EDCLEARN 

Learner’s Application Manual  

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Table Of Contents 
 

❖ OVERVIEW OF THE PLATFORM 

❖ LEARNER’S DASHBOARD 

❖ GETTING STARTED WITH THE PLATFORM 

❖ KNOWING YOUR DASHBOARD 

❖ PROFILE AND DASHBOARD SETTINGS 

❖ VIEWING PROGRAMS AND COURSE AVAILABLE 

❖ GETTING FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PROGRAMS 

❖ MANAGING COURSES 

❖ MANAGING YOUR SCHEDULE WITH THE TO-DO 

❖ YOUR LEARNING JOURNAL 

❖ YOUR GROWTH PLAN 

❖ YOUR SUBMISSIONS AND RESULTS 

❖ LEADERBOARD AND BADGES 

❖ NOTIFICATION SETTINGS 

❖ YOUR CART AND WISHLIST 

 
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OVERVIEW OF THE PLATFORM 

Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) is the Entrepreneurship Centre of the Pan-Atlantic 

University. Set up in 2003 as the Centre for Enterprise Development Services (EDS), the Centre 

emerged as a direct response to the dearth of available professional business development and 

support services to small and growing businesses in Nigeria. 

The EDCLEARN is an online learning platform where businesses (tenants) can easily set up an 

online presence to tutor and enlighten their customers / students as easily and seamlessly as 

possible. The learning resources uploaded can be either paid or freely accessible to a business's 

learners.  

As a learner, this user manual will work you through the process of interacting effectively with 

the application. As a learner, you would also be enlightened on how to use the LMS platform to 

your best advantage. 

Please note​ that in this manual, businesses you are registered under are referred to as tenants, 

while their users or customers like you are referred to as learners. 

 
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LEARNER’S DASHBOARD 

GETTING STARTED WITH THE PLATFORM 

Welcome to the EDCLEARN platform! Here, you have access to resourceful learning contents 

that will help improve and elevate your business and entrepreneurial skills. You can always 

explore all courses offered by the business/tenant you are registered with on their landing 

pages. You also get to read through other learners' feedback on courses they have taken. To get 

full access into the learning resources, you need to be a registered learner under the business 

instructor.  

You can either sign up as a learner by inputting your email, password and all necessary 

information, or be added specifically by your business instructor. Kindly note that if you try 

unable to sign up, this is because your instructor has disabled registration into the platform. You 

would have to contact your instructor to add you. To do this, you can always find the contact 

information on the landing page. 

KNOWING YOUR DASHBOARD 

Once you have successfully signed in, you will be navigated to your dashboard. Your dashboard

gives a brief overview of all you can do on the platform. It also allows you ease in navigating

 
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between screens. Every operation you can perform on your dashboard can be found in the

side bar menu.

The topbar menu allows you to easily log out, view this documentation, activate the tour and

view your notifications. Kindly note that the color theme displayed on your dashboard is

determined by your instructor. To quickly go back to the landing page without logging out, you

can always click on your instructor’s company logo.

 
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PROFILE AND DASHBOARD SETTINGS 

If you were sent an email with a default password, the next thing you could do is to ensure you 
update this password to digits you can easily remember. You can also update your profile and 
include other information that was not captured at the point of registration. 

VIEWING PROGRAMS AND COURSE AVAILABLE 

To access the courses available on the platform, you would click on c

​ ourses​ in the sidebar 
menu. This will display all courses that can be enrolled into for free(if it is free). You might be 
required to buy some courses if they aren't free. 

If you would like to purchase a course, but not yet ready to do so at the moment, you can always 
add this course to your cart or wishlist. Courses added here will remain stored. Therefore, they 
can be easily accessible to you when you want to make payment. 

NOTE, ​if you wonder about what course to buy, you can always watch the overview video of a 
course to gain more insight about it. Once you are satisfied, you can make payment. 

 
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For ease in keeping track of your learning process, your lessons have been broken down into 
sections called modules. Therefore, you can decide to complete all lesson content in a module 
at a sitting or whichever time is convenient for you.  

Your lessons can come in the form of four resource types. You will be required to watch a video 
if the resource type is of video. If the resource type is a quiz, you will be shown a couple of 
questions and answers. N
​ ote, ​once you submit a quiz, you will be shown the answers you got 
correctly or missed. This helps you take note of your corrections and you could rewatch 
previous videos so as to get better.  

Lesson types of articles display written articles for you to dwell on. Exercises are more like 
assessments. They include a question and a field box where you type in your answers. Note that 
exercises submitted will be graded by your instructor. Kindly take them importantly. 

 
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GETTING FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PROGRAMS 

On the EDCLEARN, there are various programs you can sign up for under a tenant.

A program is made up of courses which leads to an award upon completion.

Each course is attributed a unit value and each program requires a total number of units to be
completed. An award will not be granted until the total number of units has been obtained.

To manage your program

● Click on the program button from your dashboard (You can either search for your
program name or check from a drop down list of programs on the landing page )
● Click on the ​view courses​ button beneath any of the program to view available courses
under that program 

MANAGING COURSES 

Courses are various ‘subjects’ that make up a program. Each course is made up of lessons and 

modules.   

Courses need to be undertaken to complete a program. 

To manage your courses, 

● Click on the​ Courses​ button from the.Side menu (​ You can either search by course name

or scroll through the list of courses)

For every course,

● You can watch an overview video which shows what the course entails at a glance

 
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● You can see the course’s description, requirements and reviews.
● If you have been enrolled into the course, you can start. If you haven’t you need to
add to cart
● To add to cart or to wishlist,
○ To add to cart click on the ​add to cart​ button beneath any of the courses
○ To add to wishlist click on the add to wishlist list button beneath any of the
courses

To start a course,

● Click on the start course button

MANAGING YOUR COURSES 

These are list of courses you have subscribed for

To manage your courses

● ​ y courses​ ​from the side menu.

Click on​ m
● Click on continue if you wish to start immediately.

 
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WEBINARS 
 

This is an online seminar designed for learners use/benefit  

As a Learner you can always check for available webinars related to courses you have taken. 

To do this  

● Click on the w
​ ebinar ​button on the side menu  

● From the drop down list click on webinar then subscribe/register for any of webinars 

available  

DISCUSSION BOARD
Every course you enroll into has its own discussion board. Discussion boards help you interact
with other learners. Here you can ask questions, share your view, and make comments on other
learners' replies.

To check discussion board

● Click on discussion board from the side menu

● Click on ​view discussions ​beneath any of the listed discussions you will like to engage
yourself with.

 
MANAGING YOUR SCHEDULE WITH THE TO-DO 

 
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There will be times when you have to perform certain operations on your dashboard e.g Finish a 
course, complete your growth plan etc. Your todo helps you keep track of this. You can add your 
pending tasks in your todo so you can easily be reminded of it when you come into the platform. 
To get started,  

 
● From the sidebar, click ​To-do 

● You will see a list of all todos if you have created any. Click on the the ​add to-do​ button 

● Input the task and set a due date then ​save.  

● Note ​that if you set a due date that has passed, your task will be stored under passed 

deadlines

YOUR LEARNING JOURNAL

 
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You can make jottings as you learn each course with your journals. The Learning Journals
can always be viewed and updated while taking a course or after completing the course. When
you are done jotting, you can also download it as a PDF format. Each course has its own
individual journal.

To access your learning journal

● Click on the learning Journal button from the side menu

● Click on view no beneath any of the journals you will like to update or check

You could also download your journal by clicking the download master journal button at the top
bar

YOUR GROWTH PLAN  

While taking your courses, you are expected to fill in your business growth plans. This helps you
implement what you are learning into your business. Thereby improving several aspects of your
business

To access your growth plans,

● Click in the growth plan button. From the side menu

● You will see all growth plans you are expected to fll.
● Click on any of the growth plans and start editing!
● Click save when you are done. You can always come back to edit and save as many
times as possible

You could also download your growth plan by clicking the download master growth plan button
at the top bar. Please note that you are expected to submit your growth plan once.

YOUR SUBMISSIONS AND RESULTS 

 
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The submissions tab allows you view all submissions you have made so far

To do this

● Click on the submission button in the side menu

● In your submissions page, you can sort by course name or scroll through to view your
submissions

LEADERBOARD AND BADGES 

 

Rewards are bestowed to you once you earn certain marks in your assessments. You can either
be given a badge or points. You can find a list of all learners taking a course and the number of
points they have earned in the leaderboards menu. The number of points you earn determines
what position you would be on every leaderboard. To see what position you are in, go to the
leaderboard menu. To know how many points and badges you have earned, check your profile.

NOTIFICATION SETTINGS 

This allows you to adjust which notification you want to receive or not

To do this:

● Click ok notification settings button from the side menu

● Make necessary adjustments
● Click update  

 
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YOUR CART AND WISHLIST 

Here you can add courses you are interested in to your wishlist and move them to your cart

when you are ready to enroll into them. You can also view all courses you have previously

added to cart in your cart page.