welcome to the second lecture relating
to orientation for advanced legal
documents preparation here we are back
at home base actually this is home base
where we'll start as you go into the
course and now we're going to go back
into modules and we're going to look at
module 1 again you'll be watching
something the second item here since
you've already watched the first lecture
if you haven't watched the first lecture
yet be sure to watch that first because
I'm going to assume some information for
the first lecture as we go into the
second lecture in the first lecture I
talked about the the bootcamp items but
let me spend just a bit more time on the
bootcamp before we go forward I'm going
to go in and I'm going to go to YouTube
by the way all of my videos are
available on youtubes 4 so for some
reason you're not able to access them
through canvas you can always go in the
way to do that is type in LGL a 2 3 3 3
and you'll see all of my orientations
you can see this first one which is my
first video and lots of others that
you'll be able to see going forward so
this is a way to get the information and
for some reason canvas is down or you're
just want to see it and skip a few of
the hurdles going into this let me go
into I'm going to type in SAT boot camp
ah we want grammar we type in grammar
and you can see here they all grouped
together so you can click on this and
see all of the lectures it will say that
these videos are out of date what they
mean when they say that they're out of
date is they mean that they don't
comport with the requirements of the
current SAT and in these videos you will
ok the instructor will occasionally talk
about you know what
you need to know for the SAT verses but
you need to know for real-life grammar
obviously I'm not prepping you for the
SAT it's wonderful if you're telling the
thing the SAT M should be helpful but
I'm focused on the grammar so don't
worry about the SAT stuff and as a
result this really is an out of date for
our purposes there's actually I think 31
videos we're only going to cover about
the first half the second half of are
also very useful I'm not discouraged to
you from seeing those that would be
awesome it's just more than I thought
was reasonable for a one semester course
so anyway this is where you can find
them but you don't have to go there
because I have them broken down you
should use unit so this is the first one
mown basics but again you can see it
right here right here this is that first
video now in basics SAT grammar boot
camp one it'd be the same thing and you
can see this one is 6 minutes and 28
seconds most are a little bit shorter
than that I think there's some
introductory material on that person
since it's the first and you'll see in
most of the modules we'll be covering
two top two units and since we'll be
covering in many some many weeks we'll
be covering two modules you might have
up to four of these videos to watch and
again in addition to this material there
will be some Aspen handbook of sign
readings they aren't necessarily married
up together so this reading won't
necessarily track with the noun stuff
they can be on the same topic or a
different topic we've already discussed
the discussion board and we've discussed
the punctuation grammar proofreading
assignment let me pause though and
mention one more thing about that
assignment I may not have made
absolutely clear there's really kind of
two aspects to the grammar proofreading
assignment and you can tell from the
name the two aspects it has to do with
grammar so it's a mechanism to test your
understanding of some grammar concepts
and it's also a proofreading assignment
it's to test your ability to find
proofreading years to become an
effective proof reader is a really
important task for a legal professional
to to accomplish some people are
naturally good proof readers some people
struggle with that here are some tools
to think of
as you are proofreading one is to blow
up the font of whatever you're
proofreading if it's really big and
in-your-face and obnoxious it's harder
to miss the error another is to print it
out and actually hold it in your hands
that can be very useful for some folks a
third tool is to read it aloud it's
harder to missing an error if you're
actually reading it a third is to read
it backwards sometimes when you see
words an isolation you can see the
misspellings a little bit more carefully
fourth is to have someone else read it
to you and they may be it when you hear
it read that may spark some some errors
or awareness of errors a final tool is
to let Microsoft Word help you out they
will point you to where a lot of errors
might be when you are actually here you
won't when you go into this module one
initially you won't see this document
but you will see it after the fact for
some of the grammar proofreading
assignments after the submission date I
will post a video where I go through and
actually do the assignment and try to
replicate how I would have approached if
I had been a student the questions I
would have asked my site what do I do
here what are here and how I identified
the error and so that can be helpful if
you find grammar a little bit daunting
and this will help you after the fact
figure out what's going on you may say
well what do I care after the fact I've
already lost whatever points I'm going
to we'll keep in mind that each one of
the assignments builds on the next
this first one for example focuses on
punctuation the next one will focus on
punctuation and another topic and then
the third will be punctuation topic B
and topic C you won't ever not have
punctuation be a topic on the grammar
proof reading assignment going forward
so even if even though watching this
video isn't going to help you get a
better grade on this module one
assignment it will have to get a better
grade on module two already talking
about the orientation quiz so let's go
forward and we went through the syllabus
when we were together last syllabus has
lots of useful information including
calendar if you haven't already pause
right now and write down all of those
dates and whatever calendaring tool that
you are going to use you can either go
over here to this calendar tool right
over here or you can go to syllabus and
calendar directly from the last two
pages of the syllabus we'll click on
about this course gives you a little bit
of information about the course
maybe not nothing that you really have
to worry too much about but it gives you
an overview about what to expect and
then here is a little bit of information
about myself and here is a picture it's
kind of weird having an online course
because there will be Here I am there
will be some folks that I haven't
actually had the opportunity to meet yet
and so I had a friend who was who taught
online courses pretty commonly at Collin
and she broke her arm and she was doing
a online lecture one day and she
mentioned I'm doing a lecture
oh you know I broke my arm it's in a
green cast and she went on with the
lecture anyway she was walking around
campus that day and there was this
person who was walking by her who she
had seen several times on campus but
obviously didn't know the person and the
person stopped and goes oh you're
professor Smith and she's like how'd you
know because we have the green cast I
just watched your video and so they they
met for the first time in the hall or in
the hall but in the on the quad at on
the campus because of that so anyway if
you see somebody who looks like that
it's probably me you know hopefully
you'll introduce yourself I do want to
meet everyone you're able to kind of
office hours and you see that face on
campus come say hi let me go back to the
modules um so now we are done with so
we've done we're doing the videos right
now we've talked about the assign
materials here we've talked about the
assignments we talked about the semester
specific information now I have a
variety
of tools that I hope that you will use
throughout the semester I'm going to
pull this up so you can see some of
these resources sometimes students
forget about these don't be that student
so make a notation that when you reach
an assignment you're like I don't
remember how to do that or what to do or
what that's supposed to look like
obviously the lecture is going to
include good information the module that
you're working on may include good
information but this also includes lots
of good information so don't forget
about these tools that we have up at the
beginning in module one here are some
general information about memo format
you're going to want to have memorandum
or interoffice memorandum first page
you'll want to use the tab key to
justify the memo header content such as
to tab you don't want to hit the
spacebar the only time really we're
going to use this base finance courses
to space between words any other time
you're going to use the tab key maybe
this is some general information about
how to do the memo format I can go
through each one but this is a useful
for you to keep in mind if you forget
how to do this we'll be doing memos
several different times in the semester
once early on and once later on at least
two times and so that can be helpful to
remember then here are some general
information about legal formatting how
to space have margins work out
paragraphs work all of those things
these are proofreading marks we're not
going to use these directly in this
course but goodness gracious you're
going to save yourself a lot of
heartache if you learned these
proofreading marks for one thing if you
are assigned a secretary who will type
your documents or correct your documents
its traditional to give your secretary
documents with these proofreading marks
on it it makes it a lot easier for you
to communicate the changes that need to
be made it makes his or her job a lot
easier the secretary shop a lot easier
to put those changes in it also makes
your job easier even if you're your own
typist and in most cases you will be
most attorneys and paralegals enter
their own changes these days so learning
how to make at make these marks can
really improve the quality of your life
will you have to do them in this course
no but learning them now will save you
difficulties in the future so I
encourage you to think about doing that
we need it to legal writing at least if
you take my course you will be asked to
make these proofreading marks from time
to time so you definitely will work on
that
here is just some other pointers that
you'll want to make sure I see a typo
here there should be five points I
changed it from ten so there may be some
details here by the way if you find an
error send me an email so I can correct
it there's a lot of data on this canvas
course and sometimes I miss updating it
and I really do appreciate your help if
you let me know about errors you see I'm
going to get out of this right now so
we'll talk about effective emails we
have a whole module on that topic and
that's the next module module number two
okay so we have covered everything other
than the orientation materials which is
what we're going to be covering right
here but before we get to that I'm just
going to go and show you one particular
module module two is a pretty typical
module
well we're going to have a PowerPoint
this is PowerPoint I will cover in the
lecture so this is the pattern you'll
see there'll be the PowerPoint which is
covered in the lecture and then there
will be some reading typically they'll
begin by assigned reading sometimes
these readings will conflict with
something I say in the lecture always
follow the lecture don't follow the
assigned readings so please write that
down and you're keeping a list of
important things keep in mind it's just
not possible to find readings that
completely agree with the the style
guide that we're using this particular
course and so these are good resources
but they're not perfect always when
you're submitting something follow the
guidance that I give you in the lectures
and then there's an assigned rating and
you can see even our aspen handbook lets
us down sorry about this but don't use
best for an email closing again I
recommend using very truly yours comma
but you can also use sincerely comma and
I also think regards comma works and you
can see we have another assigned reading
for about reading but viewing of grammar
bootcamp so you can see these are the
things that you kind of consume you read
you watch or you hear and then we have
three assignments the first one really
isn't an assignment especially if you
haven't taken a course online or you
haven't worked with submitting something
through canvas before it can be a little
bit daunting I'm not sure what button
did hit or how that works and so I do
give a practice assignment and this one
will you'll actually submit this before
the first true assignment is due so that
way if you when you try to submit this
and you're not successful you have some
time to figure out what's going on very
few people have difficulty submitting
things through canvas it's pretty easy
to but every now and again someone will
and sometimes the problem is how their
computer is configured and so you might
find it you know what I can submit but I
can't submit from my computer well
that's good to know better than to find
that out at 11:50 p.m. on Sunday night
and you have 10 minutes find it in the
computer not
not going to happen so here I'm going to
click in and just show you how to submit
an assignment so we click on this link
and obviously if you're a real
assignment you have all kinds of
information about this now I'm going to
click on this button submit assignment
I'm going to choose the file I know it
has to be let me just refresh here it
has to end with dot dot or dot dot X I'm
going to pick a document I'll go into
some other file I'm going to use this
one I can see that this is a dot Word
document cuz it's the W here open and I
can see here at the dot docx X so it
works it's one of the two formats that
you can use and I'm going to hit submit
and I have turned it in successfully I
can go over here and look and make sure
hey is that the one I wanted to turn in
if I look at the name you can see the
name of it is information about the
final exam LG la 1307 spring 2017 oh
wait a second that's not what I wanted
to turn in what I can do is I can
resubmit an assignment I can click here
and try something else I want to go into
what I wanted to submit one
let me join something here I want to
submit this so I click on it here and
now I have this is a dot docx which is
fine if I had submit here this is going
to go away so this isn't a way to submit
two documents this is a way to replace
what I've already submitted so you can
see right now this is information about
the final exam I'm going to hit submit
documents and now I always think I have
a completely different document now in
this course there will be times where
you'll be submitting two documents so
let me show you how you do that I want
to submit two documents this time so I'm
going to pick this document so an
assignment twelve to one sample contract
and now I'm going to hit add another
file and I'm going to submit calendar
cleaners it's also this is a dot docx I
have two files when I hit submit this is
going to go away
now I have two documents if you dealt
with blackboard you know that it was
difficult to unsubmitted occupant so if
you actually posted the wrong document
or let's say you did a pretty good job
but you didn't really feel like you were
finished with it well you didn't want to
submit it until you really had a
finished document that's not true for
canvas you can switch things in and out
all day long if you want to so if you
have something pretty good but not
finished go ahead and submit it and then
just keep on working on it and then when
you get get it done the way you want
just a resubmit which will erase what
you've already submitted there's no
reason to ever not have a submission
even if you only able to do 10% of the
assignment might as well get a few
points than no points at all so that's
how you submit let's say I'm not sure if
this is the right document we'll just
click on it and it will open up and
you'll be able to see what the document
is here is a document is that right okay
well let's assume it is and I'm good to
go if it's not right then I will do the
resubmit okay so I'm going to go back to
modules that's how you do the practice
assignment you don't have to do it about
a third of the class will and two-thirds
well no reason to do it if you feel
confident about how to submit things via
canvas then there's the discussion board
which we've already talked about how to
participate that and we had our email
assignment now up here we had a grammar
proofreading assignment but we did not
have an actual document assignment we
call these document assignments you're
actually going to create a document
let's go ahead and open that up and see
what it looks like so here's some
instructions you can see again it has to
be the dot docx or dot docx I'm going to
click on this
and here are some instructions about how
to do it again when you're doing this
and going to gathering this down please
write it down when you are preparing
these assignments be watching my video
where do I find the video let's go back
here in modules I'd recommend that you
have the PowerPoint open and you'll be
watching the lecture and have your Word
document open and as you're learning
stuff about how to do this and you're
going to do that part of the emails and
you'll pause my lecture for that portion
so you can multitask be most efficient
with your time so that's an example of
an assignment you can see that
assignment discussion boards are worth
five points email assignment or all the
document summons are worth 30 points and
the grammar proof reading assignments
are worth 20 points that is not the
percentage actual the documents are
worth 50 percent the grammar assignments
are worth 10 percent so don't don't
think that reflects their their level of
the weight necessarily okay so that's
how a module works a common point of
confusion and that some people have is
that they think that all of the things
in a particular module are going to be
due at the same time that's not true
you can see here for this particular
module we have three different due dates
the discussion board is going to be the
first due date then the other two
assignments this one is weird because we
have this practice assignment so that's
not that's kind of an exception but
typically you'll have to do dates within
every module one for the discussion
board which will happen at the end of
that week and then typically the Sunday
Funday 11:59 and the following Sunday
11:59 any grammar assignments and any
document assignments will be due the way
I like to think about it is that the
module really closes on this first date
the June 5th date the Sunday date but I
give you one week of grace period
actually it looks like I'm giving you
two weeks of grace period here so let me
see yeah I guess it is ok I'm giving you
two weeks of grace period but that won't
be true looks like going forward we'll
be back to I'm not sure if some states
or I might have to go back and look at
those dates but as your calendar I'll
have them all squared away before we do
but before the first day of the class
would so when the dates are there those
will be solid dates but but don't assume
well because the email assignment is due
on June 18th that the discussion board
is going to be open until then this is
always going to close first my
recommendation is to treat the deadline
for everything in the module to be the
discussion board deadline and then if
you need an extra week or so or if you
something happens you have that extra
week built in if you create a fake
deadline that's several days in from the
real deadline you don't have to worry
about being super close to that deadline
or worrying about having a late
assignment okay so that's how a module
works and you'll see all the modules
pretty much work the same way they're
going to be about the same number things
for example here we have some videos we
have a statute we have information about
how to make it a document about how to
make for your request in Texas we have
the SAT grammar bootcamp we have three
assignments and you can see here they
have the due dates so these are just
some things as you're going through
you'll want to calendar them and make
sure you're familiar with them module 6
is different than other modules while it
kills as a document assignment it
actually is a grammar assigned it is by
far our hardest module there's lots and
lots of stuff to cover here
and so I encourage you to work ahead in
fact if I were you especially this first
week where things are a little bit light
in terms of work is you may want to dive
in a little bit to grammar a module six
especially if grammar kind of makes you
a little bit nervous and get started on
an earlier study after study indicates
that if you have let's say you have ten
hours to prepare for this module it's
much better to spend you know two hours
over five weeks than to spend ten hours
over five days you're going to learn
more you're going to retain more it's
going to be more effective way of
studying my goal is to have you study
not more but smarter and so budgeting
your time so you're exposed to this
material over several weeks is going to
help you a lot part of the reason that
works by the way is that when you sleep
you consolidate the information you
organize into your brain so the more
sleeps you have as you are getting this
material and in learning more material
the more organized that part of your
brain is going to be to retrieve this
information and you use this information
so I encourage you in fact I would start
this week diving into some of these
topics now what you need extra support
on is going to be different than what
someone else needs extra support on so
you might find boys the Commons that
really throw you or might be the
pronouns that really throw you as a
result I don't I give a lot of resources
on the topics but I don't assign a lot
of stuff because it doesn't make sense
if you've got pronouns down it doesn't
make sense for you to spend a lot of
time doing a pronoun assignment but if
you don't you go say pronouns kind of
throw you click on this and you'll find
some tools that you may find a value
here I'm sorry let me go back
then below here you'll find various
resources on various topics so for
example well let's say you are
struggling lots of times and I'm sorry I
let's say you are struggling on commas
Commons throw you well here are lots of
different tools on commas well in our
only website after website many number
exercises and most of the time where
there's an exercise they will tell you
whether your answers are right or wrong
so lots of different things to work with
but don't feel that you know if you just
watch the video that's all I have to
work with there isn't enough time
honestly for you to do all these
resources so you need to pick and choose
you won't run out of resources to use
you'll run out of time before you get to
that point so be smart focus on the ones
that you need the most support in that
you think are helping you the most so
that you can be prepared these are
optional but they're highly recommended
as I said before the grammar is the most
challenging part of material is covered
fairly heavily in both the midterm in
the final and that's where people lose
points is the grammar and so attention
to that is going to help you on the
grammar proofreading assignments it's
going to help you on module 6 assignment
it's going to help you on the midterm in
the final and so spending time on it can
be really smart and some people learn
this stuff better by a one-on-one
experience where we can talk through
things and you can ask questions in real
time so feel free to come see me during
my office hours I have this posted on
the syllabus and I look forward to
seeing you so we can go over those
things don't be shy I am delighted to
help you with this material and so
please come so that's the little bit
different module we have here module 6
wanted
bring that to your attention we also
have a module for the midterm for that
particular module really all you're
doing is taking the midterm and doing a
couple of other things so it's light in
terms of the work that you have
otherwise so now we're going to go back
and we're going to go through our
orientation tools I'm going to start by
talking about the pair Collin College
paralegal Association this is a group
that we have that is let me just go
ahead and go into our group we're going
to linkedin.com if you haven't
established your LinkedIn account please
do so not to benefit me but to benefit
you let's go into so now let's assume
that you're already a member
Collin College paralegal Association is
going to show up here if you're already
a member it you will come in and you
will see the website if you aren't a
member it will ask if you want to join
and if you ask to join then I will have
the opportunity to let me just see what
I will do you will not do this I will
click in and I will be able to see
here's your question membership no one
is having a question but if there was
I'd be able to approve them at this
point
okay for the most part what I do is I
list job opportunities sometimes I have
five and six and weeks and I'm a week or
two will go by and I don't have
opportunities this is where I list them
and so if you are interested in getting
a legal job this is the place to go I
recommend that you go to this website if
you're looking for a job every day and
it should not be your only tool that
you're using to find a job then it makes
good sense for you to use this tool
sometimes I send blast emails with job
leads to people who are members of our
group I can only send one of those once
a week though so I usually end up
posting them and it depends upon whether
you will get a notice from LinkedIn or
not will depend upon how you set up
your LinkedIn account so I don't know
whether you'll get an email every time I
send out a posting or whether you'll get
one once a week or whether you'll never
get one and you'll eventually see what
the pattern is that you've established
you might want to tweak that over time
but this is where jobs are listed we
have some additional resources that we
are getting a gentleman by the name of
John Heinz is going to be the career
coach for paralegal going forward we're
very excited to have him and he will
also be somebody who may be sending you
information again right now the plan is
to use LinkedIn collin college paralegal
association for that so if you haven't
joined us please do so as soon as
possible you join it for the job base
but there's other information I post
here you don't have to it's not a
requirement for the program but it is
highly highly highly recommended
actually it's highly recommended even if
you're very happy with your current
paralegal position need no interest in
getting another job because legal
professionals use LinkedIn it is the
currency that the way that that people
advance their careers have legal careers
not a week goes by that I don't get a
job lead that I don't get some
particular employer expressing an
interest in me I'm not saying you're
going to have that experience in the
first few weeks or years of your career
I've been practicing for a very long
time but LinkedIn is the method that is
oftentimes used in this environment and
so it's also the way that you can
establish and maintain professional
relationships there'll be lots of people
that you meet in your career and having
those contacts can help you when you're
trying to find local counsel in a
different City when you're trying to
find out how a judge is to work with in
a particular case all that kind of stuff
you're going to be using that circle of
contacts that you have and you want to
make sure that you maintain that develop
it cultivate it and this is one of the
really important tools to doing it so I
highly highly encourage you to join if
you haven't already if you have
difficulties joining and in LinkedIn
some of us make things unusually
difficult in my experience send me an
email and once you once you've joined
LinkedIn I can
the noon invitation and join our
particular group so let me know if
there's any challenges and of course you
could always come to my office hours and
I will be glad to set up your whole
account for you if you'd like it's free
LinkedIn will try to sell you a premium
membership you don't need it in my
opinion there's no reason to pay me
didn't any money okay so we're back to
our module we've talked about how to
join here's information about how to
participate in the discussion board and
here's it can you have the three weekly
posts you need to submit your
substantive posts by noon on Saturday
that is important and the reason I have
that policy is to give everyone adequate
time to respond in past semesters I
sometimes had everybody in a class start
responding at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday night
well since people have to also do to
reply posts if there are any substantive
repose to reply to in too late on Sunday
that really limits people's ability to
apply so I encourage you to post your
first post well before noon on Saturday
but I don't accept substantive posts
after noon on Saturday so be sure to
follow so even though the discussion
board will remain open until 11:59 on
Sunday and it will allow you to make
your substantive post I'm not going to
be counting it for a grade at that point
although you will still get credit for
reply posts that you make so don't give
as much credit for those as you do your
main post okay and then here's
instructions for the grammar
proofreading assignments there's also
some so here's a little video there's
also what associated with each grant
proofreading assignment I do have some
instructions there as well
and there's instructions how to forward
your cougarmail email address to some
other email that you use if you're like
me you've got multiple email accounts
and it's sometimes hard to manage them
all and I know many of y'all have very
busy professional and personal lives and
so having an extra email that you have
to manage can be a real drag I'm going
to be sending a ton of emails in this
course you'll probably be getting
several a week from me some of the
several a day from me and so you really
need and they'll be emails that you need
to do stuff about certainly you won't
want a whole week to go by and not
having looked at emails that I send so
with that in mind you're going to want
to be able to see these quickly but I
certainly get that you may not want to
deal with cook around that's fine
you can forward your cougarmail to your
quote-unquote real email address what
will happen is the email will still be
in your cougarmail but will also be sent
to your personal or your professional
email
you don't have to do this I won't know
whether you're doing or not but it that
can be a useful tool well you're welcome
to do this when you are emailing me you
do need to use your cougarmail email
address and again you're not going to
use this tool over here don't use this
send emails to me through your
cougarmail to see groover at Collins edu
okay so now we're going to go and look
at the PowerPoint for the course a lot
of the information this PowerPoint will
be stuff that I've already talked about
so we'll be able to get to this pretty
quickly
you
um here we go it started here if I
haven't said it already I apologize I
should have a welcome I am really
excited to be teaching this course this
is one of the most practical courses but
I would say it is the most practical
course we offer in the program at the
end of the semester you will have
several gorgeous legal documents to put
in your portfolio
many many times students have come to me
and said professor Gruber when I went to
that job interview and showed them that
divorce petition that we prepared in
this class they were wowed by it and
that's how I got the job that is a very
very common occurrence this is more than
any of the course this is your ticket to
employment as a paralegal when you
submit a document I'm going to give you
comments and then you're going to won't
be for a grade in the course
I don't allow resubmission for a grade
you're going to incorporate the comments
that I make and make an even more
beautiful document and that's what's
going to go into your portfolio and you
are going to use those documents and
when you go to the job interview and the
future employer says have you ever done
a divorce petition before and that
moment you pull out your portfolio and
say why yes and here is a copy of the
divorce petition for your records so
that you can look it over and they are
going to be wowed by the quality and
professionalism of your documents so
this really is a path to employment if
you want to blow off other courses I
hope you don't but don't blow this one
off this one is money in your back
pocket this is the the course that can
be the difference between you getting
the job and you're not getting a job so
very excited to be here very committed
to giving you as much value as you can
in terms of learning all the tricks of
the trade so to speak remember as you're
watching this video that there will be
that orientation quiz so take careful
notes and so that you will be able to
enter those questions
Here I am again I'm Cynthia groover I
have been practicing law since 1990
I began tried to sing in a large law
firm in Houston and then I went to work
for corporation legal professionals call
that going in-house and I worked for JC
Penney up until get worked at Baker
Botts for about three years and then in
93 I went to work for JCPenney and I
worked there until 2010 so I worked
there for 17 years and I have been at
Collin since 2010 so very much enjoy all
aspects of my career my main area of
practice experiences labor and
employment law like many areas along
labor employment law allows you to have
what's called a litigation practice or
what's called an office practice in my
head though there were times I was a
litigator in times that I gave advice
and I am saying before I've been here
since August of 2010
I'm the discipline lead for legal
studies which includes the paralegal
program and looking forward to being
here this summer well this is where my
office is located I won't have any
office hours in this actual office but
if we were to meet outside my normal
office hours we'd probably be meeting in
this location I love to give support in
terms of course material obviously and
this course buzz is by far the most
common course from you have students
Craig law office hours because the most
logistically online course so we're not
meeting face-to-face as much but also
there's just a lot of tricks and and and
things that people have questions about
that lends themselves to short drop in
to answer the questions another thing I
give a lot of support to is resume help
I will help you make a gorgeous resume a
resume is so important I really can't
emphasize that so important to getting
legal professional positions because
what we do is legal professionals is we
are you know we don't produce cars or
widgets or airplanes or books
we produce ideas we produce words that
is a product that we're selling so our
resume is their opportunity show we know
what to do with words and so it's really
important that it be well written admit
it be gorgeous and that it be kind of
free and I am delighted to help you
through that process
don't feel embarrassed because you don't
have experience or you don't have a
gorgeous resume now that's why you come
to me most people who come to me don't
have any legal experience and in most
cases I'm able to give lots of
suggestions as to how to make your
resume better it's completely not
intimidating the one thing that I would
ask if you are coming for resume help is
to have at least some kind of document
that you can email me or bring with you
ideally an electronic format so that we
can start manipulating stuff around you
the courses you've taken jobs you've had
and don't worry this not a legal job
even if it's you know babysitting or
McDonald's or something like that we can
use that information in a way that's
going to connect it to the position that
you're looking for and of course you'll
look online on the syllabus for this
course which is posted on canvas to help
you find my office hours and how to
connect in that way we only have one
required textbook you probably already
own it and it's not an expensive book so
that those are some good facts about it
and we always are trying to see you know
the program always trying to figure out
ways to save students money we know that
the major expense even more than tuition
in our program are textbooks so always
looking for ways of reducing that cost
and this is one of the courses that
we've chosen not to have a textbook as a
result we don't have a nice book that we
can give all the documents to so it
requires a little bit more work from
your perspective but we think that the
materials that we post are probably more
useful than we might find in a book and
we're saving you one hundred plus
dollars so that's kind of our philosophy
if you want to look at foreign books
there are some available
the spring creek live in spring freak
library and I also have some in my
office these are not books you'd want to
purchase they're quite expensive and one
of the things that make our online
course is different than some others you
might have taken is that we have a
lecture for every single topic not
always three hours of lecture but many
times more than three hours of lecture
so we try to cover the material and try
to as much as possible replicate the
classroom experience we do that because
we want you to get the most bang for
your buck you're paying and hard-earned
money for you to be taking these courses
and we want to give you a lot of value
we also do that because the ins and outs
and showing you how to actually make
stuff work it's hard to explain before
it's it's much easier by showing and so
that's an important part for us so the
the lectures really are the major
learning tool we have please don't try
to commit it complete an assignment
unless and until you've watched the
lectures so if you would if you're
getting out your notes write that down
watch lectures during or before you
complete assignments I've had students
who haven't watched the lectures and
it's very obvious when they haven't
watched lectures you may be thinking to
yourself well gee was already work as a
paralegal I know how to do all these
documents you very likely do do them and
we might do them in a very professional
way but we have very specific ways that
we want you to complete these documents
so if not did you complete a document in
an acceptable way that's not what I'm
going to grade you on when I'm going to
grade you on is did you follow my
instructions and my instructions might
be very different than your supervising
attorneys instructions that doesn't make
him or her wrong or him or her right it
just means a difference one of the
things that you'll discover as a
paralegal is that every single attorney
has a different way of doing things and
you will want to be flexible and that
attorney wants me to use this font that
attorney wants me to use that font that
attorney likes margins like this this
attorney likes margins like that you'll
want to customize how you approach
documents
that particular attorneys preferences
and for this course you're going to be
following my preferences you may say
well how did you come up with your
preferences for the most part I tried to
pick very mainstream yet conservative
expectations what I wanted to do is is
give you a a pattern a style of
preparing documents that no one is going
to find obviously wrong but everyone
will look in and go that looks good
now that doesn't mean that the attorney
you're working for will and say that
looks good but I like to do it this way
or that looks good that we prefer this a
little bit different so I'm trying to
present something that is generally very
well accepted and is on the conservative
side but that doesn't make other things
wrong so if you're doing it one way and
your professional life keep on doing it
the way your your supervising attorney
once you do it but for this class watch
the video and make sure you're finding
the instructions don't talk about
explore canvas
spend I'd say at least 30 minutes going
through clicking on things seeing if
things work another thing to that's
important is the week or so before an
assignment is due even if you're not
able to work on it early if make sure to
click on everything and read enough to
make sure hey everything I need is there
I recently had a student who contacted
me on Saturday saying that she couldn't
get a particular document and and she
was right for some reason when it was
copied over from the previous semester
of canvas and I just dropped the
document I'm not quite sure what
happened but she was absolutely right
that it wasn't there and it should have
been there at that point though I wasn't
able to add the document because many
students had already submitted it I
don't know why they didn't send me a
note saying hey Gruber where's our
document but they didn't and since they
had already submitted it wouldn't be
fair for me to change the rules within
the last you know 24 or so hours that
remained before the assignment was due
because me those students might not be
back to see that I added that document
so I would say at least a week before go
through even if you're not going to be
assignment make sure everything is where
it should be and if you have any point
to make sure you reach out to me so we
can schedule a time to meet make sure
all the links are active every night
again
you know website will go away and I
can't necessarily predict when that's
going to happen so that's a helpful hint
and I think the biggest source of
frustration that students have is that
they don't always pay careful attention
to orientation material and I know
there's a lot of it and I especially if
you're taking more than one course it
can be very confusing they forget that
except late homework they forget that
the due date for the discussion board
isn't the same as the due date for the
assignments they forget where to find
this or they or whatever the particular
thing might be if you take careful notes
here you will save yourself time later
on you will save yourself frustration
and disappointment so this is a good
investment of your time here's some
information about how to maneuver in
canvas this can be helpful especially if
you haven't taken an online course
before you haven't done much about
canvas this isn't the only tool that
Collin has for canvas you're also
welcome to come to my office hours I am
by no means a canvas expert but I do
deal with it pretty frequently obviously
in my responsibilities as an instructor
so I'm happy to help out to the extent
that I can this is so true instructors
always tell you this and it really is
true most the questions I get the
answers are on canvas that doesn't mean
you shouldn't ask the question but just
be prepared that the likely response is
going to be thank you for your question
you'll find the answer in the
orientation materials so thank you for
your question you'll find that answer
within the assignment again I try to do
that and I'm not trying to be smart
alecky or negative or anything like that
but again this course is about helping
you become autonomous because in the
working environment you're going to have
to find this stuff on your own and I
have created a relatively small universe
you're going to find that the data that
you need and so the experience of
digging in and finding it is an
important part of the assignment if you
can contact me and say what am I
supposed to do here and I give you the
answer yeah you can apply that answer to
this particular assignment and get a
point or whatever but that doesn't help
you in the real world when you have that
assignment you don't know what to do you
haven't developed those skills of
finding guiding into material and
getting those answers so you're welcome
to email me I hope you do too just
remember that unless it really is
something I haven't thought to cover I'm
probably going to point you to the
materials that you already have just
going to summation is anything I haven't
covered i haven't talked about
announcements yet let me just pause for
that for a second here we are going to
in the show here okay so we're going to
go over here to announcements I'm going
to actually leave the student you right
now we don't have any announcements on
to show you what your announcements
would look like there would ordinarily
be announcements here I'm gonna leave
student view and I'm going to show you
the announcements today I have I
imported them from last semester these
aren't all of the I actually sent quite
a bit more of these announcements I
called the ones that I weren't relevant
for future semesters anyway so these are
emails and I send and so you'll be able
to find them in the announcements once I
send them my notes in them all at once I
send them as we progressed in the
semester and I also rewrite them so the
information obviously from the spring
will be exactly the same information is
the summer I also send the announcements
to your cougarmail so when I've graded
an assignment for example I'll send an
announcement or when I give you
information about a midterm or a final
or some other change in process we're
going to do or something like that I'll
send an email so you'll find those both
in your email as well as an
announcements please work here regularly
this is really important
as I said before this is really a build
skills that you learned and you would
constantly build on them if you don't
have if you don't match the material in
module two you're going to have a lot of
heartache when we get to module five you
really have to have gotten that material
squared away it's okay if you didn't get
it squared away when you submit your
assignment because you'll have that
second chance afterwards to go in and
see oh yeah that's what I should do no I
understand how to do that now that's
okay it's okay to mess up on an
assignment as long as you learn the
material afterwards you'll have that
information and once you get it once you
get my comments once you get my example
of how to submit it and you're still
confused no worries come see me we'll
work through it you won't leave until
you feel like oh yeah I got this that's
what I want that's what we're working
for and that is a very achievable goal
okay so let's go back to our PowerPoint
again a reminder I do not accept late
submissions I recommend that you visit
the course at least three times a week
you'll need to make three posts so you
could do those your three visits and
you'll need to make it two of the post
you can do on the same day so you just
need to from that perspective but you'll
also need to post at least one
assignment and you'll need to watch the
video and you'll need to read the
various assignments so you'll probably
end up visiting quite a bit more than
three times a week but at a minimum
visit by Tuesday these are the
guidelines by the way I have for people
who are in the long semester the fall of
the spring given the fact that this
summer I say at least three is
conservative they're bright I plan on
visiting virtually every day your lunch
at the announcements and also the
discussion board to make sure that you
are keeping up to speed with those make
sure your substantive post your initial
post you post by noon on Saturday
okay we have our modules this is where
you're going to be spending most of your
time the modules hopefully I've
organized it in the way that will help
you easily to find the due dates again
you can also use the calendar feature
and the syllabus feature to find out
those dates if you haven't done so
already pause me now and write down all
those due dates and in whatever the
calendaring tool that you want to do I
don't accept late homework assignments
there's just virtually no exceptions
unless there's a system-wide problem
that's over an extended period of time
if it's a system-wide program and it's
just Sunday night my response is going
to be why'd you wait to Sunday night you
ought not be posting anything on Sunday
night
that's your fallback if 50 other things
have gone wrong you know realistically
if you're posting after 6 p.m. on Sunday
boy you know hopefully you have a minute
ago accident you haven't had crisis
after crisis after crisis but that's
what it suggests to me because that's
not the time to be submitting an
assignment except when everything else
has gone gone awry
so I'm not very persuaded when you know
canvas is out for a few hours that that
requires you to have additional time I
don't remind about deadlines again
courts don't even tell you deadlines
they require that you find the rule and
do the calculation yourself I post them
and I post them both on canvas and in
the syllabus but I'm not going to send
you know saying hey you know what this
assignment is due tomorrow that
assignment is due in three days I just
don't do that so again because we're
working on developing those skills so
don't be waiting for me to send that
email let's look at the sample documents
folder I'm going to leave here for a
second we go into modules actually we're
going to
- settings sorry actually you won't you
won't go into settings don't worry about
that this is something only I knew more
about so this is this should look pretty
much the way your Facebook or some sort
of things but your canvas looks like
when you go into we're going to go into
modules and we're going to scroll down
you can see all of the modules all the
way to module 15 and then right below
module 15 you have sample documents I
had a student a few semesters ago who
couldn't find sample documents she was
convinced that they weren't there she
came to my office a nice girl there
there okay so I know there's a lot of
stuff going on this website but you need
to trust it's there if you can't find it
please come in and see me but I'm not
making up everything is here sample
documents there's going to be near the
end and I have several sampled items
I'll talk about in a second also have
some weblinks I don't know that we're
actually going to officially need to use
ABS in this course but they're
tremendously useful as you're working on
your skill set is a legal professional
again we have a LinkedIn a place here
here's information about a CLA exam and
for being about taking this here's a
website to adapt the Dallas area
apparently law Association very very
useful tools for you to be aware of
here's some writing tools some
additional tools in addition to those
that I list in module six and various
other resources that I encourage you to
to be aware of in most of my classes I
have these same web links and so if
you've been in one of my other classes
you've probably seen these before so
here are some sample documents one thing
to keep in mind with sample documents
and I covered this before but again if
you haven't already flagged this in your
notes please flag this the sample
documents usually will not be the
perfect sample let's say you're filing
something in Oklahoma State Court well
I'm not going to give you a sample from
the Oklahoma State Court because
you know that requires basically no
skill other than typing to replicate
that caption that's not a college-level
skill that's on a paralegal skill that's
a legal secretary skill so I'll give you
a caption from Wyoming and then you'll
have to marry that information with
other information maybe I'll give you a
caption from Oklahoma that's relating to
a very different subject and so you'll
have to take part from one a sample
document part from another sample
document and figure out what you need to
keep in what you need you don't need to
keep again the lecture is going to help
a lot with that but it won't be easy
peasy stuff they will intentionally
throw you a curve ball some people
forget this and then they assume oh well
this must be what I'm supposed to do
otherwise Gruber wouldn't have posted
this but if they had remembered wait a
second I'm supposed to be suspicious of
these samples they're going to be
empowered to do a better job so let's
look at a couple of these here is a
caption example sometimes they're going
to be Word documents this one in Simmons
will be PDF so this is an example I'm
going to turn off the paragraph sign
this gives you some examples about how
captions oftentimes look in various
courts of course as you're preparing
them and copying them you're going to
want to turn this paragraph sciency you
can see all the different features you
can see the tap this area here that's a
tab button they aren't hitting I do a
space button that's what a space button
is like there's almost no use of space
but and except between words so they're
here some examples about how to set up
captions this is how we do this in Texas
in other states they look very very
different well guess what I'm not
preparing you to practice in in Nebraska
I'm sure if you were Nebraska you
wouldn't care about learning how Texas
documents look so I care about you
knowing these formats if I give you a
model from North Carolina and it looks
different are you going to use it no
because you're going to
to take that same information and
translate it into an appropriate caption
for your particular jurisdiction we're
worried about just likely to be in Texas
go back to modules here's an example of
a letter hat you'll be using this
letterhead from time to time the
letterhead is going to go at the top of
a document you don't ever want to change
the letterhead of your employer this is
its marketing statement so you won't
want to make the font bigger or and I
think it'd be prettier if we did this
way you might be right but again that's
not your job to do that so you would
work from here I'm just going to put the
date in here we'll say January 4 2018
let it up make it bold so that's an
example again yes I didn't use the
spacebar I use the tab bar to get it
over there and then I might do this I'm
going to right justify changes over here
see a UPS overnight delivery tracking
number one two three four five six look
at that in italics and I might come here
switch over
if justify mr. John Smith and go on and
complete so you can see I didn't change
anything here don't do it don't change
the letterhead
anyway so there's some other examples
but keep in mind they're all not going
to be from our jurisdiction I'm going to
go back to the PowerPoint now while
these samples can be very helpful some
samples are intentionally not identical
to the topic of the assignment part of
your role is apparently goes to adapt
modules to your specific needs they may
be on different subjects they may be on
a different from a different
jurisdiction and so flag this put a big
X star next to your notes to remind you
about this when you get to that
particular place in the semester exigent
circumstances the bottom line is it's
hard to imagine that there's going to be
any exigent circumstances a computer
problem is in an exigent circumstance
you being sick is it's going to be an
exigent circumstance if you have some
debilitating situation that comes up
probably what's going to be most
appropriate is going to be for you to
withdraw from the semester because
deadlines are really important part of
this course is really not fair to excuse
you from deadlines because of some
situation that you've experienced
because again that's a major part of the
of the course that has a set line that's
what's reflecting the paralegal
experience because apparently those are
under lots of deadlines that's kind of
nature of the business so in most cases
I'm going to encourage you to withdraw
from the course if we're past the
withdrawal date then I will be willing
to work with you but will we establish
some deadlines once you're back on your
feet and able to complete the tasks
we'll go back to having some pretty
tight deadlines so that you can I'm
getting everything in order but the
bottom line is deadlines are what they
are you need to plan for those crises
you need to have a what's going to
happen if my computer doesn't do that
what's going to happen if this happens
have a plan B and a Plan C please call
me please contact me I look forward to
hearing from you the phone actually is
in the best way the semesters
we'll be in my office email is the best
way to reach me DC to meet c group c
group wrote column by edu i would love
to hear from you i hope to see you
virtually or face to face over the
course this summer we have a whole
module but email communications i'm not
going to spend a lot of time on that if
for some reason need to reach out to me
before we get to module two and actually
that's this week please spend a little
bit of time looking at module two before
you reach out there's specific guidance
about how to approach emails and how to
handle that what i want us to do is get
in the practice of following the email
guidelines we have for professional
legal communication within this course
so they become second nature to you and
you don't have to kind of switch between
styles because getting familiar with
doing it one way can help you be
consistent going forward so i am going
to ask that you follow those rules as we
do emails here's a couple of just really
brief pointers in the event let's say
you can't open the email lecture you
can't open the email powerpoint you need
to email me before then here's a couple
of things you want to have your subject
line indicating what is the nature of
your address and really you want this to
have two aspects you want to say what
your your issue is and you also want to
give your course and information so you
might put problem opening module to link
relating to XYZ and then in parentheses
put LGL a two three three three so that
gives me a specific guidance as to what
the topic of your email is in the course
you're in and then start with the
greeting this is the best one you use
dear professor groover obviously ending
it with a colon a comments or personal
communications not for professional
communications if you want to write out
professor that's fine a complete and
thorough explanation that contains few
if any type of
ideally no typos things happen and
people miss typos I get that but really
we ought not have any typos in our
communications the auto right out all of
your words have appropriate punctuation
a good practice when you're composing an
email is to write it step away for 15
minutes come back and look at and
ideally have someone else look at you
because they may be able to see there
that you can't you can also run it
through word to see if they spot in
there so you can translate into that
point please don't send me emails from
your cell phone those usually are
riddled with typos and just don't look
good and just don't create the
professional impression that you want to
make it's very difficult to you with
that a little keep what keypad do not
have the type of so I I would just say
let's do it from a computer I'm going to
send me an email and then you're going
to want to include with your full name
and any contact information ideally of
course sending it from your cougarmail
obviously a discussion board is just for
that for discussion not for personal
communications so be sure to email me or
come by my office for support again
because I'm all-stars a summer you may
want to come by virtually okay when I
get an email from students and there's a
couple of different ways I might respond
one is I might respond to you
individually
alternatively I might I didn't say this
question that Larry has is a question
other students might have and so what I
might do is send out a response to the
whole class maybe there's a Loken link
and Larry brings it to my attention
well then I will fix the link and then
I'll send out a blast email hey you know
in case you having trouble with this
link I fixed it all up or I've replaced
it with a different link so I might not
respond
visually to you another thing that I do
is I post instructor pointer sometimes
so let's say you're having a problem
knowing what font to use I've covered
that in the lecture so I might send you
email saying hey why don't you go back
and look at the lecture I think you
might've missed portion but I might also
post in an instructor pointer that for
the whole class hey by the way and this
usually happens when I get more than one
email about something that suggests hey
maybe multiple people having this issue
and there may be other people who
haven't brought it to my attention we're
also having that issue and for that can
be a way that I communicate so I might
make an announcement or I might post
something in the instructor pointers
section of the discussion board here's a
breakdown on the points we've already
talked about that on the syllabus I'll
keep on going we have weekly assignments
I'm in fact because this is a short
semester suppose we'll have two
assignments each week each assignment is
worth 30 points traditionally every
error will result in the 10-point
deduction there will be lots of students
over the course of semester with a few
who will get 30s pretty routinely there
will be other students who get single
digits it's just depending upon your
attention to detail there's no
intelligence involved in this this is
just a matter of having where you're
supposed to and engine where you're
supposed to capitalizing when you're
supposed to just following those things
this is attention to detail you can be
really smart and do badly on these
assignments you can be a very ordinary
intelligence and do really well in the
assignments it's kind of how much time
you spend committed to working on it
versus how much return you get if you
aren't very familiar with word something
that you'll need to work on not just for
this course but more importantly for
your career come see me I'm happy to
help I'm happy to walk you through these
processes so every time you make an
error is typically at one point
sometimes a half a point deduction
sometimes it's more than that depending
upon the error but that's usually the
case so you can see if you forget to the
at something you're down to 29 points if
you forget to capitalize something
you're down to 28 points
some silly errors can cause you lose a
lot of points pretty quickly
the English convention of proofreading
assignments you start out with 20 points
this this one's a little different
though in that while for these
assignments for the document assignments
you start with 30 points and I subtract
for these you start with zero and every
problem that you correctly fix you get a
point but you can lose points too if you
forget to do something if you for
example forget to strike through so if
you're removing or you forget to use red
or bold or let's say you create a
problem that was not in the original
document so this is your add points and
even though 20 points is perfect in
virtually every submission there might
be one or two that this isn't true for
but most of the assignments you will be
able to get significantly more than 20
points
sometimes 27 points if you catch some
additional errors so those are some
things to keep in mind that 20 is
considered a perfect submission and
again I'll routinely have students who
get above 20
I'll also retain the students who don't
get to get in single digits these are
harder these require more attention to
detail more mastering the material than
the document assignments if you're
struggling with the grammar come see me
I promise you if you come and see me you
will get a good grade on the next
submission if you're willing to spend
the time working with me on it that's
your decision whether you want to or not
but don't beat yourself I can't go to
good grades this class it's your choice
whether you want to come see me and work
on it and invest the time and the energy
to do it I understand if you don't but
don't think that that's not a realistic
option everyone in this class can be
very successful just depends upon
whether that's your your focus for this
particular time
I talked about Proctor you there is an
ethics module at the end of the semester
and we will cover particular issues
relating to document creation we'll also
talk about ethics issues really at
various points in the semester it won't
just be in that final module again just
as with the midterm of the final exam
you're welcome to use Proctor you if you
would like you will be taking the
midterm in the final examination whether
you do Proctor you or take it in Testing
Center you will be doing it on a
computer but you can't do it from your
home you have to do it from the computer
lab that's for test integrity purposes
obviously class
patient is is a big deal it's 5% of your
grade
please be consistent with it usually the
first semester I get virtually 100% or
virtually hundred-percent participation
by especially on the summer by the final
weeks
I'm usually having half or less that's
just giving away points I encourage you
not to be one of those people who isn't
posting regularly because it definitely
can be the difference in a grade level
for sure let's see if there's anything
else we need to say here
here's a few frequently asked questions
well we have any meet face to face
meetings we won't in this class is
completely online again I will have my
my office hour so we can meet every week
if you would like there are students who
take advantage of that but you certainly
don't have to do that something is
happening over the summer and you are
going to need to be gone for some period
of time awesome
wonderful the chance of being exciting
happening and the secret is going to be
working ahead so that's why I post all
these farmers from the very beginning if
you're going to be out of the loop for a
week or so absolutely you can work ahead
everything you need is already posted if
you have to miss more than one week you
may want to consider taking this during
a different semester it's pretty hard
over the summer to get everything done
if you're missing more than a week
especially if it's during it early week
because you have a relatively short
period of time to get to that point you
know to get all the stuff done that's
your a decision of course and certainly
missing one or even two assignments
isn't going to kill your grade but you
don't want to miss many and so think
about that I'm not going to give you an
extension for any of these activities so
the deadline extension so just keep that
in mind I know how the computer and
having some problem can I still take the
Kate case class absolutely you don't
need any computer you can use the
computer labs at Collin and they have
access to Microsoft Word so that can be
a very good solution to doing that if
you are going to watch the videos on a
computer lab you will need some type of
earbuds or headphones because probably
the person if computer doesn't want to
hear my voice and you'll have to
remember to prepare all of your
documents in the dot X format you'll get
lots of feedback and please review it it
won't be you know really touchy feely
stuff it will be things like you didn't
NT
you need to ended there you need to tab
twice here it's very kind of cut and
dried stuff look at that feedback so
that when you make your next submission
you won't have that same problem if
you're having difficulty interpreting my
comments or understanding why it needs
to be this way or whatever the
particulars kind of office hours we can
talk and great links about how to make
those documents better no one is sign is
one thing I do in this class I use in
most of my classes I have lots of
different ways to get points there's
discussion board that the grammar
assignments there are the document
assignments as the midterm that's the
final exam and in each one of those
categories there's multiple documents
that you're going to be submitting so no
one grade is going to cripple your
professional development you can miss a
grade in fact I would say most students
skip one discussion board or one
document assignment or something like
that it probably won't even cause you to
drop a letter grade so don't panic over
stuff like that life happens I get that
and use it as a learning experience and
move on or you discuss this next topic
about different styles for different law
offices um one thing I want to mention
for students who do come to my office
hours awesome wonderful thank you so
much for doing that
as we get close to the end of the
semester or I will get you at the
midpoint maybe a little bit beyond the
midpoint the level and the type of
support that I give does change over
time because initially I provide a
tremendous amount of support and then I
want you to be developing to the point
that you're doing most of the work and
I'm checking and showing you up is that
little detail you forgot so it changes
over time
be aware that where we are in the
semester
is going to affect kind of how I support
you if you go to see me the first week
of the semester that will be a very
different experience than if you were to
go to see me the last week of the
semester I mean I'll be going I'll be on
it'll be a fun experience either way but
I'll be expecting a more independent
work actually progressive semester I've
already talked to the sample documents
okay so sometimes I get questions about
some problems happen with canvas and
then you're not sure if it's posted I
think I showed you maybe during lecture
1 how to see what is posted on campus
but still some people are worried well I
had a bad experience with canvas or
blackboard I'm not quite sure it works
can I will you send me an email to
confirm receipt I don't do that but I'll
tell you what you can do what you can do
is before the deadline before 11:59 p.m.
on that Sunday is you can email the
document to yourself so what you would
do is you would send an email from your
cougarmail email address to your
cougarmail email address and you to
attach whatever your document is on that
document they need to hit Send and you
do that before the deadline if some kind
of there's something freaky happens with
canvas and it's Amanda there deletes
your example and that's never happened
that I know of so I'm not saying it's
something you need to be worried about
but you know gosh stranger things have
happened in life so that happens and I'm
saying to you I just don't see your
submission here I can't grade something
that's not here you've missed the
deadline at that moment you can say but
I have the email email myself you come
into my office you show me the email I
can see the time stamp I can grade that
submission the odds of us need to do
that are minuscule there's no need to do
that but if it helps you sleep at night
to do that that can be an approach
please don't ask me though to send an
email to confirm I will refer you back
to this lecture and then you have to
listen to that to get your answer by the
answers I don't do that but you can
email it to yourself
whoof I already covered this one here we
go I missed the deadline can I turn in
light work or do some extra credit and
now we don't have any extra credit in
this course and I don't accept late work
now I will give you a caveat with
respect to that I don't accept late work
but I do grade late work because you are
trying to develop that portfolio so even
though you miss the deadline for
submitting your divorce petition let's
say you want your divorce petition be in
your portfolio I'm delighted to provide
you all those comments you'll still get
as you were on the assignment in my
grade book but I will tell you
everything I would have told you if you
had submitted on time so it won't count
for a grain but you're welcome to submit
it for that purpose
how do you make a good grade in this
class and here are 11 suggestions you
study the orientation module to make
sure you know how to proceed read the
directions carefully ask questions when
you don't understand use the sample
documents pay attention details
proofread carefully complete work by the
due date and with respect to this the
calendaring thing calendar everything
don't wait until once I wait don't wait
any time pause me right now in calendar
and don't just put the due dates but
have a plan when are you going to
complete this assignment thinking to
yourself what's due on that Sunday so
I'll start it on that Sunday is not a
good plan that's not a workable plan you
need to plan ahead if it's due on Sunday
you ought to add an absolute minimum
plan to have it absolutely completed
before you go to bed on Saturday which
means you should have started it at
least at the absolute minimum by that
Friday and ideally before then because
if you're starting on Friday you've
probably done the main opportunity for
you and I to meet so think several days
in advance and have a plan
or when you're going to get all the
pieces done remember to do your posts
every week watch the lectures and I have
this down as number nine but this is
really important and complete the
grammar assignments and study the
materials this is going to be really
important to success the module six on
the midterm in the final and then of
course come to me with with questions
where you need help if you're lost I
will be your best friend I will help you
find your way in the course I'm having a
technical problem what can you what can
I do well there are several resources
you can come see me I'm not a computer
guru by any means I'm not even a canvas
expert but I do have some experience in
the area you can also go to the ELC and
they are computer experts and they have
much more knowledge about computers and
much more knowledge about canvas than I
have they can also fix some things that
I can't fix they have more power so to
speak in their campus so those are two
paths but sometimes especially if you're
solving something over the weekend
neither one of those are really going to
work so here are some other approaches
and what you might want to do is pause
right now and write down these
suggestions so you'll have them because
obviously if you're having trouble
getting into canvas you won't be able to
see this slide so one idea is to try a
different browser it's recommended that
you use Google Chrome or Firefox but I
will tell you that there are times that
Internet Explorer is I mean I will try
Internet Explorer they mean they will
recommend Firefox or Google first but
Internet Explorer is sometimes a better
tool for certain things so don't assume
that one tool is necessarily the go-to
you might use Firefox one day the next
day our Fox isn't working we'll try
Google Chrome try a different computer
especially if your computer is older and
of course consider visiting the Colin
computer lab simply getting out of a
cougar cougar web or out of canvas and
going back in can be an approach
mother's just ask a friend or classmate
or family member what am I doing wrong
what am I not seeing the game it's not
unusual that I will have students who
forgot to scroll in the assignment but
they see that little box where the
assignment is and they don't realize
that they need to scroll down to see the
rest of the assign I've had to happen
several times I've had other students
not go down to the bottom of the modules
to see all the sample documents or
things along those lines so it's a lone
bear saying when you you missing the ice
but better that you find it even if it's
a little embarrassing then you not have
access to that material so these are
just a couple of easy fixes every now
and again the problem will be me and
your instructor and I apologize when I
cause problems I will fix it as soon as
I can but I need someone to tell me
about it so please let me know if it's
me and I can fix it I will if it's not
me I'll let you night doesn't seem to be
at my end and that way that can can let
you know you need to look elsewhere in
this this is the cheat sheet these are
the pointers that you may want to follow
in the event it's not need is causing
the problem I hope you have a wonderful
semester I'm sure that we will it's been
a pleasure talking with you today I'm
going to end this slide here and we go
forward again don't be a stranger I look
forward to seeing you regularly over the
course of the semester and thanks for
your attention and have a wonderful day
