Today's meetings
8am - 8.30am: grace period; read daily post, watch videos, and generally prepare for day
8.30am - 9am: all students attendance and announcements meeting
~9am - noon: independant and small group learning time: course-specific study group links
Professional Skills (PSK)
Microsoft Word (MSW)
9am: ITC Quizzes 1&2 on ECampus: tbd
10am: B1075R Exam Review
10am: ITC Exam 2 Review in study group
ITC Earlybird exams: Exam Room
10.30am: PSK presentations
10.30am: OSK check-in & week 2 presentations; stay in study group
11am - noon: office hour - cancelled today for presentations
deadline to request an extension for coursework due Friday – progress email
Course-specific instruction:
B1075R
Continue with Daily Schedule. Exam review midmorning. Fill in your study guide by watching the Review: B1075R Review.
CES - I have put all the feedback docs + updated docs in the DropBox. Today, you will receive another edit from me in the DropBox if you send a fresh draft. Update your resume and cover letter accordingly. If you need help with formatting, see the video demo on the blog. Tomorrow, you will be doing an interview workshop. While waiting for your edits, check out the material on interviews.
ITC
Tomorrow you will take your exam (25 questions, multiple choice) on ECampus. I will make the exam available after our morning meeting. You are to take it within class hours; the time limit is 90 minutes. You are only allowed one attempt.
Today, you will find two quizzes on ECampus. These have "bonus" questions covering the same material. Each quiz is worth 2.5% of your overall grade. The time limit is 30 minutes each; you may retake the quizzes to get better marks. Take these today in order to facilitate retakes tomorrow.
Before you take the quizzes, we will have a Review meeting at 10am during which I will take questions about the week-appropriate study guide and go over the concepts you'll see on your quizzes today. Note there is a loose study guide on the FAQ tab for the quiz material.
To prepare, today you should finish filling out your study guide. For the first exam, you want to use the first 5 chapters linked on your Courses page and the first study guide. The second exam covers modules 6 through 9. Watch the prerecorded review video on the Lectures tab before our 10am meeting; in these videos, I go through the study guides and talk about the answers.
If you are in week 2, same drill, but now your assignments are due tomorrow by 4pm. You can upload these to ECampus or email them to me as attachments, but I prefer the former. Please refer to the weekly schedule post to see any adaptations to the schedule to accommodate students in week 1 and 2 if both are present.
KBD
Take the assigned tests today to get a sense of your score. If you are using Typing Club (all of you!), make sure to check the list of Alternate tests (downloadable from your Courses page) to be taken on TypingTest.com. I only need screenshots of your best scores, the ones you are happy with. Check the video on your Courses page for a demo of recording your scores. You need to write down your best scores in the Test Tracker form, also downloadable from your Courses page. All seven tests are due, via your Test Tracker, tomorrow at 4pm. If you're happy with your scores today, you can submit on time tomorrow. If you are unsatisfied or under requirements, please use today's progress email to request an extension.
MSW, MSE, MSP, BCA
Continue with Pearson. Remember you need to submit your filled-in grades tracker on the final day (second week) of your course by 4pm. Remember to send your requests for new tutorials etc. PS. you can take your exams any time! Treat them just like the Graders.
If you emailed me asking for more upload attempts for a particular assignment, I have deleted your unwanted uploads so you can try again. Join me in the office hour meeting if you have any work you'd like me to look over.
OSK
Continue to follow the Suggested Daily Schedule as you progress through the material. We will meet at 10.30 to discuss the Filing Rules and any other questions you have. If week 2 students are present this week, come watch the presentations!
OSK week 2
We will meet at 10.30 for presentations and exam review. I suggest you try one or both of the Practice tests and check your marks via the video reviews. Be sure to watch the how-to video for sharing screens before our presentation meeting.
PSK
I will join your study group right after attendance for any last minute checks of your slides or references. You will be presenting at 10.30.