Gardening for Wildlife Course

A: Through five different course sections, participants will discover the benefits of supporting our wildlife, the components of wildlife-friendly gardening, some of Canada’s remarkable birds, pollinators and native plants, the dangers of invasive plants as well as a few gardening techniques and tips. We also visit a long-time ornamental gardener who switched to wildlife-friendly gardening and loves it!

Click the session number below for more information on each section’s topics.

A: Each section of the course includes:

• Video(s)
• One or more downloadable handouts
• A quiz just for the fun of it.

Participants will also have the option to:

• Chat amongst themselves in the discussion area, to ask questions and share tips as well as your own gardening dreams and efforts
• Upload photos of your gardening space and any wildlife visitors you have, if you wish!

Please note this is not a live course. All videos are pre-recorded and available to watch at your own pace. Most videos are approximately 30 minutes long and collectively add up to about 5 hours of viewing time.

To join this course, you will need to register for it. As it is on a different website to the CWF site that you are on now, when you click the link to register, you will be taken to a page on the TakingITGlobal (TIG) website, the company that is hosting this and other CWF interactive programs.

If you already have a TIG account, you only need to register for this specific course by logging in to your account and entering your course code (the course code is: gardening).

If, however, you don’t have an account with TIG, you will need to create one by creating a username, password, entering some contact information and then the course code (gardening).

Directions for registering are above. Please read very carefully to ensure a smooth sign up! If you have difficulty, please refer to the troubleshooting guide down below.

A: How do I access the course materials? Once you have entered are successfully registered (see above for tips and steps), your screen will change, taking you to the ‘classroom’ main page. We recommend that you bookmark this page so you can easily return to it for logging in https://cwf.tiged.org/gardening. It will look like the image below:

Here you will see a message in the middle and recent discussion posts on the right. On the left are course options to click on and move around the site:

Home

This takes you back to the main page and has announcements that can be helpful.

Weekly Content

This is where you’ll find information about each week as well as the material itself including video(s), supporting resources and quiz. Some weeks have a breakdown of the video’s sections and their relevant times (like chapters in a book and their corresponding pages) so that, after watching it initially, you can easily go back to the parts that you wish to review. Some weeks also have additional links to help with that week’s theme that weren’t included in the Supplemental Resources PDF.

Course Resources

In addition to finding resources within their week’s section, you can also find the handouts and other PDFs for each week in one spot under “PDF Downloads”. You can find the course videos in the “Gallery” section and Quizzes under, you guessed it, “Quizzes”! The “Discussions” area is for you to ask each other questions and share ideas. And if you need to send a message to someone in the course directly, you can use the “Messages” option.

A: Please check this troubleshooting guide if you have any difficulties!

My CWF account information does not work

If you have a CWF account, are a donor or if your garden is certified, you will still need to create an account on the TIG site as they are a separate entity to CWF.

The registration code is not working

If you get a message saying: “The code you entered is invalid. It either does not exist or does not match. Please re-enter your code” then you are likely adding an extra space by accident as the system is not sensitive to capitals but it is sensitive to spacing. Ensure you don’t have any extra spaces at the beginning or the end of the code you entered. This can happen sometimes when copying and pasting, for instance.

It is asking for a student registration code – what is that?

This is the “gardening” code (to be entered without the quotation marks) when you are first registering for the class.

It keeps asking me for a registration code, even after registering with TIG and for this class.

You should only have to add the registration code when you sign up / access the class for the first time. If you sign out and then try to register (instead of logging in) you will be asked for the code but it is best if you use the log in page instead. The link for logging in to the general platform page (once you are registered) is: https://cwf.tiged.org/gardening.

I get as far as "create an account" and fill everything out but when I try to sign in it jumps back to where I entered my e-mail address and tells me I am already a member.

This is likely indicating that you already have a TIG account, in which case you do not need to sign up for an account, just log in and use the code to register for this particular course in TIG.

I forgot my password

You can make a new password with the "reset password" option on the registration page, at the bottom on the right on the right hand side. You can also use this direct link to reset your password >

I forgot my username

You can retrieve your username by clicking this link and entering your email address

It does not let me create a username

As there are many people using this site, it is likely that someone already has the username you tried. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get one that will be unique. To help make yours unique, you can add numbers or symbols at the beginning or end. Note that capitalizing letters does not make a difference.

I can’t find the link to get to the course

The link for logging in to the general platform page is : https://cwf.tiged.org/gardening. You may wish to bookmark this page to help you find it easily in future.

I didn’t get a confirmation email but I think I registered correctly as I saw the course page after submitting my information

Check your inbox and both junk and spam folders in case it is there. If not, feel free to email info@takingitglobal.org to have a copy sent to you.

I get an error message

Please send an email requesting help to the address indicated in the message (broken@takingitglobal.org). To help the team understand and correct the situation, please include the URL (the link of the page you are on, found at the top of the screen) and possibly a screenshot of (or copy and paste) the error message that appears.