hi i'm trish Holston secondary partnership
director at Wilson Community College this 
will be an orientation on career and 
College promise or otherwise known as CCP
for high school students that are taking
college classes this is the first video in
a series of videos to help you get oriented
to certainly help you towards success in
the future with your college classes so our
first video is going to focus on three topics
usernames passwords and Wilson Community
College email and Moodle given these areas
let's start with usernames and passwords and
we use the sample student of steven johnson
date of birth May 16 1998 with a college ID
of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 usernames for all students
 at Wilson Community College begin with the first
name initial the last name initial and
the last 4 digits of the Wilson
Community College student ID number that
ID number is located on your
registration sheet you were given just
below your name in the top left hand
corner this will be an important number
to pay attention to in the future and as
you're logging in so for example SJ
three four five six will stand for the
person's user name above Steven Johnson
so for example the username for Steven
Johnson would be the s followed by the J
followed by the last four digits of his
ID which would be three four five six in
terms of the default password the
uppercase first letter of the last name
the lowercase second letter of the last
name and six digit birthdate once you do
that in log in you'll be prompted to
change that password and setup security
questions it's important that you write
that down because people have a tendency
to forget especially if they use a
different computer where they didn't
save that information so Steven Johnson
for example would be capital J small
zero zero
five one six nine eight those would be
an example of the default password and
remember you do have the ability to
reset your password if something's not
working I would try several times to
make sure you got the proper letters and
numbers but if you're unable to log in
always try to reset your password once
you reset your password it's reset for
all the logins that you will need for
email Moodle and student planning in
terms of the College email your Wilson
Community College email is your college
email not to be confused with your high
school email we ask that you check your
college email every day it's critical
that you do that because you could be
getting information from our
administrators myself especially your
instructor the primary way to
communicate with your online instructor
is through email so if you're not
checking that you could be missing
critical information such as reminders
and announcements and any changes that
they might make in class if you do not
check this email you are still
responsible for the work and the
information that is in those emails that
is requested of you please remember this
is not the same as high school email so
it's really important that you check
both sources because your counselor
could be contacting you through email as
well it's important that you respond
quickly to these emails if you're
confused you should ask for
clarification and one quick way to do
this I found is to download the free
outlook 365 app on your cell phone that
way you can push your Wilson Community
College email address there set up
alerts and get information in a really
timely way keep in mind that this is
your entire email you already know your
username but then the remaining portion
of your email includes at my dot Wilson
CC edu so that's the email address to
use now how do you go about logging into
email you go to our website Wilson CC
edu and you locate all these tabs across
the top and that green tab area we've
got a lot of links up there that are
be important to you and obviously in red
here's the email link you will
constantly be using that email you
should use that every day and once you
log into that that email will take you
to a site such as office 365 and you can
see you'll have your username to put in
the system as well as your password and
it's the same password that you've
created the entire time so even if you
have to reset it it automatically resets
here one important thing to note about
our office 365 is that carries the
Microsoft Office products so for example
when you log in one of the things that
you'll be able to do is email obviously
but the other things include Microsoft
Word PowerPoint Excel and many other
features there those are free to you to
download you can download them to up to
five different computer devices we
realize you may not be able to download
that to Chrome but there are all kinds
of resources that you can use there that
may be important to you and as a college
student all of that is free now how
about logging in to Moodle Moodle is our
online learning environment which is
where you get to your online classes or
a face-to-face class that includes
information online again you go to our
Wilson Community College email address
and right next to the email you can see
the Moodle link clicking on that Moodle
link it will take you to the Moodle site
to log in this will pop up it'll take a
second to pop up here you click here to
log into Moodle and once you get into
that login page it is the same username
and password as described before once
you log into Moodle it'll look something
like this
we've got my sample page here this is
what's known as a dashboard so it
include includes a series of
navigational bars over here and a course
overview so if you're registered for one
two or three courses all of those
courses will show up but they will not
show up until after the first day of
class which is on your registration
sheet every class has a Moodle 101 for
student
I tell students that is worth looking at
because it tells you about how to post
to forums it shows you how to read a
grade book it shows you how your
instructor could set up the course it is
very very helpful
one thing that is maybe a little bit
sleeting though is remember that this is
a dashboard you are not in your course
yet but you may have some little bit of
information here that may say something
like you've got a forum post due or
you've got a quiz overdue or something
like that that is not always accurate
because that relies on an instructor to
put some things in the course manually
that they may have not have done at the
beginning of the course so I would not
pay attention to anything here log in to
the class that is how you will know what
to do for example when you log in you
will be directed to what's called an
opening page for your course read the
entire opening page for each course
you're in every instructor every class
has important documents and links that
they require that you read here's just
the beginning of an opening page for a
general psychology class it can include
a description it might say where to
start and generally how to navigate
things and if you look further down this
still opening page may include a lot of
links that are critical the syllabus is
something that you should read right
away it includes your course schedule
how to calculate grades the course
policies how participation is graded in
terms of your absences study guides
might be here if your instructor post
that very important things underneath
this information and you may have an
enrollment activity that you have to do
everyone will have some type of activity
to do by a particular due date or you
are not considered enrolled in class if
you do not do it by the due date you may
not be able to take you probably will
not be able to take the class
so it's important you do that due date
that you submit that assignment before
the due date you can also see here as an
example of items that your instructor
may or may not post here's an exam
of some frequently asked questions I
posted some examples of videos on how to
study for classes and then you can see
things like your instructor may post
things in weekly modules or our weekly
lessons and they will open up at the
beginning of the week and have
objectives assignments lessons that you
have to either read or links that you
have to go to or powerpoints that you
might have to work through an instructor
may post it in any variety of ways for
further information I want you to know
that you can always contact me here's my
contact information phone an email
address as well as a CCP website that on
my C CPC CCP website there are a lot of
videos on how to study and research
careers and all kinds of things that
might be helpful for you good luck with
your future class and please watch the
next video in line