Getting Started
In this tutorial you will find many ways to navigate the Repository. Follow these basic steps to find and use learning objects, or for more detailed information visit the Help page (contains FAQ and Glossary).
Choose a topic from the list below:
How to Read Metadata (item descriptions)
Download, View, & Add Items to My Folder
1. Click "Register" in the top right corner of the site to get started.
2. Follow the steps on your screen to complete registration.
3. Next to your username, access your personal folder, profile, or sign out.
Browse by Discipline from the Home Page
On the home page, start by choosing a discipline (for example, Language) and then a sub-discipline (for example, English). This will take you to the Disciplines & Courses page where you can then choose from all available browsing options.
Disciplines & Courses Page
This page is a hierarchical list of Disciplines, Sub-disciplines, Courses, and Collections. There are two ways to access this page: choose a discipline from the discipline images on the home page (History or Language), or click "Disciplines & Courses" from the left sidebar menu.
To expand the list, click the arrows next to the titles, or the green “Expand All” button to see the entire list.
To view learning objects, click any title in the list to go directly to an alphabetized list of results. Once there, you can search within or browse the learning objects.
Click any question mark 
to see how a course is organized. You will then see an image like the one on the right that shows the course's collection. Unit, Lesson, Topic, Asset, and Other are referred to as course levels. Different courses will contain a different number of course levels, but all will follow this structure. Read more about course levels in the Glossary.
Basic Search
Search the entire Repository by entering text into the main search box located in the near top right of every page. Once within a discipline or course, you can limit your search by using the search box on that page, or go back to searching the entire Repository by using the main search box.
Advanced Search
Use Advanced Search to narrow your results. Search specific fields in either the entire Repository or a selected discipline by using the Advanced Search feature, and combine these searches with “and”, “or”, or “not”. You can also use truncation and wildcards and sort the search results in several ways.
Sidebar
Use the sidebar to browse the entire Repository by Disciplines & Collections, Titles, Subjects, Authors, Media Formats, and Date Created, or browse the content of a particular discipline/course by all of these functions except for Disciplines & Collections.
Sorting options
When browsing, you have the option to sort by alphabet, course level, date created, title, author's affiliation, and course name; as well as ascending and descending order.
How to Read Metadata (item descriptions)
Read the descriptions, or metadata, of a learning object to find something relevant to your search. To see more information on an item, click the plus sign 
on the top right of any item to expand it. This will display the rest of the metadata. You can also use this plus sign feature to compare items by expanding multiple items on a single page.
Below is an example of an expanded item.
Click any question mark to see how the course's item is organized. You will then see an image like the one below that shows the course's collection. Unit, Lesson, Topic, Asset, and Other are referred to as course levels. Different courses will contain a different number of course levels, but all will follow this structure. Read more about course levels in the Glossary.
Download, View, & Add Items to My Folder
Download an Item
1. Click download. You will be prompted to confirm the download. Click Yes to continue.
2. Next, your browser will automatically ask if you would like to open or save the item. Choose save.
3. You should now extract the zip files to a folder. For more information on how to extract zip files, go to the Help page and read "How to Extract Zip Files."
View an Item
Decide if the item is what you were looking for by viewing it online.
Add an Item to My Folder
Just click Add to Folder to save the item to your online folder, located next to your user name in the top right of the site.
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