LTUS Main Features

Landing Page

The first page seen after logging on to a course or the LTUS. Instructors may set a different ______ in their profile settings.

Refresh

Updating or reloading the Web page you are on. It is usually symbolized with an arrow that forms a circle.

Course

A collection of required knowledges, skills, and abilities in a particular program that participants must learn to qualify for industry requirements or to earn educational credits. In LTUS, a ______ is organized by multiple modules.

Learning Materials

A combination of slides, readings, videos, worksheets, comprehension checks, and exams for participants to use during activities.

Variation

A different and unique version of a course an instructor created.

Activity

A series of learning tasks with the aim to support the participants' development of specific knowledges, skills, and/or abilities. In LTUS, a(n) ______ consists of activity instructions and learning materials.

Lesson Plan (Activity Instructions)

A series of step-by-step guidance for instructors to facilitate an activity.

Module

A set of topics that can be combined to build a course. In LTUS, a ______ consists of multiple lessons.

Tab

An Internet browser feature that allows the viewing of more than one web page within a single browser window. LTUS utilizes this feature when certain Learning Materials are open. A ______ may be closed while maintaining connection to the other web pages.

Participant App

An app for participants to access & interact with learning materials, view their scheduled classes, and access transcripts of previous completed classes.

Instructor App

An app for the instructors to prepare and customize course content and to teach in either a physical or virtual classroom setting.

Instructor Notes

Important information and/or consideration to instructors for a specific activity, such as explanation on how to set up a more complex activity, options to do the activity differently, and state important disclaimers.

Navigation Bar (Instructor App)

This is at the top of the instructor app

Participant App: My Courses

This is in the participant app and shows the classes that you are enrolled in.

Left Navigation Pane (Instructor App)

This is part of the instructor app. You can click through to find modules, lessons, activity instructions, and learning materials. Note how it opens left to right.

Left Navigation Pane (Participant App)

This is part of the participant app. You can click through to find modules, lessons, activities, and learning materials. Note: Remember things open below so you need to close the arrows so you can find things more easily

Breadcrumb Trail

A navigation hint that shows your location on a website. In LTUS, the instructor app displays a(n) ______ in the title header to show which program, course, module, lesson and activity is being viewed.

Class

A scheduled instance of a course for a specific date, place and time.

Lesson

A set of activities staged and sequenced purposefully to support the participants' development of specific knowledges, skills, and/or abilities. In LTUS, a ______ consists of at least one activity.

Program

A set of courses developed to teach the necessary knowledges, skills, and abilities for Construction Craft Laborers to perform all critical tasks of a particular trade. In LTUS, a ______ consists of multiple courses.

Learning Objective

A set of specific and measurable knowledges, skills, or abilities participants should achieve by the end of a lesson.