Welcome fall 2013 intermediate algebra students to an exciting new semester. We're using Pearson, My lab and mastery.com, sometimes referred to coursecompass.com. It works best in Internet Explorer. That's important. Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer. Some things don't open, some things don't work in Firefox or Chrome. So we're going to get registered to start. And the big thing that you need to know is Coc 66886. That's our course ID code. Once you register the first time, you don't ever need to know that again. If you already have a Pearson account, you can use it if you remember your password and your login. You can also get a free 17 day temporary access code in case your book hasn't come yet if you've ordered it in the mail. So we're going to start by going in and looking at our website, mypearsonmylabandmastering.com. If you already have an account, you're going to sign in here. If not, you're going to register. If you need access, come down here. So we're going to sign in and I already have an account, so I'm just going to sign into mine up here. Yours is going to look a little different. Mine looks a little different because I'm a teacher Create copy course. Yours is going to say enroll in new course and you're going to click there and you're going to type in that Cox 66886. Once you register the first time, you're going to get a blue line here with the course ID that says Fall 13, Math 121 online. If you look, I've got lots of them. I've used Course Compass for many, many years, and actually that's not even close to all of them that I have because they delete them after a certain number of years. So I'm going to click on there and I'm going to do a brief overview of the course. Now, the design is very different because the textbook has gone into a new edition. I know that there are several of you who are repeating the course for a variety of reasons. This is going to look different when you log in. I would recommend seeing if it will allow you to enroll in the new course but not have a new access code. So when you get here and you enroll new course, type in the new code and see if it will let you use your old code. If you happen to still remember it when you repeat a course, it traditionally doesn't charge you to take the course again. And it stated that back here on the document if you're retaking or continuing course, if you're retaking the course or enrolling, you don't need to pay again now because it's a new addition. They might say that's not the case, but I sure would try to make it happen. And you could contact Pearson directly if it's saying that you have to pay again. But let's go ahead and walk through some of the features. The very first thing is on the course homepage is a link to a Google document, and I need you to fill this out. It's a protected Google document. It's only accessible to people who I've sent the link to. But I need to know things about how to contact you this semester and where you're going to take your Proctor test. This is probably one of the most important pieces of information. So your first name, your last name, some of you have different last names than what's on the roster, so please put both so that I know who's in my class. Your KCC e-mail address, that doesn't have to be the one that I necessarily interact with you at, but I need that one in addition to the e-mail address that you register with for Course Compass. I will traditionally send everything out through Course Compass or the my Math Lab over here, but periodically if I can't find you, I may use both the KCC and the other your contact information if there's an emergency of some sort. You haven't taken a Proctor test, You've not been participating. How I can get a hold of you place where you're going to be taking the exam, Battle Creek, Hastings, Coldwater, Albion, Oregon, other. If you're taking it anywhere else, I've got to have a lot of information like who's going to be proctoring the test. Now, if it's a testing center, just tell me it's the Kalamazoo Valley Community College testing center or wherever yours is an e-mail address, because I'm going to have to e-mail them the test, a phone number so that if they don't get the test or if I don't get back the test from when you've taken it, that's important. If you're taking it at any other location, I need you to do some verification. Can they receive a PDF document and do they have the ability to print it? IE do they have Adobe? You verified that the Proctor has some way to complete, to return the completed exam. So our if you're taking it on KCC website, just click there. But they're going to fax it to me, or they're going to scan it and e-mail it back to me, or they're going to photograph it with a camera, high resolution. Please make sure if you're taking it anywhere other than in the Battle Creek campus, you write really, really dark so that when it comes to me, it's legible. I trip, typically try to get my test graded within a day or two. So you'll get feedback fairly quickly. Sometimes there's a fee, so I want you to be aware of it. Have you asked if there's a fee or not? If there is a fee, I'd like to know about it. I kind of keep that information for my my own information for future students. So all of this is really important. The testing center has changed the semester, very, very, very new procedures. You actually have to call any of the sites and make arrangements to go and have a test. You cannot walk in anymore in any of the sites. You have to call and make arrangements. And actually the main campus is having a registration online, but it's not live yet, so I can't walk you through it. I would recommend for the first time to call four or five days in advance or even to just walk into the testing center and have them help you. They know that we're going to have some confusion in the beginning because we have a brand new system. So under assignments, when we have an arrow that points over to the right, that means there's more underneath it. So if you click it and it opens down, there's more to be seen. In the actual assignments button. There are documents that give detailed descriptions of what you need to be doing. So the syllabus is here, the Unit 1 document, the Unit 2 document, the Unit 3 document. So open this document for description, point values and due dates. Follow these Unit 1 directions for further instructions. So the Unit 1 document is going to be a PDF and it has all of our due dates. So the very first day of class you have an assignment. Don't get behind. This is a fast-paced course with lots of information. So the first day you've got an assignment and that's to get used to the website and there's actually orientation homework problems that I'll show you in a moment. The next day you have a two page introductory writing paper due. It's worth 10 points. Please don't blow it off online homework. You're going to get 2 points for each homework assignment. It's going to be calculated based on how much you complete successfully. I have it set up that you can take it over and over and over again until you get 100%. And that doesn't mean you have to redo all the problems. You can redo just the problems that you miss. The goal here is to understand it and master it and get 100% on all the homework. You're going to have comprehensive quizzes. The quizzes are worth one point each and the quiz has all of the help me solve its and viewing examples turned off. So the goal is for you to thoroughly understand the material. You can only take a quiz once and you have to have a 70% or higher on the homework to even take the quiz. The chapter 2 post test, you're going to get five points extra credit. The only extra credit the whole semester is going to be revolving around the post test and the post test. You get 5 points extra credit if you score 75% or higher on anyone test. You can take this as many times as you need. If you want to take it 50 times, you can take it 50 times, but one of the scores has to be a 75% or higher to get five points extra credit. We're going to have, I don't remember off the top of my head, six or seven tests. So that's 30 points or 35 points extra credit throughout the semester. You have a unit 1 test online. It's going to be the only non Proctor test. So you only have one test that's totally online. And I do this in a pretty quick fashion. And the reason is that I want you to be successful. And if you don't think that taking this course online is right for you, you have until September 8th to drop the course. Now, once the Unit 1 test is done, I have the ability and I will go in and look and give you partial credit because this test, obviously by being online is marked right or wrong. They may give you partial credit if there's three or four pieces to a problem. But I can kind of look and say, oh, I understand on this problem. Maybe they subtracted instead of added. So back to our website. This assignments button before I get into the units is really important and you're going to want to click through it. Here is the due dates and here is more detailed unit instructions. Now, I've reworked these pretty thoroughly to match the new edition of the textbook. However, if I've missed anything, please feel free to e-mail me. Just say Anna, I think that you didn't change this, or you missed this, or you forgot this. I it's always a work in progress. I'm always trying to make my classes better for all my students, so feel free if that doesn't make sense or if there's something I tell you to click on a button that doesn't exist anymore, feel free to interact with me that way. So this assignments button is important. And truthfully, when I was reviewing my course not very long ago, I kind of missed it because I went straight to Unit 1. And this isn't in the Unit 1 portion here in the Unit 1. This is our grade sheet, which you just saw with that PDF. I like the PDFs personally, because then I can print them out. I can mark them off. But it's all right here also. And you can click like here's orientation. And the orientation, I am making this in the middle of the night. So if the website's down, it may not link. Oh, come on. Well the orientation if it loads is going to go to some orientation problems for us to work open in a different place. No. Oh, and I just closed it out. The joy of technology. It works great when it does it what you want. Oh come on. Wow, computer not happy. Technology doesn't always work for all of us. Sometimes we all have problems. Really short technical difficulty and I decided not to remake the video so I'm just going to cut and paste pieces together. Had to reboot the computer. Truthfully, I'm notorious for having 22 windows open at once and somehow one of them crashed back to the assignments button when I clicked on unit 1. We had all these different links in here, and so if I click on orientation, right here is the orientation homework problems. So you're going to click on there and you're actually going to work these 8 problems. This is just meant to get you used to navigating around the website. Once again, if you find that it's not working, make sure you're in Internet Explorer. That's really important. Once I answer, type the number one check answer. Nice work there. Review an example and help me solve it over here. Ask my instructor actually sends me an e-mail of where you're having problems. But this orientation is pretty good and it'll walk you through things. So make sure that you do all eight of the questions. You get a percent up here. Over here to the right is actually going to be the chapter, the section and the problem number. So once you get into homework, you'll have a reference back to the textbook like it might say, Chapter 2, Section 4, problem 15. So I'm going to get out of here. That's going to ask me if I want to leave and you can read. So follow that along. I get a half a check and 1/2 an X because I answered half of it correctly at. You do get a 20% deduction per day from questions that are completed after the due date, so be aware of that. It's due on or before the day it's due. Now we all have technical difficulties but you need to work ahead. It is due when it's due. This is an automatic. It has nothing for me to do. It automatically just deducts 20% per day in the introduction. Here's some information about myself. This personal link to my website. I'm going to right click it and open in a new tab. This is actually a really nice place for you to go. This has my all my courses that I do trigonometry or intermediate algebra, trigonometry, precalc. So once you click here, these videos are going to be also the same videos that you're watching. It's just a different way to find them. And all the worksheets are also here. There's going to be a worksheet for each video. But down here is where the real power comes from. These are questions that previous students have asked. So problem 2, Chapter 2, section one, problem 9, if you click on these, they open up and they're going to be either videos or just pictures, and you can click on it and you can see that I can talk you through how to do a problem, what it means, etcetera. So that's a really valuable place. Oh, I didn't mean to close it, but that's a very valuable place. This academic web page has all of my classes down. Here is your introductory writing assignment. Once again, I'm not going to read it to you, but this is the information. It's found under Introductions, and you're going to respond here by adding a post, and you're going to Add all your information right here. Unit 2 is going to be set up the same way. You've got all this information when you click on Chapter 3 assignments. There's your homework, homework quiz, homework quiz, homework quiz, homework quiz, the post test, which is the extra credit. Let me go back here and look. Oh, here's the chapter 2 assignments. Starting to get concerned. You have a website search project. You've got lots of things to explore in here. The student grade book, this is a little different for me, so it's going to take a little getting used to on my part. I'm actually going to use the student grade book for your grade. So when you take a Proctor test, I'm going to input the Proctor test grade into the site. The hope is that you'll be able to see your grade at any given time, accurately reflecting how you're doing in the course. Homework. This is a button that I actually think I'm going to turn off now that I look at it because the homework is just listed, but not the quizzes and tests here. Now, granted, it's not hard to click over here and find the quizzes and tests, but I think that I'm probably going to turn off both these buttons. So if you don't see them in a little while, that's why. Additional practice. This is just the entire textbook, so I pick and choose the problems I want. But say we go into Chapter 2, and if I look over here, there were 53 questions out of Section 1, and I chose 20 or 25 of them. You can click on any of these sections and they'll open up. So here's a bunch of problems, 57 of them in Chapter 2, Section 2, and if you click on them, Chapter 2, Section 2, problem 25, they'll look like what I just showed you a moment ago. So here's all of the problems for the entire options of online help me solve. It's a nice tool. I don't know what I'm doing. I can click on here. It makes me actively participate. If I click on it, I'm just randomly clicking. I didn't read the problem out of all honesty. I get three chances typically to get it right. Don't do what I just did, which is trial and error. You should really be trying to learn the math. Continue anyway. View an example. This is the same thing with Help Me solve It, but now I'm not having to do anything. I can actually just kind of read a summary of what the problem's asking. The textbook actually connects to the section of the textbook, and you have the entire textbook along electronically available. So here's the textbook section 22. I have pages that I can go forward. I can read the homework problems if I get to the Backpage are also available online. So connect to tutor now. This is a tutor that Pearson provides your textbook publisher provides the Ask My Instructor. All those videos I showed you a minute ago, those were from students who clicked on Ask My Instructor. When you click on this, you can type me. I don't know what I'm doing in step three or I got as far as here. Being as detailed as you can will help me answer your specific questions. Once I answer the question, I typically send you the link directly and then I also post it on the website. If you haven't heard back from me within a day maximum within two days, assume I didn't get it. Make the best case assumptions. I don't ever intentionally forget to respond, but I am human and I have 5 classes this semester, two of them online. So make sure that if you don't get a response that you write me again and I sent you or I sent you a question 2 days ago and I haven't heard from you. Could you please redo it etcetera. So that's under additional. You won't even see instructor grade book, student resources. This has got all of the chapter contents. So here is the entire textbook chapter content. My math lab guide notes oh is turned off. That's OK. I am going to turn on the student solutions manual. Maybe I will do that right now. You can see me turn it on maybe. OK, this is a new design. I'm going to have to figure out what I'm doing anyway. I my goal is to have the student solutions manual turned on for you. Got to figure out. I won't do it right now because it may take longer than I want. Chapter 1 right here, Section 1, Chapter 1, etcetera. If you click on any of these, it's going to open to there's a video that goes with the textbook, there's multimedia that goes with the textbook, and then there's a study plan. These are all done by the textbook. Those are not necessarily mine. So let's close some of this out and see. You have an e-mail. You can e-mail me. You can e-mail the entire class. So you can come here, you choose who you want to e-mail. You add and you type whatever the subject line is and you type here you can give me hyperlinks, whatever you need. There's a chat in class live, I think probably I'll turn that off this semester. Document sharing. You can send documents to each other, you can send them to me. The multimedia library goes with the textbook and it's just all the different things, animation, test prep, videos, etcetera. This is standard for all their books, so you may find that some aren't available for ours. Tools for success here. There are video podcast, there's chapter test preps. This is a little overwhelming at times, I think, and once again, I'm going to leave it open, but I'm not certain that you're going to have much use unless you want to do things like go into allied health reference cards and see how key concepts in our book relate to your specific field. The tutor center down here. If you need more help, click here and they will help you. So that's just a quick going through of our course. I actually want to do one more time. Oops, not there. Let's go into one of the homework assignments. So let's come into chapter 3. If I click on three one, you're going to have the video that I made. These are typically 10 minutes or less, maybe 15, rare instance 20 depending on how much information is there. And there's a worksheet that goes with it. So if you click on the worksheet, here's the worksheet that corresponds with the video that I'm talking through. O typically, I'm going to do an example. I'm going to talk. I might give you some information to stick in the intersect parallel, same concept that's going to be consistent and consistent, dependent, independent. Do an example and then I have some try it's for you to do. So I've tried to give you some interactivity with the videos to make sure that you're understanding what's going on, but these are actually embedded in each of the homework assignments now. So you click and hopefully you watch the video first. These are all being scored stored on screencast.com. I do that very intentionally because it's a little more protected environment than things like YouTube. I want them available to my students, but I don't want so many hits that they can't get to them or whatever. I make them specifically for my classes. And then here's your 20 homework problems. To get 100%, you have to do all of these pieces. OK, so I'm looking forward to a great, great semester. Make sure that you remember under Introductions, you can find all about me. Here's my e-mail address, here's my phone number. At work, I don't typically check my phone unless I'm in my office. The absolute best way to get a hold of me is through e-mail. So right here's the e-mail. It's a shared fax machine and it doesn't work very well. It's pretty ancient, but if that's the only way we can communicate, we will do so. The academic web page I think you might want to use on a regular basis. My office feel free to always come by, stop, say hi. It's really nice when I get to see faces for my online students because I don't always know who you are and that's part of what the writing introductory assignment is. I do ask you to include a picture. I'd ask you to identify who you are in the picture. If there's more than one person to just for my own personal information so that I can get a picture of who you are. So I look forward to a great semester. Let me know if I can help you in any way.