When you launch a course from the Learning Portal, you will be taken to the Learning Menu for that course.

The Learning Menu Header

The learning menu header gives the name of the course and average course length as well as providing the following:

  • The name of the organisation or centre you are accessing the course under.
  • The name and contact details for your course Supervisor (if you have been assigned one).
  • If the activity involves a self-assessment component that requires supervisor sign-off, you will be able to select your supervisor from the drop down list. Once selected, the Request Verification button will become available. Use this to request verification for any self-assessments that you have made (this triggers a notification to your supervisor).
  • If the activity has been configured to allow it, the Manage Contributors button will allow you to assign contributors (registered delegates at your DLS centre) to your learning in the following roles:
    • Viewer (view progress only)
    • Evidence contributor (view progress, add completed items to the development log)
    • Action plan contributor (view progress, add completed and planned items to the development log)
    • Full contributor (full access to learning and self-assessment content and development log)

To add a contributor:

    1. Locate their email address in the User dropdown
    2. Choose a Role
    3. Click Add

The user will receive an email with a link to access the activity under the role you have assigned them.

Below the header are buttons to access useful tools and functions including:

  • Depending on the content available in the course, tutorial videos will be available below the course heading explaining how to use its components.
  • The App Selector button to access other areas of the DLS platform and manage your delegate details
  • If you have been enrolled on the course as a cohort you will see the My Group button which will give you access to:
    • a list of learners in your cohort
    • details of your cohort supervisor (if assigned)
    • access to an expanding array of collaborative learning tools
  • The Close or Logout button (depending upon whether the learning menu was launched from the Learning Portal or accessed directly)

Learning Content

Each course is split into one or more sections. Click the expand + button to expand each section.

Each section may contain the following:

  • Diagnostic Assessment

This will test your knowledge and skills against the objectives for the section. After completing it, the tutorials in the section will be marked as optional or recommended according to how well you performed against their objectives in the diagnostic assessment.

Click the green launch button to launch the Diagnostic Assessment:

  • Tutorials

Each tutorial can contain any combination of the following components:

Objectives

Clicking this button will display a list of the objectives for the tutorial.

Video

Launches an instructional video covering the tutorial objectives.

E-learning Tutorial

Launches an e-learning tutorial covering the tutorial objectives.

Supporting Information

Opens supporting information (web content, pdf document etc) related to the tutorial.
  • Self Assessments

Some courses or activities contain self-assessment content. These require the learner to read the requirements or objectives and self-assess whether (or to what extent) they meet them.

Self-assessment items will be marked with a Review button. Click Review to undertake the self-assessment.

The Review Skill interface will present an optional Definition and a list of Requirements to be met.

  1. The Self Assessment panel will allow you to choose from a range of self-assessment statements -
  2. Click to choose the one that best describes whether (or to what extent) you meet the stated requirements.
  3. Optionally enter supporting comments
  4. Click Submit
  • Post Learning Assessment

This will test your knowledge of the objectives for all of the tutorials in the section.

Click the green launch button to launch the Post Learning Assessment:

If included, once all of the assessments for a course have been passed, a certificate of achievement will be available.

  • Consolidation Exercise

Some courses include consolidation exercises that can be downloaded to provide additional practice of the skills covered in the section, usually in real world scenarios.

Click the download button to download the Consolidation Exercise:

Completion Panel

At the bottom of the learning menu is the Completion Panel.

This displays:

  • your current course completion status
  • the criteria required to complete the course
  • buttons to access to your learning summary (and evaluation / certificate if complete and applicable)

Click the expand + button in the Completion Panel to see more detail of your overall achievements for the course.


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