The study schedule helps students to develop an appropriate timetable for study and helps them to stay on track. The Help Button provides immediate online assistance with essay writing, making contributions to discussion lists, referencing, preparing for examinations, technical help, using email etc. Students can access this site at the point of need. Should students have particular learning problems that can't be resolved through the Study Help section or on the discussion list with their classmates, they are able to contact their tutor at any time, through the Message to Tutor Button. This provides a fully automated screen set up with the tutor's email address and space for the message to by typed.
Any email sent to the tutor is private.
The tutor email facility helps to establish a learning environment that is helpful, responsive and most importantly, human. The Discussion List facility, 'Cafe Chat' is also located on the navigation bar and is a fully automated email listserve that goes to all learners in the course. It is located on the navigation bar to give prominence to its importance to learning in the course and to enable learners to access it no matter where they are in the topics. Should learners need clarification of any concept they come across in the hypertext topics they can immediately send a message to the discussion list asking for peer feedback. They can also quickly and easily share information about any new WWW sites they have discovered by clicking on the discussion list facility no matter where their hyperlinked searches take them.