Hi class. This is going to be an
introduction to our website for English
1B for the course, so you will always
begin when you login on the
Announcements page every week. As you can
see here, there will be an announcement
of the kinds of things that are coming in the
week, some feedback I've got maybe for
what happened the previous week, and
there will also be announcements posted
during the week as I see fit that I need
to say something to everybody. So the
first thing you're going to want to
check any time is the Announcements page.
The Course Information page -- this is
critical throughout the semester. This is
where you're going to find the syllabus
and then also the course outline, which
will give you the schedule of what we
are going to be reading and writing, all
of the assignments through the course of
a semester, and you'll see sometimes I
will update that as we go and it will
always be notified if it's there.
It's also where you find this video, that
is touring our class website. The next
section down is the Weekly Work. This is
where you're going to spend most of your
time in this class. You have the four
units that I've broken the semester
down into. If you click on any one of
those folders it's going to give you the
weeks that are involved in that unit,
it'll tell you the dates of that week
and then the topic of the week. If I
click on that -- so here I am in the first
one -- here's a kind of welcome document
that's going to give you information
about a lot of the details of how the
class works. You'll also find in each
week a Notes page and this will be what
we are talking about that week; some of
the highlights of the reading that I
want you to be getting. It will be
introducing you to other things. It will
give you all the directions, so every
week that's going to be one of the very
first things you do is look at that. If
there are any kind of videos or other
things associated that it talks about in
the notes, they will appear in this
week's folder as well. The Discussion
Board is where you will be doing
a lot of your work. Every week
we'll have one or sometimes two
discussion topics that you have to
respond to and I will give you some kind
of prompt questions to write about. You
will have to post a response by
Wednesday at midnight and then you'll
have to give feedback to at least two of
your classmates for each one of these
discussion prompts by Sunday at midnight.
So this is this is a way to replace the
discussions that we would be having in
class. You also may have, in any given
week, one or two kinds of writing
assignments that are associated with
what we're talking about that week.
Frequently for those as well you will
not only have to post your writing
assignment but also respond to two of
your classmates, to what you see them
doing. At the top of the Discussion Board
is the Raise Your Hand forum, and I will
talk about that in just a little bit. So
the next thing down in our Weekly Work
is the Essays section. This is where
you find all the information about the
various essays that we write during the
course of the semester. I'm going to
click on the second one, Essay #1,
the summary. So you can see in
here, when I'm in this folder I get the
assignment, the grading rubric that its
associated with, that sometimes there
will be sample essays to read, and then
you'll have sections like this. They
have this little symbol. This is
turnitin.com. That's how we will be
submitting all of our essays this
semester. Sometimes I'll ask you to
submit a rough draft to turnitin and a
final draft, so you have to make sure
which one that you are doing to make
sure you do it properly. But this is
where you'll submit your
final drafts. There are other things we
have also -- Other Resources. There's
content here. In this folder I give you
helpful materials to help improve your
writing. We'll be talking about those over
the course of the semester. You also see
here a document: the Instructions to see
feedback from me on your drafts. If you
were sharp-eyed, you might have noticed
that in the Essays folder, as well.
MLA citation -- we will be using MLA 8.
It changed in 2016, the way we
cite things, so this is information about
those changes and how to cite things in
MLA. There are several documents and then
a couple of web pages that are very
useful. The Tutoring Center: this gives
you a link to the Tutoring Center. Sadly,
not that many students take advantage of
this. They are incredibly helpful. They
are wonderful tutors over there and give
you fantastic feedback on essays.
Some of it you can get online
if you will submit things far enough
ahead of time. So this link will take you
there. I highly encourage you -- can't
stress that enough -- to explore that.
The Student Technical Support link...and it's
not going to work here directly...but it
should. It will pop up a link that it
will say that it you can't get there
directly because of some kind of framing
issue but it will take you to the
student technical support page. It's
funny that that's the one that isn't working
in Blackboard. So if you're having any
kind of technical issues, they are the
ones that you want to contact. Then,
lastly, to Send an Email. if you want to
send an email, this is an easy way to do
it quickly. On the Instructor Users link, it'll
let you select me and send an email to
me, or if you need to send email to
classmates, you can do it through there.
I told you we'd get back to it.
Here is Raise Your Hand. Clicking on that
will take you back to the Discussion
Board and into this Raise Your Hand
forum. This is where you're going to want
to post any general questions that you
might have -- something that's not specific
to your paper or something like that.
If you post here, I will check this
very frequently and I will get back to
you and then hopefully other people that
have the same question would be able to
see that answered there, as well, or give
their input on it. Then the last
thing is the My Grades section. This is
where you will see all the assignments
and the grades that you get on those
assignments. If it's something like an
essay, there will be a rubric associated
with it. You could click there and see it.
There will also be, once
something is graded, there will be a little
symbol that pops up here and clicking on
that will give you feedback or take you
to the Turnitin assignment so you can
see the comments that I made on the
paper and the end comments. So that is
English 1B, our Blackboard website. If you
have questions, you know exactly where to
click -- right there -- and I look forward to
working with you this semester.
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