Quick Steps for Accessing and Using Online Learning

Need further assistance after completing the steps below contact:  onlinelearninghelp@nyscseapartnership.org

1. Connect to the Internet and in your web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer) Address bar, type the following: www.nyscseapartnership.org/onlinelearning
and click Go.

You are now at the Partnership’s Online Learning Home Page.

2. Locate Returning User area, as shown above. Type your User Name and Password, then click on Login.

3. Locate Course Selection, as shown above.

4. Click on Add New SkillSoft Course to My Plan. This will bring you to the SkillPort home page where you will add course(s) to My Plan and then play your course(s).

Tip: If your system won’t load SkillPort, please contact SkillSoft at support@skillsoft.com or call 1 866 754 5435.

You are now at the SkillPort home page.

5. Locate SEARCH-and-LEARN as shown below.

6. Type a keyword of a course you are looking for (e.g., image, word, grammar) in the Search for box, then click on Search.

7. Locate Courses area, as shown above. You will see a listing of courses found with the keyword you had typed.

8. Click on the Course Name that you wish to take (e.g., Improving Your Image), as shown above.

9. Click Add this Course to My Plan, see below:

10. Locate Select Folder, as shown below. Click on Add this item to the main MyPlan folder.

11. Locate Add To My Plan  Fill in the information next to Goal, Due Date, and Reminder if you wish. Click Submit

12. Locate Add To My Plan, as shown below. Click on Click here to go to My Plan see below:

13. Locate My Plan. You will see Learning Event (Courses) and your course should now appear (e.g., Improving Your Image).

14. Click GO to access the course (this may take a few minutes to access).  You are now ready to take your SkillSoft course. Note: Do not click on course name. If you do, use the browser’s Back button that appears on your left corner.

You are now at the SkillSoft Course Menu screen.

Tip:  You can click on Take Course Pre-Test to see what you already know and then you will only have to take topics that you don’t know.

15. Click on the topic you are interested in taking. Once you have chosen your topic (e.g., Course Overview interest: Best WaysTo Make a Good Impression – Topic: Empathy in the Workplace) you will see a screen similar to the one below.  Notice on the bottom right of the screen a navigation bar that allows you to move forward and backward through your course.  There is also a button on the navigation bar that allows you to access the Course Menu, which will take you back to change topics and take tests. 

Tip:  You can stop a course and come back to the same place that you left off (this is referred to as a course).  When you come back to finish a course you will see a button that says BookMark.  By choosing this button it will allow you to pickup from where you left off in the course.

16. Point and click on the arrow buttons to navigate through the course.  When you have finished some of the course, click Exit.  A popup message will appear. Click on Yes if you are ready to end the course.

17. From SkillPort click Log Out which appears at the very top of the screen – above SEARCH-and-LEARN.

Tip: Sometimes you may see the Online Learning Home Page when you choose Log Out from SkillPort.  If this happens, click on the close button that appears in the right corner of your Internet browser window.

18. At the Online Learning Center page, click Refresh  which appears to the right of Course Selection to see the courses you have previously added to My Plan.

Tip: You will now be able to load the course from the Online Learning Center page and pick up where you left off in the course.
 

Click LogOut from the Online Learning Center if you have finished with Online Learning for the day.