Interested in adding your photographs to the Virtual Learning Commons? You can through Flickr, the website that allows you to upload and share your photographs.

How do you add your photographs? Go to flickr.com and create a free Yahoo account (if you don’t already have one). You can then upload your photographs to your personal flickr space. Next, you have to join the umanitoba flickr group. You can do this by going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/umanitoba or by clicking on the groups link at the top of your flickr page. Once you are in the umanitoba flickr group you can add any of your UM photos to the group. That’s it.

More detailed information on using Flickr is available on their website.

The Virtual Learning Commons is a place to make connections and meet your fellow students. It's also a great place to find out how to be a successful student - how to do research, write A+ papers, hone your study skills and effectively manage your time so that you can get everything you need to do, done.

Every page of the Virtual Learning Commons has the menu along the left hand side that you can use in a traditional web way to go to the various areas of the site.

What may be different to you, is the list of discussions that are in the centre of the home page. This list of discussions are generated by the Virtual Learning Commons based on discussion topics that you pick. You can check out existing discussions by clicking on one. You can also track that discussion by adding it a personal list of discussions and see who else at the University is tracking that discussion. You can also add your own comments on any discussions.