Getting Around
You found your way to the Unit 1 folder, but now how do you get around in your online classroom? Your online classroom is a Learning Management System, or LMS, called Blackboard. Basically, it makes sure that everything you can do in your school, you can do in an online classroom; like talk to the teacher, watch videos, play games, read your textbook, and turn in assignments. But before we get too far ahead, let's focus on getting around in your course.
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- access Idaho Digital Learning courses through the Student Portal site.
- use the menu options to navigate the class.
- find your course syllabus and schedule.
- use your online textbook.
- recognize the breadcrumb trail and use it to navigate in your course.
Key Terms
- Student Portal: located at https://idiglearning.net, this is the site where you sign in and access all of your Idaho Digital Learning classes as well as other important links
- LMS: this stands for Learning Management System. It is the software program that allows you to take your course. The LMS you will be using is for this course is Blackboard.
Tiles: on your Student Portal, tiles are the access point to your classes and other parts of Idaho Digital Learning to which you have access. They can be active or inactive on your portal.- Navigate: another way of saying "getting around." This term is often used to explain how to move from place to place on the Internet or on a website.
- Breadcrumb Trail: a trail or list of the places you have visited inside of your course to get to the current page. In Blackboard the Breadcrumb trail is active and will let you click on previous pages to navigate back to them.
Is there more to know?
Remember to look for the "next page" link at the bottom, left of the page to see there is more content in this lesson. Just a heads-up - there are 6 pages in this lesson, so make sure you see them all!