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Lab 1 - Log in and Learn 1 Introduction Work through the following tutorial at your own pace, asking for help if you need to.

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You need your User lD and password.

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Important Note: The worksheet should take up to 50 minutes; however, if you do not finish

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in this session you should make sure you complete the work in your own time before the

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next lecture.

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2 Logging In In order to use a P.C. within the IT Services Labs you must have a login name and your password. Support is available from the IT Services Information Desk in the Library. Telephone support is also available - ring 01509 222333.

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The computers should all be on, move the mouse or press the space bar to get them

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out of Power save mode.

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Log in using the username and password you have been provided with, the

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username will have the format bsab2 (bs - for Business, 2 or 3 letters that will

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generally be your initials then possibly a number).

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3 Accessing the University website.

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Start internet explorer (the blue & yellow ‘e’ symbol in the bottom task bar). The main University home page appears from where you can access all of the information you will need. Click on the ‘Students’ tab and familiarise yourself with the content on the page. There are links to all of the General information you need as a student, Study resources such as the library and IT services, info about your studies, University regulations such as exam procedures plus advice about finances, your career and Health and Welfare. Click back on the Student tab and you are taken back to the University Home page.

4 myLboro Before you started your studies, you were invited to download the myLboro app onto your mobile device. This has a lot of the content that the main University website has, and it is all in one place for ease of finding things, but it doesn’t contain everything. While you work through this worksheet you may find it useful to compare the University website with the app to see what you have on your device and what you will need to use the website for.

5 Accessing Webmail You have been given a Loughborough University email account which is the only email you should use to contact your lecturers and tutors. SBE staff will not answer emails from your Hotmail or any other account as we cannot guarantee the identity of the sender.

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Get into the habit of checking your university email every day as information about your

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modules will be sent to you via this email address.

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Your email address will have the format: [email protected]

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Your student email is accessible from several places, one of which is the University home page:

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Click on the dark green block in the column on the right of the page that says

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Student and staff Webmail. This takes you to the same Outlook page as the tile

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on your myLboro app

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Log in using your usual ID and password.

Send an email to me (get into the habit of following this format whenever you email a lecturer or member of the admin team so that they can identify you easily)  Start a new message.  Type my email address in the ‘To’ field [email protected]  In the subject field put the module code that your query relates to (in this case 19BSA007)  There is no need to write a message today but type the following then click Send. Dear Amanda Kind regards Your name Your ID number (Bxxxxxx)

6 Learn and the SBE portal Learn is the virtual learning environment from which all your module resources are available. You can access Learn from the University home page (the dark green block next to the Webmail block). Learn opens in a new window and you need to log in again (top left of the page).

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Once you are in Learn you will see a list of all the modules that you are currently registered

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on. There are also a number of links on this page to other resources.

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In the ‘Navigation’ box in the top left of the screen there is a module search facility.

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In the module search box type SBE portal and press Go

Here there are three options; you will need the Placements portal later this year and in your second year when you start to think about placements. 

Click on the third result - SBE Undergraduate Portal

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Here you will find everything you need to know about your programme of study. This page

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should always be your first reference point if you have a question about anything to do with

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your course.

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Click on the Contact Us block

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This block gives you information about who to contact for various questions you may have

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throughout your degree. Your first reference point should always be the Undergraduate

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Administration team who are based on the reception desk in the School of Business and

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Economics (Richard Morris building). You will get to know them very well throughout your

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time here at Loughborough and their email address is given on this page.

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Further down this page you will find information about your Personal tutor, Programme

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Director, Module leaders and the school’s Wellbeing Advisor with links to contact details for

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relevant staff.

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Close this page and go back to the SBE undergraduate portal home page.

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Click on the Frequently Asked Questions block, here you will find information

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about assessments, attendance and other useful details.

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Click on Support for Students – here you will find links to all of the campus

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facilities that you are likely to need (many of these are also in your myLboro app)

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Familiarise yourself with the other contents of this portal, in particular the Quick References

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on the left-hand side of the home page. The answers to everything you are likely to need to

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know are here.

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Of course, your lecturers, and in particular your personal tutor, are here to help you but for

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the answers to simple questions this is the best place to look. If anything on this page

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doesn’t make sense, the best people to ask are the admin team on the reception desk.

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7 IT Support and other University services There is a huge amount of information for students on the IT services website. The first tab on the left of the Learn webpage is called ‘University links’ 

Click this tab and choose IT Services.

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Click on the Students block - here you will find information about buying printer credits, Wi-Fi access and computer lab availability. There is also information here about linking your phone to the University system if you haven’t done already so you can access your email remotely.

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If you wish to change your password to something more memorable, click on the ‘IT User Account’ block, then on ‘Password Reset’.

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Click on the myLboro block, here you can find out all about the digital register system if you ever have any difficulty with it.

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As part of your Office 365 account, Loughborough students have access to cloud storage via

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OneDrive for Business. You have 1TB online storage which is accessible anywhere, and on

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any device.

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Click on Data Storage then at the bottom of the page click on ‘Getting Started with the OneDrive on the web’ and follow the instructions to access your OneDrive account.

Close the IT services page and go back to Learn - there are other useful links in the ‘University links’ tab, take this opportunity to check out these resources so you know where they are if you need them.

8 Familiarise Yourself with Learn You will become very familiar with Learn and how to navigate around it

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Click on My Modules (the beginning of the file tree, top left of your screen) or use

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the ‘My modules’ tab at the top of the page which has your modules in a drop

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down list format.

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Click on 19BSA007 which is the Skills for Study, Placement and Employment

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module page.

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Scroll down the page and find the block for Week 1. Here you will find this document as a

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pdf file.

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Click on the link to open the document.

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Documents like this, resources for your studies, lecture notes, web links etc. will be uploaded

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to Learn for all your modules. You should get into the habit of looking every week and if you

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ever miss a taught session you need to make sure you have been through the information

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you have missed before the next session.

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9 Saving documents Whilst in Adobe save a copy of the document to your OneDrive space

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Click File (on the tool bar top left of your screen) then Save As.

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Click on OneDrive then type the name that you wish to give the file e.g. ‘Lab 1’

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then click Save.

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IT problems are not accepted as good excuses for missing coursework submission

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deadlines. You have been provided with adequate file storage space that automatically

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updates and stores your files so get into the habit of using this to store your coursework and

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other important documents.

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10 Submitting documents to Learn

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Back on the 19BSA007 Learn page, underneath the Lab 1 document there is an activity

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called ‘Upload a document’. This is to demonstrate how to upload coursework to Learn.

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All of your coursework will be submitted electronically so make sure you know how to do

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Click on Upload a document.

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You will be taken to a separate screen from where you can browse to your OneDrive.

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Find your Lab 1 file and attach it.

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11 Reading lists Every module has a reading list which is kept up to date on Learn which alerts the library to have the relevant books in stock for you to borrow. Look down the left hand side of the 19BSA007 module page, there is a block called ‘Reading list’ where the recommended books are listed but the best place to look is under the block called Module Card where you will also find past exam papers for your modules and other useful links. 

Click on Reading list - from here you ...