Karatina University E-Learning Guide

By | September 3, 2020
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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:

  1. Username, for example jmurumba
  2. Password (Must be unique) – write it down
  3. Your Email address
  4. First Name
  5. Surname
  6. 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

  1. The Dashboard link – you click on this link to come to the dashboard.
  2. Recently accessed Courses – This will show you the recent courses that you have accessed in the recent times.
  3. Course Overview – this will show all the courses that you have enrolled for.
  4. Timeline – this will show activities and when they are due.
  5. Profile – This is you profile, where you change your password, email address, photo, contacts, etc.
  6. 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

  1. Site home – one has to click on this link to get to the site home.
  2. Course categories – all the course categories arranged in terms of Schools.
  3. Search Course Box – You will use this to search for courses that you want to enrol to.

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