2021 week 38 notes. 

So, I'm registered to study Y032 People, work and society Access module. Week 1 of the course starts on Saturday 2 October 2021. Before that, the module's webpage shows a 'week 0' in which I have to look at: 

• Start here (304.9KB PDF document) 

• Y032 Accessibility Guide (108.1KB PDF document) 

• Module map (317KB image) 

• Y032 Stop Press 21J (256.1KB PDF document) 

• Study Planner 21J (147.4KB PDF document) 

• Y032 Assessment guide (271.8KB PDF document) 

How to learn online (webpage on how to find my way around OU websites and on how to communicate with other students online)

I suspect most of this is electronic versions of the stuff I've been physically mailed. Here's the picture of the stuff I've been sent:

After checking, the only 'new stuff' I hadn't seen before was: 

• Y032 Accessibility Guide (108.1KB PDF document) 

• Module map (317KB image). 

• How to learn online (webpage). 

Along with all the above I also 8 emails to read and digest. I started to suffer from 'information overload' yesterday which got worse this morning. 

Fortunately the 'How to learn online (webpage)' started to make me feel better. It 'chunks up' the things I need to know into small, manageable pieces. Much of it was duplicated from other, disparate places I've already been asked to look at, but I can quickly skip over those. 

This was all going well until I got to a section called 'Using the OU Anywhere app'. This app doesn't exist. A quick search revealed it has been replaced by the 'OU Study app'. I'd already installed this via another link I saw somewhere. 

So, week 0 is done and everything is ticked on the module webpage:

I've also signed up for the 'Welcome to FASS' event shown on the right of the screen in the 'News' section. FASS stands for Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 

Guess I better go back to the remain emails now and slog thru them. Positive mental attitude, FTW!