Online Announcements

Your MTSU online course may have some required meetings for orientations, exams, and/or labs. Find out if your class has any meetings by logging into RaiderNet.  View your "Student Detailed Schedule."

Some professors will not allow students who do not attend orientation sessions to remain in class. If you cannot attend a required orientation, contact your instructor.

Course Access Instructions

Plan to log into your online course(s) on the first day of class. You may not have access to your course(s) prior to that date.

You will access your course through Pipeline using D2L, a course management system..

TO ACCESS YOUR COURSE VIA Pipeline:

• Follow these steps to log in:
  • Log in to Pipeline.
  • Click on My Courses.
  • Click on the link for Desire to Learn (D2L) at bottom of page.

Textbooks

Most courses require a textbook. 

Glossary of Terms

Bookmark—A feature of Netscape which enables you to mark web pages of particular interest to you for future reference and easy access.

Browser—A program that helps users work with the web by displaying documents and making links between computing sites. A graphical web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape can display web documents in hypermedia format; that is, it can be used to view text, images, and video and to listen to audio.

(FTP) File Transfer Protocol—A communication standard which allows you to send and retrieve files over the Internet.

GIF (Graphical Interchange Format)—File names normally have .gif suffix. Can use up to 256 colors. Compresses files without loss of information. Compression is best for images with areas of a single color.

Home Page—The initial entry point into a web document. The home page may also serve as a main menu and contain references to related documents.

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language—HTML is the method an author uses to markup a document so that it can be displayed on the Web.

HTML Editors—Programs that help you develop web pages.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)—Used to transfer hypermedia, such as text and audio or text an images. Compare to FTP above

Java—A programming language designed to create interactive applications on the Web.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)—File names normally have .jpg or .jpeg suffix. Can use many colors. Best for photographic or painted images. You can specify amount of file compression. Some of the information is lost during compression.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)—Specifies where something is on the Internet. It takes this general form: <method://<host computer>/<path name>> This first part specifies the access method used to retrieve the document such as ftp, gopher, telnet, or http. The host computer identifies a machine and the path name specifies a directory and filename. Your URL at MTSU will be http://www.mtsu.edu/~yourpipelineusername.