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Students often ask me how to best get through the summer CSC 125
material. Here are my recommendations for getting through the <i>MyITLab</i>
tests and <i>BlackBoard</i> assignments.<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Prior to completing the Project based exam in <i>MyITLab</i>,
at least look at your textbook. If you prefer, listen and view
the audio <i>PowerPoint</i> presentation that is in <i>MyITlab</i>.
<br>
</li>
<li>If you want, you can try out the Project based training that
is in <i>MyITLab</i>. This is not required, but will increase
your chances of doing well the first time you take the Project
Based Exam.</li>
<li>Take the required project based exam. Now -- there are
several things you need to know about these.</li>
<ol type="a">
<li>I have set up the project based exams so that you can
complete one in a single sitting or work in a manner where you
do some of the exam, save the results, quit, and come back and
complete the exam later. The only caveat is that you must do
all of the work on the same computer.</li>
<li>Once you complete an exam you can go see what you did wrong
and what you were supposed to do to get the right result.
These solution pages should even tell you where to look for
the information related to the specific task in the textbook.</li>
<li>You can take each project based exam UP TO 10 TIMES. I
really hope you don't need to do that. The really smart
student will figure out what they did wrong the first time
they took it and then not repeat those mistakes. The good
news is that In only keep the HIGHEST score from all your
attempts.</li>
<li>Make sure you complete the project exam attempts before the
due date. Once the due date is passed you will not be able to
access the exam anymore.</li>
<li>If, for some reason, there is an error with one of your
exams, contact me and I will look at the data stream to try
and find out what went wrong.</li>
<li>The take-home point is this. I have designed this portion
of the course so that you can get a really high grade on these
components if you are good with your time management and
actually spend a little bit of time diving into some of the <i>MyITLab</i>
features. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but the
biggest place students have tended to lose points in the
summer is in the completion of the MyITLab project exams.
Students have either skipped them, or waited until the last
minute to try and take them. Those that attempted them at the
last minute only one chance, which they normally rushed
through, and made horrible scores. <br>
</li>
</ol>
<li>After you complete the project based exam go to <i>BlackBoard</i>
and complete the assignment for the given topic. This is where
your textbook will be most beneficial. As with the project
based exams, you need to submit your assignments prior to the
deadline or you will be locked out of the submission dropbox.</li>
</ol>
So -- there are a total of 16 items to be complete in this manner.
4 for Word, 4 for Excel, 4 for Access, and 4 for PowerPoint. The
first deadline that is coming up will be for Word 1 -- which I
believe is next Wednesday night at midnight.<br>
<br>
There are also 4 projects in <i>BlackBoard</i> that you need to
complete. I will send out e-mails regarding each of them later.<br>
<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds@theochem.mercer.edu">pounds@theochem.mercer.edu</a>)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
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