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Reference Manual for Cisco (Networking Essentials) course

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER

VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY OF PAKISTAN


REFERENCE MANUAL FOR STUDENTS
NETWORKING ESSENTIALS
Table of Contents
Part-1: Locating VU Official Student Email ID ....................................................................................... 3
PART – 1.1: Locating your VU Student Email ID ................................................................................ 3
PART – 1.2: Reset Password for VU Official student email ID .......................................................... 3
PART – 2: Student NETACAD Account and Profile Making ............................................................... 4
Part – 2.1: A Brief Introduction of the Student NETACAD Account Homepage ........................... 7
Part – 2.2: Completing Activities at Cisco Netacad ....................................................................... 7
Part – 2.3: Course completion final test & end of course survey ................................................. 8
Part – 2.4: Achieving Course Completion ...................................................................................... 8
Part-1: Locating VU Official Student Email ID
Note: You should only complete your assignment through your VU Official student email ID in the
class created by VU Cisco Academy trainers. You have already been enrolled in the VU Cisco
Academy course by the VU Cisco Academy trainers. If you complete the same course with any other
ID or in any other class except the one created by the VU Cisco Academy trainers you won’t be able
to obtain certificate from us and hence your assignment will be graded zero (0).

Login to your VU official email id on www.gmail.com & locate an email from the Cisco networking
team. If you don’t know your VU official student email ID. You can locate it at your VULMS. Otherwise,
please move to part 2.

PART – 1.1: Locating your VU Student Email ID

 Log in to VULMS.
 At the top right corner click on your profile picture
 You can locate the official email below your picture
 A screenshot from the demo account is attached below

PART – 1.2: Reset Password for VU Official student email ID

Note: If you forget the password of your official VU Student email ID. Then please follow the
following steps. Otherwise please move to part 2.

 Please go to vulms.vu.edu.pk
 Click on forget password
 Please Enter your student ID & Personal email address
 Select the VU Email password from the choices below as shown in the picture below
 Then click on send. You'll receive a password reset link on your personal email address. Then
reset your password & login to www.gmail.com & locate the email from Cisco networking
team to activate your account.
PART – 2: Student NETACAD Account and Profile Making
A student needs to follow the following steps for the course enrollment at Cisco Netacad Platform
offered under VU PDC:

 An Enrollment confirmation email by “Networking Academy” will be sent to the enrolled


student once the student details are entered on the Cisco Netacad Portal. Upon its receipt, a
student needs to follow the instructions as given below:
o Open a browser and type the URL:https://gmail.vu.edu.pk to login into your Official
VU Student Email ID account. Here, provide the aforesaid email ID and click on the
button “Next” as shown in the screenshot:

o On the next screen, enter “Password” in the textbox and click on the button “Next”
as show in the screenshot given below:
o In the “Inbox Folder”, click on email received from “Networking Academy” as shown
in the screenshot given as under:

o Now, click on button “Accept invitation” as shown in the screenshot given as under:
NOTE:

This will lead to an external link to the Global Cisco Networking Academy webpage where “NEWLY
ENROLLED STUDENTS” on behalf of VU PDC Cisco Networking Academy can create their NETACAD
Account.

On the other hand, students having already NETACAD Account on behalf of VU PDC Cisco Networking
Academy, they don’t need to RE-CREATE their NETACAD Account. In that case, they just need to LOGIN
using their NETACAD credentials for verification purposes.

o Follow the instructions as per screenshot given as under and click on button “Get
Started”:

o When you click get started it will take you to www.netacad.com login page. Now if
you already have an account with Netacad please click in “Login” button as displayed
the in the screenshot. Otherwise please click on “signup” button and create your
account with VU official email id.

o If you click on signup then please provide details for account creation as mentioned
in the screenshot below and click on continue:
o Now please click on create account & your account will be created. Now please
browse www.netacad.com . Click on login and mention your credentials.

Part – 2.1: A Brief Introduction of the Student NETACAD Account Homepage

After login you’ll see a course home page like this in the “My Learning “tab.

Part – 2.2: Completing Activities at Cisco Netacad

Now click on you course play button & your course home page will open. In the left panel you can see
all the modules of this course & their exam. Please click on module read it & you can take your mcqs
based exam of each module there.
Now scroll to the bottom of this left panel & you'll see the End-of-Course test. There are 02 activities
in this module.

Part – 2.3: Course completion final test & end of course survey

Both of these activities are mandatory for obtaining a course completion certificate.

Part – 2.4: Achieving Course Completion

After completing these activities please navigate to your Netacad home page you’ll see your
completion certificate there. In the latest achievement tab. You can download it from here.

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