URL & Signing Up
❑ To Access the Karatina University Virtual Learning Environment go on the website and click on E-Learning or use the link – http://e-learning.karu.ac.ke/lms/
❑ But before you log in, you have to first sign up by using the following link:
❑ http://e-learning.karu.ac.ke/lms/login/signup.php?
You will need to fill in 6 data points as follows:
- Username, for example jmurumba
- Password (Must be unique) – write it down
- Your Email address
- First Name
- Surname
- Student Registration Number (In Capital Letters – B001/0001G/20)
Confirm all the details before moving to the next step (Create my new account)
Final Step in Signing Up
❑ After you have confirmed all your details,
❑ Click on Create My New Account button then wait for your account to be activated. (About 2hrs during working days/hours)
❑ After your account has been activated use the link http://elearning.karu.ac.ke/lms/login/index.php to sign up
❑ If you have any queries on signing in kindly email odel@karu.ac.ke
ODeL Signing in and User Interface
Signing in
❑ After you have signed up, you now need to sign in using the following
URL: http://e-learning.karu.ac.ke/lms/login/index.php
❑ When you click or open the above link the window below will appear.
Fill in the two data points highlighted
► Your Username
► Your Password
► Log in
After login in, the Dashboard window will appear below.
Dashboard, Site home, Calendar, Searching for Course, Enrolling Course & Messaging
The dashboard has 6 sections as labelled below
- The Dashboard link – you click on this link to come to the dashboard.
- Recently accessed Courses – This will show you the recent courses that you have accessed in the recent times.
- Course Overview – this will show all the courses that you have enrolled for.
- Timeline – this will show activities and when they are due.
- Profile – This is you profile, where you change your password, email address, photo, contacts, etc.
- Messaging – this is where you can send messages to your lecturers and your fellow students. Open the messenger & search by name then click on the name that you want to send the message to.
Site Home – The Site home has 3 sections as highlighted
Site home
- Site home – one has to click on this link to get to the site home.
- Course categories – all the course categories arranged in terms of Schools.
- Search Course Box – You will use this to search for courses that you want to enrol to.