Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing
assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be
sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now
about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed
information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start
actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the homepage for your course (which you bookmarked
according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link
entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page
is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which
includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For
everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also
find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version
provided on the homepage for your course.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
On the Brief Assignments Page shows the course is comprised of four
modules, each module consisting of several assignments, qa's, labs, etc.
The Table of Assignments is an elongated version of the brief assignments
page and gives a more in depth explanation for each assignement
objective.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q007. From the homepage for your course click on Course of
Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find
the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the
syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be
sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you
are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have located and read the course syllabus
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q008. Return to the homepage for your course and once more
click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your
bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge
in your response that you have done so.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added the brief assignments page to my internet browser.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q009. On the homepage for your course, click on Link to
Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use
to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up
you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where
... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as
well as your General College Physics course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what
you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a
quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will
be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after
registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You
might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either
is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on
the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC
are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to
be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the
Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of
Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
When I click on the Supervised Study Spring 2013 link in Blackboard, I
was routed to an Announcement page within Bb explaining the purpose of
Bb as being a place to check grades for the course and to locate the
instructor's information.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but
the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of
very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not
sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature
we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your
grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades
will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the General College
Physics site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and
General College Physics sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used
extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
The Grades center shows a table with several Items for grading listed with
a column for student submission and instructor grading time stamps.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page,
but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any
questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not
feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or
something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the
next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
OK
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
*#&!
&#Good work. Let me know if you have questions. &#
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Note my correction related to the Due Dates Page:
The correct URL is
http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/ph1fall9/frames_pages/timetable_spring_13.htm
I apologize for the error, and thank you for pointing it out.
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