Hello, amazing intermediate algebra students. I'm going to show you a short introductory into course compass and some of the things you're going to make sure you need to know Spring 13 Math 121 is our online section 90 and 91 course. The code, once you register, you don't need to know it again, but the code was Cox 75358. We click on this, you're going to open up to the announcements always. And the very first announcement you're going to need to make sure to fill in is about the testing information. All of your tests are going to be proctored tests. You can take them at any testing center across the world. Actually, it's going to say country, but the world. Most of you will take them at KCC and that's fine, but I need all of this information filled in. Your first name, your last name, your KCC e-mail address, the e-mail address you registered with in Course Compass. This is going to be primarily the way I interact with you is whatever e-mail you registered with Course Compass, you need to make sure you check that daily. If I have something that needs to get out to you, it's going to come through that e-mail address, contact information. If there's an emergency, IE you're at a testing site and the test for whatever reason isn't being able to be found or something. So you have to tell me where you're actually taking the test in Battle Creek, Hastings, cold Water, or Albion, etcetera. Please fill this out thoroughly and when you're done, hit submit syllabus and advice. This is the spring syllabus and this is advice from previous students. Most students will say it's a very fast-paced course and you have to stay motivated. If you're needing help, get it as soon as you're aware of needing it. Very, very fast-paced course here. All the information is required and it is all the same information that the students in the traditional face to face class are also receiving assignments. This is probably one of the most important locations within Course Compass. Your unit direction assignments are here. This is detailed information, website orientation, website orientation, study plan, etcetera. This is details of exactly what's expected of you. Under the same area is assignments at a glance. I would really encourage you to print these files out. This is where every single due date can be found. Our first day of class is January 22nd and you have two assignments worth eight points total due on January 22nd. You have a website orientation and you have a create your own web page home page. Many of you are way further along in this already and that's wonderful. I want to emphasize the last day to drop online classes are not for all students. You really need to be a rather strong math student who gets things fairly easily and you need to have a lot of time, realistically 4 hours a day for this course. That's realistic. Reminder, February 1st, last day to drop. You can get your money back if you drop before February 1st. If you feel like you can't do it, come talk to me. We can talk about it, e-mail me, we can discuss it. But this is not the right environment for all students back here. Once again, under assignments, there's group discussion questions. Every chapter is going to have a discussion. So Chapter 2, you're going to have a group that you're assigned. You're going to choose one of these questions. You are going to do one of them. Every person in the group is going to do a unique question. The sooner you get them done, the sooner you get to choose which one you want. If you're the last person, you get the problem. That's left homework. If we click on the homework button, you have an orientation that you're required to do. There are eight questions here. I'm going to click randomly on question four. You're going to do whatever the question tells you to do. It has to be correct. We can check our answers. It tells us if we got it right or not. We can click on the next question over and check our answer. If it's multiple parts, it's going to have a continue down here. This is meant to help get you acquainted with things. I haven't read the question. I'm just going to put in something. If I check my answer, it comes up with something that tells me I'm wrong over here. Ask my instructor. If I click on Ask My Instructor, it actually will send me Anna Cox, the e-mail of this actual problem that you're working on, and then I can address what you need to be thinking or doing differently. Print. You can actually print out the entire homework assignment if you want. So if you know you're not going to have Internet connectivity somewhere, you can print the homework assignment out. You can work the problems, and then you can go back and input the answers. When you're done, you click on save. I'm not finished, but I'm OK with that. It will show me which ones I have correct with the check and which ones are partially correct and partially wrong. Within homework there's another button called quizzes and tests. Every single section has a mini quiz that goes with it somewhere between 2:00 and 5:00 problems, so 2.1 comprehension. The difference between these quizzes is that you do not have asked my instructor on these. You also have to get a 50% or higher to even get into these on the homework. So when I click on here, this one's going to have three questions. Which quadrant is 6.610 located? And it shows me a picture over here. It's magnifying with a plus so I can make it bigger if I need to. I can even make it bigger than that. So this is going to be in quadrant 1. Next question, as you can see over here, I don't have asked my instructor anymore. I'm going to submit the quiz. You can only do these one time. Are you sure you want to submit it? Yes. So for me, I got only a 33 and a third person out of it. So I got one out of three. I can go to the results. This is listing everything I've done so far here in my result area. So I've done the orientation and I've done the comprehension. Now back on to the tests, quizzes, tests, test. If we go to the test and we go, oh, I'm in the results, let's go back here, quizzes and tests. The next button down, you guys are going to have test that you're going to take post test. You have to get one post test higher than 75% to get your points. One of the test, you can take it as many times as you want, but one of the test has to be a 75% or higher for a post test. Now Course Compass will average them all, but when I look at the grade book, I actually get to look at each and every individual grade. So make sure that one of your test is 75% or higher. This chapter 2 real test, it's the only real test you're going to take online and it's because it should all be review or pretty close to all be review material from a beginning algebra class. There's a time limit of 90 minutes and you get one chance to take this one, one chance to take the real test. You can take post tests as many times as you want. Real test is a one chance, so back into here. Quizzes and tests opened up into a new window over here. Additional practice. This is your textbook of all the problems that they have electronically. If we click on View all chapters, this brings up every chapter of our textbook and more problems than what I've assigned. So if you look here, this is 2/1. So there were 26 problems total. If you needed more practice, you can come in here. So additional practice, let's say I want one like 13. Once I do this problem, which quadrant? This is quadrant 4. If I check my answer 120, I didn't click quadrant 4I assumed it went in order 1234 check answer. It will let me do a similar exercise if I want. It will help me solve it. It will let me view an example. It will link me to the textbook. It will some of these, not all will connect to a tutor that can actually be a live person who says this is how you do it? The ask my instructor in the print. So those are your additional practice problems. You do not have to do them, but if you want to, these are the more additional problems to practice your ebook. Your ebook, The entire textbook we use is online. So here's your ebook. If we go to chapter 2, here's section 21. The textbook for most sections makes a video lecture. Also, I like you using mine because I know what I'm saying in mine and I know what the tests are going to expect. But if you're having problems with mine or if you want to hear it a different way, here's another video that goes specifically with our textbook multimedia textbook section. If you click on here, it literally will open the textbook up to page 74. And this looks just like your video or your textbook if you have a hard book. Now the difference is it's interactive. So there's a video lecture button here. If we forward it, there's another video, there's an animation, there's a you try it. If we keep going forward and we get to the homework, which I don't know what page it starts on, but if we get to the homework, these exercise buttons, these will actually open up to the problems that we just saw in the additional practice area. So these are problems straight out of the textbook. Now they're numerically generated. So each time the problems are going to be different, but we keep seeing the same kind of thing and I can hit similar exercises. Help me solve this. View an example so your entire textbook is online electronically. If we go back for just a minute to the ebook area. Tools for Success under Tools for Success, I have turned on the Student Solutions manual so you can actually click on here. And if you have a hard copy, it's the same thing. But this is a PDF of the Student Solutions manual so you're not having to purchase this separately. It has all of the odd problems worked out for you. Once again, you find that under the e-book and Tools for Success. Now there's some other tools that the textbook gives you chapter test prep videos, translating word problems, glossary concept videos, etcetera. Use them if you'd like. You don't have to, but that student solutions manuals, some students in the past have really found helpful handouts right here. Each of these handouts go with the various videos that I have made. So these are my videos, my videos with a worksheet. So as you're working the works, as you're watching the video, if you want to work out the problems with it, right here is the worksheet that goes with the video. If you were in my face to face class, you'd actually be turning these in every single day. So under communications, the announcement button just takes you back to the announcement page. Collaboration. You can actually get in here and do virtual classroom or chat with me or with each other. Discussion boards. This is going to be an important location that you're going to use periodically. The discussion board, if it will load, it's going to be where you can ask questions, where you can introduce yourself to the class, General class questions about math, general class questions about procedures and logistics. Coffee house. There's a math website link assignment coming up. You guys are also going to make videos in this class. So you're going to tell me which section you're going to do here. You're going to actually post your video link, You're going to put it out on YouTube or you're going to put it out on screencast, or you're going to put it somewhere where I can link to watch it discussion on the video in case you have questions or tips, etcetera. And then there'll be a final exam discussion board. Also. Back to handouts, at the very bottom there is a final exam review and there's chapter reviews also. Once again, a lot of these handouts are things that we use in the face to face class, but I find them beneficial for the online students. Under communication, you're going to be assigned a group. Once I get the groups assigned, which I'm not going to do until the first day of class because I need everybody to be registered in Course Compass, you're going to click on a group and your name will be right here. If you're in this group, I believe if you're logged in as a student, only one of these will be highlighted. So that would be the group that you're in. But once you're here group discussion board, there's all the different discussions listed and you're just going to put a new thread and you're going to say I'm doing problem #1 and you're going to tell me how to do it. Whatever. This square root X button actually comes up if you have the plug in installed, which apparently I don't right now. My apologies. I usually do most things in Chrome, and I'm making this in Mozilla instead. So if you have the plugin, you can actually put in math equations here and it'll have all the different symbols and whatnot. This is a different math equation editor. This one I think you actually have to know the code and I don't. The square root button is the one I use all the time and it will insert things. Students frequently will handwrite their problems and then take a picture of it and do an attachment, or even write it on the computer or make a video of their problem answer. Anything you want to do is fine, but it needs to be here and it needs to be so each of the people in your group can see it. So attachments are frequently easier. We know it's hard to type in math symbols, so once you do that, you're going to hit submit. I'm going to hit cancel because I didn't really put anything, but that's going to be an important place. And that's under communication, group, pages, roster. If you click on roster and click on search, everybody's names appear here. If you have done your group, if you've done your homepage, this is where you can check your homepage, communication, roster, search, and then your name. I don't know, I'm just going to randomly click on a couple names and see if I can find one that has the homepage done. There are very specific directions in the home page of things that I want you to show and talk about, and that can be found back in the unit directions. So send the e-mail. You have the ability to send an e-mail to everybody, or you can select users so you can choose who you want to send an e-mail to. Make sure you always type in our course Math 1/21 and the section you're either in 90 or 91. Please use correct grammar, pronunciation, spelling, etcetera. I guess pronunciation isn't right because we're not talking, but we're communicating. This is a college environment. Please type like you're a literate student. This is really important. It's a huge push all the way across the college. You can add attachments when you send things, etcetera. Under student tools, there's a calendar that is not got all of our assignments listed. I may turn that off. There's the digital Dropbox. If you have a file you need to send me, you can send it through Course Compass. The digital Dropbox, I can't get in it because I'm an instructor, but it'll ask you to upload your file and then it gets sent to me under homepage. I'm not going to be able to do this again, but once you hit the homepage, there is a programming error. And I say this every semester. I feel like 48 times, which is the quantity of students I have in this particular sections. It's going to tell you it didn't upload, but it really, really did. And the way you check it is you go to communications roster search and click on your name. That's how you can see if it's there or not. So back to student tools, check my math lab grades. This will list the things that you've took in in this class. It also allows you to review them. So if the due date is past, I can still go in and review them. So I can go in and I can see what I did and didn't get right. It will show me if I look here there's a little Red Square. If I put my mouse over it, it tells me that I answered nothing for these. If it has no little red thing it means I got it right. I also have the check up here to tell me I got it right. So test answer keys, once you start actually taking the proctored test, I will grade the Proctor test. I will send it back to you via e-mail and I will post the correct answers in this test answer key area, faculty information. This is some stuff about me. Also you can link to my academic web page from here. So if you click there now you're back to where all you can find all the different videos. Very short, quick, but lots of important information. Please watch this video, keep this video, refer to this video over and over and over again. Have a wonderful day and it's going to be an amazing semester. I really look forward to working with you. Remember, I am here to help you. If you have questions, please please please come ask me. Send me an e-mail. Call me on the phone, the best way to get in touch with me is e-mail. I'm on the computer all the time. There's also free tutoring available in the Learning Place in Battle Creek. It's a walk in basis. You can walk in. They ask you to sign in and know who I am and your course. So intermediate algebra, Anna Cox and there are people there who can answer questions. So you can walk into the Battle Creek Learning Place and say, hey, I need help with intermediate algebra. Have a wonderful day. I really, truly look forward to working.