Notes to students

If you have registered for a course you will be receiving an email containing your username and password from Learning Innovations about one week prior to the start of class. If you have registered early you will be given access to your courses one week prior to the start of the semester.

All matriculated students have access to online advising resources. After you have been accepted into a program, you are assigned an advisor. You can log into your advising site using the login area on the left of the screen. You will need your campus username and password to log in, which is e-mailed to new students on approximately the first day of class of the first semester/session enrolled. This e-mail message also contains instructions for using other online campus resources.

Please note that you will continue to use a separate password to access your online courses.

New Tools Available to Online Students

The Distance Learning Center and the UWP Karrmann Library have made available new tools to online students. Links to these services have appeared on the navigation bar of your online courses. The first is RefWorks, the online research management and bibliography creator service. This tool assist in researching and citing documents you use in your papers. Check the Library's RefWorks page, http://www.uwplatt.edu/library/refworks.html, for instructions on how to use RefWorks for your research assignments; check the DLC library resource page, http://www.uwplatt.edu/disted/started.html?libAcc for a link to an archived online presentation introducing RefWorks.

The second tool is Turnitin. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville Distance Learning Center has subscribed to Turnitin, an online plagiarism detection and avoidance service. This tool can be use by students to assist in properly citing sources and avoiding plagiarism and by instructors to assist in identifying plagiarism.

How this tool will be used in a course is determined by each instructor. If you have questions on plagiarism please visit the Turnitin resource page http://www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_home.html.

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Password Self-Service

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Students now have the ability to change or retrieve their password from anywhere they have access to an internet connection. The Password Self-Service tool prompts users to enter answers for challenge questions, and then gives them the ability to retrieve or set their own password.

 

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