Western Identity and Accessing your AQ Grade

Your Western Identity is your UWO secure User ID and Password.  It is your key to accessing key services at Western (tax receipts, grades, argument of business relationship, updates to personal information including proper noun, accost, telephone/email), and is required to access your AQ class in OWL, Western'due south Learning Management System.

*Delight Note: Your Western Identity, which includes your Western student number, secure user ID and countersign, is different from the login used to admission your registration profile in the AQ Registration Portal , which requires an e-mail address as the username and a selected password.

If you lot are new to Western, please see the steps below to activate your Western Identity.  If yous are a previous Western student or have taken an AQ with Western before, y'all already have a secured login and password, you exercise not need to set up your Western Identity over again.  If you lot take forgotten your information, delight follow the Western Identity activation instructions below (under Yes).

Activating your Western Identity

Trying to Admission your Course?

Have you previously completed an AQ or Braille Certificate course, taken an undergraduate or graduate course with Western or previously applied to the University?

NO

Follow these steps to retrieve your Western Student number and Access lawmaking required to activate your Western Identity.

  • Obtain your Western Student Number: Log into the AQ Registration Portal
    • Click on your name in the pinnacle right-hand corner of the screen.
    • Select Profile.  Nether Contact, click on your proper noun.
    • Curl down and under Program Info you will encounter your 9-digit student number.
  • Obtain access code: Go to: Educatee Services.
    • Submit October#, Western Student number (ID), Birthdate
  • Side by side, go to Western Identity Manager
    • Enter Western Student number in the ID Number field and and so the access code (obtained from steps in a higher place)
    • Have the Acceptable Use Agreement
    • Set up security answers
    • Set Password
    • Activate
    • Record your assigned 'User ID' *A confirmation page will announced upon completion of password reset. Please ensure to record BOTH your User ID and password.
    • Login volition activate for use within 24 - 48 hours.

*Important: Please proceed your login prophylactic and secure, as yous will need it to admission future AQ courses and Western Student Heart where you lot view final grades, order transcripts, and obtain official tax receipts.  Your User ID is secured and cannot be provided by our office.  You volition need to contact  Western Technology Services for help.

  • Questions –  Submit a Support Ticketor phone call HelpDesk at 519.661.3800

Yes

Candidates tin log in using their existing Western Identity User ID and password.

Forgot your student number?

  •  Obtain your Western Pupil Number: Log into the AQ Registration Portal
    • Click on your name in the elevation right-mitt corner of the screen.
    • Select Profile.  Under Contact, click on your name.
    • Scroll down and under Program Info you will run into your 9-digit pupil number.

Forgot your admission code?

  • Go to Student Services
    • Submit October#, Western Pupil number (ID), Birthdate
  •  Adjacent, go to Western Identity Manager Countersign Reset
    • Enter your Western Pupil number and admission code
    • Set security answers
    • New password
    • Set countersign
  • Your login volition re-actuate for use inside 24 hours.

Forgot your User ID?

  • If you do non know your User ID, you must contact Western Technology Services to obtain it.

*Of import: Delight continue your login safety and secure, equally you will need it to access time to come AQ courses and Western Educatee Centre where y'all view final grades, gild transcripts, and obtain official tax receipts.  Your User ID is secured and cannot be provided by our office.  You volition demand to contact  Western Applied science Services for aid.

  • Questions – Submit a Support Ticketor phone call HelpDesk at 519.661.3800

NOT Certain?

Follow these steps to retrieve your Western Student number and Access code required to actuate your Western Identity.

  • Obtain your Western Pupil Number: Log into the AQ Registration Portal
    • Click on your name in the top correct-hand corner of the screen.
    • Select Profile.  Under Contact, click on your name.
    • Curlicue downwards and under Program Info you will meet your nine-digit student number .
  • Obtain access lawmaking: Become to Educatee Services.
    • Submit OCT#, Western Student number (ID), Birthdate
  • Next, go to Western Identity Manager
    • Enter your Western Student number in the ID Number field and the access code (obtained from steps above)
    • If you become an mistake bulletin, go to Error Message section below. If not, keep to the adjacent step:
    • Accept the Acceptable Utilise Agreement
    • Fix security answers
    • Set Password
    • Activate
  • Tape your assigned 'User ID' *A confirmation page volition appear upon completion of password reset. Please ensure to tape BOTH your User ID and countersign.
  • Error Message: If you received an error message, reset Your Password HERE

If you practise non know your User ID and 1 does non appear, y'all must contact Western Engineering Services to obtain it.

  • Your login will activate for use within 24 hours.

*Important: Please keep your login condom and secure, as you will demand it to admission the Student Centre where you view final grades, order transcripts, and obtain official taxation receipts. Your User ID is secured and cannot be provided past our office.  You lot will need to contact  Western Technology Services for assistance.

  • Questions – Submit a Back up Ticket or phone call HelpDesk at 519.661.3800

Expectations and Evaluation

Courses are 125 hours in total, as required by the Ontario College of Teachers. They include 100 hours of online time where you will be participating in the word forums and working in groups on a collaborative inquiry project. The remaining 25 hours are allocated to readings and assignments or tasks. In the Summer this represents approximately 30-40 hours per week.

Western AQ courses are asynchronous. Our online courses are Not "alive". All participation in the Forums is through posting. You can be online at any time of the day/night; still yous MUST be online regularly and consistently to exist successful in the class. If you register for the iv calendar week Summertime session, you volition exist expected to be online and actively participating every day. This will exist crucial for you to remain on tiptop of the grade and to consummate all of the expectations in the required timeframe. You must participate and successfully complete EACH component of the course in order to pass.

Finding Your Online Form

* You lot volition non take admission to your course on the online learning platform OWL before the official start date.

Following is an overview on navigating through OWL.

Log in to OWL with your Western Identity user ID and password. Once logged in, you volition be on the OWL landing page below.

Your course will actuate online on its start date, at which time it will appear across the summit with the class code. You can also become to your course past clicking on More than Sites.

snapshot of what you will see when you login to owl

When you click on your course tab, or find your grade under More Sites, you will see a variety of tabs on the left hand side. Please admission each of these tabs to view information for your form.

Ensure to access your form syllabus within the Course Data tab to access important information including Western's policies (i.e. medical and plagiarism), evaluation and rubrics, assignment and word expectations, etc.

Web Browser

The course site works all-time with Google Chrome or Firefox as your web browser. Please note: ASPIRE courses are non designed to be accessed from a phone. Tablet, laptop or desktop will be required.

Depending on the web browser you are using, you may demand to change your security settings to enable mixed or unsafe content and/or always allow pop ups in order to be able to view links within the form.

Navigation of the Course Site

Information technology is important to utilise the "Dorsum", "Next", "Return to Lesson" and "Refresh" buttons within the grade site. Please do non utilise the back button on the web browser.

Instructor Contact

If you have any problems, questions or concerns, e-mail your instructor in the Messages tab.

Texts

Your course may or may not accept a required textbook.

Most Western AQ courses use online resource. To verify if your course has a required textbook please access the Grade Search tab on the AQ Registration Portal.

More Questions? Visit our Oft Asked Questions.