Recommended Practices to ensure a smooth start on the first day of
class
Recommended Practices for Cisco Learning Partners
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Prior to the class start date, ask the student to do
the following:
- Review the Cisco
Learning Network Space – User Information
- Create a Cisco ID, if they don’t already have one. The
above page includes instructions on how to do this.
- Check that their Cisco ID works, as follows:
- Log in to: https://learningspace.cisco.com/
- If logging in to https://learningspace.cisco.com/
for the first time, click ‘I Agree’ on the
‘Terms of Use’ page.
- Download one of the free content and open it in
the online reader.
- Play around and get familiar with the online
reader. Useful features include:
- Bookmarks
- Highlights and Highlight Notes
- Page Notes
- Settings (font sizes, highlight colors,
etc)
- Redeem the Access Code for their course
materials. Instructions are included in:
- If the student cannot find the email containing
their Access Code, ask the student to look in
their Spam / Junk folder for an email as
follows:
- (Optional) Install one of the Cisco eReader apps
to download the content and allow offline study.
The Cisco eReader apps are listed in the Cisco
Learning Network Space – User
Information page.
- Annotations made in a Cisco eReader app
will be saved locally when offline. To
sync with the online eReader and save
annotations to the server, turn the
device online.
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Prior to the class start date, ask the instructor to
do the following:
- Perform the list of actions under the above bullet
point: “Prior to the class start date, ask the
student to do the following“
- At the beginning of the class, review the above list of
actions with the students.
- Also review the following information with the students:
- In Windows, the Alt-Tab key combination allows
jumping between various applications such as the
online eReader, Lab portal and training session
(e.g. WebEx).
- The 8-hour timeout period will be reset as soon
as an action takes place in the online eReader,
e.g., if the student navigates to another page
at 7 hours 59 minutes, the session will remain
active for the next 8 hours.