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Welcome to the Class Websites! (If available, use “Slide Show” above for best viewing.)

Welcome to the Class Websites! (If available, use “Slide Show” above for best viewing.). Introduction. Do you need a required class that conflicts with the other classes on your schedule or conflicts with your work schedule? Or are you simply curious about online classes?

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  1. Welcome to the Class Websites!(If available, use “Slide Show” above for best viewing.)

  2. Introduction • Do you need a required class that conflicts with the other classes on your schedule or conflicts with your work schedule? • Or are you simply curious about online classes? • Or do you think you have good reading and writing skills and that you might be able to do well in an online class? • Or do you like technology or computers? (I’ll confess, that’s one reason I investigated online teaching and learning myself. I’m partly a visual and kinesthetic learner—flashcards are wonderful—and the online mode is new, it’s stimulating, it’s interactive.) • If any of these people sound like you, or you would simply like to explore the online learning option some more, let me give you a tour and let you decide! • Or if you are already enrolled, please proceed to find out more. • My goal is to demystify online classes and make you feel right at home.

  3. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast • You have probably found yourself as a typical student . . .

  4. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast . . . in a typical classroom . . .

  5. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast . . . with other students . . .

  6. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast . . . facing a teacher giving a lecture in front of a chalkboard . . .

  7. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast . . . taking notes, discussing topics, and completing assignments . . .

  8. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast • An online class has the same components, only you are a student before a computer, whether it’s a • personal laptop or home computer • or computer in the Writing Center • or library • or other computer lab on campus . . .At any time of the day or night if at home (or during lab hours if on campus)

  9. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast . . . as long as the computer has internet access . . .

  10. Traditional Classes and Online Classes:A Compare and Contrast • . . . because your instructor communicates with you and your classmates through the computer . . .

  11. Objectives After viewing the next slides, you will be able to successfully use the sites for an English class: • Your free college email address • Etudes class website at http://etudes.ng.fhda.edu/portal • Required plagiarism scan site at www.turnitin.com • The optional free tutoring website at www.MyCompLab.com

  12. Step One • This brings us to our first site. It is first important to be familiar with college email because it contains college communication, even from instructors, and the same username as for Etudes—the class website. You should check this email account at least once or twice each week. Go to www.compton.edu by typing this address at the top of the Internet Explorer screen.

  13. 1. Free College Email Address At www.compton.edu, click on “MyECC” on the top left corner of the screen.

  14. Free College Email Continued If you came here before, enter your Username and Password and select “”Sign In.” Go to “First Time User” if it’s your first time. If you forgot your Username, then select “What’s My LoginID” or forgot your Password select “Reset My Password”.

  15. Free College Email Continued To see messages sent to you, select Email—second tab.

  16. Step Two • The website most important for an online course is the class website—the classroom. It is like your home, hence the name homepage. • Many instructors will send a welcome message to your free college email address with the class website link. If you are in my class and did not see the message I sent to your college email address, which contains a link to the class website, then go to http://etudes-ng.fhda.edu/portal by typing this address. [Note: There is no “www” in this address, as you might expect!]

  17. Class Website The password is birth month and day as mmdd. Example: January 29 as 0129 Use free college email username as user id (first name_last name—sometimes also a number) Examples: Maureen_Jackson or Maureen_Jackson1125

  18. Class Website Continued You are here. Select class tab

  19. Class Website Continued Now, you are on the Class Homepage if the tab is highlighted as white. You can also select these quick links on the Homepage for updates. You can select any of the major classlinks here on the left side of the screen, which appear burgundy when highlighted. Here we are on “Home”

  20. Class Website Continued “Modules” is most important. That tab (5th tab on left side) contains the lectures, which appear to the right. Click on the first Module here to begin the course, and later click on the topic where you last studied.

  21. Class Website Continued Once in Modules, click on “next” at the top of the screen to go step-by-step through the course.

  22. Class Website Continued The next screen has a mini-lecture on PowerPoint slides. (PowerPoint mini-lectures are spread throughout the course modules.) The screen may look like a blank screen at first. However, click on the yellow or beige bannerhere about security that emerges at the top of the screen.

  23. Class Website Continued After clicking on the yellow/beige banner, then, accept the download.

  24. Class Website Continued Last, open the file.

  25. Class Website Continued You’ll also spend much time in Tasks, Tests, and Surveys (6th option on left side of screen) to submit class assignments for grading. Click to “Begin,” and attach files like email attachments with “Browse” desktop or flash drive for saved document and “upload” to attach.

  26. Class Website Continued 1. 2. You also need to post your online reactions in Class Discussions.

  27. Class Website Continued See “Quick Links” inside “Information Box” of Discussions for related class websites like www.turnitin.com (required plagiarism website) and www.MyCompLab .com (for optional free online tutoring). 1. 2.

  28. 3. Required Plagiarism Website Here is a preview of www.TurnItIn.com (the required plagiarism site). Click on (1) “New User,” (2) then select create new user profile (3rd option), and finally (3) enter class code when asked. (see top of 1st page of syllabus for code)

  29. Required Plagiarism Website To send paper assignment, click on the (1) assignment name and then (2) the submit button (green upward arrow) to browse computer or flash drive and attach paper.

  30. 4. Optional Free Tutoring Website Here is a preview of www.MyCompLab.com (the website for optional free online tutoring). The first time, click here below, and enter one-time-only registration code which is different for each student, for free access. (If not on syllabus, request registration code from instructor.)

  31. Optional Free Tutoring Website Cont. Once inside www.MyCompLab.com select “Composing” then “Tutor” and “Connect with Tutor” for free online tutoring. 1. 2. 3.

  32. Welcome Home to Class Website! Finally, welcome back home to Modules of the class homepage at http://etudes-ng.fhda.edu/portal to begin, and use “next” to go step-by-step through the course!

  33. How much do you remember? • Q: Where is the freecollege email address? • A: www.compton.edu • Q: Where is the class website? • A: http://etudes-ng.fhda.edu/portal • Q: Where is the plagiarism website? • A: www.TurnItIn.com • Q: Where is free online tutoring available? • A: www.MyCompLab.com

  34. Bonus: • Q: Where can you download free software that will read your papers aloud to you in a natural voice so you can check your spelling and other aspects of your paper? • A: www.naturalreaders.com

  35. Are you ready to join your classmates . . .ONLINE???

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