Mentoring at TechPort
The “Ask My Mentor” feature at TechPort (available for many courses) is a way for you to get REAL-TIME help from an expert on the topic you are studying, twenty-four hours a day.
For example, if you are working on an Excel course and have a question about a task you are doing, click on “Ask My Mentor.” You can then either email your question to a Mentor OR enter a Chat Room and ask your question in real time. Either way, you’ll have a REAL, LIVE PERSON to help you over any learning hurdles you encounter.
TO CONNECT WITH A MENTOR
From within a course at the remote site
- At the bottom left-hand side of the Course Menu screen (the opening screen of a course), you will see a speech-balloon icon if the course has Mentoring. It will remain there as you work in the course. Click on it when you need to access a Mentor.
At the remote site but without launching (playing) a course
- Locate the course you are working on either in the Catalog or in My Course Plan (if you have bookmarked it). Click on the course title to open the Information page. If there is mentoring for that course, you will see an Ask My Mentor button under the list of buttons (Play, Modify My Plan, and Download).
TO FIND OUT WHICH COURSES OFFER MENTORING
At the remote site
- In the Search for field near the top of the Home page, enter the topic you wish to study, selecting Mentoring at the Category: drop-down menu, and click Search. You will see a list of topics that offer Mentoring.
- If instead, you Search for “Mentoring,” you’ll bring up a list of 120 topics that offer Mentoring. You can narrow your search further by entering a specific topic in the Search these results for: field.
Without going to the remote site
- At http://techport.stanford.edu, click on the Course Descriptions link on the left-hand side of the page. Choose End-User / Office User Courses, or Technical Courses/Project Management and Team Building. Once you arrive at the list of courses, you can search the page for “mentoring assets.”
[Note – To search a page on a Windows computer, use Ctrl-F, and on a Mac use Command-F]
