Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Online teamwork

A student brought up the subject of groups and team work. In CIS2 we have a couple of group projects. As this is an online class with NO on-campus meetings, everyone is encouraged to complete the projects online - yes, this can be more difficult and time consuming. However, that's the point.

The world is changing and being able to work collaboratively online is a big challenge. So it is appropriate that you have an opportunity to learn these important life skills in this class.

Quizzes - Submit all and finish

Some of you should be wondering why you don't have a grade for the Chapter 1 review quiz.

Catalyst allows you to submit answers for individual questions and save your answers without completing the quiz or submitting it for grading. This is a nice feature but...

In order for you quiz to be graded - either manually by me if it contains "essay" questions or automatically by Catalyst, you MUST submit the quiz for grading by clicking the "Submit all and finish" button at the end of the quiz.

If you do not click the "Submit all and finish" the quiz remains in the "open" status - you can answer the questions or change your answers if you wish.

Monday, June 28, 2010

10m Summer 2010 : Welcome to CIS2!

Welcome to CIS2!

It is nice to see that you are here bright and early on the first day of the Summer semester. That is great because we will be moving very quickly through all the information in only 6 weeks.

Please read through all of the introductory material - links in the top section of the CIS2 main page. Then start on the activities outlined for the first topic - Introductions.

Look at your Profile - in the left Navigation menu. The settings for controlling emails from CIS2 are located there. This is where you determine how much information comes to you by email from the course.

If you have any questions, please ask. You can post your questions to the Questions forum or use the internal email within Catalyst or regular email to contact me directly.

I am looking forward to working with you and your classmates for this action-packed 6-week session.

All the best,
..vt