Quickstart Guides

In OpenLearn's LearningSpace, you'll find study units from Open University courses alongside ways to connect with other people and make notes and comments. If you want to get creative with your learning you can make maps of resources, record your own video blogs and organise an online discussion group or learning club. You can:

• Register to make the most of features designed to help you stay organised, make sense of your study and communicate with other learners.
• Create a profile to tell the LearningSpace community about you and help you find people with shared interests
• Join a unit to see who else is studying the unit and to access the forums
• Personalise your homepage to organize your learning, view the study units you've joined and keep up to date with other learners
• Assess your progress with interactive quizzes, sample answers and your personal activity report
• Use your Learning Journal to keep notes and reflect on your learning. You can choose to keep these private or to share your experiences with the community
• Rate and review study units, have your say and provide us with feedback
• Tag or label content to make it easier to find later and use the tag cloud to find popular subjects
• Have the learning materials delivered to your desktop by subscribing to our RSS feeds
• Print out learning materials and download in various formats for use offline

Get access to cutting-edge learning tools:

• Create a FlashVlog video blog/diary to document your thinking or to share your thoughts with others
• Hold video meetings using FM. Open your meeting to anyone or make it invitation only. You can replay the meeting anytime
• Brainstorm and make connections between resources and ideas using Compendium knowledge maps
• Use Cohere to discover new ideas and people as you make meaningful connections between your ideas and the world's.

For more information on how to use the tools in the LearningSpace visit our Quickstart Guides:

See also:

• Quickstart Guide: RSS