Where to write in the
Lecandosystem



Right now, if you are taking this course, you're using a system, a so-called platform, where you have course material and the possibility to communicate with your teacher and classmates.
If you are visiting this course as a guest, please notice that these possibilities are not available to you.



Where's the platform?

Since this is an English course you have to begin by changing the settings in this system into English instead of Swedish (go to "your profile"). Once that's done you can have a look at how to communicate in this system!

 

Where to write:

First of all there are discussion groups (basically the same as newsgroups on the Internet). The different discussions/newsgroups are:

a. The Course discussion - that's our group discussion - for everybody that is in your group. This one we'll use sometimes. In some assignments you are told to submit your message to the group discussion. This is for information that everybody needs to get and for discussions of general interest.

b. Project discussions - for a small group (5-10 people). Some assignments are supposed to be submitted to a project discussion. You'll belong to at least one project group during this course. You'll receive information from your teacher about this. You have to participate in the discussions in your project group and read what has been written there.

 

Secondly, you're supposed to write in something called a logbook - which is communication between you and your teacher (nobody else can read these messages). This way of communicating is called "tutor" in this system. You have to keep your teacher informed about your work. You have to submit a message every two weeks and sometimes you are asked to comment on something and submit it to your logbook (send it to your teacher).


The things that you submit to the discussions and to the logbook are considered "informal communication". We don't meet as often as other students so this is where you practise communication. What you say is more important than the spelling and the odd grammatical mistake (do not worry about these things at this point - write instead). However this doesn't mean that you should completely ignore "proper English". Have a look at the next page and see what can be done.