General
Click on the apply now button in the top, right hand corner of our website and follow the on screen directions.
The duration differs from qualification to qualification. You can view the specific duration of a qualification or course in ‘course features’ box on the qualification’s page that you are interested in.
All our qualifications are offered face to face, and it is necessary for students to visit our campus in Pretoria.
All of our courses are payable either as up front or as monthly payments. We also accept student loans, personal loans or company bursaries.
Vocational qualifications are assessed on a Portfolio of Evidence (PoE) that they compile and complete over the duration of the qualification. But, you will be required to do formative and summative assessments to proof your competency.
The qualification comprises of 3 different main modules. Knowledge modules, which mainly covers your theoretical elements. Practical modules, which shows you how to apply these modules in practice. Work modules, which requires you to use these skills in the workplace and capture it in your PoE.
MyAcademy - Online Learning Platform
This is the learning management platform where you will access all your lesson content, student guides, submission assignments, etc.
The system requirements for the Moodle user are modest. All you need is a solid, reliable internet connection of at least 1MBs upload/download and a modern web browser. We recommend Google Chrome or Firefox for both PC and Mac users. Internet Explorer is less reliable than Chrome or Firefox. It may help to have a 1Ghz processor on your computer if you are running Windows or MacOS.
- Moodle will work on any modern web browser. However, it works best in the following:
- Google Chrome (version 30.0 or later)
- Mozilla Firefox (version 25.0 or later)
- Internet Explorer (version 9 or later)
Others that may be less effective:
- Safari (version 6 or later)
- Opera (version 9)
- Your browser should also have both cookies and Javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default
- If you have older browsers, you may experience issues when entering your new password for the first time or with loading some of the e-learning modules.
- Adobe Flash Player for viewing YouTube/flash videos
- Some courses may have documents in Adobe Reader for reading PDF files so you will need a PDF reader.
- Many courses have office documents that you will need to access Office software suite, such as Microsoft Office or a free version such as OpenOffice for viewing and editing office or word documents
- A unique email address is required register you before full access to Moodle is allowed.
- Green Leaf Academy will create your LMS user account and you will be sent an email with the LMS access link. You can also access the LMS platform from the MyAcademy button on the top right hand corner of the website.
- Once you have opened the MyAcademy platform you will be directed to the set-up page on the LMS.
- Setup a password that is at least 8 characters long with one special character (@ % _ *! & #).
- Enter this password in both fields and then click continue.
- You will now arrive at Dashboard with your Course Overview, which has the list of the course you are registered for.
- You are now logged into the LMS.
Once you have logged in for the first time, for future logins you will use https://glaonline.co.za/ – and use your email address and the password that you have chosen to log in. The email address that you must use is the one that you received your LMS set up a link on. You cannot use any other email address as this is the email address that has been registered on the LMS for you.
There are two ways to access MyAcademy on a mobile device:
- Users can access the LMS in their mobile web browsers.
- Users can download the Moodle app for their mobile devices.
Contact the Green Leaf Academy LMS support team during normal working hours, on:
WhatsApp – 081 325 1195
Call – 081 325 1195
Email – lms@glaonline.co.za