How Online Classes Work...

When you buy the class you will receive an email order confirmation - the same as you do for any purchase at Joggles.  You will not hear from us again until a week before the class is scheduled to begin.  At that time you will be sent the supply list and other information you need to get prepared for the class beginning.  On the first day of class you will receive an email from me that has the class webpage URL, your User ID, and password. as well as one that has information about our class forums.

On the first day of class and on the same day of each subsequent week a lesson document is posted to a special class webpage where the students login and download it to their computer. All of the lessons are yours to keep and you can print them to work from or pretty much do anything except share them with someone else. These documents take the place of the instructor standing in a room and explaining how to create the project. They’re a narrative with step-by-step instructions and photos that explain how to get from point A to point B, etc so that eventually once you’ve completed the steps in the final lesson you should have a finished project.

You’re free to download the lessons and work on the project at your convenience. You don’t have to be at your computer at a specific time on a particular day, and it’s the same for working on that week’s part of the project - you do it when you have the time.

There are no special requirements other than you need to have Adobe's free Acrobat Reader installed on your computer as the lesson documents are distributed as pdf files which require the Reader program to open them.  PC users and those who run a Mac are welcome to join - there is an Acrobat Reader for both and a wide assortment of operating systems.

If you have questions or want to chat with the other students you can login to the class forums. This is where all of the discussion for the class takes place. It’s totally voluntary – you don’t have to get involved if you don’t want to. The forums are private and only the students for each class and the respective instructor have access. There is a tutorial which explains how to get around in the forums, so if you’re not familiar with the environment it’s ok.

A high-speed connection to the internet is recommended for all students.  Some of the lesson documents are sizeable files and downloading them over a dial up connection might prove difficult if not impossible.

In order to participate in online classes at joggles you are expected to have basic computer and internet skills. You need to be able to browse the internet, login to the class webpage using an ID and password, and know how to download and save a document to your computer's hard drive. It is your responsibility to learn these skills before the class begins - they are NOT taught as part of the class.

 Class Refund Policy: All class fees are refundable until the start date of the class. Once the class begins no refunds will be issued. If you enroll after a class has begin you are not eligible for any refund of the class fees.