WEBVTT - generated by Videoportal Freiberg 1 00:00:00.433 --> 00:00:06.900 Hello and welcome 2 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:10.833 back to my quick guide to get started with the SUUUpoRT course programme. 3 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:14.800 As I can see, you have successfully locked into OPAL. 4 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:20.200 The first thing we should do before we speak about the course offer itself, 5 00:00:20.666 --> 00:00:25.166 is to change the language settings from default German into English. 6 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:28.600 So for that, you have to go up here, 7 00:00:29.233 --> 00:00:31.633 near your name tag is this little arrow 8 00:00:32.033 --> 00:00:35.166 and from here you can access the "Einstellungen" 9 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:38.100 so called settings tab. 10 00:00:38.366 --> 00:00:39.133 Here, 11 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:42.400 you have to go to the tab "Systemeinstellungen" 12 00:00:42.733 --> 00:00:46.433 and down here is the setting for "Sprache" 13 00:00:46.433 --> 00:00:50.100 so language. Just click here and change it to English 14 00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:53.366 and in the end go for "Speichern" 15 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.833 to save your progress. 16 00:00:56.833 --> 00:00:59.900 So now we have successfully changed 17 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:04.000 our language to English and can get started with the page. 18 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.000 You saw the OPAL automatically refreshed. 19 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.000 So let's have a quick look around. 20 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.000 OPAL is our learning management system 21 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.000 and everything in here is organized in courses. 22 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.000 You can see here this is the SUUUpoRT-Project main course 23 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.000 and this is also the core of the whole SUUUpoRT-Project. 24 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:31.000 From here you can access every individual course we offer in this project. 25 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 In the middle you always see the active page 26 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 you selected and the content it's providing to you. 27 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.000 So this is the page you are currently working on. 28 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:45.000 In my case, it's the main starting page of the course. 29 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.000 On the left hand side 30 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:51.000 you'll always find the navigation tree, which shows you 31 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.000 every course element that is available to you. 32 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.000 For instance, the "Enrollment", the "Course offer" at the "Forum", 33 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.000 the most important for you are the "Course offer" and the "Forum". 34 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.000 In your case, the course offer should be empty by now 35 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.000 because you have to enroll first. 36 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.000 For that, we click on "Enrollment". 37 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 And here it states 38 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.000 "Please enrolle to get access to all information and content". 39 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.000 So just click on "Enroll" 40 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.000 to finish the enrollment process. 41 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.000 You will immediately get an E-mail to your OPAL-E-mail address, 42 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.000 that you have enrolled to a new course. 43 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.000 After that, the "Course offer" should fill with the currently available courses, 44 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.000 you can see here. 45 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.000 You can just click on one of them, for instance, "Geomonitoring" 46 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.000 and get the information about the course itself 47 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.000 and by clicking on "Start Course", 48 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.000 you will get redirected to the course of "Geomonitoring". 49 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.000 So you can see up here in your tabs to have now two open courses. 50 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 The main project and the "Geomonitoring" course. 51 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:07.000 You can easily switch between them by just clicking on to the tabs. 52 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:13.000 If you're working on different and more course offers, you can easily 53 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.000 make favorites so you can come back later to them more easily. 54 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.000 For that, you can just click on this little star. 55 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.000 It states: "make a favorite". 56 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.000 So now it's added to your favorite list. 57 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.000 On the homepage you will find 58 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.000 down here 59 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.000 your "Favourites"-list, and in this list you can access all your favorites 60 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 previously set. You also have the option to go to "Recently Opened" 61 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.000 to go, for instance, to the "Geomonitoring" course 62 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.000 I just were. 63 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.000 So back to the "Geomonitoring" course. 64 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.000 So in the course offerings you have different course 65 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.000 elements and additional features for that specific course. 66 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.000 You always find everything available on the left hand side, 67 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.000 as mentioned before. Please note, that you have to enroll 68 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.000 for every individual course you want to consume. 69 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.000 So just go here and then go 70 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.000 "Enroll". 71 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.000 Here, you should choose. 72 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 Enroll as "other participant". 73 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.000 You see, I already participated as a student of TUBAF, but in your case, 74 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.000 go for "other participant" to get access to everything of this specific course. 75 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.000 So now we should have access to lectures. 76 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:39.000 And as you can see, this course consists of 12 different lectures you can access now. 77 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:47.000 In every lecture you have a page with a video, you have now access to. 78 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.000 So just go and watch the different videos. 79 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:54.000 In this specific course, you also have a literature and link list 80 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.000 of just additional information provided by the lecturer. 81 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.000 So go there for additional information. 82 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:02.000 Yeah. 83 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.000 And that's everything you need to know to get started with OPAL. 84 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:11.000 If you have any additional questions, just write us an E-mail via "E-mail 85 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:16.000 to program tutor" or use the "Forum" down here 86 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.000 to give us feedback and tell us your questions and needs. 87 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.000 So thanks for watching, till then, 88 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.000 stay safe. Bye.