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Information About These Student Pages

 When you first log on to your study area, your personal Course List page is displayed in this window. an amber blinking light indicates the course you are currently working on. The navigation buttons at the left on this page and also on the individual course pages allow you to access the lessons, reading assignments, announcements, and reference links to other educational material that you may find helpful and interesting. The following are a few notes about the navigation buttons at the left.
 

Log Out

The Log Out button will take you back to the TSM Academy Login page. Once you are logged out it will be necessary to log in with your Student ID and Password in order to return to your study pages. Please note that you may exit these pages without using the Log Out button. Whenever you exit, either by closing your browser or logging out to another web address, you are automatically logged out of your personal study pages. The Back button of your browser in most cases will not allow you to re-enter your study pages, once you have logged out.
 

Course List

The Course List button returns you to the opening page that is displayed when you first logged in. This button is also displayed in in all of the course pages. 
 

Instructions

This is the page you are now reading!
 

Announcements

Any announcements pertaining to problems, additions, or administrative issues involving this Web Site or TSM Academy policies are posted in this area. A blinking green light on the Announcements button  indicates that new information has been posted within the past week.
 

Entering the Courses

The course you are currently registered for is indicated by   a blinking yellow light to the left of the course title. To enter the lesson pages, click on the course title. When you have completed the course and move on to another course, the completed course will remain open to you for your reference. As long as you are an active student, these pages will remain open to you.
 

Lessons

This button will return you to your opening lesson page which is where you are when you first enter a course title.. The opening lesson page is a syllabus of the lessons and also tracks your progress through this course.  As you turn in assignments your instructor will activate the next lesson and post your grade for your previous work. Each lesson contains reading assignments with links to the texts. The body of the lesson page contains the instructor's discussion of the texts. Below the lesson discussion you will find an assignment with instructions for completing and submitting your work to your instructor. At the bottom of the lesson page are links to the reading assignments for the next lesson. This is made available to you so that you can continue your  reading without interruption while you are waiting for your instructor's response to your submitted lesson assignment.

Print Button

A button is provided in the upper right of the lesson pages and text book pages that will allow printing of the texts to the student's local printer. Clicking on this button will download the text to the local printer, provided that printing device is connected and operating properly. Textbook readings may be as much as 10 pages and lessons are from 3 to 4 pages long.

Library

This library is accessible to the public from the TSM Academy Home Page, but is made available to you from within your course pages. The books here are released for public use by permission of the publisher. There are other textbooks that are required reading for the courses. These are not available to the general public and are accessible only to registered students. Copyright restrictions prohibit public distribution of these books. Links to these texts are provided within the lesson pages. 
 

References

Reference links to educational web sites will pop up in a separate browser so that you will remain logged in on your study pages. We are continually searching for useful web sites for this area. Many of the sites have been suggested by students. We invite you to participate! If you know of sites that are not here but you think would be appropriate please.

We are still working on improving the reference area. You may come across broken links. It is also possible to navigate within this window back to the home page of TSM Academy. If this happens you can back out of this loop by clicking one of the other buttons at the left, such as the Lessons button.
 

Send Email

When you click on this button the standard email application for your computer system will open in its own window. You can send your answers to lesson assignments or ask questions and send them directly to TSM Academy. When you send email to the address provided in the lesson pages you will receive an email confirmation from TSM Academy, which lets you know that your lesson assignment has been successfully received in the TSM Academy mail box.  This response usually takes only a few minutes. Do not try to  respond to this confirmation email as it is an auto-responder. On each lesson page where the assignment questions are located there is also a link that will open your email application with the "To" and "Subject" lines already filled in.

There are a number of ways to send your work. You can attach it to your email using Word or Notepad, you can use a copy and paste method (Highlight your text in Word or Notepad and copy it to the clipboard, then open your email window and 'paste' it in.). You can also mail it in via postal mail to: TSM Academy, 4057 Crescent Dr. Suite 102. Wheatfield, NY 14120. If you need further instructions on cutting and pasting your work, send an email message via the contact form: Click here.
 

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Last updated: May 13, 2010