Overview
The guide provides guidance on how to support your students when using Journal.
Important: If you are interested in requesting a Journal and how it may benefit your module, view the Introducing Journal Guide.
Contents
- Video
- How do my students access their Journal?
- Using Journal: short video courses
- Additional support guides
- How do my students access Journal support?
- Further support
Video
This video gives an overview of Journal and how students can engage with it.
How do my students access their journal?
Journals can be accessed by following these steps:
- Go to http://journal.falmouth.ac.uk.
- Press Login and then press use University ID
- Enter student email and password
- Click on 'Log in' button.
Using Journal: short course videos
The Digital Learning team has created an adaptive short course of videos to support the use of Journal. These videos will be included by default on a 'Using this Site' page on most Journals with the following text:
"These videos form a 15 minute short course teaching you the basic skills you’ll need to use Journal. We recommend watching them all through once at the beginning of your module/course, and then referring back to them when you want to complete specific tasks."
The videos are hosted on Panopto, Falmouth University's video hosting platform.
Introduction to Journal (0:57)
Logging in and navigating Journal (2:06)
Using the text and content editor (4:13)
Embedding external content (1:57)
Course specific videos
Some additional course-specific videos may be created on request by the Digital Learning Team, but these will be purely technical videos as the responsibility for teaching with Journal, and how students are expected to use it, lies with the module lead.
Additional support guides
Following feedback from students, we have created a number of additional support guides to accompany the Journal Short Course videos.
Scrapbooking
An additional Scrapbooking with Journal video can be embedded into Journals which include a "Scrapbook" page, or where a scrapbooking approach is intended with the Journal.
Images
A thorough guide to Adding and Using images in Journal discusses different ways to place images in Journal, including good use of galleries, wrapping text around images, and a discussion of the media library.
Technical guidance on Image compression and optimisation in Journal highlights the specific ways that Journal uses images, and discusses optimising images prior to uploading and sensible dimensions for images.
Accessibility
Accessibility Tricks and Tips in Journal introduces some useful tools for improving digital accessibility with Journal, and directs students to contact the FXPlus Accessibility and Inclusion Team for more general web-accessibility guidance.
Journal on Mobile
For specific tasks, Journal has excellent mobile capabilities. Using Journal on Mobile discusses the benefits and limits of using Journal on mobile, and demonstrates how to create a desktop link on a mobile device for quick access.
How do my students access Journal support?
The support videos on the 'Using this site' page as mentioned above, outline the main actions students will be expected to learn to use Journal. The videos can also be added to Learning Space if desired.
Link: View the How To Add Images, Audio, Videos & Links for guidance on adding video links.
Digital Learning are not student facing, therefore unable to offer further support to students on how to use Journal as Academic staff are expected to do this. Software Training however run 1-to-1 sessions for student help with projects that includes WordPress.
Link: View full details at Software Training for Students.
For any queries beyond the knowledge of academic staff, the Digital Learning team can be consulted via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk
Further Support
For general queries about the Journal, students should first contact their module leader or personal tutor. For any other comments or issues within this guide, please contact the Digital Learning Team via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, please refer to the numerous help guides found on our Knowledge Base.
View the Accessibility Statement for all of our support guides.