Please note that The Australian Logistics Academy will be closed over the Christmas and New Year Period.

Our dates of closure are from Monday 22nd December, 2008 to Friday 9th January, 2009.

We will be returning to normal operatin hours on Monday 12th January, 2009.

Please note that this may affect some assessment periods, which will commence upon our resumption of  normal operating hours. Apologies for any inconvenience.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a joyous, healthy and happy 2009!

Online Students

Online assessment emails are sent out during the first day of the assessment period and you have two weeks to log on and complete the assessment tasks.

Tasks may or may not be time, so be prepared to put aside some continual time for the task. This information will be provided in the email sent to you.

If you have not received an email by day 2 of the assessment period, please send an email to info@aust-logistics.com, including your name, student number, and the subject, and we have a response to you within 6 working hours.

Online Students

All materials and resources that come with the products purchased at The Australian Logistics Academy are all electronic based documents on the Learning Management System. There are no paper based documents with these purchases. After purchase you will receive an email confirming your payment.

Our trimester commencement dates are scheduled, and in the week up to the commencement date of your course, you will receive a username and password via email. On the commencement date you will either receive an enrolment key, or be able to log on and access your modules immediately, where you can commence doing the reading and training exercises, and move through the units associated with your course through the Learning Management System.

The documents are created in a format that you can download to your computer and read, therefore not requiring you to be logged on to the internet all the time. To ensure that you are prepared for online distance education, please refer to our page on Studying Online.

Additional information and daily quiz questions are made available to students through the use of Google Groups.

This allows:

• Quiz questions to be sent daily
• Emails to be sent to everyone using a single email address (eg. yourclass@googlegroups.com)
• Discussion of concepts and questions to occur with input from lecturers and staff

Registration to the Google Groups requires two things to happen:

1. If you don’t have one already, you need to create a Google Account.
   This is not an email address (unless you want a new one), and is explained on the Google Help pages at the following link:
   http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=27441
2. The you need to subscribe to the Group.
   You can do this one of two ways -

• via the web (Go to The Learning Room, go into your subject and complete the Google Groups process there), or
• via email (visit the Google Groups help section)

Please note that all Google Groups are moderated – your memberships are approved manually to avoid spammers gaining access to the Group. Please allow 1-2 working days for this to be approved (however it usually occurs the same day, unless you request access over the weekend).

Modules are assessed through timed online activities, contribution to online discussion (through email and online discussion) and assignments.

The ratio of assessment activities varies from subject to subject.

You will be given a Learning Room subject enrolment key from either your lecturer, the ALA directly, or in the case of foreign students who study through a training partner, you may receive it from them.

To enrol in a class: read more »

UPDATED! Yes, we now support files in this format, however the formatting that you specify may not be the same.

You may still wish to convert your files to xls files.

If you are not sure how to do this, please refer to the instructions below.

1. Click on the Office icon on the top left hand corner of your screen
2. Click on ‘Save As’
3. Click on Excel 97-2003 Workbook
4. Enter in your file name

Please see the image below to illustrate points 1, 2 & 3:

You can view your results after you log in to The Learning Room.

In the Main Menu, immediately under ‘Site News’ is a link to your transcript (see yellow arrow in screen shot below).

• The website address is http://www.learning-room.info
• To access Learning Room, student require a Username and Password.
• Your Username is the Student Number provided by the ALA.
• Your password is emailed to your registered email address
  If you have not received it, please check spam folders in your e-mail account before contacting ALA.
• To resend your password to your email account, go to the Request Learning Room Password page.
  You will receive an email that looks like the one below. Please check at the foot of the email for your username and password.
• If you have not received a password, please contact info@aust-logistics.com and include the following:
  - Student number
  - Date of birth
  - Full name
  - Email address

Sample registration email:

Students can now self update their email address from within the Learning Room.

This will update your email address with The Australian Logistics Academy.

Follow the instructions below.

1. Log in to The Learning Room
2. Click on your name (it appears in at the top right of the page, or scroll to the bottom and it appears at the very end of the page)
3. Click on ‘Edit Profile’
4. Change your email address, add your country and any other information as required.
5. Scroll to the bottom and click on ‘Update Profile’