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Features of the Online Learning Centre (OLC)
The Online Learning Centre allows for rich interaction between you and other students. You can collaborate with other students: read, respond and post messages via email or online forums. One of the best features of an online discussion is that you don't have to be present at exactly the same time to communicate with other students. Online learning gives you an opportunity to share your discoveries with others, and learn from them. Your classmates come with a wealth of knowledge from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. Use the discussion topic to post a question for all to see or send a private email to a specific individual. Either way, communication is key! Sharing personal profiles also makes the class more enjoyable and enables you to feel more connected while learning at a distance. Also use the OLC to network and socialize with other students. From time to time, the alive Academy of Natural Health will also post important announcements and/or bulletins for the students to view. In addition to immediate test results, additional information about policies, final exams, grades and more are just mouse click away.

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Getting Started With the OLC
To access the OLC you must have an enrollment key which is provided to you at the time of registration. With this enrollment key, you can access any lesson notes that accompany your course materials and lesson tests/assignments. An additional enrollment key will be provided to your final exam supervisor to write final exams. All lesson tests and final exams have specified time limits. You must click the "Submit" button found at the bottom of each test within the specified time limit for successful submission. It is strongly recommended that students print off lesson tests from the OLC and record their answers on paper prior to writing and submitting tests online in the event of technical difficulties. You can view and print the lesson test prior to submitting a test. Simply log in to view and/or print the test. When completed, log out without pressing the "Submit Test" button. When you are ready to write the lesson test, input you pre-recorded answers and click the "Submit Test" button before the specified maximum time limit. After the test or exam has been submitted, your answers will be shown on screen and emailed to you.

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System Requirements for the OLC
To keep your waiting time at a minimum, we recommend more memory and a faster processor and Internet connection, but a system with these minimum requirements will be able to access the Online Learning Centre (OLC):

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PC
OS: Windows 98 or higher
Processor Pentium 200
Modem 56 Kb
Memory 64 MB
Hard Drive At least 50 MB of free space

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Macintosh
OS 8.6 or higher
Modem 56 Kb
Memory 64 MB
Hard Drive At least 50 MB of free space

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Browser
This site has been tested with Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 5, Opera 9, FireFox and newer versions.

The 50 MB of free hard-disk space is for the computer to have room to run Java and support your browser.

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Changing Your Browser Settings
You may need to change your browser's settings use the OLC.

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A. To check settings in Internet Explorer:
  1. On the menu bar in the Internet Explorer window, click Tools, and then click Internet Options.



  2. In the Internet Options dialog box, click Delete Files in the Temporary Internet files pane, and then click OK.



  3. In Temporary Internet files, click Settings.



  4. Select Every visit to the page, and then click OK to close the Settings dialog.

  5. Click the Privacy tab.



  6. Move the slider to Accept All Cookies.

  7. Click the Advanced tab. The following dialog box appears



  8. Scroll down to the Microsoft VM section, and then select Java logging enabled and JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled (requires restart).

  9. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog.
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B. To check settings in Firefox:

  1. On the menu bar in the Firefox window, click Tools, and then click Options.



  2. The preference dialog box appears:



  3. In the preferences dialog box, click on the Privacy pane.

  4. Select Accept cookies from sites. Under the Keep until pulldown menu, select "they expire"

  5. Click on Clear Now... to clear the cache.

  6. In the top pane, click Content, and then in the right pane select Enable Java and Enable JavaScript.

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C. To check settings in Netscape:

  1. On the menu bar in the Netscape window, click Edit, and then click Preferences.



  2. The preference dialog box appears:



  3. In the preferences dialog box, next to Privacy & Security in the left pane, click to expand the category.

  4. Click Cookies, and then select Enable all cookies or Enable cookies for the originating web site only.

  5. In the left pane, click Advanced, and then in the right pane select Enable Java and Enable native object scripting.



  6. Next to Advanced, click to expand the category, and then click Cache.



  7. Select every time I view the page, and then click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
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