This course teaches how to 'navigate' the online learning site.

Participants learn to:

• 'navigate' their way around the Homepage
• communicate with the facilitators and other participants
• create online profiles
• use the forums for discussions and asking questions
• format easy-to-read written posts
• understand basic online 'netiquette'
• use online vocabulary of blocks and columns, collapsing and opening, posting on forums, threading Replies, messaging, Choices and blogs. 

By the end of the course, the participant should feel confident about using the online learning tools to begin their course.

This orientation course is required of all accounts before moving onto other courses.

This short course is designed to support self-study using the Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS for Academic & General Training book.

The Listening paper is the same in both the Academic and the General Training modules of the IELTS test. It lasts approximately 30 minutes and you are given an extra 10 minutes to write your answers onto a separate answer sheet.

Preparation for doing well on the Reading test of the IELTS exam

This course follows the Introduction to the IELTS exam and will go into deeper study for each of the 4 parts of the exam. The course material is closely aligned with the book and the DVD, 'The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS for Academic and General Training.'