Preparing for your distance learning
You will take full advantage of your online education by ensuring that you have everything you need and by taking specific actions before starting your semester, or at the very least in the first few weeks of the semester.
Course registration
The course registration date will depend on your study program, undergraduate or graduate, and the number of credits already obtained within your program. When the time comes, you will be invited to plan your course selection and to register.
Get to know monPortail
Registration to distance learning courses is done through monPortail. The app includes several features to help you organize your schedule. Upon receiving your invitation, you will be able to proceed with course selection, confirm your registration, or make changes if need be.
Establishing your schedule
When selecting courses, pay attention to the teaching modality of each course to ensure a flexible schedule.
- Browse through the list of courses that you may take in a given semester.
- Identify the courses offered via the teaching modalities that suit you.
- Check the date and time of the course that you intend to take to avoid scheduling conflicts, taking into account course delivery as well as planned supervised exams.
Selecting supervised exam site
Synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid courses may include supervised exams requiring that you be present on site. Should this be the case, you must absolutely select an examsite in you exam records, taking into account deadlines.
When the time comes, you will be reminded through monPortail to do so.
Study environment and material
Check technological requirements of your selected courses
Minimum technological equipment and resources are required to successfully undertake distance learning courses.
Some courses may also have additional technological requirements. For more details, please consult your study program documentation, as well as your course plan, as soon as they become available.
Order your pedagogical material
The list of the pedagogical material required for each course is available on the course website. In some cases, the required material will be available directly on the course website. If not, you are responsible for ordering your material and for bearing the cost. No pedagogical material is sent automatically.
Books used in courses offered by Université Laval can be ordered through the Coop Zone. Upon purchasing, make sure that you have selected the right course semester.
Requesting academic accommodations and activating them
If you have a disability resulting in permanent functional limitation, you may request special accommodations for your courses and exams.
- For an initial request, make an appointment as soon as possible with the Student Assistance Centre, through the Accommodation Section of monPortail. Approval of said accommodations should follow in the next week. You will need to activate these accommodations on monPortail to implement them in a timely manner.
- Should you already benefit from academic accommodations, please activate them in the first two weeks of the course.
Learn about the online course environment
Most distance learning courses have a website, accessible from monPortail.
- Get to know the platform through guides and demos.
- Learn how to navigate course websites and synchronous online classes.
Good habits to develop
Read you emails from @ulaval.ca
Upon your admission, Université Laval generates an electronic email address (@ulaval.ca) with your name. All communications pertaining to your studies will be done through that address. It is the only one used by faculty, the teaching staff, the program division, the Registrar’s Office, the Teaching Support Service , etc. Check your inbox regularly so that you do not miss out on anything.
Regularly visit monPortail
Your control panel on monPortail includes a customized interface for communications fully adapted to your progress. Consult it regularly to read all of your important messages and notifications about, among other things, course registration periods, course selection, and exam sites.