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What are the LearnOnline courses?

These are online self-training courses that are available to all students and staff at UCT. They focus on personal computer skills, and cover the MS Windows operating system, the MS Office application suite, Internet Explorer and Groupwise.

The courses offer interactive step-by-step explanations and training for a comprehensive range of topics, from simple to advanced functions. They are really easy to use, so don’t delay using them – learn something new today!

Why should you use the online courses?

Faculties offer limited live training to students. All students are expected to take responsibility for improving their computer skills by using these self-training courses in their own time. This is necessary to cope with course requirements. Staff and postgraduate students can in addition attend live courses offered by ICTS (see the ICTS website for further information).

There are a number of distinct advantages to using online courses:

• The LearnOnline courses will allow you to train yourself properly, in a structured manner. They will provide enough for you to accomplish a great deal of what is required for your studies, and will also provide skills that will serve you as you develop your career.
  
  
• Live courses often do not coincide with the time that you have available; with LearnOnline, you train at the times that you decide upon. You may also at any time, return to a course and pick up where you left off. For the same reason, if you have forgotten how to do something that you were taught some time ago, you can easily revise the work again.
  
  
• Online courses are much more flexible than live courses - with LearnOnline you can learn what you need to learn. You can choose to learn a particular application thoroughly by working through the whole course. Alternatively, you can do only one lesson on exactly what you want to learn at that moment. Pre-assessment tests ensure that you are not taught unnecessary information. Mastery tests at the end of each section can be used for self-assessment. You are not bound to set venues.
  
  
• You don’t have to go with the pace of a group; with LearnOnline you proceed at your own pace, slowing down and speeding up as you see fit. In addition, you can repeat sections without disturbing anyone else on the course.