FLO & ICT help

Every topic in the University has a FLO site—a website for students to access learning materials and communicate electronically with lecturers and other students.

Short help guides for the School of Nursing & Midwifery

The FEU has written these guides specifically for the School's FLO template. More guides will be available throughout the year.

Online tutorials for staff on a variety of FLO topics are also available from the University FLO website.

Access to FLO	PDF: 28 KB	how to get access as a teaching team or external/guest
Using your FLO topic site	PDF: 136 KB	the structure of a School of Nursing & Midwifery FLO site
Link to a video lecture from FLO	PDF: 135 KB	how to put a link to video lectures in your FLO site
Help with FLO	PDF: 30 KB	who can help answer your questions about FLO
Linking to online documents in FLO	PDF: 36 KB	short guide to how to add a web link to your FLO site
Complete guide to Gradebook (from Staff Development (20 mins))	Streaming video & PDF	This tutorial provides an overview on how to use Gradebook in FLO. 20 minutes, animated, PDF version (14.2MB)
Gradebook infosheet	MSWord Doc: 1 MB	Quick basic guide to setting up and using Gradebook (best printed 2 pages per sheet, double sided left bound booklet).
Releasing grades to students	WMV (Windows Media video): 8 MB
Adding student grades to the Gradebook tool in FLO	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB
Creating a Gradebook column for assignments in FLO	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB
Calculating a final percent from two Gradebook columns in FLO - BEING REVISED	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB
Re-ordering columns in Gradebook on FLO	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB
Deleting a grade column in Gradebook on FLO (advanced users only!)	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB
Adjust My Topics > My Settings to see all students at once—no paging by 20s	WMV (Windows Media video): 20 MB

FLO Live short help guides

FLO Live is a computer program for holding lectures, tutorials or meetings, where many people in different locations with internet access can speak to each other through headphones and microphones and share study materials and perform other tasks. The School of Nursing & Midwifery is currently one of the biggest users of FLO Live.

If you are interested in using FLO Live in your topic or for any University business, please enrol in a FLO Live training course well ahead of when you need it.

How to book a FLO Live meeting for your topic	WMV (Windows Media video): ~ 10 MB
Where to find your recorded FLO Live sessions (coming soon)	WMV (Windows Media video): ~ 10 MB

Adobe Acrobat Connect tutorials

The following resources all come from Adobe. The product on which FLO Live is based is called Acrobat Connect.
These tutorials also require Adobe Flash Player to be installed on your browser.

Breakout rooms
Dividing students up into activity groups

• Breakout rooms: an introduction
• Sharing content in breakout rooms
  

Meeting management

• Managing attendees
• Managing pods
• Managing layouts
  

Using the share pod to share documents, applications and whiteboards

• Sharing PowerPoint presentations
• Using the whiteboard
• Screen sharing and application sharing
• Controlling another user's desktop, applications or windows
• Optimising screen sharing
• Installing FlashPaper® and creating FlashPaper documents

Questions?

Please contact the School's Flexible Education Unit by email: nursfeu@flinders.edu.au.
To learn more about FLO Live, visit Staff Development's FLO Live website.