Oldham Lifelong Learning

Interactive online courses

This is an electronic learning course, so you can work anywhere with access to the internet. Learners in an organised class are encouraged to spend time working on it outside the classroom as well as in class. It is especially important because the course may take you to many interesting places all over the internet since it is very much a free-form course.

If you have any questions, look to the bottom of the page. There, a section is labelled "Wiki Information." It includes a link to Contact wiki owner. Click it to contact course tutors by email.

Before we start

Some web sites need to know about you and for these you will need a personal account with a user name and password. It is very important to keep track of web pages, user names and passwords.

You should not normally write down this sort of security information but, for now, it may help.

Most of the exercises are restricted to a learners in a formal class with a working email account and who have permission to participate. Before we begin the course, it is important that each student has everything needed.

Let's begin

Can you see that the word email is written differently to the rest of this sentence?

If you point the mouse at the word, you should see that the pointer changes to a hand with a pointing finger, although some computers may use a different symbol. It is different because the word is a link to another page somewhere on the internet.

There is some work to do on that page and more on the security information page. You should look at both and do the task so that you will be ready to move on and do the rest of the course.

When you have read the pages and completed the tasks, look at the course details or schedule. These list all the parts of the course and you should use them to go from one topic to the next. During the course, you will use these to carry out each set of tasks in turn until you have completed the whole course.

Class Pages

To keep track of work, each class has its own page. People not in a class can make their own page but will need to remember where it is. You will only be allowed to change pages on the course if you are in a formal class.

Current classes are listed here, so the list will change regularly. Click on your own class to see your own page and the pages of other people in your class.

• C101578 - Oakbank, Monday (morning) 
• C101574 - Shaw, Tuesday
• C101579 - Oakbank, Monday (afternoon)