You’ll find e-learning tools, authoring spaces, quality assured courses, amazing online events, evaluated resources, collaborative projects and much more.

There are 6 areas of the Learning Place. Each area of the Learning Place has a different purpose and a different set of tools to support staff and student learning.

1. Online learning: Blackboard 6.3 – your e-learning management system
   1. Online courses for staff and students: facilitated and non-facilitated
   2. Ready-to-go courses and Virtual Classrooms
   3. Closed community spaces
   4. Respondus and StudyMate (assessment software, interactive activities)
   5. Course calendar and Course catalogue
   6. Atomic Learning (online software tutorials)
   Read more…   Go to Blackboard



2. Communication tools – your communication hub
   1. Voice and data conferencing
   2. Synchronous chat rooms including comic chat
   3. Asynchronous forums
   4. Blogs (Web-blog journal tool)
   5. MOO (Multi-Object Orientated environments)
   6. Project rooms combining all tools to meet your project needs
   7. Latest online events
   Go to Communications



3. Curriculum Exchange (CX) – your digital resource centre
   1. Learning objects
   2. Video, image, animation and audio banks
   3. Teaching Ideas and Practices: TIPS and EduSites (evaluated websites)
   4. Curriculum gateways
   5. Federated searches of external databases
   Go to Curriculum Exchange



4. Professional Communities (PCs)
   1. Dynamic websites supporting the work of educational networks
   2. Sub communities within the parent body
   3. Tools such as Event registration, meeting tools, calendars, media galleries, contacts, document storage, member’s area, site control
   Read more…   Go to the PCs



5. Collaborative Online Projects – student authoring project areas
   1. Film, music and book Raps
   2. Virtual Field Trips
   3. Travel Buddies
   4. General Online Projects featuring team web spaces
   5. Student projects you can join
   Read more…   Go to COPs



6. Learning Place Administration System (LPAS) – the Learning Place registration system and control centre for Blackboard courses
   1. Manage your registration details
   2. Manage your student access to courses and Learning Place areas
   3. Manage participants in your courses
   4. Register for courses
   5. Set up course shells and Virtual classroom spaces
   Go to LPAS

You can go to each area via the top navigation under the banner or the left hand navigation from the home page. To return to the home page, click once on the Learning Place in the top left banner. Although we have tried to have similar navigation throughout the site, you will need to become familiar with each application and tool. They all have similar qualities and allow you to author content. Select Site map in the top right banner to help you find areas quickly.

• EQ staff
  You will need to supply your employee number and join via the link on the home page that says Join Learning Place. EQ staff can create and manage courses, create projects and set up communication tools.
• EQ students
  Your teacher is the only person who can register you in the Learning Place. They do that through LPAS. Read more…
• Non EQ staff
  Your school could become an Affiliate member. Read more… You can also participate in fee paying courses and some online events, eg. Online Literature Festival.
• Non EQ students
  Your school has to be an Affiliate school. Your teacher can register for online events and projects.
• University students
  Your University (within Queensland) has to become an Affiliate member. Read more… You can participate in fee paying courses, some of which have University accreditation.
• Community members
  You can participate in online courses organised by your school, eg. Basic Internet and Windows skills
• Educational community
  You can register for some fee paying courses that are offered through the course calendar. Some collaborative projects and online events are also offered to schools outside of Queensland.

If you want to do anything in the Learning Place you have to be a member and have a Learning Place username and password. This is necessary to protect our staff and students. You can access the Curriculum Exchange from our EQ network (eg within a school) without a Learning Place username.

Decide which area (or combination) would best meet your students or your own learning needs. You are only limited by your imagination! Here are some examples:

I want my students to communicate with an expert.

Set up a project room in the communication area. Select the tool (chats, forums, blogs) to meet your purpose.

I want to put some learning activities (using learning objects) online for group rotations.

Set up a Virtual classroom or register for one of the Ready-to-go courses that feature learning objects, eg. Interactive fractions.

I want to learn more about ICT and how to use it effectively in my classroom.

Join the ICT Curriculum Integration course and achieve my ICT Pedagogical license.

I want to find some quality evaluated resources for my next curriculum unit.

Search the Curriculum Exchange resource centre using the Power Search feature

I want to make learning fun for my students and connect them to the world.

Participate in or coordinate a Collaborative Online Project and make sure the project includes real world feedback.

The 'how to' sheets are available to help staff and students to use the Learning Place. They can be used as single-copy resources to help with preparation or can be used as handouts for sessions on different aspects of the Learning Place.

1. Learning Place Unit Planning Template 237k
   Learning Place Unit Planning Template 147k
   The Learning Place has developed a Unit Planning Template which can be used for the development and planning of all your units of work. This proforma has been locked and formatting is limited, eg. no bolding, no bullet points. You can however unlock the form and adapt it for your own purposes.
2. Tips for teachers 117k