IGC-100 / 800 Tutorials

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IGC-100 / 800 Tutorials

The course homepage contains six main tabs located across the top of the page: Calendar, Tasks, Resources, Connect, Reports, and Announcements.

These tabs, along with the Calendar View, Forums, Assignments, and Performance boxes below the tabs of the course homepage, provide easy navigation throughout the classroom.

Calendar

The Calendar in Loud Cloud is used to provide a visual of the due dates for Assignments and Discussion Questions during any given calendar week.

The Calendar tab provides the ability to view course assignments and discussion questions in weekly or monthly formats. To view the details of each assignment on the calendar, students can click on the Assignment links on the Calendar. After clicking an Assignment link, the due date, maximum points, and assignment details are displayed as well as a link to submit your assignment for the corresponding assignment.

Students can schedule personal tasks and events on the calendar by clicking the Schedule button.

Forums

To access the Discussion Forums, click the Forums link under the Tasks tab. The Forums are where faculty-to-student communication takes place in the classroom.

There are four types of Discussion Forums: the Main Forum, Individual Forums, Questions for Instructor Forum, and Color-based Team Forums. The Main Forum is where the weekly module discussions take place. Students are graded on their contributions to the discussions on a weekly basis.

In addition to accessing the Discussion Forums from the Tasks tab, the discussion forums can be accessed from the Course Homepage in the bottom left corner.

Main Forum

The Main Forum is extremely important as it can amount to nearly twenty percent of your overall grade. Students are graded on their contributions and participation in the discussion topics. Each week the instructor will post a few discussion topics for you to read and respond too. Begin by clicking on the discussion topic you wish to respond to and then click reply. Type your message as you would an email and click Post Reply. When students reply to your post, it will be indented and slightly to the right. This is called threading and easily allows you to follow along in the discussion.

In addition to your own answer, you are responsible for reading and responding to fellow classmates. These do not need to be lengthy posts but should answer the question and provide meaningful discussion. Just as you would have a lively discussion or debate in the classroom, the same form exists online. To reply to a classmate, click their post and then click Reply in order to thread the conversation as we discussed earlier.

Questions for Instructor

The forum titled Questions for Instructor is where you will post questions for the professor that you would normally raise your hand in class to ask. The professor will respond to your questions within twenty-four to forty-eight hours within this discussion forum.

Individual Form

If you have a question that you want to ask the professor privately, one that you would perhaps stay after class to ask if you were attending on campus, you should send him or her messages through your Individual Forum. The Individual Forum helps you easily keep track of communications since it is all available at-a-glance right inside your classroom. Rest assured that all communication that takes place in your Individual Forum is completely private.

Posting a New Topic

Posting a new topic in a forum is as easy as clicking the new topic icon on the top right side of the page. This will create a message window where a subject line and message can be written. Each message window contains features such as spell check, font size and color, and additional options that might be needed. Once the message is completed, click "Submit" at the bottom left side of the screen to add the message to the forum.

The quantity and quality of messages that a student posts in the Discussion Forum is how participation grades will be measured by the instructor.

CLC Team Space Forum

Finally you will see your collaborative learning community team space if your instructor chooses to have your specific class participate as group assignments. You will see this option if your instructor has put you in a designated group. This area is similar to that of the Main Forum. It is an area where only your team can go and discuss upcoming assignments that you are going to collaborate on.

Assignments

To access the assignments pages, select Assignments from the Tasks tab.

The main Assignments page is divided into 2 tabs, Current and All. The Current Tab displays assignments due during the current module week.

The All tab provides easy access to all of the assignments due during the course using a dropdown menu with options to select any module week in the course.

To view the details of an assignment, click on the link to the assignment.

The corresponding Assignment page will display the assignment details at the top, including the due date and a description of the assignment. Click View Rubric to review how the assignment will be graded, note: not all assignments will have a rubric.

Submitting an Assignment

To post an assignment, select the title of the assignment. Once you are ready to post your assignment, click New Attempt. You will enter the title of your paper into the title field and then you will click Browse. You will then find where you saved your file, click Open, and then click Save. Next you will click Submit to submit your assignment to Turnitin.

Course Materials

By clicking on the Course Materials link, Students can access the course materials on three tabs: Current, All, and Add-Ons.

Using the Current and All tabs, Students can toggle between viewing only the materials for the current module or all of the materials for the course by week using a dropdown menu.

Links are available to access Textbooks, Websites, and Lecture Notes. Entering into Module One, the first thing Students should do is review the additional readings and websites and then review the Lectures. The introduction in the lecture will provide you with a foundation of the week's learning. This should be read carefully on Day One of the given week.

To access a course material, click the corresponding link on the Course Contents page.

Syllabus

Students should access the Syllabus on the first day of any given week of the module. Students can access the Syllabus by clicking on the Syllabus link under the Resources tab.

The default view of the Syllabus is the Current tab. The Current tab displays important information about the Objectives, Materials, Assignments, Discussion Questions, and Participation for the current module week.

To view the entire Syllabus, click on the Overall tab. This provides information about the entire course in regard to Topics, Objectives, the grading scale, course Assignments, and other course details.

To print a copy of the Syllabus, click the Download link in the upper right-hand corner. This will open the entire Syllabus as a PDF file that can be saved or printed.

Topics

If you are student coming from ANGEL, these are the same as Modules.

Each module's reading page corresponds with that specific week's work. The first thing you should do is review the readings, introduction, and lecture. This will give you a foundation for what you should accomplish each week. Each module has a Resources tab where your instructor will store all readings relevant to your class that do not quite fit into a specific module

Student Success Center

The Student Success Center link under the Resources tab provides access to the Student Success Center.

Here you will find information to help you navigate your classes at GCU, including tutorials on a variety of subjects, helpful writing templates, style guides, and plagiarism do's and don'ts, and college-specific documents, policies and handbooks. This site also provides success boosters in Grammar, Math, and Technology.

The Library

The Library link under the Resources tab provides access to the GCU Library.

The GCU electronic library can be used to review scholarly articles to help you with your research, books for academic and leisure reading, streaming movies and DVDs for class and much more.

Class Wall

The Class Wall is under the Connect tab. It is a place for students to hang out and get to know each other.

On the first day of class, your primary responsibility is to post a message on the Class Wall. This

does not need to be a lengthy biography; it's an opportunity for you to provide some information to your instructor and your peers so that you're not just a name. It also allows your instructor to verify that you will be attending class.

Instructor Contact Information

Under the Connect tab you can find the Roster. Click the Instructors name to link to his/her contact information. Obtain your instructor's name, email address, preferred method of contact, and additional information posted by the instructor, such as office hours or available contact times. .

Reports

Students can access the Gradebook and Analytics links under the Reports tab.

By clicking the Gradebook link, Students can view all of the grades for the class for each module week. Click on a specific module week to view the individual assignment and participation grades for that module week.

By clicking Reports you can find all the analytics on how your progressing through this course.

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