StrateReaders Guidebook

Most areas in the Learning Labs require an account to access. Registering for an account is free and allows you to interact with other people in that course or workgroup.

Use these following steps to access the Learning Labs as a guest. Being a guest means that you do not have to create an account or officially sign in, although your participation may be limited.

You'll need to use your account to access most of the functions and content in the Learning Labs. You'll need to sign in each time you use the site, using the steps outlined here.

Before you begin: Before you sign in, make sure you've created an account and know what your username and password are.

Forget your Learning Labs account information? This page is for you. The Learning Labs doesn't have a password reminder, but it does have a way to help you create a temporary password and then assign a new password. This procedure takes a few steps–please follow along carefully.

The Stratepedia Learning Labs are online communities of practice, learning and support for educators, particularly those working with the Strategic Instruction Model or Content Literacy Continuum initiatives. The site serves two purposes: First, it houses public and private collaborative workspaces for these groups. Second, it stores online workshops and training sequences used in distributed SIM professional development.

Your Learning Labs account settings are stored in your profile. You can change these settings–including your name, e-mail address, and password.

The Learning Labs can make it easier to put a face with a name. Follow these instructions to upload a picture of yourself to be displayed on your profile.

The StrateReaders group contains the current book list. It also contains links to Amazon.com where you can buy the book if needed. Participation in each book's forum is defintiely encouraged.

A Moodle Forum is a primary collaboration tool for a workgroup. Common terms for this type of tool include discussion board, threaded discussion, and bulletin board.

Before you begin: To participate in a forum, you must be signed in and be a member of the workgroup or course to which the forum belongs.

With tracking, you can easily see how many new messages are waiting for you in a forum. Tracking may be used in tandem with notifications to help you follow online discussions in your workgroup.

Before you begin: To track new messages in forums, you must turn on forum tracking in your account settings. See How do I change my account settings? for details.

No time to check your workgroup every day for new forum posts? No problem–with notification messages, new posts can arrive automatically in your e-mail inbox. Here's how.