Content

Welcome! This guide is designed to help you confidently access and navigate your unit space in VU Collaborate, so you can stay organised and focused throughout your studies.

On this page:

• Accessing Content
• Navigating the Space
• Download and Printing Materials

Accessing Content

1. Log in to VU Collaborate, and navigatate to your unit space

Heads up! We’re updating the navigation bar in VU Collaborate to make it even easier for you to find what you need.
Here’s a quick look at what’s changing:

2. Access your Learning materials:

• On the current navbar, click Learning Space
  
  
  
• On the new navbar (comming soon!), click Content
  

Navigating the Learning Space

VU Collaborate makes it easy to stay organised and track your progress through your unit materials. Here's what you'll find in the learning space:

• Bookmarks (1): Quickly access topics you've saved for later.
• Course Schedule (2): View important upcoming events, deadlines, and activities to help you stay on track.
• Table of Contents (3): This is your complete list of unit materials. Click on modules (4) and sessions to explore topic pages.
• Progress indicators: Ticks indicate all topics have been viewed, numbers indicate topics still to be viewed, and progress bar (5) gives an overview of your completion status.
• Topic Pages: Click on any topic title, to open and view the content.

Navigate topic pages

There are a number of ways to navigate between topic pages:

• Select links on the breadcrumb menu (1)
• Expand and Collapse the side panel menu (2)
• Bookmark (3) pages, for quick access
• View content in a new window (4)
• Navigate to the previous or next (5) topic page

Downloading and Printing

1. Click Download (1) to download a zipped file of the current module or session.
2. Click Print (2), to print the current page.
3. Click Alternate Formats (3) icon, to select and download a topic

Viewing Downloads

• Navigate to your downloads (1)
• Double click (or extract) zipped file (2)
• To view downloaded content (3)