This web-based Student Guide is designed to help students to survive in PBL.   Although it encompasses similar features as in the Tutor Guide, the emphasis is quite different.  It encourages student-student/tutor-student interactions rather than providing tonnes of course information to students.  In reality, students will only be given very general information regarding the course, e.g. course syllabus, schedules of learning activities (tutorials, skills workshops, assessments), outlines of course objectives, etc.   Students will be given the contents of the problems only, whereas other information (learning issues, objectives to be addressed, relevant resources and readings) are written exclusively for tutors in the Tutor Guide.

The interactive platform in the Student Guide encompasses a set of features, which is also present in the Tutor Guide.  For examples, the "bulletin board" allows tutors to post up announcements to students.  It also allows tutors to form private discussion group with their own tutorial groups.  Students can share among themselves information/resources by sending personal mails or by posting up messages in bulletin board.  In the 'chat room', students can even have real time discussions with one another, or with their tutors.  Students can keep personal notes relating to a tutorial, which they can refer back from time to time.  They may post up private/public reminders in the 'calendar' to remind themselves or others of important events.

Note: Access to this PBL Student Guide is restricted to tutors and students in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences only.