Preparing to study at ICTE

All official communication goes to your UQ email address. You must set up and use this email address while you are a student.

  ICTE will not send emails to your personal email account.

1. Go to my.uq
2. Click on “Go to my.UQ dashboard”
3. Select Email from the menu
4. Create an email password with Office 365. Scroll to the bottom to Accept the Terms and Conditions. This email password often needs to be different to your UQ Account password.
     This password is very important. Keep a record of it.
     This email password should be different to your UQ Account password
5. Add this email to your devices (phone, tablet, laptop etc) so you can check your emails regularly

Your UQ email address looks like this:
jia.cheng@uqconnect.edu.au or j.cheng@uqconnect.edu.au

For help with the your UQ email, contact ICTE Reception

The ICTE portal gives you easy access to your enrolment and study progress at ICTE.

1. Log in to the portal plus.icte.uq.edu.au/saml and bookmark the address
2. Click the Profile button, and edit to update your address, phone and personal email.
3. Check you enrolment details (Course button) are correct.
     Your class timetable will be available the Friday before your class starts
     Class times are always shown in Brisbane, Australia time

For more information on the ICTE Student Portal, click here.

For help with the ICTE Student Portal, email ICTE Reception

Blackboard is the UQ online learning environment. Students can:

• see announcements
• access course materials,
• communicate with classmates and teachers.

  Your group (class) will become available on Blackboard the Friday before your course starts.

1. Log in to Blackboard learn.uq.edu.au and bookmark the address
2. Find your course
     General English (GE) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students are in ICTE Regular Programs
3. Watch this short video about how to use Blackboard
4. Complete the Orientation Modules section first (on the left menu).

For help with Blackboard, email ICTE Reception                         

When you have access to Blackboard, please do the Orientation Training

This training will prepare you for a successful study experience at ICTE.

1. In the Main Menu, click on Orientation
2. Follow the instructions

For help with the Orientation Training, email ICTE Reception

Online classes are held in Zoom.

If you are studying online you need to

• Sign in to your UQ Zoom account
• Learn how to use Zoom

Sign in to Zoom

Watch the video: Sign in to Zoom using your UQ account

1. Go to zoom.us/signin
2. Sign in with SSO
   
3. The company name for University of Queensland is uqz
   
4. Sign in with your UQ Username and Password

For help with Zoom, email ICTE Reception

For help with Zoom, email ICTE Reception or request support from UQ ITS department: https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/information-technology/student-it-support (click the Submit student IT request).

ICTE will provide you with a textbook in the first week of your course.

• For students studying in Brisbane: you will be provided with a physical textbook during the first week of your course. The textbook will often contain a code which can also be used to access an online learning environment.
• For students studying online: you will be sent an e-textbook activation code and an online learning activation code to your UQ Email during the first week of your course. Instructions will be included on the email and Blackboard advising how to activate your textbook.

ICTE uses two different textbook companies. The textbook provided to you will depend on your course, level and time of the year.

For General English and English for Academic Purposes Students: Pearson

Follow the instructions below to activate your textbook:

• Watch the To Activate your textbook watch me first! video located on Blackboard under Textbook in the left menu
• Go to: https://english-dashboard.pearson.com/register to create a Pearson account
• Watch the To activate your textbook watch me second! video in Blackboard to learn how to activate your textbook.

After activating your first code, click the blue Add A Product button and enter your second activation code to get access to MEL online learning.

Create Pearson Account

Important! If you are using an Apple MAC device, you will need to install Flash Player software in order for the textbook to work correctly.

Please do not forward or circulate the email with your activation code as it is only available to you.

After you have activated your Pearson account and textbook, you can access the book through the below website.

MEL Textbook and Online Learning

For Bridging English 30, 25, 20 & 15 Students: Cambridge

Important! We recommend you use Google Chrome with Cambridge to ensure all activities and homework display and are captured correctly. You may also need to use VPN for all activities to operate correctly.

How to activate your codes:

1. Go to cambridgelms.org/main (or click on the button below) 
2. Register if you are a new user
3. Go to My Learning and click Activate a new product
4. Enter your code (you can only enter one code at a time)
5. Join a class by entering your class code - these codes are on Blackboard in the main menu under 'LMS' 
6. Start your online learning workbooks

NOTE: Please ensure you register the correct book with the correct class code and activation code

Cambridge LMS

For Bridging English 10 Students: UQLearningBase

In order to be successful in your Bridging English course, you are expected to spend several hours a week completing self-study exercises in addition to your classwork. For BE10, we provide you access to ICTE-created study materials via UQLearningBase. Each week, there are language extension activities for your reading and listening, and academic and digital literacy modules to help you prepare for study at UQ. There are no review tests on Blackboard in BE10, so you are expected to complete activities on UQLearningBase.  

This video will show you how to register for UQLearningBase so that you can complete these activities weekly: https://www.loom.com/share/30d9ede48fd345058c8453302210a1b7

A code will be emailed to your UQ Email address. This code can only be used once and must be entered exactly. You should also provide your UQ Email address as part of the registration. Do not use a personal email.

Important! for this website to work correctly with all activities and to show your progress, you need to use Google Chrome. You may also need to use VPN for all activities to operate correctly.

Create Learningbase Account

Please do not forward or circulate your emailed activation code as it is only available to you.

Your digital textbook link and class codes will be posted to Blackboard. Please refer to this notification to find your relevant codes.