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 #$... prompt):
Email must be sent by your vccs email account. it should contain the access code, then the name, and then title within it in the
format. Remember to copy paste the information. in the subject line it should start with DSC and then the first three letters of
your vccs email address, and then the numbers of your course
#$&* (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 #$... prompt):
This course is meant to understand what it covers, not how to make a program perform what you want. do not try to put things
into multiple documents, just use a signle word-processed document. There is an exception when taking a test, where everything
must be in ones handwriting.
#$&* (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 #$... prompt):
in an online course, the best way to communicate to the instructor is through the forms, or when needed, email. face to face will
be given when other possibilities have been exhausted.
#$&* (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:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
For efficiency when a test has been taken submit a test taken form. This is good for two things. It informs the instructor to be on
the lookout for your test. The second is to know quicker that it has gone missing to get it more quickly.
#$&* (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 access code), however, you may assume that it is safely stored in 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 #$... prompt):
Save all communications, it is student's responsibility. This makes things more efficient. Once on your access, you can also use
this to see where else it is stored (but dont use that solely).
#$&* (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 #$... prompt):
When submitting a document, do your best to make sure the identifiying information was on it. If you didnt, resend the form with
the information. If you get a form confirmation, that means it has been sent.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
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