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What is the Vital-Online eLearning Center?
The Vital-Online eLearning Center is your Online learning resource center, delivering instruction and information interactively over the Internet. In addition to its facilities for self-paced and instructor-assisted learning, the Vital-Online eLearning Center allows you to measure how much you have learned. This helps you gauge your understanding. It also allows your instructor to monitor your progress and if necessary provide additional help.
Interactivity is key to the learning process. In addition to the interactivity that is built into each course through questions, video, and simulated practice, the Vital-Online eLearning Center allows you to communicate with instructors, subject matter experts, and other students through integrated Discussion Groups, Help Desk, and Messaging. For example, to ask your instructor a question while you're taking a course, just click the Help button, and a window pops up so you can visit the Help Desk.
Accessing the Vital-Online eLearning Center
To take a Vital-Online course or use any of the system's other interactive features, you must have a valid Vital-Online User ID and password. To access the Vital-Online eLearning Center, start your browser and go to the following Web site:
www.vital-online.com.
This takes you to the Vital-Online home page. After you enter your user ID and password, the Vital-Online eLearning Center displays the Main Lobby.
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Message Alert
The first time you go to the Main Lobby in a session, a secondary window opens automatically to show you any high priority messages you have and the total numbers of new messages, help desk responses, and new postings to discussion groups to which you are subscribed. When you finish reading the Message Alert information, close the secondary window.
Learning Center Options
 Main Lobby
This landing page welcomes you to the Vital Learning eLearning Center. A special introduction will be available for first time users to the site. A tutorial, frequently asked questions, any new messages and establishing your profile will all be able to be accessed at this point. On this page we also announce any new features and courses on the Center as well as a view all the courses Vital Learning offers to its users.
 My Courses
At my courses you will view the menu of courses you are authorized to take. You can take only those courses for which you have been given authorization. If your course list does not appear here, either your courses have expired or you have not signed up for courses.
 eHelp
Here you can ask questions about course content and get answers from your instructor or a subject matter expert. The Help Desk is private, so other students cannot see your questions. You should receive a response to your question within 24 hours Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST.
 My Messages
This feature allows you to communicate privately with any other Vital-Online eLearning Center users. If you are enrolled in a class, you can determine the user IDs of other students in your class by selecting View Classes in the Useful Information area.
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 My Reports
Use My Report to see your Pre-Test and Post-Test results for all the courses you have completed. This also allows you to see how long it took to complete the course.
 Certificates
The ability to print a certificate of completion is available after you have completed a course.
 Discussion Groups
Threaded discussion messages can occur between students and instructors about course-related materials or assignments. You can also experience live real-time messages if students and instructors are designated to be online at the same time. Messages can be set up as a class so that you only see the students within your organization.
 Useful Information
Useful information allows you to edit your contact information and profile, join the student chat room and find User Ids of other students within your assigned class. Additional resource links and articles to enhance your learning experience are also available.
Course Navigation Options
 Lessons
Lessons shows a full table of contents of the lessons within the course. This is used as an optional means of navigating the course.
 Set Bookmark
This feature allows you to mark your spot in the eLearning course so that when you return, you can begin where you left off. You may set one bookmark per course at a time. A bookmark can only be retrieved on the same computer where it was set.
 Get Bookmark
This feature takes you to the bookmark you previously set in the course. A bookmark can only be retrieved on the same computer where it was set.
  Back and Next
The Back and Next button are located on bottom right hand side of the courses. These two features allow you to navigate page-by-page throughout the course.
Taking a Course
You are only allowed take those courses for which you have been given authorization. To access a course, click on My Courses in the Main Lobby, then click on the name of the course. The system shows you the course's Lesson Menu. The Lesson Menu allows you to access the course introduction, the lessons that make up the course, and the course conclusion..
Taking a Pre-Test
Before you study the lesson content, you should take the lesson's Pre-Test which allows you to assess how much you already know about the subject matter. In the Lesson Menu, click on the Assess What You Know topic, then press the Submit button to see a secondary window containing the Pre-Test. You can take each Pre-Test only once. If you get a low score, don't worry--a low score only means that you'll learn more when you take the lesson!
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Taking a Lesson
After taking the Pre-Test, close the Pre-Test window and return to the window containing the course itself. You can move through the lesson by clicking the Back arrow which takes you to the previous page in the lesson. Clicking the Next arrow takes you to Taking a Course.
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Working With Windows
Some lessons contain buttons that cause the browser to display additional subject matter in a secondary window. Secondary windows sometimes become hidden behind other windows. (This occurs most often with some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer.) If this happens to you, minimize the other windows until you can see the secondary window. Note: if you're using Windows 95, an icon for the secondary window should appear on the Task bar. Click on the icon to bring the secondary window to the top.
When a secondary window appears, you should interact with it — for example, read the subject matter information or enter a Help Desk request. When you are finished with the secondary window, simply press the Close button to close the window and return to the window containing the lesson.
To take the Post-Test click on Show What You've Learned , then press the Submit button to see a secondary window containing the Post-Test. You can take the Post-Test as many times as you want. The system records only your most recent test score for each lesson. If you get a low score, you can review the lesson again, then re-take the test until you receive a score you are happy with.
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After Completing a Course
When you finish taking a course you can go to the Main Lobby of Vital-Online Learning Center and click on the Certificate button to print a Certificate of Completion of the course you have taken.
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