Important information to our new online students
Here's a quick look at how to get started as a Palliser Beyond Borders online student.
Here's a quick look at how to get started as a Palliser Beyond Borders online student.
In your application form below you will be asked to Google Authenicate. This links your palliser email @prs26.ca to moodle, our learning management system that hosts your online course.
Once we have your authentication we can assign your courses to your account.
Palliser Google Apps for Education (GAFE) account - once students are registered, they will be provided with a GAFE account. This account will provide many tools offered by Google within a restricted area of which students will be using two on a daily basis - Gmail and Google Drive (documents). To access GAFE:
Please note that students from China use their own local email to communicate. Palliser Beyond Borders will not create GAFE accounts.
Palliser Beyond Borders Moodle account - Moodle is a ‘learning management system’ which will be the location on the internet where students will access the course materials and carry out the various assignments and assessments. Once students have registered for a course, they will be granted access to the course via a login which will be provided to them either through the Palliser Gmail or by the teacher through a face-to-face meeting.
Students will receive a confirmation email to the email the student registered with for Moodle log in information. If you have questions about your student access to a Moodle course, please email Kourtney Skipworth.
Access to Palliser Blackboard Collaborate (BB) - this is a tool which will be used to provide students with a ‘virtual’ face-to-face meetings with their teachers. Teachers will be using BB to facilitate various lessons and to be provide assistance in the form of tutorials and ‘just in time support.
To access BB:
Each course has the link to the live instruction that is timetabled for each subject. See the link at the top left hand corner . Click on the image. To configure Blackboard Collaborate: Current version of Java (see http://java.com) to Configure your computer to operate Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing tool.
If you are having trouble configuring your computer Blackboard Collaborate has a very efficient helpdesk. Phone numbers are linked here.
You can check your browser using this online tool and if you are missing required programs, follow the links to get the downloads.
Students will also need:
You will need:
You can download a Moodle and a Blackboard app for mobile devices so you can attend to your learning when you are not at your desktop computer.
Chromebooks are cloud based devices, so a wifi connection is needed to take full advantage.
Because they are cloud based, hard drive space is not as important as RAM; I would suggest nothing less than 4GB of RAM.
Chromebooks all of a date when they stop receiving feature and security updates (Auto Update Expiration - AUE), this has just been increased to 8 years, but there are still devices for sale that expire well before that (I found a great deal on a Samsung Chromebook that “expired” in 2022) and the AUE cannot be extended by the user.
The Auto Update Expiration of Chromebooks can be found here. I suggest that this be looked at, prior to a Chromebook purchase is made
Making Phone calls from Google Hangouts & Hangouts Meet
There are two integrated options for making phone calls from G-Suite. Depending on which method you use, the phone call may show up as Private Caller or Hangouts Meet on the receiving end. |
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It's funny! I am understanding this online math course way more than I ever did in the classroom.