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If you subscribe to the feed for this blog in iTunes, in addition to getting any podcasts, you will also automatically receive any PDF attachments. This could be a handy way to keep people up to date on materials available for instructors. It might not do too much for anyone who doesn't want the PDFs, but the files are not that large. For the most part, these guides are specific to UC Riverside, although the ones for the discussion and the control panel might work for other people as well.

Here are the completed how-to guides so far:

Student Login
Student Login (alternate)
Participate in Discussions

Instructor Login
Managing Course Control Panel
Managing Course Control Panel (alternate)
Using Wikis
Using Blogs

Feedback or suggestions are welcome either through the comments or via email to breilly at ucrx dot ucr dot edu.

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