Changes to DCS Course Material Distribution

1. Administrative Material

The practice of sending duplicate administrative material to students on CD-ROM or in paper form will be discontinued where possible. For all courses, administrative material will be available electronically (via the RMCC website, OPME website, RMCC Portal and/or DNDLearn). This includes:

  • Undergraduate Distance Education Calendar;
  • Guide to Undergraduate Distance Education;
  • Student Guide to OPME Distance Education;
  • DCS Forms;
  • Links to Fees;
  • Calculating When Your Assignment is Due sheet;
  • A Military Writer’s Handbook.

2. Web-enabled Courses (UG and PG)

Currently, greater than 83% of DCS courses are web-enabled. Academic course materials in DCS web-enabled courses will be available electronically on the RMCC website, RMCC Portal and/or on DNDLearn. This includes:

  • Undergraduate Calendar, UG and OPME Guides and Forms;
  • Course Materials List and Course Overviews;
  • Calculating When Your Assignment is Due table;
  • A Military Writer’s Handbook.

3. Non-web-enabled Courses (UG and PG)

Currently, course materials in DCS non-web-enabled courses are paper-based documents with some duplicate administrative material provided electronically. Academic course materials will primarily be supplied in a paper-based format and physical packages will be sent to students by the RMCC Academic Materials Support Services (AMSS). This includes the Calculating When Your Assignment is Due table.

Note: For non-OPME students (i.e. UG/PG students), the process for purchasing textbooks and readers is NOT changing. All required textbooks and readers may be purchased from

This link leads to a site belonging to an entity not subject to the Official Languages Act. Information on this site is available in the language of the site.

The Campus Bookstore at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON as per the guidelines found in Section 6 of the Guide to Undergraduate Distance Education. (Textbooks and readers are not supplied by DCS.)

4. OPME Courses

OPME courses are offered by RMCC online through DNDLearn (DWAN access is not required).

Courses with no paper-based academic materials (DCE/F001, DCE/F002, POE206, HIE/F275) have no mailed course packages. All course material (content, quizzes, exams, discussion forum, and administrative information) are accessed through DNDLearn.

For courses POF206, HIE/F208 and PSE/F402, course packages containing paper-based textbooks and readers are mailed to students.

Students enrolled in POF206, HIE/F208, or PSE/F402 should expect to receive a course package by mail approximately one week prior to the course start date.

Academic course materials in OPME courses will be a mixture of electronic documents available on DNDLearn, RMCC and OPME websites, and paper-based documents (if required) will be sent to students by AMSS. This includes:

  • Course Materials List
    • For OPME courses that have a mailing package (POF206, HIE/F208, PSE/F402);
    • For courses that have no mailing package (DCE/F001, DCE/F002, POE206, HIE/F275), notes advising students that their materials are 100% online will be placed on the OPME Registration Acceptance Letter and the Course Overview (found on the OPME and RMCC websites).
  • Textbooks and Readers
    • Academic course materials that are exclusively available in a paper-based format (such as textbooks) will be mailed by AMSS, all other academic course material will be distributed on DNDLearn.

5. Materials available to students prior to registration

In an effort to provide relevant information about courses (other than Course Description) to students prior to the course registration period, Course Overviews (weekly timetable, assessment scheme, required textbooks, etc) will be published on the RMCC and OPME websites.

Note: The OPME website will hold Course Overviews for OPME courses only.