Welcome to Cognella Active Learning!

In this course you will find a few tips for navigating the Cognella Active Learning environment. FAQs are available via the Help icon in your menu, so we'll keep this short and sweet. Here's what you need to know:

1. Cognella Active Learning is powered by Canvas.

This offers instructors and students the full functionality of a learning management system, including communication, collaboration, assignments, calendar, and more.

The user guide for Canvas is available online at any time to answer your questions about course navigation, posting in discussions, and more.

2. Adjust your personal settings

It's important to adjust your name, email address, and time zone before getting started in the course. So your instructor can transfer grades accurately to your home system, you should use the name and institution email address that is used in your university registration system.

It is very important that you update your time zone to match the location where you will be completing assigned activities. When you log into the course, the system will show the deadlines for assignments according to the time zone you have set, not the time zone for your device. A quick example:

Let's say your instructor says a quiz is due at 8:00pm CT. However, in your settings, you have selected Eastern Time. The course will do the adjustment for you and show your deadline as 9:00pm ET. Unfortunately, you are actually taking the course in Central Time, and miss the "ET" label on the deadline. You submit the quiz at 8:30pm, which is after the cutoff.

It's important to adjust your time zone so you see the deadline according to the correct time zone where you are completing the assignment(s).

3. Navigate the course via Modules

Your course content will be organized in the Modules section. You can go to Modules at any time to navigate, or use the "Back" and "Next" buttons to move through the course content.

Bonus tip: Items with a button to launch a view in full-screen mode are ideally accessed in this manner for optimal experience.

Active Learning Orientation