In this post, you will find information on how to access and use the online version of Horizons, including your e-book and the online exercises. Your e-book and the online exercises for Horizons, along with some other supplementary materials, are at an external website (not on the UBC system): at the iLrn Heinle Learning Centre, at http://hlc.quia.com/books

• If you did not take FREN 101 at UBC and are new to Horizons:
  read the rest of this post and the attached guides

• If you took FREN 101 here last term or last summer (2017):
  1. go to http://hlc.quia.com/books
  2. log in as you did last term, with your book key / access code
  3. drop / unregister from the UBC FREN 101 class you took before
  4. register in our course, using the following information:
  course = FREN 102: summer 2018
  course code = XRPBEP887
  

• If you took FREN 101 at UBC before last term, please check the expiry date on your online access.
• If you took FREN 101 at UBC more than a year ago and your online access has expired, please contact the course co-ordinator who can liaise with the publishers for you.
• If you took FREN 101 at UBC in 2013-14 with the previous (5th) edition, please contact the course coordinator for further instructions.

QUICK LINKS:

• your e-book and the online exercises for Horizons, along with some other supplementary materials, are at an external website (not on the UBC system): at the iLrn Heinle Learning Centre, at http://hlc.quia.com/books

• your course = FREN 102: summer 2018
  your course code = XRPBEP887

• UBC Horizons iLrn Day One guide (PDF)
• iLrn guide 1: introduction:
  how to use your book key to set up an account and access your online exercise assignments, e-book,etc.
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded
• iLrn guide 2: the online exercises:
  where to find them, which ones to do, why, how they are graded, when to do them (and when to stop), how often, suggested sequence and pace (a guide for both 101 and 102)
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded
• iLrn guide 3: extra practice: going beyond the regular set exercices, how to use iLrn for extra practice and revision (a guide for both 101 and 102)
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded

Online exercises are available from the start of term and stay open all term—right up to the final exam—and you have multiple attempts for each exercise.

IF YOU HAVEN’T TAKEN UBC’S FREN 101 AND THIS IS ALL NEW:
WHAT TO DO – HOW TO REGISTER AT iLrn

VISUAL GUIDE: READ THIS FIRST AND KEEP IT OPEN WHILE REGISTERING AT ILRN:

• Course materials: introduction to iLrn: how to use your book key to set up an account and access your online exercise assignments, e-book, and other iLrn resources (self-testing, flashcards, etc.)
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded

THE VERBAL VERSION

1. Please go to http://hlc.quia.com/books

2. Using your 16- to 19-character “book key” online code (provided with your textbook, if you bought it at the UBC Bookstore), set up your account with a username and password.

3. Once you enter your book key, you will have the option to enter a course code that will register you for your class and allow you to submit your assignments to your instructor.
Our course = FREN 102: summer 2018
Our course code= XRPBEP887

4. Next, add yourself to the appropriate “class”: this is the section you’re in. For example, FREN 102-921 is “Section 921.”

5. You will see your “workstation,” where you will be able to access the online exercises that have been set for you.

6. To work on your online exercises throughout the term, and to consult your e-textbook, annotate it, etc.: go to http://hlc.quia.com/books

PLEASE NOTE: in accordance with BC privacy law (FIPPA):

• in the “required information” sections (= items with *) you DO NOT have to disclose and use your full name, or indeed your real name and email address.
  Refer to Course materials: introduction to iLrn
  for further details on what to do here.
• in the other (= no *) sections, you DO NOT have to fill out your full (real, true) address and telephone number
• But: in the drop-down menus for “country,” “province,” and “time zone” please select “Canada,” “BC,” and any of the time-zones that are Pacific Coast/GMT-8. That last item helps, to ensure we’re all in the same time-zone: otherwise you might find that you’ve missed a deadline for an online exercise!
  An example follows below, of how the FREN 102 coordinator filled out her profile (her password, by the way, is not “change”…):

ONLINE EXERCISES

These exercises are worth 5% of your final grade. There are two sort of exercise:
(1) practice exercises (from the electronic Student Activity Manual (SAM), prefix S- ) = 4.5%
(2) tutorial quizzes (prefix T-) = 0.5%

• “Assigned” exercises are those that are marked (on your final attempt), and that mark will go towards your total mark for the online exercises.
• Your online exercise mark will only be calculated at the very end of term (after the final exam).
• Half the exercises are set with a due date of the end of the teaching term; the others are due on the date of the final exam; the date currently set is that of the end of the exam period, and that date will change once the final exam date is published.
  There may be some variation from section to section and instructor to instructor; this will be clear when you look at your iLrn Workstation.
• Practice exercises can be repeated several times over the course of the term.
  The exercises that have been set accompany and reinforce the work we’re doing in class.
  You can also use them for practice and revision for tests and the final exam.
• It is recommended that you do some exercises (not necessarily all of them!) a first time after you have covered the material concerned in class: ideally, later that day.
• You may find it useful to run through the week’s material more roughly and rapidly at the end of the week, and/or the start of the next week (ex. Friday and then Sunday before a next class on Monday (or Monday before Tuesday’s class, etc.)).
• You may find it helpful to do some exercises, and/or to redo others, for revision before a test on that chapter. And then, similarly for revision purposes, in the revision period after the end of classes and before the final exam.
• “Unassigned” exercises are not marked, and do not contribute to your grade. You are free to work on them too, if you so wish, for extra practice.
• All of the assigned online exercises are worth 5% of your final grade:

GUIDE TO COMPLETING iLrn EXERCISES

• iLrn guide 2: the online exercises: where to find them, which ones to do, why, how they are graded, when to do them (and when to stop), how often, suggested sequence and pace
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded
• iLrn guide 3: extra practice: going beyond the regular set exercices, how to use iLrn for extra practice and revision
  = PDF, opens in a new window, can be downloaded

SEE ALSO AND FURTHER

iLrn useful links: FAQ, user guides, support: useful for online exercises and any iLrn troubleshooting:

• iLrn Heinle Learning Centre FAQ
• iLrn student user guide
• iLrn training and support