[CSC 125] Gearing Up for CSC 125
Andrew Pounds
pounds_aj at mercer.edu
Sun May 17 18:01:45 EDT 2009
Good afternoon class --
I trust you all have had a good weekend and that you are planning on
enjoying a bit of a break before summer session one begins.
I wanted to send you this e-mail to let you know that I will have all of
the online materials ready for your CSC 125 summer online experience
ready a week from tomorrow. I will also send you all a syllabus later
this evening so you can see the course requirements.
One thing that I need you all to do is make sure you have a MyITLab
access code and the book. While you can purchase both of these through
the Mercer bookstore, some of you may prefer to purchase them online.
The BIG thing you need is the MyITLab access code. If you have not
taken CSC 125 in the past year, and hence do not already have an access
code, you will need to get one of these. All of the online "training"
and "testing" is done through the MyITLab website and you will want to
have everything ready to go once we start the summer term.
Option 1:
Go to the Mercer Bookstore (or call the Mercer bookstore) and either
pick up or order the CSC 125 bundle that includes the Grauer text and
the MyITLab access key.
Option 2:
Go to the www.myitlab.com site and get an access code (follow the link
on the left of the initial web page). Purchase the book through another
source. ISBN 0-13-157564-3
EITHER WAY -- DO NOTHING ELSE WITH THE ACCESS CODE UNTIL I DIRECT YOU TO
DO SO. There are very explicit instructions I will give you to
associate you access code with our class. There are tens of thousands
of students using this software in universities around the United States
-- so I have to give you explicit instructions to associate you ID with
my specific offering of the class.
One other thing -- and this is a biggie for a lot of folks -- MyITLab
will not function under MacOS. While you can do all the other parts of
the cousework (60%) using any computer capable of running Microsoft
Windows -- to take the online tests and do the online training in
MyITLab you will have to have a PC (or a Mac running a PC OS).
Let me know if you have questions...
--
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (pounds at theochem.mercer.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
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