E-LEARNING ‘HOW TO DO’ GUIDE Re-Entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Welcome Welcome to IHNA College of Health and Nursing E- Learning Guide. We have tried to make this guide easy and user friendly so that you may have a good experience of accessing your course modules through e-learning. Please go through this guide step by step before you use elearning. Minimum System Requirements Technical requirements: Minimum hardware requirements are:  Computer with, 300MHz processor  128MB of SDRAM  Microsoft® Windows® 98, 2000 or XP  800 x 600 display (1024 x 768 recommended)  4 Gb hard disk  CD ROM drive  Sound card and speakers (or headphones)  28.8k or higher modem Or Macintosh equivalent. Software/Plugins:     Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape 6.2 Macromedia® Flash™ Player 6 (To get the latest version of the Flash player, go to www.macromedia.com) Adobe® Acrobat Reader (to get the latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader go to http://www.adobe.com/downloads ) A word processor program for example Microsoft® Word Your login details You will receive a mail from [email protected] to the email address you provided to us with your access details like this sample below; User name: [email protected] Password: AbcdEf E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |2 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA How to Start Go to www.ihna.edu.au and click on Student Login from the My IHNA menu item. Login Page: Put your user name [usually your email address] and the password here. Student Portal for IHNA You will be directed to the IHNA student portal home page. Click on eLearning from Contents Menu E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |3 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA ASSEMENT INSTRUCTIONS: Course delivery The course information, the entry requirements and the course rules are the same as that of the on-campus or teacher led class room delivery (face-to-face) for the theory component of the course. Students can complete the theory component of the course in e learning at their own pace and should complete within a maximum period of 6months including professional experience placement. Assessment strategies E learning Assessment strategies are used to find the progress of the student in the process and to evaluate the student as competent. Therefore students are assessed in both formative and summative way. Formative assessments There is facility for the educator to monitor the progress of the student through the e-learning platform. Thus the students are assessed for their progress formatively. Formative assessment includes student participation in computer conferencing. Summative assessment Summative assessments are different for each module which is summarized in the student information booklet. Assessment tools The assessment tools used in e learning are:• • • • • • • Case study Article review Research poster Literature review Clinical skill assessment in a simulated environment Medicine administration and drug calculation test ANMC National Competency Standard for Registered Nurse, based assessment in Module Four PEP E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |4 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Referencing All major contentions to be supported by references and all sources consistently cited throughout the written task. Name, dates and page numbers (where appropriate) are referenced correctly. All references in the text appear on the reference page, and vice versa. The reference page adheres to the Harvard style. Evidence of a wide research of scholarly journals and current literature (at least 7 different references presenting substantive information cited excluding the references derived from the internet). Submission of assignment Presentation: Work should be typed, double spaced, and written in 12-point font size. Direct quotes and citations are not counted in the word limit, nor are appendices or the reference list. Work outside the prescribed word range may not be marked or may lose marks. Online submission: Do not submit the assignment as an attachment to e-mails. Your assignment should be submitted electronically via IHNA E-learning platform. In terms of online assignment submission, students must attach an online assignment coversheet and self-declaration with each assignment for validation of student ID. You will receive a confirmation message within two days’ time from the Institute once you have successfully submitted your assignment. Plagiarism: Students are required to submit their own work for assessment. The presentation of someone else’s work, words or ideas as one’s own is plagiarism and therefore unacceptable. Plagiarism can be deliberate or accidental. Whenever students use the words or ideas of another person in their work, they must acknowledge where it is originally taken from. Various forms of plagiarism as follows: Downloading or copying any materials/ideas or part of it from an online source and submitting it as your own work with acknowledging. Buying, stealing or borrowing any materials/ideas and submitting it as your own work. E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |5 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Cheating: Cheating can be defined as completing an assessment without a student’s own effort and getting someone else to do the work. This is not an acceptable practice and will affect the progression of the course. Procedures for dealing with situations involving plagiarism and cheating will be according to IHNA Plagiarism and Cheating Policy and Procedure Invigilation processes for all assessment are based on IHNA Conduct of Examinations policy and Procedure. Also, all the students irrespective of the mode of delivery of the course are required to complete an assessment cover sheet with self- declaration.IHNA utilizes plagiarism checker which checks the submitted assignments, compares among student assignments and compares with a small database from internet for plagiarism. Support services for e-learning students Support services offered by IHNA include: Orientation session The learner opting for e learning is given an orientation to the e learning platform online or onsite as per their preference and availability. Students are given a clear picture about the course delivery and the assessment strategies followed in this course. Student login details (login ID and Password) and an e-learning ‘How to do’ guide is given to individual students. This also includes demonstration of e-learning login system and the learning platform.  Password and login name will be sent to students via email also.  Email communications between teacher/trainer and the student about any concerns regarding course, progress of student or outcome of the workbooks submitted.  online access to student records and feedback to students  For any course content support, students can contact their educator at [email protected] and [email protected] for any technical support In order to make sure the learners receive adequate support to complete the course and assessments an e learning ‘How to do’ Guide will be given during orientation session. E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |6 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA To add more about our E-learning platform Section 3: Screenshots of online pages for Re-Entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Course Home Page: This is your course home page. You are advised to follow the provided time table unless indicated by the educator/course coordinator. Each subject contains links to interactive lessons and other resources. You can open them by just clicking on the specific module. After spending adequate time on each subject and learning the necessary competencies take the assessment for each module or subject and submit online. E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |7 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Student information pages This section provide you with the various course information and easy access to resources such as assessment coversheet, turnitin, how to access online library. Module page E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |8 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Topic index page Topic page Resources E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses Page |9 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Link to IHNA’s Online Library. Online Library Home Page Subject/topic Page in a module E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses P a g e | 10 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Link to Assessments and computer conferencing postings You may enter your responses with regard to each question in the following column attached with each question/discussion topic. E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses P a g e | 11 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NURSING AUSTRALIA Each conference contribution should not exceed beyond 200 words (excluding the referencing).You may save your responses with out being send to the assessor or posted in the conference platform. Make sure to submit the task once finalized before the closing date of the conference. The same is applicable for each module assignments submission as well, if to be submitted online. Section 4: Report section of E-Learning Platform: An educator can access the report section of the IHNA E-learning platform to assess course activity summary of a student in the platform. IHNA uses Moodle platform as the Learning Management System and hence has all the reporting facilities available for moodle. The Report page allows the teacher or administrator to look at course/site logs and user activity reports. The displayed logs will show active links to other parts of the course. These include the user's profile or a specific page in an activity or a link to a resource. Course Logs Course logs show activity within the course. It allows tutors to see what resources are being used and when. They can check to see if an individual student has viewed a specific resource or participated on a specific activity on a specific day. E-Learning Information, November 2011 Re-entry to the Register Course for Registered Nurses P a g e | 12