, there is an end of semester test that covers all of the topics you learn through your course activities.

Now that you know what kind of activities you'll see in your course, let's look at the learning experience itself.