Navigating the NLC Student Portal: A Comprehensive Guide

The NLC (Northeast Lakeview College) student portal serves as a central hub for students to access essential resources and information related to their academic journey. From accessing course syllabi to verifying enrollment and managing notifications, the portal streamlines various administrative and learning processes. This guide provides a detailed overview of how to effectively navigate the NLC student portal and utilize its key features.

Accessing Online Courses and Canvas

Northeast Lakeview College primarily delivers its online courses through the Instructure Canvas learning management system (LMS). To access your online courses, log in to the ACES portal and select the appropriate term and course under the "My Courses" tab.

Canvas offers a customizable notification system, allowing you to stay informed about updates to your online courses. You can choose how and how often you want to be notified of updates such as new messages from instructors or classmates, announcements, posted grades or feedback, and changes to course content.

Orientation to Online Learning

If you are new to online courses, you may be required to complete the Orientation to Online Learning (OLRN-0001) mini-course. This course provides an introduction to online learning and familiarizes you with the tools and resources available to succeed in an online environment.

Accessing and Understanding Syllabi

Instructors are required to publish the course syllabus by the seventh day of class for the part-of-term the course is offered. Students can access the syllabus for a course in several ways.

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Accessing Syllabi via ACES and Canvas

ACES Portal: Navigate to the Student tab of ACES and locate the Simple Syllabus portlet in the center column.
Canvas Dashboard: Your Canvas Dashboard will open in a new browser tab or window. Select the Course Syllabus link in the course navigation menu.

Key Features of Simple Syllabus

Simple Syllabus offers several features designed to enhance the syllabus viewing experience:

Progress Tracking: As you read through a syllabus for the first time, Simple Syllabus calculates and displays how much of the document you have viewed in total. When you reach the end (i.e., you've read 100%), you will receive a blue Acknowledge button at the bottom.
Course Information: The syllabus will display the term and course information as well as when the document was last updated by your instructor or institution.
My Courses Tab: The My Courses tab is a centralized collection of syllabi for classes for which you are enrolled, per academic part-of-term. From here, you can choose to view a digital or print version of your syllabus by clicking the "View" or "Print" buttons. In addition to having your current syllabi, the My Courses tab keeps a record of all classes you have previously taken since Spring 2023 and their associated syllabi. To view old syllabi, click the Term drop-down menu and choose the specific part-of-term you are looking for.
Material List Tab: Simple Syllabus compiles a list of course materials in the Material List tab which can serve as an aggregate shopping list of materials that you'll need for each term.
Syllabus Library: The Syllabus Library is the central repository of syllabi that have been published for the five colleges in the Alamo Colleges District. The search tool allows you to filter down syllabi to a specific term, college, department, subject, course number, or instructor.

Profile Information

Information found in your Profile has been auto-populated with data from your Banner student account. Changing your name could also cause your instructors to have incomplete data for your student acknowledgment.

Getting Help with Simple Syllabus

Selecting the Get Help button will display a Simple Syllabus Help form that will be routed to Simple Syllabus's IT Support. When requesting help, provide a brief description of the technical difficulty you are experiencing with Simple Syllabus as well as the course/college acronym/section number and the part-of-term the course takes place.

Enrollment and Degree Verification

North Lake College authorizes The National Student Clearinghouse to provide enrollment and degree verifications. To request enrollment and degree verifications, students may print official enrollment verification certifications on demand via the secure student portal, www.degreeverify.org.

Verification of enrollment requests will be processed as outlined within the directory information section of FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). FERPA provides students the right to have some control over the disclosure of information from educational records.

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NLC Prep Training

NLC also offers prep training courses to help students pass various exams. Several students have reported success using these courses:

Gary O.: Passed the FS Exam after 5 months of studying and going through the FS Course, praising the clear and concise presentation of top-notch information.
Michael J.: Found the course an excellent source of knowledge, helping him pass the NCEES FS Exam and now using it to study for the NCEES PS Exam.
James T.: Expressed a preference for the course over traditional schooling.
Jose P.: Passed the PS exam after studying the NLC prep training and subsequently passed the FS exam as well, highly recommending the program.
Trent H.: Passed on his first attempt, considering the course vital to his success. He plans to purchase the Texas RPLS study guide for his upcoming Texas RPLS exam.
Ethan F.: Appreciated finding the prep course, which helped him overcome struggles in determining what to study.

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