[CSC 125] Excel (or not) -- THIS IS A MUST READ

[Andrew J. Pounds]

CSC 125 Online Students:

As of 5 pm roughly 1/4 of the class had completed the Excel assignments 
in MyITLab and BlackBoard.  Once person reported some issues opening one 
of the BlackBoard assignments -- but that problem seems to have fixed 
itself now.

Here is what I am going to do.  I will leave the /MyITLab Excel/ 
activities and the /BlackBoard /dropboxes open until Sunday night at 
midnight.  If you didn't get the Word assignments done (those points are 
gone)  then this is your chance to catch up.

NOTE:  There is going to be an outage of MyITLab between 11:45 pm Friday 
night and 8:00 Saturday morning.  Don't try to do any MyITLab stuff 
during this time.

Also you have two relatively simple projects to complete in BlackBoard 
by Friday night related to your computer's hardware/software 
configuration and Python programming.

Please look at the calendar -- on WEDNESDAY of next week ALL of the 
Access assignments are due.  Access is the NEW thing to many of you and 
will take some work on your part to learn.  Again -- MyITLab is really 
going to help you here!  Use it.   My recommendation is that you go 
ahead and get all this Excel stuff done so that you can focus on getting 
the Access items done in a "normal", non-rushed manner.

Because we are running out of time, there is no way I can move any more 
deadlines.  I am going to be crunched enough just trying to get all of 
the grading done with the short window between the Excel due date and 
the Access due date.

Finally -- for those that are thinking of dropping the class -- the 
deadline for Withdrawal is next Tuesday (July 19th).


I want to sincerely thank those of you that have been diligent in 
getting your worked turned in and that have been asking questions.  I 
really enjoy interacting with students and I like to see -- even if by 
e-mail -- you having those ahh-ha moments.

As always -- let me know if you are having any problems or have 
questions about the assignments.

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds at theochem.mercer.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Sciencet
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627