eClass General Introduction
The eClass Learning Management System (LMS) is an indispensible tool for organizing and delivering online course content. Read on to learn about the system features and rationale behind their use.

Why Use eClass?

eClass can help you:

Organize and distribute course materials:
- organize course content, readings, schedules, etc. at a central location
- update materials quickly and easily
- link to existing course resources on the Web
- make all resources accessible anywhere, anytime.

Facilitate communication with your students:
- respond to frequently-asked questions
- disseminate information to all students quickly and easily
- hold virtual office hours using real-time chat
- send and receive private mail messages

Facilitate communication among your students:
- provide areas for small-group or all-class discussions
- allow for participation anywhere, anytime
- encourage reflection and critical thinking
- enable students to interview experts on campus or abroad
- offer a non-threatening environment to all students

Administer your Course:
- test and grade students online
- post individual grades and assessment statements securely
- manage student records online
- obtain feedback from students

You can learn more about eClass by mousing over the interactive image below:

Support News

Brief eClass Maintenance Outage on Thursday May 17th 2012

Dear eClass users, We would like to inform you that the eClass (Moodle and Blackboard Vista) systems will be offline for about 10 minutes at 5:00 AM on Thursday, May 17th 2012. We will be using this brief outage to fix an urgent issue. If you have any questions, please contact ctl@ualberta.ca. Thank you for your patience. Regards, CTL Technology [...] Added: May 16, 2012

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RESOLVED: Latest Safari Update Has problems with eClass Login

The latest update of Safari, version 5.1.4 released on March 12, 2012 causes some users to experience login issues when accessing eClass. The browser will get stuck in an infinite loop where it switches back and forth between the portal page and the weblogin page. UPDATE: CTL Tech services team implemented a fix on our portal [...] Added: May 15, 2012

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UPDATED: eClass Moodle Problems for PDFs with Adobe Reader Update for Mac/Firefox

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Reader (version 10.1.3) causes problems for some eClass Moodle users when viewing PDFs within courses. This issue only affects users on Mac computers who are using the latest version of Firefox (11). When version 10.1.3 of Adobe Reader gets installed, users can no longer view eClass PDF files using [...] Added: April 13, 2012

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