Five Online Learning Argots You Should Be Familiar with before Enrolling

If you are toying with an idea of taking up online courses, you are actually thinking about being a part of a six million plus tribe of e-learners. However, just plunging into a whole new world of higher learning is far less a wise decision compared to getting enrolled for online degree programsafter getting introduced with the key elements of the online classes. This is because when you will finally start interacting with your fellows and mentors during your classes, you are likely to come across a whole lot of terms that might sound unfamiliar to you in case you have not pursued any sort of virtual degree before. Better if you know the basic terms at least that are commonly used in and outside the e-campuses for better interaction, and smarter learning. Here below are five e-learning argots that you should be familiar with before enrolling.

1. Course email: This is generally the email created by the university/college you are enrolled in and not your personal one. Many schools do not allow their students to communicate with fellow students and mentors via their personal mail clients and only the university’s own mail client should be used for internal communication. Do not get surprised if you are provided with a new mail ID and password after enrolling.
2. Course dashboard: Generally, email clients created and administered by college authorities come with many more features than just email composing, sending and receiving options. Colleges provide their students with complete dashboards that are meant only for students and their mentors. You can download course materials, see your progress and chat with your fellows and mentors. If you are an adult going back to school, here are five more things you should know about online learning.
3. Online libraries: If your idea of a library is a Victorian mansion which is seemingly inhabited by serious-faced geeks during daytime and scholarly phantoms at night, you are likely to be surprised greatly on your first day of visiting (logging in) an e-library. An e-library is accessible 24 x7 and virtually! You can log into your college’s library anytime you want, and from anywhere.
4. E-portal: A portal of this type is the very own space for the students. You can access resources required for studying through a portal of this type and also can store your completed coursework here.
5. Technical assistance: Reputed online colleges have technical assistance professionals in-house who can help you out whenever you get stuck in a technical glitch of any sort.

There are actually a whole lot of e-learning jargons that you should be familiar with and this blog is just the opener. More updates coming soon. Please stay tuned.