welcome to our second orientation
lecture we are ready to go forward and
cover the second half I hope of the
material that we'll be covering so let's
go back to our PowerPoint you'll see the
PowerPoint is this item right here and
of course this is the first lecture when
you're actually watching this there will
be a second lecture which is what you're
listening to right there that will be
posted between these two but this one is
going to be our we're going to continue
on with the PowerPoint that we were
talking about before we were talking
about announcements but there's also
something I have called instructors
pointers let me show you where you find
that if you'll scroll I should say I'm
calling it questions now I will edit
that and include instructors pointers so
I will have both names when you actually
come into the course this is a place for
you to post questions that you have that
you don't mind other people seeing and
it's also a place for me to post general
information let's say lots of people are
having a question about contract
formation it doesn't make sense for me
to send out to 15 different emails I'll
just go ahead and post the substance of
the question without of course revealing
who asked the question and so everybody
can see that question even those
students who didn't think to ask me the
question so this is a very handy place
to visit from time to time to see what
might be going on in the course that
might be of concern to you
here is the breakdown of the grades we
have the orientation quiz it's just a
little bit but it'd be silly to miss out
those few points
the discussion board which is what is
the class participation Komodos worth 5%
i'm you need to participate in 10
discussion boards in order to maximize
your points here let's say that you
participate in only 8 well then I will
take your 8 discussion board grades and
add two zeros to that to get us to the
10 and then I use that average to be
your grade for your discussion board
participation if you choose to
participate in instead of 10 if you
choose to participate in 12 then I'll
take your 10 highest grades let's say
you missed a couple points one time
because your answers weren't very
in-depth or you didn't include a word
counter you waited too late to post
no worries you'll just participate in
another board and I will drop your
little grade of course if you choose to
accept your lower grade as one of the
Great's of counts that's also fine and I
will just use the 10 grades that we have
so you're welcome to participate in all
the boards but you're also gonna
recognize it if let's say you happen to
have five perfect on your first 10
boards and there's really no academic
reason to participate in the 11th unless
you just find it so much fun so keep
that in mind this is my it's time to be
a little bit strategic I guess I said
before you're an adult you've got a
scarce resource your time and so you're
looking for how can I get the most bang
for my buck in terms of learning and
also in terms of grades and of course it
would be probably not the best plan to
participate in more than 10 discussion
boards if you did well on the first ten
but if you didn't do so well on one or
more then this would be an opportunity
to get some points so keep that in mind
as you are considering your discussion
board participation
I'm not going to remind you again and
again that you only need to do ten
but you know that you only need to do
ten because I'm telling you here and
you'll remember as you go forward in the
class let me go ahead and make this big
okay so remember ten connect this will
talk about connect assignments just a
couple minutes the same applies to
chapter quizzes you you can complete I
will take your highest ten grades if you
do eight let's say you get 15s on each
so that will be 8 times 15 which is 120
and then I will divide that by 10 and so
that will mean your average grade is a
12 because you will essentially have
gotten zeros on the two missing quizzes
and I will use that great it's pretty
rare that people get the 10 15 out of 15
on the quizzes on a regular basis you
might get that occasionally but most
people don't get a hundred percent on
those and so this can be again a time to
be strategic you might have done 10 you
might go ahead and choose to do 11 or 12
it probably doesn't make sense to
randomly guess for the eleventh or
twelfth because you're not going to do
better randomly guessing but if you
actually have a good grasp of the
material then that would make sense and
you have a couple of grades to go ahead
and do the 11th and 12th to replace your
low grade so again things strategic you
want to have at least 10 if you do more
than 10 you want to be thinking about
what grades you're going to replace then
there are reading activities we'll talk
more about this going forward they're
called LearnSmart what you do is you
read a little bit of the book and then
you answer questions on it and this can
be a very positive thing or it can be a
real drag it depends upon how you
approach it the good news front is that
this is a guaranteed 15 out of 15 you
can't get less than 100% because if you
miss a question the question will come
up again and you know it's not a cuz you
just try to a it was wrong so now you're
gonna try B oh wait a second B is wrong
so next time it comes out
you'll know not to do a or B and so you
try ID well D is correct and so you go
forward so there's no reason to get less
than 100 on the connect just assuming
that you don't run out of time or don't
lose interest or whatever so that's the
good news or that's one of the pieces of
code is the other piece of good news is
that LearnSmart was designed to really
why I use the connect program and that
is that it is designed to help you learn
the material study after study indicates
that we learn better if we are testing
ourselves as we're getting the material
the process of reading is relatively
passive where our eyes are seeing
information is going into our brains but
is it sticking probably not the way that
we get it to stick is by testing
ourselves and one way to test yourself
is with true/false questions or multiple
choice and so if you are asked a
question and you have to find the right
answer you're much more likely to
remember that topic when you're taking a
test or when you're in life and so it is
a way to move that information from
short-term memory to long-term memory
it's also a way to maximize your study
time spending ten minutes doing some
type of quiz like activity is going to
render you much better results than 10
minutes of watching a lecture or 10
minutes of reading a textbook those are
important things you need to do in the
course but that's not where you're going
to get the most bang from your back and
LearnSmart is probably your most bang
for the buck category now I will tell
you those are the pluses with it the
less positive is that LearnSmart can
take a while I've programmed it so that
in most that on average the assignments
take about other LearnSmart activities
take about 30 minutes if you genuinely
do them you're not just randomly
guessing you can you know that's kind of
the
the projected time some are quicker some
take longer but that's kind of the
average so as you're thinking
strategically again you could think
strategically and say well I'm gonna do
them all because they're a very good way
of learning the material and students
tell me that all the time they say you
know what I'd want to do learn smart it
really does help me but they say it took
a lot of time and so that's kind of a
judgment call for you to make if you're
going for the a you probably want to do
all the learnsmarts if you're going for
the B or the C maybe you won't do them
all I'm gonna take your 10 highest
grades and so whether you do the 11 12
13 14 or 15 that's for your for your own
decision to make with respect to that
so that's the LearnSmart component this
is usually going to be the first thing
you do when you get a module you'll
you'll do this and then you'll go on
you'll do the LearnSmart tivity then
you'll do the assignments and then
you'll do the chapter quizzes that's the
plan
the LearnSmart is a way to learn the
material the assignments is the way to
apply what you've already learned and
then the quizzes is the way to cement
that knowledge these aren't designed
just to demonstrate knowledge but to
help you move information from your
short-term memory to your long-term
memory we'll talk more about all at
lecture let's do it now let's so that so
that's the information about the
LearnSmart activity it's that quizzing
system let me just show you an example
so you can see what I'm talking about
because sometimes it's a little hard so
I'm just gonna go into a chapter let's
go into we'll go into chapter 3 you'll
see when this is what the module looks
like so first of all looks like this is
closed I open it up and you can see the
first thing is it's called textbook
LearnSmart activity this is it I'm going
to click on the LearnSmart activity
mine's gonna look a little oh wait a
second mine's gonna look a little
different so I'm actually going to go
through a different way mine doesn't
show up the way that yours does just
because I'm the instructor so I'm gonna
go through it and they're different did
time out on me okay here we go
sorry about this
this you don't have to worry about this
this is just stuff that the instructor
has to do sometimes so what I'm doing
right here is not stuff you need to even
worry about this is all stuff kind of
behind the scenes okay so I'm previewing
this gives you a kind of a flavor of
what it will look like when you are a
student you are going to have a paper
textbook and many students like a paper
textbook and you can ride on it you can
carry it around with you you can share
it with somebody else there's lots of
things that can happen with that but you
can do the whole course online if you
want to okay so you can see the first
thing that happens is you have this
assistant here you haven't read anything
yet if you want to you can start to
practice see how well you know the
topics already so I can go through and
start answering the LearnSmart questions
or I can you can see there's a hundred
into in this chapter you may say oh that
seems like a lot but keep in mind you're
reading the chapter as you answer the
question so you read a little bit a
couple paragraphs and you answer the
question so they flow very naturally
from it so United States is the first is
the blank is a file appellate court in
the federal court system hmm I'm pretty
sure that's the Supreme Court my guess
is you know that too so I'm gonna click
on that and then I'm gonna say how well
do I think am i randomly guessing well
I'd say no idea if I'm pretty uncertain
I'd say unsure if I'm pretty clear but
not a hundred percent of this I think so
but I happen to know this is right and
yep I'm right I've answered this
question I'm never gonna see this again
because I got that so now going forward
I'm just gonna have a hundred and one
you can see it's going to ask me another
question state courts that says most
cases begin in a trial court of I happen
to know the answer because I teach the
course but I'm gonna guess and say
intermediate and I have no idea
so I'm intentionally giving this one
wrong
Oh nope the correct answer is general
now if I were doing this I would jot
this down in state courts most courts
begin in a court of general jurisdiction
so that's going into my notes that I'm
taking as I read the chapter you have
your own system I'm sure of notetaking
as you read whatever works for you is is
is obviously the way you want to go but
this is something that obviously should
go into your notes because I'm going to
get this question again I don't know
when but somewhere in the LearnSmart
process this question will pop up and
now I know the answer so I'm gonna click
OK and so this goes forward and again if
I if I want to read about this I hear a
blank arbitration clause is a provision
in the contract that mandates that all
disputes arising under the contract must
be said about arbitration hmm I don't
know about that
let me read about it sounds like a
fascinating topic wait a second I have a
right here it's in bold I get the answer
it's that easy now I can go back to my
question I know what it is binding
arbitration I know it for sure yep I got
it right I'm never gonna see that
question you see I'm at 101 here now I'm
down to 100 so you can see how it goes
forward that's the process of doing the
book now if I want to I can go and just
read the textbook and you can see as I
read it it's going to gray out stuff as
I cover it here it's going to highlight
what the most important parts are it's
going to do that work for me but I still
need to be an active participant in this
and you can see here this information is
in black and then it gets great they're
saying we haven't gotten to this
material yet we're focusing on this
material up here by the way these terms
in the margins here this is the this is
the important part of the textbook
because most I mean most is exactly is a
fair characterization most of this
course is like a vocabulary course you
need to know these words you might even
in this course know maybe this way this
course is more like a French or a
Spanish course
than a calculus course there's very
little in this course that is hard just
like you know there's three and four
year old kids in France running around
speaking French they don't have a
college or high school diploma they just
speak it and so they know what the word
for table is they know what the word for
book is they know all these words it's
not hard but guess what if you grew up
in the United States you don't know it's
dub you don't know it's never you just
know it's book and it's a table right so
you have to learn this stuff but it's
not it's it's a lot of stuff but it's
not hard stuff and that's what this
course is it's not like calculus which
is inherently hard but doesn't probably
have a ton of vocabulary this stuff is
you've got to get those ideas in your
brain you're not going to come to this
course knowing these words some of them
you will but most of them you won't know
so you're just gonna have to spend the
time you might be you know the most
brilliant person who's ever taken a
business law course and yet if you don't
know these terms sometimes you're gonna
be able to guess them because of context
clues but you just have to spend the
time learning it and it it is a
situation where you have to just put in
the hours to get to the finish line and
so start early learning these words
study after study indicates that our
brains are not designed to learn lots of
vocabulary words in a short period of
time um if you have a hundred vocabulary
words to learn you can spend 24 hours
sitting there staring at the words and
you're not gonna learn them all but if
you take those same 24 hours and spread
them out but for 24 days and spend an
hour a day you will have 100 words
memorized probably a lot more than 100
words memorized so one of the keys to
memorizing terms so moving things from
short-term memory to long-term memory is
the sleeps the period of times where you
are asleep it help your brain spins that
time organizing and moving an
information short-term to long-term
memory you need to have lots of sleeps
to get that stuff from short-term to
long-term memory and there's no way to
do it other than doing it so budget time
from the very beginning
say okay I'm gonna spend 30 minutes a
day learning these cars using flashcards
whatever the tool is I'm going to learn
and we'll talk more about tools in a
little bit be diligent be consistent
with it you'll do great in the course
you wait until two or three days before
the test and you haven't started
communities for memory you're maybe
gonna get a see if you're lucky if
you're pretty good guesser
that is not the way to be successful in
this course so these terms are key if
you don't have time to read everything
and you just learn these vocabulary
terms you're gonna pass the course if
you don't learn these terms you're just
kind of reading it going along you read
but you're not really moving these terms
to long-term memory it's not going to be
a pleasant semester for you okay so
let's go back so that's the LearnSmart
activity again you can get there's
really no reason not to get all 15 of
these points other than just the fact
that it takes time let's talk about the
assignments here I have a little table I
want to show you here this is posted by
the way or this this first table is
posted by the way let me blow it up a
little bit and this shows all of the
modules and all of the assignments you
can see each one of the modules you can
get 15 points on assignments sometimes
it's just one assignment
so this so for module 1 there is a
single assignment as worth 15 points let
me show you that in our course
I'm gonna go down to module one and you
can see here's that LearnSmart activity
that we're starting with let's scroll
down to our last section which is
discussion board assignments and quizzes
by the way this last section is where
you earn points in the course and you
can see we have chapter zero one
interactive one the legal philosophy of
future judges case analysis you can see
it says 15 points
well since each assignment module is
worth 15 points and this one assignment
is worth 15 points you automatically
know there's a single assignment in this
particular module I mean that's nice
that's easy I wish they were all that
way but unfortunately they're not but we
could go down to chapter 7 you can see
gosh there's a total of six assignments
in this module one assignment is worth
just one point one is worth four to two
for two yeah all these numbers up get to
215 let's just look at that module so we
can see what one of those modules looks
like by the way I have these listed in
numeric order but this not is not that
order in which we cover them in the
course so I just listed them in this
order
for whatever reason so we do this our
own mid yeah should be right here
okay so here we have so this is our
module 8 chapter 7 torts you go this
last section which again is discussion
board assignments and quiz and you can
see we start from here
it's our first assignments worth just
one point so you immediately know got
something gonna have more assignments to
do next one's worth 4 so we have 5 we're
a third of the way through the
assignments we do this next one two
points there's 7 ok almost halfway two
more points we're at nine more than
halfway four more points we're at 13
almost done last assignment two points
15 we're done and again you can refer to
this to show you all the things you have
to do I mean they're all grouped
together you know you just start at the
top and go to the bottom so you don't
have to count it up but if you
especially for something like this it
might be it you might be possible to
forget one this how
should get to that finish line you can
use this chart print it up or just
online enter the information from your
grade so you can see how you're doing on
the assignments so I have an example
about how a student might have done on
assignments here it is and I've added
grades you know kind of randomly to
these assignments you can see so this
so here the 13 just transfers right over
here to the 13 but in this one
assignment 2 we had to add the 1 and the
4 to get 5 this student didn't do so
well here number 7 we had to add the 1
before the to the 1 the 3 and the 2 to
get to 13 so once we have all the grades
then we need to look for the best 10
because you remember we only look at the
ten highest assignment grades
I shut them for my for a complete module
I can look at this and I'm gonna look
for some 15s cuz we know this is gonna
be so I'm gonna put this in live
suddenly for this in yellow let's see if
I have any 14 doesn't look like I had
over 14 let's look for 13 here's the 13
here's a 13 13 13 1 2 3 4 5 6
here's another 13 7 I need of Co with 3
more so we have a 12 that's 8 9 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 we need one more I don't have
any 11s but I'll just pick at in here
doesn't matter which in a pic of course
if sevens lower five silver sevens or
eights 11 or 10 10 6 so I had the best
so I'm gonna transfer these over here so
if 13 12 12 13 13 13 10 14 15
thirteen so you'd add these up and you
come up with your total I'm not going to
do the math we'll pretend that this adds
up to one hundred so this is one hundred
out of ten so I'm going to need to vide
this by ten to come up with my average
100 divided by ten so that means that I
have 100 of either by ten is of course
10 so my average grade is 10 out of
fishing that you can see it's gonna be
higher than this because my I only have
110 all my other grades are higher than
that but this is just an example I did
not actually do the math probably the
actual number might be we'll say it's 21
let's just do that
so that would average out to be
something like I spray even higher than
that but that gives you a ballpark
number of what it's gonna be this tells
you where my averages now you can see I
didn't really need to do these
assignments they didn't help me do my
grade but you don't know going in
necessarily what you're gonna do well on
maybe you thought you were really acing
module number three and you were
surprised to find that you didn't do so
well or maybe you thought well you know
what even though I'm not gonna maybe do
my best it's gonna help me learn the
material to go ahead and do the
assignments and the reason that I show
this example is that I don't want you to
think that this counts as an assignment
discounts as an assignment this counts
as an assignment and this counts as an
assignment no this does count an
assignment because this covers the whole
module and this counts as an assignment
but you have to look at this whole area
to come up with an assignment so these
don't count as individual assignments
together they count as one so you need
to get a total count of 15 points and
you can't mix and match you can't say
well I did super well on this and I did
super well on this so I want to take
this and this and combine them now I'm
gonna look at nine as a unit and that's
13 the Milic of six is Union seven if I
could mix and match
see I could get 14 but I'm not but
that's not how I'm gonna grade it so
don't think of it that way that's not
gonna be a helpful way for you to look
at it here's another example these
actually have the same numbers but in
this case the student didn't do certain
assignments again perfect banished
animal that's a good strategic decision
to make when time is scarce and only the
top top ten grades count then there's in
many cases you're not gonna do all ten I
mean yeah you know you mean you're not
gonna do more than ten or maybe you're
gonna do eleven or something you can see
here I've done one two three four five
six seven eight nine I did nine in this
case so we can see that my top ten are
gonna be 12 12 13 13 8 14 15 10 6 and
then I need to pick one that's a zero
obviously that zero is not going to help
my grade too much but it's life things
happen I would total this up maybe this
works out to be eighty five so then
adding here I'm going to take eighty
five divided by ten and that will give
me an overall grade of 8.5 and that
would be the grade that I would use in
calculating my grade you don't need to
know how to calculate your grade it's my
job to calculate grade it's not your job
to calculate your grade but it can be a
very useful way to consider your time
because again you're probably not gonna
have time to do everything
the a / to natee that I'm offering you
for enrichment I mean in a perfect world
you would but we don't live in that
perfect world and so you have to pick
and choose
knowing how those choices are going to
impact your grade is really powerful
information so that you make the best
choices honestly it doesn't make sense
to spend two hours participating in a
single discussion board it's just not
worth that much but preparing for the
assignments that's something that is
more meaningful
I'm each one of the assignments is going
to is three times more valuable than a
single discussion board so it makes
sense you spend three times
as much time certainly on your first tip
after that you know becomes less
important to do that let me give you a
word of caution about canvas here go up
here canvas will list your grades let me
just click on this grade link right here
right now I do not have canvas
calculating grades sometimes I do let
canvas calculate sometimes I don't the
reason that I don't is that canvas does
not calculate grades completely
accurately for this class it's not that
it has a bug in it that it can't do the
math the reason that I don't let it do
the activity is that I have lots of
quirks about how I do grading for
example I dropped so many grades I also
sometimes offer extra credit and there
are other things that I sometimes do
over the course of a semester that
canvas really can't account for and so
if I let canvas calculate grades it's
not going to give you your precise grade
that can be frustrating for students
there are times where canvas can be off
a letter grade even perhaps two letter
grades depending upon the particular
semester so it might have a student this
has happened many times where I've had a
student who's clearly gonna get an A and
yet canvas is telling them they're
getting a B and so the student comes to
me what's going on I thought I was doing
so well well you are doing well but
canvas is seeing some of those zeroes
because you're not doing all the
assignments because there's no reason to
do them but they're seeing those zeroes
and say oh this person's not doing their
work so canvas can make mistakes along
those lines if I have program canvas to
do your grades take that take that
information with a grain of salt
recognize that you are in the best
position to calculate your own grades or
just let me do it if you so if you see a
grade you can take that with a grain of
salt it's always like to remind people
about that if you as you're taking notes
please write this down because you will
forget about this until the week before
finals and then you'll frantically be
sending me an email and I'm gonna say
hey remember I covered that you had that
in your orientation lecture notes and
you'll be able to flip back to it and
see it and be reassured okay so let's go
back to our PowerPoint so the
LearnSmart is design help you learn the
material the assignments are designed to
help you apply the material now the
assignments are not timed you can take
as much time as you want
occasional I have students who come to
my office hours and we can do the
assignments together I'm happy to help
with them and you know we'll do quite
well together but we're not I'm not
going to sit down there and just give
you the answers we're gonna work through
it we're gonna talk through the things
to consider so it's not going to be
necessarily the shortest amount of time
unlike the LearnSmart activities you can
miss assignments as I showed you in this
sheet you can see there are lots of
grades below 15 and most students grades
look about like this these are pretty
typical grades in fact there might even
be a little bit on the high end so an 8
out of 15 is not an unusual grade for a
student to have on an assignment
although you know certainly there are
15s out of 15s out there as well so you
can actually miss these questions the
connect chapter quizzes are the the
third thing this is your opportunity to
demonstrate your knowledge you will have
10 minutes to answer 15 questions there
are a combination of multiple choice and
true/false honestly students usually
finish it in about 7 minutes so it's
really not a high-pressure time to test
the reason that I restrict the time is
that this is not an open book test you
aren't supposed to look up the answers
you're supposed to have the answers
already in your head the time that
you're looking up answers is when you're
doing the connect LearnSmart activity
and you're doing the assignments if I
gave unrestricted time for the quizzes
you wouldn't do it that's money else in
the class might be slightly tempted to
look through their notes and so I am
limiting the utility of that by
restricting folks to ten minutes
that doesn't mean that a sneaky person
can't look up one or two answers but
they probably can't look up all 15
answers anyway that's the intent the
actual questions are relatively short
I've typed them up and usually the test
is about a back and a front of actually
they always been in on the back in front
of a sheet so you won't have any
difficulty reading through the tests in
the ten minutes and answering the
questions but you won't have much time
to reflect slowly upon that particular
question in that particular answer some
students though even though there's
plenty of time they still find
themselves stressed it's the idea of
having a timed test or they're worried
about their internet connection maybe
being a little funky and maybe it'll
timeout or perhaps they have a learning
difference maybe you have dyslexia or
you have some other learning difference
that means that you would benefit from a
little bit extra time no worries I've
got you covered and you can have all the
time that you want to take the chapter
quizzes if you take it in the Preston
Ridge testing center because in that
environment you won't have access to
your notes or to the textbook if you
want to take an hour to take a quiz more
power to you
because again the only reason we might
put the time limitation is jurors make
it difficult for you to use outside
resources if you choose to take your
tests through the press storage testing
center obviously you can't take it twice
you can't take it online and in the
testing center so the way that I manage
that is that I ask or I require that you
contact me and we will schedule a time
to talk and I'll go over the protocols
we use the whole conversation takes less
than five minutes we can do it pretty
face to face or we can do it by
telephone or through the virtual office
technique so and again it can be a
really short thing I don't require this
because I want to inconvenience you we
can do it at night sometime or during
your lunch hour or whatever it's not a
big deal but I always like to document
that we've had this conversation so
there can't be any confusion my fear is
that some
we'll take it at the testing center and
somehow or another accidentally take it
online and then I have to grades and
that becomes an academic honesty issue
and then it's like what grade do I use
and so I don't want us to be in that
position so by requiring this test with
this this brief conversation hopefully
we'll be able to avoid that also I will
drop off the tests to the testing center
with your name on them and so Bobby
Smith who's signed up for this can take
it but Sally green who hasn't sign up
won't be able to take it at the testing
center once you sign up to take the test
through the testing center instead of
online I can't turn off the online
feature for you and so you'll still see
those quizzes but you shouldn't click on
it because again that would cause you to
take at the test two ways which is
obviously not appropriate usually I ask
that you switch and do it all one way or
all the other way if you try the on the
face-to-face testing in the testing
center and for some reason that just
doesn't work and you really are finding
that difficult and you want to return to
the old format you can but we need to be
in one boat or the other you can't just
say well I'm gonna take test number test
over chapter 17 in the PRC testing
center and then I'm going to take the
quiz for chapter 20 for online no you
need to be kind of in one boat or the
other so I allow you to start in one and
then go to the other but you can't
constantly flip back and forth again
that's something we'll talk about if you
decide to use that option so if you
happen to be a student who has a and if
you're an access office student and you
are entitled to additional time to take
tests and quizzes then you'll be taking
through the PRC testing center we still
do need to talk so please feel free to
schedule that I want you to be
successful I certainly respect your
desire to be successful in the class
I want to meet your academic needs so
feel free to reach out to me whether
you're an access to nor not for this
option alright so again these three
things are the actually these four
things are the time I'm sorry here we
have this is one that's a top 10 and
then these are top 10
keep that in mind the top 10 is what
we're gonna be focusing on the midterm
is with 20% it covers all of the
material up into the midterm and then
the final exam is cumulative it covers
everything we've covered in the course
so it will cover some of the material
that's in the midterm it will also
obviously focus on material later on the
way my exams ours is there questions or
combination of questions that I've
drafted in a quite a confidence
questions I've collected from various
and sundry other faculty members and
other resources over the time I make
sure before I include a test that it is
covered either in my lecture or in the
textbook and so you can be confident
that that material that you need for to
answer that question accurately is
included but it may be in either the
textbook or the videos that I provide no
two versions of tests will be the same
so if Muhammad takes the test his
question four won't be the same as the
question four on Sasha's versions of the
test what I do is I've programmed canvas
to pull a random number of questions
from this chat I'm sure a certain number
of questions from this chapter certain
number of questions from that chapter
but they're very lengthy question banks
and so the odds of you having exactly
the same questions as somebody else are
very very close to zero so it's not
really helpful to ask someone you're
gonna ask somebody was at a hard test or
something like that but asking them well
tell me what were the chapter two
questions I mean they can tell you
if they remember but that's unlikely to
be the same questions that you have so
that's again that's a test integrity
issue to keep the possibility of a late
test taker being in a more advantageous
position than the early test taker so
here are a list of the things that you
want to focus on as the semester
progresses again the first thing you're
going to want to do is read the textbook
and do those LearnSmart activities then
watch the video lectures well see as
you're doing the video lectures let me
pause here and flip on over to the so
we'll go back here to announcements
you'll see we'll go to will say
dude chapter 24 the first thing you do
is that LearnSmart then you look at your
lectures this one actually has four
lectures I have a study guide for these
four lectures I don't have by the way a
study guide for tests but each chapter
has a study guide that you will be
participating in completing and so
people sort of the squares the study
guide for the midterm you actually have
several of these be sure to take those
many times people students like to print
them but you still don't have to just
fill in the blanks here is a study guide
for this particular chapter now what the
study guide is is all of the information
that is in the PowerPoint but um well
not all the information it's the format
of the PowerPoint but what I've done is
I've taken key words and omitted them
but when you actually watch the lecture
that word will be on the PowerPoint
slide so let me show you let's say so
we're interested in I'm sorry here we go
we're interested in you can see that the
chapter 424 it says employment it will
an employee who is not employed under a
contract for said duration or a
collective bargaining agreement is a
blank apostrophe assuming blank - blank
employee so you'll need to fill in those
two words well how will you find that
out there's several different ways you
can find those blanks one way would be
to look in the textbook honestly it's
pretty easy to find most of the blanks
in the textbook but the way that I kind
of intend for you to do it is to watch
the lecture and have these these blanks
going so let's just flip over here and
watch the lecture for just a second so
we're in chapter 24 we're going to
compare it to this study guide we're
gonna watch this first lecture and I'm
gonna start here we go
you
you
it's gonna fast forward a little bit
long as I shouldn't depend we can
actually look right
obviously you're not gonna jump around
like this when you're doing the class
here we go any employee who is not
employed under a contract for a set
duration or a collective bargain
agreement is an at-will employee so
we're going to write at - will in that
blank
okay so while we're listening to the
lecture and you're not going to jumped
around like I did you're going to write
at in this blank and we'll at this blank
you'll see on the slide
that it's underlined so that's your
little help to find the information so
you can see there's gonna be another
blank for that you'll add the word quit
let's just go over here to the form you
can see this fact means the employee may
quit so you're gonna write the word quit
here and you'll be able to fill in this
whole document with all those blanks the
reason that I present to you is that it
requires you to be somewhat involved in
paying attention I've been to lectures
before and as fascinating as I am and
honestly I'm not under any illusions
about my level of fascinating this
that's the sort I am I'm aware of the
fact that it's easy to doze off when you
are participating in this I am going to
end this lecture actually I'm not gonna
in this lecture yet I'm going to do a
little bit more before me
Kanaka flee so be sure to fill in the
blanks here this gives you a very good
outline of the chapter so as you're
preparing for test you're going to use
this as your go-to to make sure that
you've mastered the material okay so I'm
going to go back to this slide so you're
going to again do the LearnSmart tivity
watch the videos do the
fill-in-the-blank study guide as you
watch you're also going to pause at
times and take notes again the stories
that I tell are oftentimes going to end
up being questions and so you'll want to
be sure to fill those in there will be
other videos that are oftentimes a sign
let's look at that what are some other
videos you can see wherever it says zero
points on an assignment that means that
there are no points associated with this
so there's nothing for you to do but
it's a video in most cases that you
watch click on it let's just see what it
does actually it's not going to let's
just connect there but let me find
another one I hear corporate search
responsibly click on this
okay well I don't take my word for it
it's not allowing you to click on it
because I means or not allowing me to
click on because I'm the instructor if
you if you as a student we're clicking
on it would take you into the the videos
so let me find maybe one I can make work
some of these can work use y'all this
one will do
bananas unpeeled you'd watch this video
you don't have to do anything directly
for from it but you may find that
there's a test question on it if you
didn't watch the video obviously you're
probably not going to get the question
right okay so you know watch the videos
and then of course if you have any
questions you're gonna go to the
questions section this is also the
instructor pointer section let me show
you where you find the place it's
against under orientation so this first
module at the very bottom it says
questions and that's where you'll go
about asking any questions that you have
you'll click on this and you'll post
your questions or you'll read what the
instructor has posted then you're going
to participate in the discussion board
your first substantive post needs to be
at least 100 words and you're going to
add the words to the end and your reply
post needs to be at least 40 words and
you do not delisting
oh yes you do needless I'm sorry you do
need to list the word count in your
second posting if you don't list your
word count your you're going to lose at
least one point if you list a word count
that isn't accurate you're going to lose
more than one point let me show you what
the discussion boards look like so let's
go down to we'll go down to chapter 21
so we're going to scroll down it's under
the discussion board assignments and
quiz it will be the first item you'll
click on this you'll read the discussion
board and then you'll hit reply and
you'll post your reply there's a
reminder here about what your discussion
board posts need to look like you won't
be able to see anyone's post until
you've made your first post
then you're going to complete the
assignments again there may be more than
one but whether there's one or more than
one together they will add up to went to
15 points and you'll also take the
chapter quiz you'll only do these for
the you know you only need to do them
for ten of the sixteen chapters that we
cover you will find the same information
about weekly assignments in this spot
cheat sheet for the class what to do
each week this will go through and show
you the things you need to do and again
in red it has the reminder do at least
10 to at least 10
let's talk about exams we only have two
this is something that I'm going to
survey the class about the end of the
semester when I offer this course in the
face-to-face format and that's done it
by 15 times ish I have multiple many
more tests because there's just so much
vocabulary it's difficult to learn all
these vocabulary words for a single test
and I've gotten feedback in the past
from my online course that they would
like to have more tests but there's a
tension there because part of the
advantage to having an online class is
that you don't have to come to campus to
take every single test I mean that takes
a lot of time and it diminishes the
online mess of the course and so I have
it still at two exams but I'm going to
question you within the semester to see
if you think that's right or whether we
ought to go to more exams you will take
your exams through one of two formats
the vast majority the class will take it
through a Collin College testing center
we happen to have a testing center on
all three of our major campuses the one
in mckinney called the central park
campus the one in frisco called the
Preston Ridge campus and the one in a
Plano called the Spring Creek campus
what you do is you just go to the
testing center and those facilities you
had need your college wide ID
it's a computer-based test so you don't
need a scantron or Blue Book or anything
like that you go in you show your ID and
you take the test you can take as long
as you want or as short as you want the
testing centers on all campuses post
their hours on the Collin website
generally speaking they have restricted
hours on Friday and Saturday no hours on
Sunday and they won't allow you to start
a test during the final hour that they
are opened you're going to want more
than an hour anyway to take these tests
these aren't quick tests and so be sure
to budget for that again the only time
restriction is if you show up
sinners gonna be closing in say 70
minutes then all you have of course the
70 minutes to complete the test
that's um the vast majority of the
students will take the test its
proctored so we don't have to worry
about test integrity but you do have an
option that has to take it through
Proctor you Proctor you as an online
proctoring program you can take the test
the privacy of your own home there are a
couple of reasons why you might not want
to though one is that you need to have
your computer needs to be a fairly
sophisticated computer and you do need
to have a webcam and you need to have a
reliable internet connection if you want
to explore that option please let me
know and I will send you information so
that you can test your computer to see
if it meets the specifications that
Proctor you requires the other reason
that some of those students decide not
to use proper to you is that it is
expensive but there are some cost to you
associated with it and the cost is going
to turn on how long you take to take the
test if you complete the test in 10
minutes you just gonna be less expensive
than if you take two hours but most
students take it in about an hour ish
but you certainly would want to budget
you know maybe up to 90 minutes pretty
rare for a student to take to complete
hours but if you have learning
difference you might want to hours and
you certainly can take it but if you use
Proctor you it's going to be a little
bit more expensive because it's a
proctored test there's no way that
you're going to be able to Google
answers or ask anyone else or refer to
any other tools and so it's going to be
one that has academic integrity
associated with it it's fine if you want
to do that but you need to let me know
at least 10 days before the testing
window opens the reason that I have that
requirement is that there's a fair
amount of setup that both you and I need
to do
in order to set it up almost every
semester I'll have a student to contact
me a couple days before oh I forgot or
doesn't
that's not going to work for that test
but if it's for the midterm you can go
ahead and take the final through Proctor
you you just won't be able to take the
midterm through Proctor you if this is a
summer course I encourage you to get
this resolved that first week if you
want to take the test through Proctor
you you need to let me know I mean you
don't need to let me know but it's a
smart plan to let me know this first
week so we can get everything worked out
as soon as possible if it's a longer
semester you might be on a wait a week
or two but the the more you wait the
more likely you are to forget yeah you'd
want to check the syllabus and go ahead
and pause me now check the syllabus to
make sure you're available during that
week if you aren't available during the
week that I scheduled the midterm or the
final there's a couple ways we can work
that out
one is you can take it from via Proctor
you from wherever you're going to be but
you might not be in a place or want to
be in a place where you can actually
have internet access or that type of
thing and so you can either use Proctor
you or you can take the test early you
can take the test
outside the window as long as it's
before the window begins but I'm not
going to allow students to take it
outside the window after the window ends
the only exception that would be
somebody who because of very unusual
circumstances couldn't take it at all
during the window typically I have a
whole week for a window so I'll maybe
have it open on a Thursday and close on
a Wednesday for example let's say you
orthene yourself what I'm going to take
it on the Tuesday well you develop the
flu on Monday and you're just too too
sick to take it on Tuesday or Wednesday
very understandable you're too sick but
when you present me the doctor's note
that you were diagnosed on Monday with
the flu what I'm gonna say is yeah but
you could have taken it Wednesday
Thursday Friday or Saturday and you
didn't and so no I'm not gonna let you
have a make up because you chose not to
use your window smartly so my suggestion
is to take the test
early take it on the first or second day
that way if you develop the flu you
don't have to worry about it
now of course if you are diagnosed with
I don't know some pneumonia saying
you're in the hospital for the entire
prayer time where you don't be in the
hospital but but your doctor restricts
you for the entire period of time then I
will let you have a make up but if
you're not going to have a cover for the
entire period of time and even if you
have it covered for part of the time
there won't be any makeup offered and as
you can see missing a mid-term are
missing a final is pretty devastating to
one's grade again the same thing works
examination same policies are in effect
we've already talked about class
participation this is a typo here I
apologize this should be 5% of your
grade so make a note in your notes for
this lecture that it's five percent not
10%
you'll also find by the way this
breakdown of grades on slide 22 you'll
find this in the syllabus and that's a
much more convenient place to see this
formula then to flip through this okay
so again you're going to have the
deadline for posting at 11:59 p.m. on
Sunday I mean it closes it goes away you
won't be able to post anything after
that time but again you're not going to
want to wait until a Sunday to make your
posts you certainly can't make your
substantive post on Sunday and I would
recommend you not making your substance
your reply post on Sunday go ahead and
get that out of the way so you don't
have to worry about having technical
problems or canvas going down again I'm
not going to give you a additional time
to do it if canvas was available on
Friday and you chose not to use it on
that day the fact that you waited and
couldn't use it that's a choice that you
made so go ahead and take do it earlier
so you don't miss out on an opportunity
of course I only need to have 10
discussion board grades and so there
will be some discussion board grades
that you can just drop so for some
reason you do have technical
difficulties are you accidentally
weighted into Sunday no worries just
don't participate in that discussion
board
you
we're going to flip them through this to
see if there's anything else
you
so here's some frequently answered
questions we don't ever meet everything
is by canvas of course you can come to
my office hours and as I've pointed out
before the online lectures are available
for you this is a wonderful course to
take if you are having things going on
in your life because you can work ahead
and so don't worry about that just be
sure you have to be kind of more
deliberate about how you're planning
things but absolutely you can do these
things early when you are going to find
yourself out of pocket for a particular
time and again I'm happy to make
midterms and finals available to you
early if that's what is necessary for
you to take those tests you don't need a
computer for this class you by the by
the fact that your student here have
access to the computer labs that are all
major campuses the only thing you need
to access the computer lab is your
student ID and so just bring that if
you're going to listen to lecture also
bring some headphones or earbuds so you
can listen and that's going to give you
a very reliable internet connection
stable computers that's a smart way to
do it even if you have a good computer
so don't worry about not having the
technology for the most part things are
Auto graded in this course but if you
want to look at your performance and
talk about why you missed a particular
question on an assignment or a quiz or
test I am delighted to meet with you and
we can go through each one of the
questions see what you miss you with the
correct answer is excuse me and give you
the correct answer
that can be useful for test preparation
here are some things to keep in mind as
you're preparing in orientation mods
where you're already doing a great job I
watch this video follow directions ask
questions this is so helpful you
probably have questions so ask them
calendar all your due dates we'll talk
about that in a second
be active in the discussion board again
you only have to do 10 contact me when
you have questions watch the lecture
well this is super important here's a
cheat sheet of things to think about if
you're having a technical problem these
are some issues about browsers and
things like that you might want to print
up this particular slide because
unfortunately when you have technical
problems you can't get to this type of
information
so remember slide 38 and the information
on here I know that we'll have a great
semester I'm looking forward to getting
to know you and so this is the
PowerPoint I want to show it just a few
other resources before I say goodbye the
next resource I'm going to show you is
the syllabus again this is really the
Bible for the course here we go the
first page not that useful you will get
the drop date withdrawal date I'm always
put down on the syllabus and so you'll
know the date that you me if you decide
you don't want to converse and I
certainly hope that doesn't happen but
this is the last day that you can get
out of the course without getting a Dean
to agree to this
the next information that's probably
quite relevant to you is my office hours
I have office hours Tuesday night I
teach a class on Tuesday evenings this
semester the hours are gonna vary
something to talk about this so this is
actually meeting in a classroom you
certainly won't be having a class you
might be you know I guess you could be
having class on another campus and so
I'd be difficult to get here but if
you're on the PRC campus just come on
over on Tuesday nights if you don't
class then feel free to head on over
around 10:00 10:00 and I'll be glad to
talk with you if you tell me in advance
I'll have any of the textbook ready we
can spend more time of course and that
much of the stuff for the course is
online so if you haven't reached out to
me beforehand we most likely can muddle
through then I also have hours via zoom
how do you participate in zoom zoom is a
virtual office application if you are
connecting from a PC Android or an
iPhone you just click on this thing here
let me just
so I'm gonna activate this you click on
this and look it opens up and what I'm
not gonna do that but that's how you get
into it it's super easy to get into the
zoom but if you have any difficulties
getting into zoom you can email me and
I'll be happy to assist you if you're
from an iPhone there's another method of
attach a participating you can also do
it from a telephone so these are just
some tools if you want to participate in
zoom hours obviously if these office
hours don't work for you just send me an
email we'll figure out a time that does
this is my email we've already talked
about that please don't send it through
the canvas messaging tool here's my
telephone number but you know what I'm
almost never gonna be in my office if
I'm not in class I'm probably gonna be
working from home I've got kids that I
try to keep an eye on over the course of
the summer and if it's during the
semester I'm picking up kids and running
errands - doing all kinds of stuff and
so I'm working a lot but I'm not working
a lot from my office unless I'm in my
office hours so I don't suggest that you
call me unless I am actually in my
office hours in my office better to send
me an email and we can schedule the time
to talk this is the information about
the textbook we've already talked about
that how you choose to organize your
notes is your own decision obviously
whenever we're meeting in a lecture
you're going to be taking careful notes
you're gonna be pausing to write down
what you need I don't need to tell you
that and then here is that equation that
I talked about before this is the easy
way to find the grades so this is that
content is the same information and
you
uh-huh if you score less than an 89 and
again there's no reason for you to score
less than 100 you'll get a zero for the
quiz so do be sure it's only one percent
of your grade but why would you give up
a percentage that you can easily earn
this is the same information about
discussion that we've already covered so
I'm not gonna go over that again it's
the ten highest here are some netiquette
pointers you already know this stuff so
I'm not going to bore you with it here's
about the LearnSmart activities again is
that ten highest here's the assignment
it's the ten highest form of modules and
it's the same for the quizzes the ten
you have ten minutes to take the quizzes
and it's the ten highest quizzes
there's information about the midterm
and the final exam there's information
about Proctor you right here if you're
interested in it please read this and
take the steps
here's some pointers about email
etiquette and how to approach emails
and when emails a good resource to use
and then this is the nitty-gritty stuff
when we'll be covering each semester
when we'll be having the midterm and
other tests
you
so this sets it up now here's the
exciting part
although the midterm the final
examination the discussion boards have
hard-and-fast due dates at very specific
times everything else so the assignments
the LearnSmart and the quizzes just go
over here pull this up
so oops wrong one go back to thee so
these three things they are all due the
Monday before the final exam so even
though we're gonna finish chapter one
in terms of our calendar this first week
you can wait until the final week to do
the assignments and the LearnSmart
and the quiz do I recommend that no that
would be foolish
smart students do work consistently and
steadily over the course of semester but
technically the due date is August 5th
for the LearnSmart for chapter one and
it's also August 5th for the assignment
it's also August 5th for the quiz and
you'll see for chapter two LearnSmart
it's August 5th because that's when the
semester is ending and it's also August
5th for a chapter to assignment it's
August 5th for the chapter to quiz you
have to do the discussion boards every
week
but the chapter things the chapters
specific thing everything else is
chapter specific can you can wait to the
end it's not a good idea at all to wait
the end the reason that I'm doing this
is that I know people might be taking
some time off for vacations and things
or they might find a particular you know
they might find it easier to do it on
Mondays versus Sundays or Saturdays or
whatever I'm trying to give flexibility
but I am I know means encouraging people
to wait to the end I'm telling you this
now so please what I'm about to say
please write this down in your notes and
remember it the last week I'm not going
to be sitting around saying oh yeah I'd
love to talk about chapter 3 I'm or why
you're having technical difficulties
let's see what I can do to help out I'm
focusing in the last week on Chapter
three
14 that's what I'm gonna be talking
about with you if you're saying but I'm
doing the quiz from chapter 1 and I
don't understand something I'm gonna say
well gosh we did that a long time ago
let's talk about 13 or 14 I'm not in
that final week going to be focused on
chapters in the past now if you come to
me one week or two week after two weeks
after we completed a particular chapter
and you want to talk about it and we're
not in that final week I'm glad to talk
about it but I don't want you to think
gosh this set up with everything being
due August 5th then that means that I
ought to spend you know the last week of
the semester or this next to last week
of the semester doing all of the work I
mean you can do that and and everything
might work out okay for you but I'm
gonna submit to you that that is a
foolish plan and I'm not going to be
complicit in in you making plans that
don't make sense playing with the
midterm this is kind of weird because
this is the summer and so we don't have
as much flexibility because everything
is kind of condensed so the week of this
July 16th is the week that I have
planned the midterm again you can take
it early if you let me know we're
actually going to do chapter 9 and 10
before the midterm least in terms of our
schedule but the midterm doesn't include
chapters 9 and 10
it includes everything up to the
contract section and then nine is that
chapter that begins contract 9 10 11 12
13 14 all of that is going to be on the
final examination along with all the
topics that we've already covered so
note this so you're not confused yes on
the syllabus we have done nine and 10
but for the midterm they won't be on it
okay so that's the syllabus let me show
you some other resources let me go back
to our start here here's a welcome
letter it kind of gives you an
introduction to the course
here's that cheat sheet what to do each
week refer to this when you get confused
here's an FAQ that
can be helpful I'm not going to go over
right next I've already done this
here's that orientation quiz here's
information about Proctor you this is
some minimum Tecna technology
requirements for the course most likely
you have those satisfied but if you're
having technical difficulties this could
be useful if you're having difficulty
doing something on the online course
here's some resources to help you
troubleshoot and reach out to the right
people I do have the cougar mail
forwarding information right here
this is stuff I have to include don't
worry about it too much sometimes the
reason why canvas doesn't work right is
that your internet browser cache is not
clear and so this is a way to clear it
so if you're having difficulties with
canvas check this one out this is that
questions instructor pointers that we
talked about before this is information
about how to calculate your grade I
invite you to do it if you want to but I
find that many students get stressed
when they talk about calculating their
own grades so if you aren't a numbers
person just do the best you can in the
course I'll do the grades it's not your
job to do the grades I'm not going to
give you your projected grade through
internet through the email or whatever
I'm not supposed to send grades through
email messages and so I'm just I'm not
going to do it I'm happy to meet with
you and we can go through scenarios but
the bottom line is this is the video to
watch so you can see how to calculate
them if you want to that document that I
talked about before that I should kind
of walked you through here it's
available so this is a handy resource to
calculating your assignment grade you
can also use the same resource for doing
your quiz grade and your LearnSmart
grade you won't need this section
because there's only one quiz for
chapter so you can issues this comm and
there's only one LearnSmart per chapter
so you can use this column
this is how to get your computer
connected I'll talk about this let's do
it right now so you click on this do
when you're ready when you have your
access password ready because you've
bought the textbook and in the back
cover there's an app that access
password now you're ready to go ahead
and enter that in here and I have some
links that show you the information this
is a some screenshots let me just show
you what it looks like
see screenshots you can see how to hit
what button then this is information
about the course it gives you different
links and things like that to make sure
you're linking to the right course one
thing that sometimes comes up is that
there are actually two ways you can
access connect you can do it through
canvas and that's the right way the way
you should always do it or you can go
into connect directly through
mcgraw-hill
if you enter through mcgraw-hill canvas
will give you a grade but the grade
won't transfer to me
mcgraw-hill will give you a grade but
that grade won't transfer to canvas you
will show as having a zero in canvas if
you do that you can send me an email and
I will be glad to look in to mcgraw-hill
see the grade that you got let's say you
got a let's say it's chapter assignment
12 but instead of doing it entering
connect through canvas you go to connect
directly you got a 14 out of 15
well canvas will show that you have a 0
I will have to manually go to connect
pull up your name and see what grades
you got then go to canvas and manually
into the grade obviously it's not a huge
issue but it's not my favorite thing to
do so please try not to do that I
understand sometimes people forget or
they flake out and do it but it's I
would appreciate it if you don't and if
you happen to find yourself in that
situation maybe for example canvas is
down and so that's the only way you can
do it let me know what chapters they are
what particular assignments or don't say
hey I did some assignments through
mcgraw-hill connect and didn't do it
through canvas tell me specifically
which ones give me the exact name the
exact chapter whether it was a quiz or
whatever so I can make sure
that I have all that data so I can give
you all the grades that you've earned
and again try not to do it that way so I
don't have to enter any extra grades
so let's just do a little refresher on
all the things we have so the first part
of each module substantive module is
going to be the LearnSmart textbook
activity and then we have the lectures
including my lectures as well at SMU
lectures and also that study guide that
they fill in the blank that you fill out
you'll also see at the bottom of this
section that there is a test preparation
guide this what the test preparation
guide is varies from chapter to chapter
but let's just look at one so you can
see so this is the one for chapter one
you
it involves the vocabulary terms that
are in this chapter and the definitions
and so you literally do a choice back
and forth you for law you find which one
of these it is that is the correct
answer and again you can do this
multiple times and then there's some
fill in the blanks and I guess that
makes up that particular assignment
again this goes back the idea that
you're testing yourself you're quizzing
yourself you're refreshing yourself in
the material this is not for a grade
this is your decision whether you want
to spend the time to do this
the next section is additional videos
that aren't lecture so this isn't me
that you'll be listening to this is the
various and typically these are very
short you know three to five minutes
long and then these are the things that
are assignments you ideally want to do
all of this before you get to this since
we don't have any deadlines except for
the discussion board there's really no
reason not to do this in order obviously
if we had a deadline of things due by
11:59 on a particular night and it's you
know 10:30 you're probably not gonna be
I do all this stuff and then do this so
you'd have to jump ahead but because we
don't have those time constraints I'm it
makes sense to start at the top and go
down that way you're not gonna miss
anything and you're gonna do them in the
order that the instructor intended let's
go down to the midterm module
ah well actually let's go down to the
test reviews and information you can see
we have a section for a midterm and we
have a section for the final exam I have
a midterm review PowerPoint this covers
only the first half of the topic so it
covers through wash lemma Pavia this
that particular tool covers chapters 1
to 6 3 & 5 so it's not a complete
evaluation the topic but it will help
you with some of the topics and then I
have Quizlet materials for the midterms
Quizlet is a super cool resource I
highly highly encourage you to use it
really for all of the courses that you
take that are similar to this if I were
taking a French course or a Spanish
course or a world history of course I
would absolutely use Quizlet let's just
go in and show it in case you haven't
dealt with quizzes before so I'm gonna
click on the Quizlet link but I'm going
to go up here and click on this top
let's go take me into Quizlet and here
are materials for test one it's gonna be
called test one because again I've
designed this for my face-to-face
students and what you're taking with
your midterm is actually test 1 and test
2 we don't have one unfortunately we
don't have a quiz that for all of this
this is the constitutional chapter in
the criminal law chapter so we don't
have one for chapters 1 & 2 well let's
just go in here so let's go into
constitutional principles you can do the
flashcards but my suggestion what I
think is the most helpful is to do the
test you click on test
go into options here since my tests are
multiple choice and true/false
and you're not going to have and so this
is probably a good way of doing it here
here we go so we're gonna create the
test and you go through so this
represents it and in fact these are
virtual test questions I mean there's
only so many things you can do with
vocabulary terms so these are very close
to what the test questions are going to
be and so you go through here and you
answer the questions and I'm just going
to randomly click on some things and I'm
going to check my answers and it's gonna
tell me what I got right oh I got these
two right but I got that wrong and it's
gonna give me the answer so I review it
see what I missed and then I'll do
better next time and so you keep on
doing this this helps solidify your
knowledge it's much better to do several
of these quizzes than to stare at the
textbook or stare at notes so I highly
encourage you to do this you'll see
again that I don't have quizzes for
every single chapter and that's actually
a good thing because that means you can
develop your own quizlets the action of
developing your Quizlet is active
learning and so that's actually a very
good thing to have but you know what let
me just go to Quizlet generally this is
actually because I'm gonna search kuba
SEC is our author and guess what other
people use Koopa SEC that's just us
ah let's see here okay well just do
dynamic is the name of it sire okay add
dynamic business all chapter one dynamic
list so Chapter two you can see here I
don't know who Jazmin Bernie is she's
probably awesome she hasn't been one of
my students and so I don't know if her
list is good or not good so you have to
take these with a grain of salt but you
probably don't even have to find your
own you can see here lots of other
people Falcom from the North Beach baby
773 lots of different people you can use
their quizlets chapter 8 dynamic
business all you go in here this person
is 21 terms do a test with this and you
aren't going to be in good shape so
Quizlet highly awesome please consider
using although there are other tools too
a Quizlet will want to take your money
but there's absolutely no reason that
you ought to give it money because you
can get all the features you need are
free
so let me show you any other resources
we have
here's final exam review stuff so
everything on the midterm is also going
to be on the final then here is final
specific stuff
and then here are a variety of cases
that we talked about in the course and
some of these leaks especially if you're
interested in becoming a paralegal or an
attorney can be useful we probably won't
do much with this otherwise if you're
thinking about law school this can also
be a helpful resource probably a better
idea though would be come to see me I
hope that this information has been
helpful it's been a real privilege
talking with you I'm super excited about
this semester again come see me when you
have questions and thank you for your
attention I'm looking forward to getting
to know you over the course this
semester have a great day
