welcome to this presentation the
orientation for our course so let's get
started I'm going to go to our course
location this is where we'll start this
is the first screen that you'll see I'm
obviously you've been able to to make
progress and actually have gotten into
our course so this is a territory that
you're already familiar with but this is
the starting point where you go into the
class in going into the case it will
list over here items that are coming up
that are due in the next week you also
have a button that says view calendar
you can either click here or you can
click here and that will list and
calendar form all the things that are
coming up I'm just going to click on it
so you get exposed to a little bit I'm
going to go ahead obviously I'm doing
this in May so we'll go ahead to June
and you'll see all of the due dates are
here my suggestion and by the way before
we get too far in this please pause me
now if you haven't already done this and
get a notepad and a pen or paper so you
can jot down some important things to
keep in mind I don't want you to have to
watch this video on multiple multiple
times and so if you take some careful
notes now you won't have to go through
and listen to me more than once which
might not be the most fun way to spend
your day okay so first thing that I
encourage you to write down is calendar
everything these due dates are not going
to be moving they're written in stone
there's not going to be any extensions
and so might as well go ahead and write
all these due dates down your calendar
this is especially important over the
summer I mean it's important during long
semesters to but the summers we have so
many things that are going to be due
that is just not possible for one person
to keep all these deadlines in their
head and it's not just that you have to
counter the due dates and wake up USA on
the morning of June 11th and say oh look
I've got these things to do actually
June 11th isn't an especially difficult
morning but let's go down to June 18th
you can see we have 5 things due there
is no way that you're going to be able
to get
all those things done if you start at 10
a.m. on June 10th and there's me June
18th and you haven't made significant
progress on these tasks so you'll have
to plan out and think when am I going to
get started on this project so I
encourage you to look at least a week
ahead and say oh you know what on
Tuesday and during the lunch I've got
about 30 minutes so I'll work on this
project in on Thursday I got a little
bit of time between when I get off work
and when I'm going to eat dinner I've
got about an hour there so I'm going to
work on this project so encouraging not
just to calendar these dates but
calendar when you're going to need or
when you're going to have time available
to work on these projects I'm going to
go back now to our course so we're back
to our place but that's an important
button to know about view calendar you
can either click here or you can click
on this calendar button and that will
show you all of the details this will
just list for the next week right now we
don't show anything because we're not
that close to the game semester this can
be helpful but keep in mind especially
if you have vacation plans or things
along those lines you'll need to look
more than one week in advance as I said
before and please write this down too I
do not accept late work that is a hard
and fast rule
I've only accepted late work a handful
of times and that's when there was a
catastrophic problem with canvas or
blackboard the fact that you had a
computer problem or that you've had a
crisis in work or that you've had an
illness in most cases is not going to
result in you getting extension so
please don't think in those terms many
times people will will send me an email
what but I'm just five minutes late well
I have actually built into all the due
dates an extra week of grace time you'll
see in fact and we'll talk more about
this later but you'll see in fact that
the discussion boards closed a week
before the assignment is due and the
idea there is you know what I get it but
sometimes you need a little extra help
on an assignment so I give you that
extra week
Jhin come see me or that you can do a
little bit of independent research so in
a sense there's already built into the
calendaring system a week grace period
and whenever you establish a deadline
there's got to be a minute later than
that that is a minute too late so I do
take the deadlines very seriously I do
that for a few reasons and I'll talk
more about this later on but I want to
just kind of explain my rationale you
don't have to agree with it but I think
it's not as helpful to know what the
instructor is thinking again the first
reason is that I do give that week of
grace time so one good way of thinking
about due dates is to think hey you know
what is really due the week before and
you might even want to calendar that due
date and try to meet that due date
that's a week ahead or at least treat
the due date maybe as you know what it's
technically due Sunday night but I'm
going to treat it as if it's due
Thursday night and that way if you do
have that technical difficulty
no worries you'll just have an extra day
you can finish it up on Friday or
Saturday or worst-case-scenario Sunday
so if you establish due dates that are
earlier then you can be responsive to
that so keep that in mind be sure to
work along those lines so that you won't
be up against that due date you know
we've all had computer crises in our
lives
we've all had times where something
isn't working somebody sick maybe we're
sick if we're planning on filing
something the day that it is due we're
opening ourselves up to the possibility
that there will be that problem and you
know hopefully it won't be you that that
happens to but just be aware that if
you're saying you know what it's doing
funding I'm planning on submitting on
Sunday there is a chance that something
will happen and that's going to be a
consequence that unfortunately you're
going to be bearing so don't put
yourself into that position
go ahead submit it early not going to be
not going to face that problem so that's
one reason I don't give extensions the
second reason I don't is it unreal
important part of being a paralegal is
knowing how to calendar things and how
to meet deadlines in fact I think if you
are dit to interview hundred different
attorneys and ask them what is most
important to them about apparent legal
with whom they work I would say the most
common answer would be boy somebody who
is on top of deadlines is going to make
sure that we are doing what we need to
do to make sure those deadlines are met
that is such an important part of the
paralegals job
okay another secret this isn't a secret
I think many attorneys would tell you
this but it's just true that many times
attorneys are not very good at managing
deadlines they're not good
administrators of that typing they're
not very good managers as a result so
there's exceptions there's plenty of
attorneys are good that but it's a
pretty common problem that attorneys
have of organization and so that's why
they really want a paralegal and having
somebody who will calendar those dates
and follow those dates carefully boy
that's a really really important
characteristic and so what I'm trying to
do this course is build up those skills
yes there's lots of deadlines in this
course in the real world will be even
more deadlines and they'll be deadlines
that have greater consequences that
they're missed so consider this kind of
on-the-job training so to speak so that
you're going to experience what it's
like to have hard and fast deadline
lots of deadlines that require a lot of
planning and execution to get those to
the finish line the third reason that I
don't allow extensions or don't give
extensions is that courts don't give
extensions if you're five minutes late
in many many cases there's no point in
filing it and as a result of you being
five minutes late your client may lose
important legal rights and your client
may sue both the law firm perhaps you
individually you may well lose your job
if you miss a deadline big big
consequences for you for your attorney
for the law firm for the client
I'm missing a deadline in this course
you know it's not fun I'm not going to
say it's no big deal but compared to the
repercussions in your professional life
it's a very very small consequence and
so feeling a little pain now by missing
a deadline is actually a gift to you so
that you don't get yourself in that
situation where you miss a real deadline
and there are real repercussions I think
most legal professionals who've
practiced for very long at all have
their Horror Story have that deadline
that they missed I have a story like
that where I missed a deadline earlier
in my career and to say it was dramatic
as an understatement there were weeks
that I did not sleep very well at all
that I could hardly eat it was
completely completely overtook my life I
don't want you to go through that I
can't protect you completely from that
but if me give you a little bit of tough
love reduces the chances of you being in
that situation at some time in your life
I want to empower you to give you that
experience so that you won't be that
miserable person or that unemployed
person who who experienced that in my
case the the miss deadline works out
just fine and sometimes it does and
sometimes it doesn't and so I don't want
you to be in that position so please
know when I'm having these these strict
deadlines that I'm not doing it to be
mean I'm doing it to prepare you for the
the world that you're going to be
entering another reason that I have
strict deadlines is more of a practical
reason as soon as I get these documents
I mean especially at the summer I need
to turn around and grade them so that
you can get comments and feedback so
that your next go-around which will be
the next week you'll have that feedback
so you can present better documents the
first documents that you submit in this
class are probably not going to be very
good I'll be honest with you sometimes I
get good documents from the very
beginning but what happens is people do
the best they can but they're not quite
sure what to do that's okay we're
learning together and what happens is
you submit that thing and then I gave
you lots and
to feedback and then I give you examples
this is what it supposed to look like
and then you use that information and
you present a better document next time
and then I give you more feedback and
you present the next time even a better
document well giving all that feedback
takes time and typically and of course
like this we have 25 students so there's
a lot of effort that is required for me
to give you feedback as promptly as
possible so you can see if people are
submitting work late I can't give
feedback because then they could benefit
from that feedback and submit a higher
quality work submission and then the
people who submit it on time and so I'm
stuck not being able to grade work until
everybody has submitted it and then that
means I'm not able to give the feedback
as quickly as possible it's really not
possible for these types of assignments
for me to grade them individually
without looking at all them together
because I need to be consistent and so
literally what I do is I kind of lock
myself in a room and spend several hours
just going through each document I mean
I might stop to go to the bathroom might
stop to have a drink or something
alcoholic of course insode our something
but other than that I'm working so that
I can be consistent so if everybody
submits their assignments on on a Sunday
night and I grade them on Monday and you
submit yours on Tuesday I can't grade
yours with the others and so it really
makes it much more difficult for me but
also much more difficult to be
consistent so those are the reasons for
the policy now again you may be seeing
their same thinking I don't agree with
them and you're absolutely free not to
but that's what I'm going to do so
please don't ask me please don't ask me
to get an extension and it's awkward
it's uncomfortable for both of us and
the answer is going to be now and what
I'll do is I'll say hey you know what I
covered this in the orientation you
might want to go back and look at the
orientation just know the answer isn't
going to be yes and so please please
respect that if even if you're in a very
bad situation on Saturday or
they my response is going to be hey you
know what you could have submitted it
before those days so please please don't
put either one of us in that position
you certainly can ask but you know what
the answer is before we even get there
and so I would ask that we kind of move
beyond that and not have to do that okay
so let's continue on where you're going
to be spending most of your time in the
course is going to be in this button
called module so let's go forward and
click on modules the first module is the
course orientation this is going to be a
resource that you're going to refer to
many many times there's a lot of stuff
here I'm going to be honest with you
there's a lot of stuff whenever you have
a lot of stuff it's hard to organize and
so part of your job during this first
week is going to be to just kind of
explore and click on things and find out
where things are and take good notes so
that you'll know where everything is
that you're going to need going forward
then I encourage you periodically
through the semester to go back and
explore because you'll what you'll
probably discover is hey you know what
that first trick I didn't understand
this is this document here is going to
be so important to me later on and so go
ahead and find find those those
documents and then refine and re-explore
when you think hey you know what I don't
know how to do this well probably
there's an answer somewhere here on the
course Orion course orientation or in
the modules that you're currently
working on that week let me post there's
another thing on acid you right now at
this point and this is something that is
it may be going to make complete sense
sense to you right now but I think as we
go for it it's going to make sense a
little bit more sense so if you could
flag it now and then refer to this later
on that may be helpful one thing that's
going to happen this course is there's
going to be some times that you're doing
an assignment like gosh I'm not sure
what to do grimmer didn't cover this or
she's given me a model that's different
than what she talked about I'm confused
and your first thought may be gosh
obviously she she gave the wrong model
or gosh' instruction she gave wasn't
clear enough I suppose that's possible
but it's probably
not the case I mean you're welcome to
send me an email to ask me because
certainly things can happen but for the
most part it's a pretty planned out
website and so what I have done
intentionally is put you in positions
where you have to act like a real
paralegal in the real world you aren't
given perfect documents I mean this
isn't a word processing class this is in
the class that we're focused on do you
know how to use word to the maximum
level do you know how to do to do that
that kind of stuff this isn't a typing
class and yes obviously you're going to
have to type yes obviously you're going
to have to format those are really
important things here but I'm not going
to give you a perfect model because if I
gave you a perfect model of course you
could replicate that perfect bottle that
would not be college-level work that
would not be the kind of work a
paralegal does that would be the kind of
work that a legal secretary gets legal
secretaries are awesome and amazing and
tremendous and they will in many cases
be your your best friends and your
closest confidants and your most
important working companions in many
cases but they aren't paralegals and
what we're training you to be as a
paralegal and so if this course were
simply about word processing I would not
be giving you a very good experience
because that's not what you're going to
be doing yes you know how to need an
auto word process but you also need to
know how to look at a document that
isn't exactly what you need and make it
into the document that you do need and
so don't freak out don't worry when you
see something that isn't exactly what
you're expecting that's how it will be
pretty routinely and so if you see some
you go gosh that's on how groover talked
about you know what it probably means
that something you're going to need to
change or gosh grimmer didn't provide an
example for that probably means you need
to going to go out there and find an
example that's the way it works in the
real world in most cases as a paralegal
you're going to have to find that model
and you're probably going to find a
model that's not exactly perfect maybe
it's from a different jurisdiction maybe
it involves different facts or there's
some other different quirk so you're
going to have to decide how to take this
imperfect model
and make it into what's going to work
for your client and so that's a big big
part of this class so as you're working
keep that in mind
so make a notation about that and then
as we go forward the semester refer to
that when you need a little reminder
another thing I'd ask that you write
down is a really good way to do the
assignments is to do them with me almost
like I've you ever watched the Bob Ross
painting episode he wants you to paint
along with him and so in that type of
situation
you'll be watching my video but you'll
also be doing the assignment and most
likely you'll need to pause the video
from time to time and say ok and go back
and listen to things but it's going to
be a more efficient experience for you
frankly you're going to save time which
is a good thing and you're probably
going to have a better finished document
because there will be lots of different
points that I'm making during the
presentation if you watch it all and
then do the assignment you're going to
forget some of it you're going to need
to go back and watch it again which is
fine but you may you may find that not
be the most productive use of your time
so watch the document pause start doing
things you know when I talk about for
example how to do the caption will
actually do the caption pause me then go
back and watch that oh yeah that's
exactly how you always second I forgot
about doing that part if you do the
assignment with me so to speak you're
going to find that your points are going
to be significantly higher and all those
little details whether you tab whether
you capitalize if you bold whether you
Tallis eyes all those things are how you
earn points they are really really
important and this course doesn't have a
lot of substance in the sense of you're
not really writing a lot of stuff
there's a little bit that you'll be
writing but for the most part you'll be
formatting and so things like did I use
the right font did I use a footer do I
use the right footer is the size of my
font correct how I do have the right
margins all of those things are really
what I'm primarily looking at so be sure
that you're watching all of those
details so you can get as many points as
possible on the assignments that's
another thing to note down be sure to be
watching all of those little details
okay so now we're in the first module
and again for this week and for much of
this week and also for subsequent weeks
you're going to want to be paying
attention to debt you'll see that we'll
have typically two lectures here for
module one and this is where you'll want
to start I don't know yet whether I'll
have one or two lectures maybe even
three but this is where you get started
so you watch this obviously you found
this because you're you're watching and
listening to me now but this is where
you'll get started this is a good
resource to go to going forward another
long and pretty boring I apologize but
if you get stuck in like I'm not sure
what to do go back and watch the lecture
maybe you know have something else going
on as well so that you can perk up when
you get to the part that's important to
you and usually when they get questions
about the course in most cases I've
already answered those questions
somewhere in this course orientation
module and again because this course is
about you being that organized person
who takes data and processes it in the
way that it needs to be processed most
the time when you ask me hey how do I do
this I'm going to say hey you know what
I cover that in the orientation module
so why don't you go and find the answer
that's what I'm going to say not because
I don't know the answer not because I
want to be difficult but because I want
you to have that experience of I'm
responsible for finding that information
because that's the real world in the
real paralegal world you don't go to be
attorneys saying now what's our deadline
for that or where do I find that model
you're the one who's going out and
finding that stuff and so the good thing
about this course is I have all the
stuff for you in the modules but the
challenge is you finding it and you
figuring out how to use that information
so remember these as resources for you
not just this first week but throughout
the course if you need a little
refresher on something let's go to our
next section these are assignment shows
these are assign materials for module 1
so be sure to to participate in these
materials you can see the first Fineman
is read all the material in module 1 so
this means that you're going to need to
go down
and read everything that's here and
everything this here and everything
that's that's here so there's a lot to
read this time as you know there's no
textbook for this course this is the
textbook you probably won't read as much
in this class as you will read in other
classes but there is a fair amount to
read it's a little deceptive and it's
all posted here but you do need to read
it and you need to refer to it from time
to time so as you're reading it takes
some careful notes you'll want to talk
about Ono what's the stuff in this
PowerPoint what do I need to know you're
where the frequently asked questions
which are the ones that I want to flag
and remember some particular information
all of these items you'll want to take
some notes about so that you can refer
to later on so like when you have a
question about gosh I don't know what
font I'm supposed to use well guess what
the answer is going to be here somewhere
and and so it's a good idea for you to
have some careful notes so that you
don't have to click on everything to
find that particular information if you
read documents once well and take
careful notes you actually end up saving
time and alone so take this seriously
keep your notebook out while you're
reading these materials so that you can
refer to them later on okay so the first
item is to read all the material in
module one then you can see that we have
two bootcamp videos I will tell you in
for nothing on assets you make a
notation as you're taking notes is that
there is um I like to think of it as
kind of two aspects to this course one
part is the document preparation that
you do I'll be honest with you there's
nothing hard about the documents we do I
mean there are a few things that people
miss pretty routinely early on
especially but if you want to get close
to perfect scores it's very very doable
I show you how to do it pretty much and
so students who have the luxury of
spending a good amount of time on the
assignment will find that on the
document assignments they will usually
do quite well it's not at all unusual
for me to have students who get perfect
virtually every time
everybody does that but that's a pretty
common thing it is well within the skill
set of somebody who wants to do well to
do that well the grammar though is
harder I will be honest with you we have
the documents which are pretty
straightforward to do but the grammar
some of us have maybe received excellent
grammar instruction and when we were in
school and so or maybe we just have a
grammar gene that kicks in and lets us
excel in that others of us are going to
struggle with this material you probably
know which category you're in right now
and if you are in the gosh I've got
grammar in good good shape awesome
wonderful congratulations this will make
the course significantly easier for you
having said that I will tell you that
it's a pretty rare person who knows all
of these grammar rules kind of
automatically even if you knew them once
if it's been a few years since you were
in high school probably mean a little
bit of refresher so don't get too cocky
I'll be honest with you I enact all the
scores for lots and lots of semesters I
still review some of the grammar rules
some of the more nitpicky rules and so I
encourage you to take it seriously
and to pay attention even if grammar is
your thing if it's not your thing and
you're going to want to watch these
videos probably several times they're
short each one of these videos is
probably about three to five minutes
long but getting familiar with the ideas
also using your aspin grammar book
looking at that and then I have lots of
other tools the grammar is the hard part
of this course
grammar is where people lose points and
many times people find you know what I'm
just not getting it that please please
come them off there's is nothing asset
you flag here come to my office hours I
routinely have students who are
struggling either with the grammar of
the documents so come to my office hours
and a light goes off oh I get it and
from the hunt they're awesome amazing
perfect not perfect but very good
students I had one student this is an
illegal writing course this student was
struggling with grammar
I take a cat I give a students a test
and she had one of the lowest grades on
that pre-cast and one of the concepts
that she really struggled with was
passive voice she couldn't identify she
couldn't fix it
I did a presentation in class and she
was present and I know that she was
paying attention because she's a very
conscientious person but it didn't seem
like it click she didn't get really much
better she was frustrated and
understandably so because this was a
real impediment to her success in the
course anyway she came to see me one day
and we spent about ten minutes it was a
super short meeting usually I spend more
time with students but she had someplace
that she needed to go so we just said
about ten minutes I spent that ten
minutes going over passive voice a light
bulb went off in her head she said to me
at the time wow I get this now and I
thought at the time well that that's
nice that she said that she's just
saying that to make me feel good you
know maybe she made a little progress
but I and I I thought she's probably
still going to struggle with it well the
next class we did a passive voice quiz
and in the previous when this was the
second one of course the previous one
she had gotten almost all of them wrong
I mean the one she got right I think she
just got right because of luck
she got virtually a perfect score she
had if not the highest score one of the
very highest scores
she still struggled with other aspects
of the grammar it wasn't that she was to
be kind of cured of grammar phobia or
anything but she continued throughout
the semester to be able to identify
passive voice very very reliably so
she's an amazing student she made
amazing progress that can be you if
you're willing I'm not saying we can fix
it in 10 minutes it may be in 30 minutes
or an hour but I will be willing happy
to work with you to get you there and
just keep in mind that if something is
due on Sunday night I'm not going to be
able to work with you on Sunday or even
Saturday or probably even Friday so
we'll hat you'll have to plan that out
so that we can get get you ready for
those type
of the tasks I provide a great deal of
support to students who come to see me
during my office hours and I have both
face-to-face office hours and virtual
office hours so there's no excuse for
not coming to see me so doing so these
grammar boot camps are about three to
five minute videos to watch it again
watch multiple times and then I also
have parts of the aspen handbook that
are signed and you can see there are
several pages that are signed these are
not designed for a quick read once and
then go about your business you will
need to read these several times play
with them several times think about them
several times look at the sentences
again and again if that is a grammar
concept that is not familiar to you or
something that doesn't kind of
automatically make sense to you so don't
treat this as a read wants and done
situation okay
we have several assignments here that
won't be here when you're saying this
this will this will not be something
that you'll see at this point so when
you go in and see this this is something
that will become available after the due
date so we have an introductions
discussion board I'm going to click on
this disease and see what that's like
actually you can't see it yet cuz I
haven't opened it up sorry about that
ordinarily if we were in the week that
it was due you would have seen the
discussion board and you would start an
item I start a post we'll talk more
about what goes into a discussion board
when we get later on in the course but
it's a general rule again you want to
flag this there will be three posts that
you'll make on each discussion board
you'll have a substantive post that will
be your main post it will need to be
several sentences long and it will be
graded on its the quality of its of your
submission and then you'll typically
make two reply posts and these will need
to be they can be much shorter but they
need to say something other than I like
your post something along you need to be
substantive you'll need to respond you
might say I agree with you and you say
this and this is why I agree with you or
I disagree with you and by the way I
especially like reply posts that aren't
controversial for the sake of being
controversial and we always want to be
very polite of course and respectful but
just to present a different perspective
can be very helpful so I like comments
that begin
thank you for your your post I had a
little bit different reaction to that
topic let me share with you what I got
out of that something along those lines
so you'll make the main post into reply
posts each one of these will be worth 5
points I have that will be worth 5
points because your discussion boards
are worth 5 percent of your grade these
are both the easiest points in the
hardest points together and they're the
easiest in that as long as you really
try and you follow the instructions and
you have them be reasonably long you're
going to get all 5 points I mean it has
to be a genuine effort but I'm not going
to there might be one or two that I
grade a little more strictly but but
very few of them will agree very
strictly at all where students typically
lose points is when they're nervous
responses are too short or they forget
to do one or more reply posts and so so
in a sense these are pretty gimme
points if you do it you're going to be
fine on the assignments you'll lose
points even when you submit them and you
might not get a very good grade even
though you tried but for discussion
boards if you if you try if you make a
real effort you're going to do just fine
on this so that's what makes the
discussion boards easy
what makes discussion boards hard is
that especially on the summer you have
typically two or maybe even three
sometimes discussion boards that you
need to participate in and so you have
to remember to do them and you can't do
all of your discussion boards posts on
the Sunday so you have to kind of plan
it out over the week so that you submit
all of your discussion boards as you
need to and so it's not a huge amount of
points and it's not unusual for people
to forget this is the one thing that you
can't do ahead all the other assignments
I encourage you actually to do them
ahead at least a rough draft head that's
especially important on the summer
because most likely you're taking some
vacation time or or other tasks times
that you won't be available discussion
boards though are become available at
12:01 a.m. on Monday and they close
11:59 p.m. on Sunday so you just have
one week so especially if you are on a
more than week-long vacation you
probably will miss a discussion board
maybe even two or three that's okay
these are not big sources of points we
have I think 15 discussion boards maybe
14 discussion boards and you can see
they're only worth 5 points 5 percent of
your grade so missing a whole discussion
board isn't even going to come close to
dropping your grade even 1% so you can
miss a discussion forum without it being
a big deal most students do miss one or
two
some even miss more than that so don't
panic if you miss a discussion board
know whatever discussion boards that you
see available in a particular week
they're all going to go away on Sunday
and 11:59 p.m. again you'll be able to
see the due dates in the calendar
feature okay so that's how the
discussion board is going to work then
we have an assignment here so I'm going
to go ahead and click on punctuation
grammar proofreading assignment module 1
this also won't be here this is just not
sure what that is so this is what's
going to look like so the first thing is
here are some global instructions you'll
see the instructions are the same
throughout the semester I'm just going
to click on this so you can see what it
looks like this is kind of important
because how you complete this assignment
is important keep in mind that I will be
grading 25 of these submissions of let
me first of all talk about what is what
is the grammar let me simply pull up the
grammar for reading assignment 4 so you
can see an example of what one looks
like so I'm going to go here ok and this
is actually what the assignment is I'm
going to click on this so this is what
the document looks like and you're going
to go through and you're going to prove
it you're going to get into the correct
format typically there are about two or
three paragraphs there are always just
one page and so we're going to go
through and you're going to go through
and prove it as you can imagine there's
lots of different ways of correcting a
document that is incorrect I mean
there's some that are fairly obviously
if you if I it's the initial writer
forgot to capitalize the first word in
sentence well obviously you're going to
capitalize it so there's a few errors if
there's really just one way of fixing it
but most of the time there's going to be
more than one way of fixing it and so
you can imagine that for me to grade
consistently I have to have a
methodology that allows me okay well
that's an error that's not in there
that's a hopefully not that's not a
whole point off and so before I even
start before I even look at the first
assignment I've established how I'm
going to grade it as a result you're
looking for how can you get the most
points out of the assignment I mean
that's what your focus is it's what
recently your focus ought to be and so
I'm going to give you some advice about
how to maximize a couple of things or
several things the first thing is when
you make it's important to note how you
Changez most students are very good
about doing this especially after the
first week but there's always one or two
or three students who take to them a
little bit longer to catch on to how to
do this the longer it takes you the more
points you're going to be losing so
let's talk about how we do this whenever
you take away something that is there
you're going to cross it out you're
going to use the strikethrough font let
me show you how to do that so what you
do is you highlight the text okay so now
it's gray that tells you it's
highlighted and then I go up here to
word and I click on you see where says
ABC was strikethrough and now it's
struck through and click it it goes away
it's possible that depending upon the
version of word that you have that it
may not be listed up here as one of your
options another way to do that is to
click on this box right here go in here
and then this will show you the
additional choices I'm going to click on
the strikethrough option and that's
another way from you to stryker's so I
have two tools here with my version of
word either one will be just fine so you
need to strike through the part that you
want to remove
you don't just fix it because you see
the problem here's Mary and Bob sing it
shouldn't be sings so if I were doing it
in the real world I'll just take work I
would just get rid of yes right and that
fixes it but as you can imagine if I'm
grading 25 documents it's really hard
for me to see that Corrections that you
made if you just make the correction and
so you have to strike through what was
there before and now you're going to
after it right what you want to add so
let me go back and now I'm going to do
things that's what I want
but again I'm going to want to bring
attention to it so I'm going to
highlight it I'm going to put it in red
font you may not have red as your first
choice so you're going to go here and
pick a red I would ask you to pick a
pretty obnoxious red don't pick a maroon
or
a pink or something like that pick the
most obnoxious ready half because your
goal here is to make it really super
easy for me to see and then I'm going to
bold it too so those are the three
things
let's sure I bolded I guess it is okay
so those are the three steps striking
out the stuff that I want to to go away
putting the new stuff I'm adding in red
and putting it also involved those three
things there are assignments that you'll
be doing that if you miss one or more of
those you will be losing points so don't
be the person who loses points in that
light I'm a typo here I apologize okay
another thing that sometimes people do
is they want to do this here we go back
sometimes people do this they they say
what
they might just say well all I have to
remove is the s so I'm just going to
strike that out well that becomes very
difficult for me to see as you can see
it's hard to see where that F has a line
through it or not in your goal is to
make your changes really easy for me to
see because the last thing you want is
to make a change and you don't hear
credit for it and so instead of changing
something within a word you make the
whole word go away and then you retype
it so even if it were a really long word
let's say aha good call let's say I
misspell the word off a bet achill well
yeah I guess there's a temptation to
just mark out the last two letters and
correct it but instead what I'm going to
do is strike through it and rewrite the
whole word right that's even true
see I had the wrong punctuation let me
go back so let's say I have the words
written correctly but I put a period but
it ends up that while I'm editing I
think gosh I shouldn't have a period
there should have a comma there instead
well I might be tempted to just strike
out that period right do that well again
that's hard to see we don't want to do
that instead what we want to do is
strike out the whole word adjacent to
whenever the punctuation is that I don't
think it's right and then to read write
the words and the comma those are some
important things to to keep in mind if
you fail to do those things you're
giving away points these are easy ways
to maximize your points so be aware of
those those items so one thing is to
make sure that you're you're marking
your changes as clearly as possible the
other thing that is important to keep in
mind is don't over edit people lose
points because of over editing in two
ways one way they lose points is they
take a perfectly good sentence and then
they edit it and they add a problem that
wasn't already there for example let's
say we take this students Mary and Bob
sings the school fight song and what
let's say I do say well I'm just going
to make the whole sentence go away I'm
going to retype it
and I'm going to put it in red and bold
okay well I fix this problem here but
I've added an S well I've changed the
meaning so now it means something
different that it meant originally so I
made it error through through making
this change that was unnecessary and so
sometimes when you when you make too
many changes or you change things
wholesale you in fact will cause
yourself to those points by creating an
error that wasn't already there the
other problem is it's very hard for me
to know what you've changed now I have
to go back and compare well Mary is the
same Mary same and does the same
Anderson Bob is the same Bob is the same
so here this is what you changed you can
see how it takes going to take me a lot
longer to do that it's going to be rare
that you're going to need to remove an
entire sentence in fact the only time
that you even kind of need to even
approach that is when we're making
passive voice changes and even there you
don't need a remove entire sentences so
please in your mind just and make a
notation right here in your notes if you
would don't remove entire sentences with
the possible exception of passive voice
fixes everything else don't do it go
through each word if you think Bob
shouldn't be capitalized just mark out
Bob even if you think there are four
errors in this sentence address each one
of the errors separately and Mark out
the word and then afterwards do the
correct work don't do the whole sentence
so that's also one one way that people
by over editing they lose points is when
they rewrite stuff they add errors but
that's not the more common way the more
common way is that they rewrite it and
they rewrite out the thing that I was
trying to check for so for example in
this sentence what I was trying to show
is when you have a compound subject
you should use a plural verb right but
let's say instead I had rewritten the
sentence to be they seeing the school
fight so well there are two problems
with this one is I'm sorry to need to do
that one is that they change the meaning
we went for Mary and Bob today of course
Mary Bob do mean they there's two people
there but I don't know if you understand
that Mary and Bob when you have a
compound subject requires a suit and
plural verb I get that you know that
when we use they you need to use a
plural verb that's if you if you're
fluent English speaker your ear just
tells you that so you you haven't
demonstrated the skill that I was trying
to to show so in this case even though
the sentence is correct you're not going
to get the point for correcting things
so my piece of advice and please write
this down is to approach this edit with
the philosophy of I'm going to make the
fewest number of changes that I can I'm
only going to change grammar problems or
the very few style problems that the
teacher has instructed me to change the
two big saw problems that we correct are
going to be no contractions and no
passive voice but anything else I see
I'm just going to go with it even if
it's not well written if it's not
grammatically wrong I'm going to stay
with it and the way that I like to
approach this is consider that you're
editing your boss's work your boss isn't
a very good writer but he's your boss or
she's your boss and this boss has
sensitive feelings and so you want to
make the absolute fewest number of
changes you have to just enough changes
so your boss is not humiliated in front
of the court even if it's not well
written because you know your boss is
going to be upset if you do too many
changes so keep
fana mine challenge yourself before you
make any change why am I making that
change what is the rule where can I find
in the aspen book the rule that tells me
I need to do this and if you can't find
it
then you probably ought not be making
that change and again you ought to
change the absolute minimum number of
words that you have don't rely upon your
don't say will do it would sound better
if I wrote it this way you might well be
right many times when people rewrite
complete sentences they actually are
improving it many times they're not we
in this class don't get into more
sophisticated editing approaches we'll
cover those in legal writing but in this
course we're really not going to get
into that stuff that's beyond the scope
of this class so as soon as you start
thinking gosh that doesn't sound well it
would sound better this way but I don't
see any rule there being violated that
tells you in ways that don't need to do
this in this particular course again
when you watch the video you'll get a
lot more specifics so this video is
going to give you more information so in
this video right here's going to be more
information some helpful hints as you're
doing this assignment so here's the
actual assignment I recommend that you
blow up your font to about 20 and you
might even want to double space it some
people like to print it out
some people don't that's your choice
whenever you find easier also let word
help you you'll be able to see in here
that word is going to tell you some
things that aren't so great here by the
way I'm going to get that paragraph
these big text so you can see as you're
looking here it's telling you something
might not be right here telling you
something might not be right here
something something might not be right
here word isn't always going to be
correct they're going to identify
problems and guns that don't exist but
more commonly they're going to miss
problems that do exist but use it it
will give you some good information
another thing to think about is this
little paragraph sign so now we're still
in the home area you see with a
paragraph of the backwards P is click on
that and this will give you formatting
information this is a very useful tool
let me just I'm going to pretend that I
had an extra space here
without this formatting thing here and
this is the way you would ordinarily
look at the text it isn't going to be
immediately obvious that we have an
extra space that word will tell you hey
why do you have an extra space here but
if you aren't using word you might you
wouldn't see this but if you put that
paragraph fine each one of those dots in
the middle here represents a space the
guiness represents and Enter key right
here at paragraph key and so this lets
you say hey way so no got to I didn't
mean to have to and so you can get rid
of it so that's a helpful thing to use
probably near the end of your task and
let's just think about this for a second
let's say that you actually do have an
extra space how would you correct that
what you're going to do is you're going
to mark through this material then
you're going to retype it and you have
it correct of course please write when
you're ready to submit it you will go
ahead and drop it back
Times New Roman 12 also here okay so
those are just some things to keep in
mind as you're working on the projects
probably it's even preps more important
for this than for subsequent projects is
that I will give you detailed comments
in your in the comment section and it
will tell you the errors that you made
which you fail to correct and that can
be some of the most useful material so
that next time okay I didn't understand
it was an error or I didn't know how to
fix that or I didn't realize how it was
supposed to fix that
the first assignment or two it's not a
big deal
if you miss points
it's your therefore that experience of
learning it if your first one or two
assignments aren't the best grades and
no worries you can learn from those and
do well in the other assignments and you
will do very very well in the course so
look upon those not so much caring about
what great did I get but what did I do
wrong and how can I avoid making that
error next time so the comments are
really really important I provide
comments and usually those are numbers
where I will list a series and numbers
that either indicate the things you got
right other things you miss depending
upon which type of assignment it is and
then there is a code that I post within
the module where the assignment came
from the note I will open that up once I
grade the assignments and so you'll need
to look in both places you'll need to
look in the comments and you'll need to
look in the code section now sometimes
people just look at the comments that
they themselves missed maybe you did
really well on assignment 4 and I only
gave you two comments awesome wonderful
congratulations
and so those only two comments that you
look at okay I mean that's good that you
look at the comments but I would
encourage you to look at all of the
comments because just because you didn't
make that mistake on assignment for that
somebody else made in on the sum of five
you may make that mistake you know so
it's a good process for you to make sure
that you look at all the comments
another reason candidly to look at all
the comments is sometimes I miss you may
have committed error of 14 and I just
don't see it but probably I'll see it
next time and so if you've read all the
comments in Google
wait a second I dunno what supposed to
do that okay well I now know the next
time I submit assignment I won't do that
so read the comments and also will
submit a key that shows you how the
document ought to ideally look again
there many documents is there one
magical way to submit it there's
definitely different ways of doing
certain aspects of it but this gives you
a good example of a successful
submission look at that and when you
look at if you're not sure why it looks
the way it does or you're not sure
how to make your document look the way
does look the way that that I created
then a police please come see me so we
can get you to that point another item I
want to pause for here is to remind you
all of our documents need to be in
Microsoft Word you may not use any other
word processing program you may not PDF
your documents I need to be able to see
all those spaces what I will do when I
get one of your documents is I will go
in here and I will turn on the paragraph
sign and I will look to see all of those
ins and outs how did you indent this you
can see in this case I actually moved
the margin I could have done this that
would have been a perfectly good way of
doing it as well or I could have done
this now if you had PDF a document I
wouldn't be able to just look at it and
know well did you hit the spacebar lots
of times or did you hit the tab button
or did you change your margins I
wouldn't be able to tell and so a PDF
doesn't work a document can look
absolutely perfect but if you haven't
formatted it correctly you're going to
lose points so even though this looks
the same as this this person who tabbed
it I hit the tab button right here
that's what happened if you look and
looky the tab button that person is
going to get the going to get credit for
it but if you instead hit this space
space but bar lots of times you're not
going to get points that's not an
appropriate way to indent spaces are
just between words so it's important
that I'd be able to see the formatting
so you do need to use word another
reason that you need to use for I mean
obviously if you use word in part
because it's the word processor that I
have access to and you obviously don't
want to use a word processing tool that
I don't have because I came right at
them
and so that's a practical reason but but
a more important reason is that a
Microsoft Word is what legal
professionals use in order to be
employable as a paralegal you need to
have a pretty sophisticated
understanding of Microsoft Word if you
haven't gotten to that point yet I
encourage you to start working on that
even if you don't have access to
Microsoft Word at your home on your home
computer and your work computer you can
go to any of the computer labs at Collin
with your student ID and get experience
using Microsoft Word rent a book from
the library buy an inexpensive book from
Half Price Books I mean you can get one
a good one for under 15 bucks that have
price books and certainly if you bought
a new one you shouldn't be spending more
than $30 on it and using that becoming
familiar with how to use Microsoft Word
is really an essential part of your
professional development everyone in a
law office needs to use it the attorney
the paralegal the legal secretary the
receptionist everyone needs good
familiarity with microsoft word and so
if you don't have that yet this is the
course to get you started on that
process and if you do have it this is an
opportunity to kind of refresh those
skills so you absolutely do need to use
Microsoft Word in this course now as
soon as people don't have access to
Microsoft Word at their home and that's
fine
you could start many of these documents
with another word processor that
converts so what you would do is you
might start the process and then go to a
computer that has Microsoft Word and if
it's at one of the programs that can
translate you can translate it in the my
for software and do the final touches
just be aware that when you translate it
in Microsoft Word you'll need to go
through and make sure that the
formatting that you used state that
everything is still the way it ought to
be my strong recommendation is just to
work on Microsoft Word from beginning to
end but I understand that that's not
possible
okay so be sure to bookmark that need to
work need to submit everything in
Microsoft Word okay so we've talked
about the discussion board we've talked
about the proofreading assignment we
have an orientation quiz this is due on
June 18 it is not for a grade but you
need to get a 90 in order to continue in
the course so you have three shots of it
you cannot take it more than once in a
day really it's all about these
orientation materials and so it's going
to be things like can you turn in late
assignments what font do we use and of
course all those those rules and things
along those lines so read everything
take careful notes while you're doing
the orientation quiz you are free to use
your notes and free to go into these
documents and look at them so it's not a
closed notes quiz by any means but be
sure to remember to do this in the
calendar this date okay
now we have the orientation materials
I'm going to skip over these right now
and return to them in a bit I'm going to
go over here and look at the syllabus
there's two ways to view documents in a
canvas one is to look at it through here
if you don't have Microsoft Word on your
computer then this is how you'll look at
the documents which is perfectly good I
happen to have Microsoft Word on my
computer and so I'm going to look at it
this way if you haven't spent time with
your syllabus in your courses previously
and please get in the habit of doing so
the first page at least as they're
currently configured there's not a lot
of stuff here that you need to worry
about but the first item I see that you
do need to have some attention to is
going to be
last day to drop the course July 6
because this is a summer semester these
deadlines are closer than they are
during a longer semester I certainly
hope you don't drop the course but I
also get the things happen you get a new
job you have an illness you realize that
this is the right semester for you to be
taking this course perfectly
understandable
be sure to calendar this date so that
you'll know to drop the course if
something happens that this isn't the
right semester for you if you're an
access student I'm glad to work with you
with respect to that and and so let me
know if I can be a value to you with
respect to that here's information about
about me my office is in the library
building on the Preston Ridge campus
room 232 if you haven't had a chance to
meet me face to face I sure would like
that opportunity please come by and see
me I would like to connect names with
faces and like to get to know you so
please please do so if time permits I
have office hours over the summer in two
different times or both on Wednesdays I
have virtual office hours from 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m.
virtual office hours are through zoom
actually right now I am doing a zoom
lecture I'm just taping it and so it
would be a similar format everything
that you see here everything on my
screen you can see during the zoom
meeting you won't see my face I won't
miss AC your face unless you want to use
a webcam but we can talk about documents
and get everything done through zoom
when you want to come to my office hours
you just come to the syllabus here and
you click on this link this is if you
are using a PC or a Mac or you're on
your iPhone or your Android phone you
click on this but you can also connect
in a few different ways there's other
ways to connect as well however you
connect though you want to make sure you
have access to a screen because we're I
mean unless you have a question about
you know some of the doesn't require
screen which is also fine but that's how
it works I will most likely not be in my
office hours as you may I won't be in my
office during office
probably doing it from home if the
summer and I've got kids so don't try to
call me at my office limber but we can
use zoom just like a telephone and if
you have any difficulties connecting to
zoom by the way Zimmy super easy then
just email me during office hours and
we'll figure out what's going on and see
if we can get things squared away if not
then we can talk over the phone and
figure out what to happen how we can get
that get you to help that you need
I provide a lot of support during my
office hours so please please come
occasionally students will come just to
introduce themselves and boy that really
makes my day that communicates to me
this is a serious student this is a
professional student this is a student
who knows how do how to be successful in
the professional environment so it's a
really really impressive thing I do have
face-to-face office hours thereafter
another class that I have I'm teaching a
contract this summer so if you're in my
country crest awesome just stick around
with me after class and we'll have
office hours and be glad to support you
with your assignments if you don't have
a class with me you're also welcome to
come I will be having my office hours
not in my office but in the classroom
this is and the LH building is Lawlor
hall from the Preston Ridge campus in
room 131 and it's from ten ten to eleven
ten so feel free to come if you do come
to office hours email me your draft
document or bring it in on a thumb drive
so that we'll have something to work
from so I'll be able to respond to your
questions and then the last choice is by
appointment
I recognize it over the summer sometimes
people's hours are crazy and these times
I picked them because I think there are
times it will work for lots of folks but
I recognize nothing works for everyone
so we can schedule a different time that
might be more convenient for you I
provided my office number but I will be
honest with you I'm not going to be in
office this summer there's just no need
for me to be in the office because my
office hours are in the classroom and
virtual and so
now weeks may go by in run in my office
so please email me when you want to
communicate with me and you are welcome
to email me but I encourage you to email
me just keep in mind that emails are
great for saying hey when can we meet or
I think there may be a problem with
document X or something like that
emails are a really really clunky a tool
for answering substantive questions like
I'm not quite sure what to do on this
assignment send me an email so we can
schedule a time or we can get together
and talk about it I'm not going to be
able to give detailed instructions
obviously via email a good rule of thumb
is if you think that my answer before
you send an email in which you're not
just asking scheduling means like that
to two good questions ask yourself first
of all
if can I find this information somewhere
else so if it's a due date question
think about where would I be able to
find that it or if it's a question about
what font I'm association with that is
it available to me somewhere else
because that's what I'm going to refer
you to so might as well just skip that
step if you can that the second thing is
is it something that groover would be
able to answer in three sentences or
less if you think it's going to take
more than three sentences for me to
answer
or if I think it's good that you want
three sentences answer I'm very likely
to say hey great question let's schedule
a time when can we meet so that we can
get in to the Nitty Gritty going back
and forth with email usually takes a lot
more time and often times it's much more
frustrating for the student then if we
had just had a five or ten minute
telephone call or meeting resolve the
question and move forward so emails are
awesome can be very effective but aren't
graded everything few things in life are
great and everything also also flag that
I and you may want to depend upon your
usage in the past you may want to flag
this one because occasional have
students to forget some students like to
send me course messages assisted black
boards actually through kid
here that they use this to actually this
in box here please don't do that I don't
check that I like to have all of my
emails through my cougar cougar web so
send it to me at sea groover at colony d
you I organize all my emails into
various folders and I can't do those
same functionalities through the canvas
inbox so I won't fit and so obviously it
won't work for you so don't don't do
that send it to see Gruber at : DD you
instead there's only one textbook for
this course and many of y'all will
already own the textbook because it is
the textbook that we use in intro and
other courses you will see possibly that
the textbook authors or the Texas
publishers have created a new edition of
a textbook I think maybe the new edition
like the rolling down the fall I can't
remember for sure don't worry about
having the latest and greatest edition
I'm actually used a green Edition I
don't even have the latest greatest if
you have the latest and greatest or
maybe even an older edition some of the
page numbers may not be perfectly
correct
so consider hey you know what this
section is supposed to be about passive
voice oh in second these pages don't
completely fit with passive voice
probably I need to look you know adjust
the page numbers maybe one or two pages
somewhere or another and if you you
think that the page numbers have
dramatically changed in the latest
edition send me an email and I will
order a copy of the new edition and use
that wrap to update the page number so
definitely don't want you to be at a
loss for how I want to find that
information that is the only textbook
that is assigned a sentence students
like to go above and beyond and use
actual legal form books it's not a
requirement for the course but certainly
it can add another level of
professionalism to your submissions
there are several different form books
if you want to use them you'll need to
go to one of two places what lessons one
two places but probably the easiest two
places for you to go would be either the
Spring Creek library or to my office in
my office I will have some sum of all
those documents that I'll be glad to
show you how to use those four books
paralegals routinely use these forms
looks as well as attorneys so they're
very good things to have experience with
I mean they're outrageously expensive
you actually should not consider buying
them even on the used basis but using
them in the library would be a very fine
choice if you find hey I just can't find
a model that's going to work
you aren't expected to use these
resources but certainly you can so this
could be a plan B if you really feel
like you would benefit from that um
going forward you can see so just
highlight this is another item you need
to use microsoft word if you don't
already have some pretty good skills get
a book I have a book I use there's lots
of good ones out there you can also just
google stuff and you can use YouTube
video so you don't even have to buy a
book but that can be a smart investment
and then you'll often need some kind of
calendaring tool
some people like electronic ones and
people like paper ones whatever works
for you is what works for you but you do
definitely need to do that and in fact
when you go with this lecture my
suggestion is you set aside about an
hour to write in all the talent all the
due dates can come up with a plan for
when you're going to get everything
accomplished
don't let this week pass and you not
have done that it's a recipe for
disaster I can tell you I've dealt with
enough students who if you've come back
and said I've only a calendar the stuff
to know that that is a smart strategy
okay so here's the breakdown of points
sometimes students don't pay attention
to this
and I hope that you won't be one of
those students because deciding what
counts the most is going to influence
where you spend most of your time I've
already talked about the class
participation which is discussion boards
only 5% it's pretty easily earned 5% but
obviously if you have a choice between
doing the document preparation and the
in the discussion board well obviously
you're going to want to use it up do the
document preparation that's 50% so be
smart
I recognize that your time is very
precious you don't have as much as you
would like you have competing people
pulling for your time your boss your
spouse your children your dog your
vacation plans your parents I mean lots
of different people want a piece of your
time I want a piece of your time but I
know I'm not always going to come in
first in that time where I shouldn't in
some situations
so you have to be smart if in a
particular week you look and go you know
what I'm not going to do all this spend
your time in the most important areas
for example many people find that the
grammar convention assignments take as
much time as a document preparation but
you can see it's only worth 1/5 as much
in terms of actually worth more like 40%
as much because we have only half as
many an English convention assignment so
we needed that the proofreading
assignments that we were talking about
before or over your time but you know
highlighting things in red and using
strike strikeout sorry and that's what
the proofreading your grammar image
assignments are so they're actually
sensors few of them actually more like
20% compared to 50% but they're not
worth as much and especially if you're a
person who struggles with the grammar
you may find it more important to do the
document prep you can skip all of the
grammar assignments and only lose a
single letter grade if you skip very
many of these document preps you are
looking at dropping several line
upgrades don't do it so do these first
do these first well and then it's time
for mids to the other items you can see
that the midterms and finals have a
relatively low weight in this course I
mean you don't want to skip them
but compared even in combination
compared to the document prep they're
much less important that totally only
35% you could skip both of those gray
those tests and do really well and
everything else and pass the course so
you don't want to do that of course but
the document prep is where this case is
all about this somewhat different most
of our courses in the paralegal program
are more about TAS and less about
assignments but this is a difference
here's some information about online
learning some if this is your first
online course I encourage you to try use
these tools and get comfortable with
these tools so that you'll meet with
success here are some information about
technical things I can see I haven't
updated all these they still refer to
blackboard in a few places I apologize
but just interpret it to be canvas and
if you have any problems with your
computer just know that you have access
to the computer lab account there's a
computer lab on all three of the major
campuses
class participation this is about the
discussion board in dirt there Newspeak
three substantive posts and one let me
get one what I call something to post
them to reply posts keep in mind these
pointers are rarely issues in this
course but I will tell you the
discussion board for module two is the
one that occasionally people will post
things are a little bit off-color I try
to run a really g-rated class so please
no profanity nothing off-color or
suggest as soon as people will roll
postings with initials that are of a
naughty word and so I would ask that you
not do that keep it so that if your
grandmother or your Minister rabbi or
other religious leader we're reading it
they would not think anything less of
you for having posed to that so the
courteous and respectful and keep
everything G if there's a question mark
go ahead and pick something else to
discuss and keep it so there's no
question mark in your mind let's go here
to assignment submissions as I said
before everything needs to be in Word
which means it needs to have an
extension of dot docx or dot docx any
other extension on the end of your
document name means that it won't work
I don't accept documents in either
format I don't accept PDFs
I just want great them you'll get a zero
on it so don't do it don't if you don't
have access to doc a word for a given
week do the assignment early earlier or
accept the fact that you're not going to
get any points for that particularly and
I've said it before but I don't grade
late assignments if you haven't written
a ton yet please write it down
that's not an option in this course you
have all the due dates from day one so
there's no reason to ever have a late
assignment typographical errors are a
big deal that's where you lose points
everybody doesn't you'll see I do them
not here to Stefan here as they do is I
do nothing to say I do as I say not as I
do but you know you want to watch it to
the extent that you can have as few as
possible examinations examinations are
hard in this course and the document
assignments are relatively easy if you
follow the guides especially if you come
and see me you're going to do really
well in those but the midterms in the
final exam are more challenging so some
students do really well on the document
assignments and so they think I'm doing
so well this the midterm and the final
will be a breeze they go indicate I said
I'll do so well don't assume that it's
the same experience I'm testing
different things on the midterm and the
final exam and the there's some overlap
for sure but there's also other things
that I'm testing and so watch I give a
pretty detailed description of what's
going to be on each test look at those
items focus on those I have a tool
available for students who are not local
and it's Proctor you this is a way to
take a midterm and the final exam that
is not if you're not local let's say you
you know are in South of France for the
summer
awesome yeah which you were taking me
but any event I'm I'm here in Frisco and
obviously you don't want to come all the
way to Collin County to take your final
no worries you can take your final and
your midterm in the South of France via
Proctor you you just need to know tell
me at least five days before the first
day that the test is available and
because there are steps that we need to
take in order to get everything set up
and so it's a nothing too onerous but
just let me know did that is what you'll
be needing to do and we'll be glad to
set that up I have information here
about the cost the fee for each use
varies depending upon the length of time
that you used to take the test
my guess is that you would not be near
the lower end that you probably be in
the 20 to 30 dollar range again a lot
less expensive than an airplane ticket
to collin county though so again this
can be a smart resource for you to use
if you're not going to be local on the
other hand if you just don't want to
drive to the Preston Ridge campus you're
probably going to find it cheaper for
you to drive to the Preston Ridge campus
than for you to do Proctor you you can
take the tests on either the Central
Park or Spring Creek campus if you
prefer that's definitely an option let
me know if you're going to do that
though so I can make the test available
in those places here is our calendar so
this is a repetition of the information
that you fail to find in the calendar on
canvas this might be an easy way for you
to judge on all of the due dates and
things along those lines going to make
all of these spaces go away here we go
so you'll see the due dates and you can
just calendar those and you'll see that
we do more than one module a week in
many cases we have a total of 15 modules
and we have only I think nine or ten
weeks so this first week for example
we're doing two modules second week
we're doing two modules third week we're
only doing one module and so forth so
some will be one some will be two weeks
that is the end of the syllabus
information again refer to it as you
need at this point I'm going to end this
lecture and then start another lecture
on another sort of a lecture in another
file so be sure to watch that thank you
for your attention and have a wonderful
day
you
