On using this website
We want to build this page into a useful and wide ranging help for all users of this website. Please let us know if there's something you would like us to include in these pages, and we'll do our best to provide them. For all comments and suggestions please contact the webmaster.
Passwords
To access online course material in the UC Learning Management System (LMS) when off-campus you will be required to enter a password. Your Geography Department online coursework password may differ from your university-wide password - please ask your course supervisor or lab supervisor what you should enter if you are having problems.
The same username and password will get you into the LMS. However, if you are logging into the LMS from off campus you will need to enter a further username and password in order to access online coursework within the LMS. The username and password are needed are given on the home page of each LMS course.
About this Web Site
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About PDF Files
Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files are particularly useful for publishing existing documentation via the internet while retaining the original layout and graphics, all in a single compressed platform-independent file format. To read PDF files you require Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Acrobat Reader then you can download it for free from the Adobe web site by clicking on the button below. Once installed you should be able to read PDF files in your browser or download them onto your computer.
Printing problems: If you get errors when printing
out pdf files, try printing only a few pages at a time. PDF files are
compressed for fast viewing and dissemination over the web, but when
printing out the files "uncompress" themselves and may swamp
printers with low amounts of memory, even though the file itself is
a small size.