also go astray (an exception being Orientation assignments, which
if submitted through the appropriate form require only your email
address).
The important point here is the following:
You should retain your original copy of every document you
submit.
These are not typically large documents, and they are easy to
handle. You should also therefore consider emailing yourself a
copy of each submitted document.
Restate the above in your own words,
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
It is important to keep a copy of every form that you submit and
is reccommended to email yourself a copy of each form.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q003. Other than the name and email address you enter
when requested by the form, you should not include any other
identifying information on the form. This will ensure that, even
in the unlikely event that someone stumbles on your access page,
there will be nothing on that page to identify you.
Please indicate this in your own words.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
Add no other identifying information to the submissions to ensure
that others are not able to gain access to your documents.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q004. If you wish to maintain your privacy, then after
browser and close the browser in order to maintain the security
of your access page. In Internet Explorer you do this by
clicking on Tools > Internet Options > General and choosing to
Clear History and Delete Temporary Internet Files.
You should safeguard your code. However if despite your best
efforts you have reason to believe your access code has been
compromised you may email the instructor from your VCCS account
and request a new access code.
Please indicate your understanding of this advice in the box
below:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
If desired it is possible to set security levels to clear the
history and to delete temporary internet files.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q005. Everything you submit should be submitted through
a form. If your work is formatted (e.g., for a lab report,
because it contains graphs, or for some other reason) you may
also 'back it up' by emailing the formatted document, but the
document should first be copied and pasted into the Submit Work
form and submitted. If everything has been done according to
instructions, it is seldom necessary for the instructor to look
at your formatted file.
Please state this in your own words:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
If the information submitted on a form is formatted information,
then you may send the information as an email as a backup for the
submission, but if done correctly this is not necessary.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q006. Keep the Thread: When sending messages don't
assume that your instructor remembers the last message you sent.
If your present message is related to the previous message, or
answers a question posed by the instructor in a previous message,
be sure you don't remove all that information when you send your
new message. Your instructor will have less time to spend on your
work if it is often necessary to go back and research previous
correspondence to figure out what you are talking about. It is
your responsibility to give the instructor everything required
for a useful response in one message.
For example if the instructor poses the question 'now what do you
get when you divide $400 by $10 / hour', don't send back a
message that reads
Dear Instructor,
the answer is 40
Your student.
with nothing more in the message. Include the question, include
your original work on the problem, and state your answer in a
format that makes it clear you understand what you are doing.
State this in your own words.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
Make sure that you keep all parts of a conversation together so
that the train of thought of the question and answers can be
followed easily and not have to be researched.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
STUDENT QUESTION REGARDING PREVIOUS:
Is it ok if we use the reply feature on emails? Or should we just
submit a new form with previous correspondence copied in.
INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE
The 'reply' function is probably the easier alternative, and
unless you remove it the thread will be maintained. So that's the
preferred choice.
Task: `q007. Make it Self-Contained: When submitting any
documents or question:
Make your message self-contained, so that it isn't necessary
for the instructor to delay responses to other students by
searching out additional documents. (For example, answer a
question posed in a previous communication from the instructor by
inserting it into a copy of that document. Other students are
waiting for responses, so don't expect your instructor to go back
and look up the document.)
Be sure your document can be read efficiently by scrolling
down the page, with no need to scroll right or left (this will
not generally be an issue, since almost all your work will be
submitted through text forms where this is not a problem)..
Explain your understanding of these requirements.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
Make sure that all information needed by the professor is
included in your document and that it is arranged so there is no
jumping from place to place needed.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q008. Please understand that to make it possible to work
individually with a large number of students, your instructor
works with you mainly by responding to your assignments and
questions. Your instructor will generally not initiate contact
with you. It is your responsibility to initiate contact with the
instructor by submitting assignments and questions, and you can
generally expect a reply to be posted by the end of the day after
it is sent, seven days a week.
An exception is when the instructor is out of town for a
conference or on personal business; this typically happens a
handful of times during a term. There would also be an exception
should in the event of injury or illness (neither has interfered
with the instructor's schedule in well over a decade of distance
offerings but either remains possible). In the event of a
planned absence (usually not lasting more than three days) you
should be notified by email in advance so you can plan
accordingly. In the event of an unplanned absence you would be
notified as promptly as possible.
If a reply is not posted within this time you should resubmit
your work.
However if you do resubmit, be sure to indicate at the
beginning that the work has already been submitted.
Please restate this in your own words.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
A reply from the instructor should be expected by midnight of the
day after submission. If the instructor will not be able to get
information back to the student due to being out of town or
illness, the sudent will be notified. Ifa a student resubmits a
document,, it is important to note that is a resubmital.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q009. You will normally use web forms (e.g., the Submit
Work form) to communicate information. However some documents
are formatted in such a way that the text-only format available
on the form is not sufficient. In this case you should still
submit a text version of the document using the form, but you may
also send a backup copy using your VCCS student email.
Any email you send should contain access information in the
precise format prescribed in the message you received with your
indicated in that message, rather than being typed in.
Any email should also identify your course (e.g., Mth 173 or Phy
121, etc). in its subject line.
Emails must be sent from your VCCS email account. Messages sent
from other accounts may or may not receive responses, but it will
not be possible for the instructor to search such messages, and
information sent from other accounts risks being screened out by
our network's SPAM filter.
Please indicate how you will include your course and access
information when and if you send email messages:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
If necessary for clarity, send submission form as well as an
email of information. The course number should be in the
subject line and other identifying information should be copied
and pasted from submission form.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q010. Any document you submit to the instructor must be
a word-processed document. It is not possible for the instructor
to efficiently insert comments into Excel documents, scanned
documents or documents submitted on paper or by fax.
Don't spread things over multiple documents (e.g., a word
processed document with an explanation and a spreadsheet document
with some tables and graphs) but copy and paste everything into
one document so the reader doesn't waste time flipping from one
document to the other.
Tables and graphs from Excel and other programs can be copied and
pasted into word-processed documents.
Note that for most purposes graphs need to be described in
words. the important skill is not the use of a computer program
to construct a graph, but your understanding of the essential
properties and the meaning of the graph.
The only exception to this policy is tests, which are completed
in an approved proctoring situation, and are done on paper and in
your handwriting (see also instructions previously provided
regarding testing).
Please summarize your understanding of this policy.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
It is important that all information of the assignment be
included into one document. Spreadsheets and graphs can be copied
and pasted into processed documents. Tests may contain
handwritten information due to the limited time allowed. The
student should be able to conver graph information by written
description rather that the actual graph.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q011. It is usually much more efficient and effective
for the instructor to work with you through forms and your Access
Page than face-to-face.
The instructor enjoys working face-to-face with students, but
this is not feasible in an asynchronous course. It is not
possible to respond meaningfully to your submitted work, and at
the same time to accommodate the desire of a class full of
asynchronous distance students for individual face-to-face
meetings.
For this reason the instructor's office hours are conducted
by responding to information received through forms, and face-
to-face meetings are normally restricted to matters that have
already been addressed to the fullest possible extent via
electronic communication (e.g., access page and forms) and have
proven impossible to resolve efficiently by this means.
This policy makes it possible for the instructor to respond fully
to your submitted work and to do so in a timely manner. It also
ensures that all students, local as well as non-local, get equal
attention from the instructor.
Please explain this briefly in your own words.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
It is much more efficient for the instructor to respond to
questions via electronic means rather that in person.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q012. When you take a test you must submit the Test
Taken Form (at the General Information page, just below the
Submit Work Form) to alert the instructor to be on the lookout
for your test. If a test has gone astray (rare but tests can be
misrouted) we can more easily trace it if we know promptly that
it's missing.
Please state this in your own words:
It is important to submit the test taken form so that the test
can be tracked if it does not arrive.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q013. Save all communications from the instructor;
you're responsible for doing so. You are also responsible for
keeping track of what you have sent the instructor, who can
provide more timely and more complete responses if time isn't
wasted rereading something re-sent by a student who wasn't
weren't sure whether it was sent in the first place. Once your
work appears at your Access site (explained when you get your
at least two places.
State this in your own words.
**** our response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt): Make sure to keep a copy of all communications to and
from instructor, including emails and coursework.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
Task: `q014.
If you submit a document and get a form confirmation, then the
document has been received.
It might happen that you submit a document then realize you
didn't submit your identifying information. If this happens,
then submit it once more, and be sure to carefully include your
information. However, do your best to get it right the first
time.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of
the process of submitting a document.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next
line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$...
prompt):Try to get all information on a sumitted document
correct, but if something is incorrect then resubmit the
information.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
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