1. How do I find my group's chat room and web pages?

Sadly this is not intuitive Sad smiley To find these facilities you should use the menus to navigate to
" COMMUNITY  > INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION > COMMUNICATIONS > GROUP PAGES"
Here you will find the links to forums and other stuff that is specific to your working group.

2. When should I start to contact the other people in my group?

You should get started as soon as possible with the discussions, the students in NZ have a two week break and so there might not be too much contact before the 4th October. However, you can do the exercises that have to do with the evaluation of AUTonline as a product for supporting collaborative work and online distance education.

3. Can I just upload the web site I have made for the lab in this course to AUTonline instead of using the AUTonline template?

Certainly you can reuse the content of the lab exercise. I think that it is worthwhile to try to adjust your previous web page to suit the AUTonline system a little better, but don't spend too much time on it.

4. Help, what do I do in Phase 2!!!???

You should have a look at the detailed instructions for the next stage in the project description and also the phase two link in the project resources list.