Section: Succeeding online | Learning Online at USQ | OpenDesk
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Welcome to Learning Online at the University of Southern Queensland! This 'taster' course is designed so you can see what it is like to be an online USQ student.
You can complete this course in one session or in stages. Once you’ve read this ‘Welcome!’, head over to the ‘Getting started’ tab before continuing with the ‘Course Activity’. Make sure you click on each title below to open relevant topic information. We invite you to engage in all activities and discussions and we are excited about what you have to share with us! The course will take you about 30 minutes to complete.
Through completing the Learning Online at USQ activities, you will:
- become immersed in the USQ digital-first platform while networking with others
- discover strategies for managing a student experience that sets you up for graduate career success.
In addition, we encourage you to provide
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Webinar Recording: 'Everything you want to know about studying online, and you're not afraid to ask'. Presented by Associate Professor Marcus Harmes.
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The anatomy of a successful online student
Ever wondered what a successful online student looks like? If you have any of these anatomical features, you may be closer to learning online success than you think!
(USQ Social Hub, 2 December 2019). Tap image to enlarge.
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Digital literacy is a key capability and skill required for academic study and lifelong learning.
Digital literacy means having the skills you need to live, learn, and work in a society where communication and access to information is increasingly through digital or electronic technologies like internet platforms, social media, and mobile devices.
As you consider starting your study journey, it can mean having some essential skills to find, use and send out information using a variety of media. These skills include being able to:
- search and navigate
- think critically and analyse
- create and communicate.
Some other things you will do online include:- format and complete assignments
- access online learning and staying up to date
- practice safe online behaviour
- connect with students and lecturers
- checking your enrolment
- checking your grades
- viewing your exam timetable.
More importantly....
Digital literacy skills ensure you do not feel alone, even if you're studying a long way from campus, you're not alone! There will be a whole studying community there with you.
(Text: Dr Susan Hopkins, USQ College & Dr Julie Lindsay, Digital Learning Innovation (DLI), USQ • Image: DLI, Office for the Advancement of Learning & Teaching (OALT), USQ)
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Digital 'soft' skills
'Soft' skills are the sort of basic digital literacy skills that may sometimes be taken for granted, like
- how well you know your computer's programs e.g. for sending emails, writing reports or essays, using a calculator
- knowing keyboard shortcuts, which help to speed up accessing or writing documents.
If we had to give you one major soft skill tip for surviving university, it would be:
Save, save, save your work!
Whenever you work on an assignment, know your keyboard shortcut to save and keep hitting that save key. Also, be sure your work is backed up (you guessed it: saved) in at least two locations!
Take these quick learning activities to test some of your digital 'soft' skills.
You might be staring at a blank page: What do you have to do? Is it an essay? A report? Do you need page breaks? Is a table necessary? How are your digital editing skills?
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Test your knowledge of computer keyboard shortcuts
The computer keyboard has commands and short cuts that save time doing assignments. How well do you know them?
Drag the shortcut letter into the correct places.
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During and after Open Day, you are very welcome to reflect on the following points with your future lecturers
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