What’s on the Course Menu

	< When you come in the course, what you see 1^st after Getting Started <When you come in the course, what you see 1^st during Getting Started
	< Office hours, contact information – Ask! I am glad to help you.
	< Use as a reference that is searchable using Ctrl-F (Ctrl with the F key)
	<The only way to know when to prepare and what’s due and when
	<Two methods to locate Course Materials (work you do in the course): · Learning Modules (Blackboard’s word)–Safer method—Provides everything you need: from study guides, instructions, lessons, to primaries—including all of the Blackboard tools you use from assignments to quizzes to discussions to exams · Shortcut to All Graded Work–Provides only Blackboard tools to submit work
	<Blackboard tools that we use in this course
	<Blackboard’s tool for public communication or public submission of writing by students.
	< Blackboard’s tool for personal communication, such as feedback on your writing.
	< Blackboard’s tool for public news.
	< Blackboard’s tool for your personal view of your grades in the Gradebook. Tip: Make sure that the upper right at My Grades shows Order by: Course order
	<Additional information · Videos from Blackboard to help you with Blackboard’s tools · College links, such as to Disability Services. · History links, such as an introduction to the discipline of history, a searchable and sorted US Constitution, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and to a map website