Announcements: myeLearning

Semester II myeLearning Courses
Students will no longer have access to their Semester II courses in myeLearning after May 14th, 2008. If you would like your students to have access to your course after this date, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Be sure to include your course code, title, and the date you would like students to be removed.

New Semester III myeLearning Courses
If you would like to use myeLearning in a course your teaching in Semester III, request a course shell by clicking on the Requests a new course link available in the Course Request Block on the myeLearning course portal.
Once you have added resources and activities and you are ready for your students to have access, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Your course will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail confirming that students have been given access.

Semester III myelearning Courses Taught in Previous Academic Years
If you have a Semester III course that was taught in a previous academic year, please let us know if you would like a copy of the course or a new course shell. Outside of revising the resources available in your copied course, dates of assignments and activities should be updated as well. Once are ready for your students to have access, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Your course will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail confirming that students have been given access.

For more information about myeLearning e-mail: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

New and Updated MIT OpenCourseWare Courses

The MIT OpenCourseWare website has posted new and updated courses. Some course titles include:

2.782J Design of Medical Devices and Implants
3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
3.063 Polymer Physics
6.973 Communication System Design
12.479 Trace-Element Geochemistry
12.742 Marine Chemistry
14.01 Principles of Microeconomics
15.223 Global Markets, National Policies, and the Competitive Advantages of Firms
18.085 Computational Science and Engineering I
22.312 Engineering of Nuclear Reactors

The courses are available on the MIT OpenCourseWare website at: http://ocw.mit.edu.

For assistance in using the MIT OpenCourseWare website, contact the myeLearning team at: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

The DragMath Feature

DragMath is an equation editor that allows you to build mathematical expressions from within myeLearning. You can access the DragMath Editor, by clicking the pie () symbol in the HTML Editor.

Click here for instructions on using this feature.

For more information related to using myeLearning, send an e-mail to: myeLearning@sta.uwi.edu.

Spell Check Tool

You can now check the spelling of text you add to myeLearning by clicking on the Spell Check icon () from the HTML Editor.

Click here for instructions on using this feature.

For more information related to using myeLearning, send an e-mail to: myeLearning@sta.uwi.edu.

University of Houston Study: Hybrid Courses More Effective for Students

"A technical report from a University of Houston Department of Health and Human Performance researcher finds that students in a hybrid class that incorporated instructional technology with in-class lectures scored a letter grade higher on average than their counterparts who took the same class in a more traditional format." 

Read Dian Schaffhauser's article on Campus Technology's Website

Course Request Form

Lecturers can now request course shells from within myeLearning by clicking on the Course Request link from the course portal.


This feature will allow you to quickly send course shell requests directly to the myeLearning Team via a form. A response will be sent to you within one (1) business day. In order to ensure a speedy response, be sure to fill in the information on the form as completely as possible.

Click here for instructions on using this feature

For more information related to using myeLearning, send an e-mail to: myeLearning@sta.uwi.edu.