Orientation
Orientation is online only (there is no in-person orientation meeting
for this course). You are, however, welcome to come to my office hours
to meet me. If that isn't convenient, send me an email message to discuss
when we might meet or what else I might do to help you get started.
In order to make sure that everyone is familiar with the basic things
they need to know as they start this course, you need to fill out and
submit some orientation forms online. (Don't worry, they aren't all that
long...) Please pay careful attention to the deadlines mentioned here
for these forms. If you don't submit them in time, you may be dropped
from the course.
Please submit the following forms:
- Before you buy your course materials (textbook, etc.), read
through the Course Policies (pages 1
and 2) and look over the course Schedule
and any Handouts. Also, you need to work through the Prerequisite Review pretest on your own, check your answers (they are provided) so that you can tell me how many you answered correctly on the orientation form. (This is important; if you can't answer 30 or more correctly, you need to contact me right away so we can discuss your preparation for this course and your placement, preferably before you buy the textbook.) Then submit the Orientation
Form, Part 1. This gives me some basic information about you, including contact information and your choice of Testing Center for the course.
Deadline: The first day of class. (If you register after that,
you must submit this form within one day of registering.)
- After you have read through all the materials on this website, log onto Blackboard and complete the Orientation Quiz. This is a quiz to see if you have really found the information you will need to succeed in the course. You can retake it multiple times if you need to, but you might also want to keep a window to this website open to look things up in while you take it. (Consider it an "open book" quiz...)
Deadline: The end of the first week of class. (If you register
really late in the first week of classes, you must submit this form
by the beginning of the second week of class.)