Welcome to Local Democracy Online! 

This online, self-paced format has some elements you should keep in mind, to make your experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible.

The nature of our online platform, while powerful in some ways, is limited in other ways. Here are a few limitations you may notice. We are grateful for your patience as these may make your experience less enjoyable:

1. As you go through each video and quiz, you will see it is possible to hit “next” without hitting complete. This can be confusing to some people who might miss marking their progress.

2. It may be confusing that after you submit a quiz, you go back to the screen that says “start quiz.” This makes it feel that your progress wasn’t recorded. This isn’t true. The course admin will go in and mark your quiz as soon as possible.

3. You also may notice that it’s possible to breeze through the videos without reflecting. This is also due to the structure of the learning platform. You can breeze through the videos, but we encourage you not to do so. Deeper learning will happen through slower engagement.

Additionally, you may go looking for a discussion forum mentioned in the intro but can’t find it. We had recorded the audio first, before creating the videos, and before finalized our choice of learning platforms.

This means that there is no forum per se. Instead we encourage you to use the comments section for the various videos.