Guide to WISR's Online Courses

About this Guide

This website is WISR's guide--for WISR students and faculty--on how to use and navigate WISR's network of online courses--which have been constructed as "websites" using the "Google Sites" app. That app, and other Google Apps, have been made to WISR as part of their Google for Education or G Suite for Education platform. WISR students, faculty and staff are all given their own distinctive, free wisr.edu email address (typically in the form of firstname.lastname@wisr.edu ).

You are strongly advised, but not required, to use the Google Chrome browser. By logging out of your other email accounts, and then logging into your wisr.edu account, you are able to access WISR's online courses--which are NOT accessible to others outside of WISR. For this reason, you should not share access to your wisr.edu email account with anyone else!

New students and faculty are expected to set up an appointment with WISR's CEO/President, or with another member of the Graduate Faculty to whom you are referred, to get an orientation to WISR's online courses. THIS GUIDE IS TO SUPPLEMENT, AND BE A COMPANION TO, THAT PERSONALIZED ORIENTATION, BUT IS NOT MEANT TO REPLACE IT! In addition, students in the MS in Education and Community Leadership must take an orientation course, MS 501, and EdD students required to begin by taking EdD 601. MS in Psychology/MFT students are not required to take the introductory course, MS 501, and do the assignments for that course, but are expected to read through the information posted in that course, and to discuss with a member of the faculty any questions they may have about the readings and content of that course.

The outline below highlights the topics addressed on this website--this Guide to WISR's Online Courses--topics 1 - 5 are found under the INTRODUCTION page (see navigation bar at the top of this page), topics 6 - 11 under the ONLINE COURSES page, and topics 12 - 14 under the COLLABORATION & RESOURCES page (each of these pages, and their subpages may be accessed on the navigation tabs at the top of this page).

Even if you have already been given an orientation by the WISR CEO/President or another faculty member, you are strongly encouraged to contact the President or other faculty when you have questions, or would like to have further orientation and guidance. Although we have tried to make the instructions clear, we also know that there is no substitute for continually meeting with faculty to better understand instructions and to obtain the personalized guidance and support that WISR faculty aim to give to all of our students.

ALSO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO USE THE GOOGLE WORKSPACE FOR EDUCATION (FORMERLY CALLED "THE GOOGLE EDUCATION SUITE")--WHICH IS CRITICAL TO MAKING THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF WISR'S ONLINE COURSES--GO TO:

https://support.google.com/a/users

and to:

https://workspace.google.com/training

After you carefully read this guide, you can go to any WISR course, and also obtain further details about personalized, collaborative online learning at WISR by going to:

WISR's Hub for Online Learning Courses--and further details

You may also learn more about the philosophy and practice of Evaluation at WISR--including grading in courses, assessment of student progress and achievement of program learning outcomes, and the regular review and improvement of WISR learning methods and programs at: Evaluating Learning at WISR

And, to learn more about the philosophy and practices of collaboration at WISR, go to: Collaboration in WISR Courses