5th January, Tuesday

Today's meetings

8.30 - morning meeting - all students

10.30 - OSK alphabetical filing rules lecture Q&A + presentation from pre-Christmas

11 - office hour - drop-ins until noon

*Please finish the corresponding lecture(s) and come prepared with your questions.

For direct links to all meetings, click here.

Daily instruction: everyone

Remember you are responsible for knowing which course's directions to follow. Please only complete assignments for the course in which you are enrolled. Note that videos on the Lectures tab are labelled per course. Citations lectures are only assigned for SSS students, though they are suggested for anyone who will be completing a research assignment for me (OSK, B1075R, sometimes ITC).

Sign in on ECampus from 8am to noon (the duration of class) for attendance tracking. I always take attendance manually, so the digital record is a back up.

If you wish to work with your peers at a time I haven't prescheduled, let me know and I can set up a study group meeting in Teams. You can also start your own meetings.

Please take a moment this morning to read through yesterday's posts and the FAQ tab of the blog: https://caitlinbaird1.wixsite.com/thelab/blog/categories/faqs

Please watch the Tuesday video (on the Lectures tab) and come prepared to the 8.30 meeting with your questions.

If you haven't already, please watch the Welcome video and resource tour videos and read through your welcome documents including Lab Policies and the Daily Schedule. Along with the course-specific "tour" videos on your Courses pages, you will find a generic tour of the site on the Lectures tab, alongside a tour of the Writing Resources. The "tour" videos show you where to find all the resources for your course.

Note that this site is not optimized for mobile use and is intended to be viewed on a desktop or laptop computer. Chrome is the preferred browser.

Be sure to check the meeting schedule which I've posted here. I updated all the meetings so they should show in your Office calendar.

Finally, some of you failed to send me a progress email yesterday. These are mandatory but informal. Details can be found here: https://caitlinbaird1.wixsite.com/thelab/post/progress-email-faq

Daily instruction by course:

ITC:

Continue to follow the Daily Suggested Schedule.

You have the freedom to do your three assignments in any order, so I suggest starting with the program(s) with which you are most familiar (usually Word). Remember the instructions are on ECampus while example assignments are available via a button on your Courses page on this site. Note: you only need to complete three documents, not nine. There are three case study options for each assignment; only choose one per assignment.

Progress through the PDFs (on your Courses page) to fill in your study guides, using the corresponding talkthrough videos and study guides to show you where to focus your attention for memorization. On Thursday, I will assign the review video which corresponds with your study guide - either week 1 or week 2 - but you can access these at any time on the Lectures tab.

Please note I have a full walkthrough of your Excel assignment and full demos for the creative PowerPoint and Word assignments.

MSE, MSP, MSW:

Continue within Pearson.

If you haven't yet, please watch the video "How to check your grades in Pearson" on the Lectures tab. You have multiple attempts for the assignments etc; please send me an email if you want me to increase the tries available.

The simulation training and assessments are not for marks. You should think of these activities as lectures as these will teach you how to complete your assignments. The assignments are called "Graders" and will show as Activity 6 every few modules. I have full video walkthroughs of all of these for-marks assignments, including the corresponding tests as these are taken in the same way. To complete, download the documents and instructions as shown in my video walkthroughs. For MSE and MSP, there are four graders and four matching exams. For MSW, there are three graders and three matching exams.

Download your grades tracker form from your Courses page if you are yet to do so. Remember this is how you will be recording and submitting your final grades. Use the "Comments" section to let me know if there are any assignments you want me to manually grade.

MSW only: Start Pearson at Module 2, as Module 1 is a connector module ("common features") for students who have already taken PowerPoint. You are only doing three chapters - up to Module 10. Refer to your grades tracker and do not complete Modules 1, 11, 12, or 13, or Final Exam 2.

OSK:

Continue with the booklet, study guides, and presentation. Everything is downloadable from your Courses page. Please let me know about any out-of-date activities in your assignment booklet.

I will be adding lectures for the rest of your textbook chapters this week. These will include discussion of the corresponding activities in your assignment booklet and any relevant demos.

We have a returning student presenting today during our 10.30 meeting. After that, I'd like to check in with you regarding alphabetical filing rules and any other exam prep as needed.