Orientation Part III_b: Checking DVDs

Note:  If you have not yet purchased your DVDs for the course, you may come back and complete this part of the Orientation after you have done so.

Select the following option (you have only one choice):

Submitting Assignment: Orientation Part III b

Your course (e.g., Mth 151, Mth 173, Phy 121, Phy 232, etc. ):

If you have one, please provide your access code.  You may leave this part blank if you do not yet have an access code. 

If you do not have an access code and have not already done so, you need to immediately go to http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/ > General Information, click on Request Access Code and submit the completed form. 

Remember that it is crucial to enter your access code correctly.  As instructed, you need to copy the access code from another document rather than typing it.

Access Code
Confirm Access Code

Your Name:

Your VCCS email address.  This is the address you were instructed in Step 1 to obtain.  If you were not able to obtain that address, indicate this below.

Copy the document below into your word processor or text editor.  Complete each task, and respond as indicated:

Note:  If you do not have the disks for your course, you should not complete this exercise at this time.  Complete this once you have your disks.

Task:  `q000:  Verify that you have your disks.

Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):

Note:  If you do not have the disks for your course, you cannot complete this exercise at this time.  Complete this once you have your disks.

Checking disks:

Task:  `q001.  This applies to all courses except Mth 158, which uses publisher support rather than disks produced by the instructor.

Class notes, in lecture format with video clips, are distributed on the disks you purchased in the bookstore. 

If you do not have your disks yet you will have to skip this instruction for now, and you will need to return to this exercise when you receive them. If that is the case you may close this assignment after first entering in the response area below a statement that you do not yet have the disks.

Otherwise run one of the disks for your course

1. Insert the disk you have selected into your drive. Open Windows Explorer and run the HTML file in the root folder (simply locate the file, right-click, choose 'Open With...', and choose your Internet Browser).  That file will have a name like disk_1.htm or disk_2.htm, and will be one of very few files in the root folder, so you should be able to locate it easily enough. 

• The information on your disk was originally assembled for CD's, and your disk consists of a compilation of a number of CD's.  The HTML file in the root folder will give you a list of the CDs collected on your disk. 
  
  2. When you run the HTML file you will either get a menu of Class Notes or a series of direct links to video clips.

• If you get a menu of Class Notes, click on one of the links (#3 would be a good choice but any will do). Otherwise go to the instruction #4.
• You will see a page containing notes. If you scroll down the page you will see links to video clips embedded within the notes.
• Click on several of these links to see how they work.

4. If you got a series of direct links, click on one of them in order to see how they work. Click on several more so you will be familiar with the format of these video clips.

If you have trouble finding the correct file, go to the link root folder file and information for more details on how to locate and run the HTML file.

Describe what you did and what you saw.

Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):

#$&*  (Note that your response was to go into 'the next line'; your response will therefore be inserted before this line, not after.  This is obvious when you're looking at the form, but if you've copied the form into a text editor it might be less obvious.  Hence this note.)

Task:  `q002.  See root folder file and information for a listing of the contents of each disk.  You don't need to understand what you're seeing at this point; that will become clear when you begin your content assignments for the course.

Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):

#$&*  (your response should have gone on the line above this one)

Task:  `q003. 

Check the rest of your disks.

Each disk should be accessed by browsing to the disk and running the file whose name most closely matches the name of the disk, or the HTML file in the root folder of the DVD. Insert each disk in turn into your drive, browse to the appropriate file, and run it.

If all your disks work, indicate that they do. If you have trouble with any of them, or with these instructions, describe your problems in detail. 

Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):

#$&*  (your response should have gone on the line above this one)

Now highlight and copy your document, paste your copy into the box below. 

Double-check to be sure you have accurately filled in the information at the beginning of this form.

Then click on Submit Form. 

It is suggested that you save a copy of your document as a backup.

When you submit this document you will have complete Orientation Step 5.  Your next activity will be Orientation Step 6.