Spring 2016 Distance Learning course

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Do you have the technical skills needed? Technical Skills Checklist

What skills do you need to succeed in this course in math, technical reading, and thinking about the world? Please read this before the class begins: https://sites.google.com/site/mpstat22/

Computer requirements and course materials: Course materials for MATH 1342

Also, you should have a notebook or set of file folders to keep your work in this course organized. I suggest that you have a front section for general information and Test Review documents, and then a section for each week's work. Because the material in the later part of the course depends on the material in the earlier part of the course, you will need to be able to refer to your homework and notes on earlier material when you study for tests, including when you study for the Final Exam.

I will tell you at times to "print" things. If you don't have a printer easily available, then make a folder on your computer to which you save those files, and think of it as another folder that you will look into just as you would look in your notebook.

Syllabus / First-day handout: Syllabus spring 2016 | .

Detailed Course Calendar: Calendar spring 16 | ,

Textbook homework for Chapter 0-12: .

Orientation: There are three parts to the Orientation.

• Part A:: (Please fill it out the form to submit it electronically after you read the syllabus/first-day handout and BEFORE classes begin.) Deadline: The first day of class.
  (If you add the class after that, please prepare your answers to this on the day you add, and fill out the form as soon as you have been added in Blackboard - which is the day following the day you add.)
  Find the orientation form link in Blackboard in the Announcements. (You can get into Blackboard approximately one week before classes begin.)
  
• Part B: Submit this in Blackboard in the same way that you will submit each weekly quiz, Part 2. In this part of the Orientation, you will show that you can prepare and submit an appropriate file in Blackboard and can include output from Minitab in it. To do this, you must have either installed Minitab on your computer or else go to an ACC Learning Lab to use it there. Submit this by Friday of the first week of classes.
• Part C: Submit this in LaunchPad in the same way that you will submit each weekly quiz, Part 1. This is your opportunity to practice doing Part 1 quizzes without getting a poor grade if you do something incorrectly. Submit this by Friday of the first week of school.

Required work in the course:

1. Use the guided study materials (including video / audio files over some parts) to learn the material each week and to do the assigned homework problems (Most of the assigned homework problems have fairly detailed solutions available in the text.)
2. Weekly two-part quizzes (Part 1: multiple-choice / short answer and Part 2: fully worked-out solutions) to be done at home and submitted electronically. (The multiple choice / short answer part will be submitted and graded through LaunchPad and graded electronically immediately after the absolute deadline. The Part 2 problems will be prepared in a word-processing document and submitted through Blackboard. They will have solution keys posted just after the deadline for you to review and ask questions and make comments about. Grades on Part 2will be posted approximately a week after the deadline.)
3. Four paper-and-pencil tests in an ACC Testing Center.
   The last test also has a "take-home" part to be done using Minitab. That part is worth between 15 and 30 points of the final exam. More about it will be posted in the Test Information section of the course about three weeks before the end of the semester.
4. Weekly participation in the Blackboard Discussion Board for the class to discuss the quiz solutions from the previous week and the assigned work from the current week.
5. Work with Minitab statistical software to do many statistical calculations.

Timing: This is NOT a self-paced course. In order to effectively learn the material in this course, you must stay caught up with the calendar, which is at the end of the syllabus/first-day handout. Students who miss as much as three weekly quizzes (missing either part counts as a miss,) one test, or three weeks of Discussion Board participation during the semester may be withdrawn.

Websites needed:

1. Blackboard: Links to weekly lessons, Discussion Board, self-selected Study Groups, Grades on Tests, Discussion Board Forums, and Quizzes, Part 2.
2. Launch-Pad: e-book, StatTutor videos, Learning Curve, Quizzes, Part 1, and, many other learning resources (The actual link will be provided closer to the beginning of the semester.)
3. ACC 1342 data website: Use this to find textbook data when you are not logged in to StatsPortal. Occasionally you will be asked to use non-textbook data which may be provided here. Organized by chapters of the text, and there are also brief descriptions of how to use the software here.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Mary Parker: mparker@austincc.edu

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Last updated January 1, 2016 . Questions or comments?