Welcome wonderful intermediate algebra students. This is a short introduction on how to get started. First thing, you're going to launch a web browser and you're going to want to go to www.kellogg.edu. From the home page for Kellogg Community College. There's a faculty and staff button along with the faculty web page. If you click on the faculty web page, you'll notice that my name, Anna Cox, is the first one in the list. Here you see my spring schedule and an intermediate algebra link. You also have information on this page that's important. You have a link back to the Kellogg Community College homepage. You have my e-mail cox.a@kellogg.edu. If you e-mail me and you do not get a response within two days, e-mail me again letting me know that it's a second e-mail or even a third. Sometimes we have problems with our system. My phone number, 269-660-2333, that's a direct phone number to my KCC phone extension. We have a fax machine number I listed here 269-565-2056. Make sure your name and my name are on each and every page when you fax me something because it's a shared machine between three different departments. My office is 4 O 1X and I always love to see my online students. If you're in Battle Creek, if you're on campus, if you want to just stop in and say hello, or if you're needing help, love to see you face to face. I have lots and lots of office hours which are listed here and you can stop in at any of my office hours. I'm also more than willing to make appointments with you if need be. Now, the link I want you to be aware of is the intermediate algebra link. If you click on there, it opens up into a new window. Course Compass is where we're going to be doing a lot of our work. Course Compass right here is a link. If you're enrolled in the online courses for Spring 2012, sections 90 and 91, you're going to use Cox 0159 as your ID code Cox 07159. I've also made videos for this chapters in the sections that we cover this semester. So if you clicked on Chapter 2, let's say we cover sections 21 through 26, and these are videos that I've made knowing the highlights of what we expect here at Kellogg Community College for our intermediate algebra class. There's also a return to Anna's 121 homepage and a return to Anna's homepage links. As the semester went on, I had students who started sending me ask instructor questions. So one of the things that I've done is in in later chapters, I actually have ask instructor questions. So problems from students that they've asked and I've solved them here. This would be a chapter 4, Section 1 #19 homework problem that somebody asked for. If you click on it, it gives you the original problem and it shows you my work on how to solve it. So those are things that you want to be aware of. If we go back to my homepage, www.kellogg.edu, Anna Cox, Intermediate algebra, I want to walk you through course compass. So if you click on the course compass link, you're going to get my math lab or course compass. And for those of you who are new, you're going to register as a student. And so click on Register student, the course ID is that course ID that I just showed you. It also came on the postcard and it's come in an e-mail. So hopefully by now you have it. Cox 07159 if you hit continue tells you over here on the right. Spring 2012 Math 121 sections 1991 Anna Cox at Kellogg Community College username. If you've used my math lab before and you remember your username and password, you can actually sign in here. If you don't have a username and password, I'm going to do a create like I don't already have one. So click on create and it's going to ask you for your given information. So Cox A at Kellogg dot Edu, make sure you use a valid e-mail address. It's really important. It's not easy to change if you don't have a correct e-mail there. My username I'm going to have as Anna. Oh, it says use your e-mail address as your username. That's new. So we're going to use. That's why it came in automatically. OK password, Enter password at least 8 characters long, one letter, one number. Does not include your name or username, so just making something up. It checks everything off as I am successful. My first name, last name. I'd appreciate it if you'd use capital. The program alphabetizes, but it alphabetizes with capitals versus non capitals. Security question. That's in case you forget. So I was born in Indianapolis. We'll use that one down here. I'm going to accept the license agreement and I'm going to create an account. Now. If you've bought a book from KCC, that's a new book. You have a free access code with your book. If you've not purchased a new book or you don't have an access code, you can actually just purchase the online version which includes an electronic copy of our textbook. It's currently $82 for just the online access. If I click on here, it's then going to take me into my credit card information, billing address, etcetera. So if you continue from here on, you will get logged into our class. I've already signed in, so I'm actually going to come in and do a quick overview of some of the things to highlight in our course. Once you get registered, once you get online, you should have your course listed over here. I have lots because I use this and teach a lot. Spring 2012 Math 121 sections 90 and 91. Currently we have 7 of you yay that have found your way in here. If we click on that link, here is our course under announcements. We're going to have announcements listed here. Grades This button I'm going to post grades about every other week. A lot of that will depend on when your tests fall. I always try to get grades posted as quickly as I can after a test. Syllabus and advice Here's syllabus. Here's some advice from previous students. One of the big things is this is a very, very fast-paced course. It also covers a lot of content. If you are not a strong math student and or not motivated to keep yourself on a rigorous schedule, this may not be the best platform for you. I've taught this for a lot of semesters and I can tell you the students who are successful came in being fairly strong math students and also were incredibly motivated and stayed on top of things in this section also. Nope, that's what's going to be in the section. The syllabus and advice from previous students under assignments. It's coming, it's not here yet. There'll be an assignments at a glance that will have every assignment for the entire semester and when it's due. It will also have your unit directions here under homework. Homework is going to open into the homework that is assigned for you for the semester. So if I click on H11 I have 10 questions that are assigned from section 11. If I click on question one, my first question says, soon as it loads, write the English phrase as an algebraic expression. Let X represent the number 19 less than a number. I'm going to type in things that are wrong first. So what if I typed in 19 -, X? It's going to tell me that I'm not correct. Says use the variable X less than and the appropriate number to represent this phase. So now I'm going to say, well, let's say I think it's a -, 19. It's going to tell me that that's not right again, because I didn't use the variable it recommends me to use. So here if I type in X -, 19, now it's going to tell me I've done it correctly. So good job up here at the top. It tells me over here in the right corner. This was a chapter 1, Section 1 #11 problem. I'm going to go to the next one, which is number 2. Use mathematical symbols to translate the phrase. I wanted to point out over here that you have an entire mathematical palette that you can use of symbols if you need them. So I'm actually not going to finish this right now. I want to emphasize some of the buttons over here on the right. Help me solve. This is an incredibly powerful button. If I click on help me solve this, it's going to walk me through what I should be doing. So to translate the statement, if I hit continue 31 miles becomes 31 and I can check the answer and it tells me if I did it correct or not. Then it tells me 4 gallons becomes 4 gallons. Next identify the word that corresponds to mathematical operation in the phrase. So it will walk me through step by step by step miles per gallon of gas. Next, identify the word that corresponds to a mathematical operation in the phrase So per. The word per refers to division. Replacing per with a รท you get 31 / 4. So I've now walked through it over here. It'll tell me I can close that. I haven't gotten it right yet because I didn't do the problem. So 11 miles per 2 gallons. Now I can do 11 / 2 and I get it correct. If we looked at view an example, the view an example button will actually walk me through how to do it. So that's another powerful button. The view an example. Some of them, not all of them, will actually have an animation button and that will open up into something that's going to actively show you what is happening. So if we start at the changing word phrases to algebraic expressions, OK, I'm going to stop that now, but animation is a good place to look. The textbook will actually open your textbook to Chapter 1, Section 1 where you can reference. Now the button that a lot of students like and I like it also is Ask my instructor. And what the Ask my instructor button will do is it actually sends me the exact question that you were working on that exact problem and you can type down here. I don't understand something why division is per and you send it and it comes immediately to my e-mail and then I can respond directly to you and I will respond to you and I will also post it on that KCC academic web page where it says students questions or at students asked by questions. So this is where you're going to be doing all your homework. If you had more than 10 questions, this double arrow would open up. It tells me that I have two of ten complete right now. I have a 20%. I also have a button called similar exercises. If I did this one and got it right, but I'm feeling a little uncertain, I can click the similar exercise and it will let me do more of this exact same type until I feel very confident. So once again, I want a similar 20 per three. Say I type in four, it's going to tell me that's not right. I get a try three times before it actually will tell me the right answer. So let's say 20 per six and let's say 20 per seven. And it shows me then what the correct answer is and what I what I answered. So it once then it asked me, do I want to save this attempt or save best score? I would encourage you to save your best score. So I'm going to hit save. I can always come back into the homework at any time. Quizzes and tests, no, but homework, yes. So that was the assignment or that was the homework button. Quizzes and tests button. It's going to open up into the same thing. Actually, it opened into a new window over here. Here's some quizzes and tests. So coming back, looking at the next one, additional practice. I did not assign every problem in the book, so if you feel like you need more practice than what I've assigned, Chapter one has 332 problems built in. I've currently spent one minute and 10 seconds on it. It says chapter two, 268. If I click on chapter 1 and I want more practice than what I've assigned, I assigned you 10. There were 34 problems, so you could come in here and do 24 more problems if you wanted. It also splits it up into topics, so you can actually go in and say I want this topic going back into Course Compass, the e-book. You have the entire textbook here online, the entire textbook. So here's chapter 1. Here's Section 1. I have a video lecture. This lecture is not my lecture, but it is a lecture that is done by the textbook company Multimedia textbook sections. These are video clips, animations, and practice exercises. The textbook exercise, it will look exactly like the hardback book if you click on here and open the hardback book. This is the exact same track, tutorial exercises. These are the ones that track whether you've understood it or not, and it gets updated into the grade book in the study plan. You don't have to worry about those unless you're wanting additional practice. Going back to ebook for just a second. At the bottom you have graphing calculator appendix. You have the answers from your from your textbook. You have an index, you have index of the applications. So those are all important things to also be aware of under handouts. These are handouts that we use in the face to face classroom. These were developed by Pat Cough and myself over the semesters. So there's additional handouts. There's going to be some things here that I ask you to print out throughout the semester, but there's also handouts that I refer to in each of the units. These truly are what we would be using if you were sitting in our face to face classrooms. These are what we do our lectures on. They're also what I've done many, many of my videos using. So if we looked at factoring trinomials and perfect squares, if I open this, it's just a PDF. And if you go to my video on factoring, it would correspond most of the time with these handouts. Tools for success student solutions manual right here. So you don't have to purchase that if you don't want. It's built into here. There's chapter test prep videos, translating word problem activities. There is an English to Spanish audio dictionary. There's so much really amazing things built into this multimedia library. This just takes you directly into your book as to what we have. So if you wanted to figure out what all, we have animations built into Chapter 1 and we have prep videos built in. We have multimedia textbooks, there's a PowerPoint, and there's more videos. Communication. I know I'm going through this all fast, but I want to make sure that you listen. Communication. The announcement button is the same one as the original discussion boards. You're going to go to a lot in this class, so a discussion board. The site's being slow. I want everybody to introduce yourself. It's one of our first assignments. So here you're going to click on introduce Yourself and you're going to add a new thread. So hi everyone, and I submit, I think you actually have to have mine to start and then you are going to hit reply. I'd like you to put your name in the reply line and then a message. Who are you? Why are you here? What do you hope to gain from this course? Once again, I really want to emphasize you need to be a strong math student and or incredibly motivated to be successful in this course. You're also under discussion boards going to have group pages that will be assigned. I can't assign those until I get everybody registered. So I need everybody to get registered as soon as possible. You also have the ability to send emails and you can send emails to select users. These are currently the people who are enrolled for this semester. You can click on me, you can click on Luke, you can click on Amber. So you can send emails to people. You're going to have a create a home page assignment and that's going to be found once they're done under roster. If you click on search, I'm just going to click on Barbara right now. She doesn't have her home page, but she will once she gets the instructions. So that's how you're going to get to look at each other's home pages. So you're going to go into communication and roster and search and click on a last name or click on a name. External links. You're actually going to have an assignment of going out and finding external links that you think are helpful in mathematics. I list them all. We build, we change, we make sure links are still active, etcetera. Throughout the semesters. Student tools, there's a calendar, digital Dropbox, you're going to use a lot. The digital Dropbox I cannot use because I'm an instructor. But when we click on here, you're actually going to send me files. You're going to send me your homework and things electronically through the digital Dropbox. You're going to make your home page here. Once again, it's not going to let me because I'm an instructor, but clicking on Student Tools home page is where you're going to make it. If you want to know more about me, faculty information, I've taught for a long time. I absolutely love teaching. I love helping students be successful. I've taught internationally. I've taught kindergarten through college. The last button answer key is currently empty, but as you take Proctor test, I will post the answer keys here. I will also send them back to you through snail mail through the US Postal Service. Proctor test take me a while because I have to get them from every site that students are taking them from. I don't grade them until I have everybody's test at the same time. The other thing I should go back to homework. You're going to have an orientation. You're going to have a chapter O. Where did it go? Well, OK, there will be a chapter O eventually, which will be the homework orientation. I thought it was under homework. I will get that up and going soon. I hope this is your short introduction to everything. Hopefully to get you started and up and going. You have the very first assignments due on January 17th. If you are not up and enrolled in the course, you will be dropped. I have to have everybody who's in here, and I have a huge waiting list already of students who want in this course. So please get on, Please be active. Please be honest with yourself. If you are not a strong math student, if it has been five years since you've had a math course, if you're not somebody who stays motivated, well, this may not be the right format. Realistically, 15 to 20 hours a week, and that's the average. If you're a slower math student, it's harder for you. You may have longer than 20 hours. If it comes a little easier, a little faster, you may have less than 15. Very, very realistic 15 to 20 hours for this course. I am so excited and I look forward to working with you. We are going to have an amazing semester. Let me know the minute you start struggling so that I can be there to help you. Have a great day.