Important Information for Students

Online Classes: If you have registered for your first course, you will receive an e-mail message from Learning Innovations containing your username and password about one week prior to the beginning of the class. Once you have your username and password, you can log in to your online classes using the first login form listed on the left side of this page.

Advising Website: All matriculated students have access to an advising website. After you have been accepted into a program, you are assigned an advisor, and that advisor and the student services staff at UW-Platteville will update the advising website with your grade reports and your degree plan. You can log into your advising website using the second login form listed on the left side of this page with your NetID and password. Your NetID and password are e-mailed to you at the beginning of your first course, on or shortly after the first day of class.

Passwords: For more information about passwords used by distance education students at UW-Platteville, please see the Password Help page.

New Tools Available to Students

The Distance Learning Center and the UWP Karrmann Library have made available new tools for students. Links to these services have appeared on the navigation bar of your online courses.

RefWorks: RefWorks is an online research management and bibliography creator service. This tool assists 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.

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 instructors and students to assist in properly citing sources and avoiding plagiarism, and by instructors to assist in identifying plagiarism. Whether and 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.

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