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Before you begin going through the course please do these **six** things:

1) Read through the page [|Becoming a Successful Online Learner] ,

2) Make sure that you have the required software installed on your computer: click on this [|link].

3) If you haven't already, **Create a Google account**: To see a step-by-step screencast video (Jing) that works you through setting up your Google account (gmail, iGoogle, Google Docs, etc): click on this [|link].

4) **Take the** Pre-Course Survey (Note: you need a gmail acct).

5) Click on the **Assignments** tab ( on the left frame of this page ) and familiarize yourself with the various assignment in the course.

6) Goto the Course Links (on the left frame of this page) and click on schedule, syllabus, etc and read through them and all the other pages linked from them.