Handbook

Handbook Online Course Interaction Styles, Bb Vista

The course “Interaction Styles” from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School1 is
an online e-learning course, in technical cooperation with the University of Drexel
(Philadelphia).

This course is a preparation for the social skills seminar of the students of the Vlerick
Leuven Gent Management School.

Please take your time to go through this handbook. It will help you to start up and to
use the online system.

Some information
The MBA Online campus is the term used to refer to the course management system
through which online course Web sites are delivered and maintained. This system is
powered by software provided by a third-party vendor, Bb Vista, and thus it may also
be referred to as the Bb Vista system. From time to time you will receive important
messages from the MBA Online campus administrator or from Bb Vista directly
concerning system downtime or changes.

Getting Started
• The URL for the MBA Online campus is http://learning.drexel.edu

• Your login ID and password will be given to you.

• Change your password

• Click on the course ‘Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School – Styles of

Interaction’

1 Copyrights Online course © 2007 by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Veronique
Warmoes & Prof dr Herman Van den Broeck). All rights reserved. No parts of this publication
may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database without
the prior written permission of the authors.

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Support or problems:
• please contact your Vlerick Master coordinator

• Technical Support – Your first line of support for purely technical problems is the
MBA Online Help Desk. The Help Desk is staffed by Bb Vista technicians. You
can contact the Help Desk at: email: intech@lebow.drexel.edu

Login
• To login to Bb Vista, visit: http://learning.drexel.edu.
• You must run the Browser Check.
o Be sure your Java is up to date (www.java.com)
o Be sure your pop up settings are correct

!!! You will need to change your password

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Choose a new password. After you did this, you will see next page. On this page,
choose the button “login”, and type your new password.

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Again, you will see the same page as before:

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Then you click on the course of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School,
interaction Styles. Enjoy!

Navigation
For the most part, navigating a course is straightforward.
By clicking the Course Content button at the top, you can display a navigational course
menu.

To begin, you should choose one of the core components of the course. They do not have
to be taken sequentialy, but it is recommended.

There are 5 core sections to the course:

• Two Dimensions. This section provides an overview of the underlying model.

• Four Basic Styles. Here you'll learn how the two dimensions lead to four basic
styles of interaction.
• The Eight Interactive Roles. The spectrum of the interaction roles is revealed.

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• Files Rules of the Game. These five rules will help you master the art of
interaction.
• Extreme Roles. Be able to identify how the roles play out to an extreme. To
navigate while within a section
• Tips & cases
• Additional readings: to print

Notice the menu is located on the left hand side. Here you can access
content from the folders in the course.

Acceptable Browsers
Microsoft IE 6SP1, 6 SP2 7
Netscape 7.2
AOL 9
Mozilla 1.7
Firefox 1.0.x, 1.5.x, 20

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Disabling Pop Ups

You must have pop ups disabled to properly use Bb Vista.

• In the Safari browser, use the Command + k key combo to toggle the pop-up
blocker on or off.
• In Firefox, OS X users should add the URL, http://learning.dcollege.net, for their
Bb Vista entry page to the list of allowed sites. You can do that by selecting
Preferences in the Firefox menu, selecting the Content tab, selecting the Allowed
Sites button and pasting in the URL of the course entry page.
• In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Pop up Blocker > Pop Up Blocker Settings.
Add the URL, http://learning.dcollege.net, to Address of Web site to allow
section.
• Pop-up blocking functions are included in some anti-virus, internet security,
personal firewall, and browser programs. Disable the relevant setting in the
program or set your Bb Vista server as an allowed site.

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