How to Qualify for Extra Credit in These Students Helping Students with History Forums

You can earn up to 10 points extra credit with each Unit, and I am fine if all of you qualify for the extra credit.

Here’s How You Qualify for Up To 10 Points Extra Credit for the Unit

1.     Follow the Good Habits for Evidence in every posting and in every reply.
Examples:

a)    Don’t state your opinions or use sources other than our textbook or our resources in the course. (If you want to talk about opinions or other sources, post in the Student Lounge.)
Tip: Instead, double check what you say in the textbook before you say it.

b)   Don’t rely on your memory or what you think is common knowledge.
Tip: Instead, double check what you say in the textbook before you say it.

c)       Proof your work and run Spellcheck before you click Submit. Tip:  It is easier if you write your question (or answer) in a word processor and then copy and paste it into the message.

d)      Whenever you say something, give the exact page where your fellow student can find that information. Given that some of our class usually has one of the older editions also say:

·         the chapter #

·         and the heading that is above the fact

Example: If someone asked about the “peace policy,” you’d write something like this:
Page 414 if you have the 4th edition paperback. (If you have other editions, try Chapter 16 under “Indian Policies.”)

 

2.    Work so that other students can save time.

a)    Stay on the topic and on history. (If you want to talk about other things, post in the Student Lounge.)

b)   Be sure no one has already created a post by reading all of the Subject lines before you Create a Thread.
Your instructor removes the second post saying the same thing.

c)    Be sure no one has already replied to a post by reading any replies in that thread.
Your instructor removes the second reply saying the same thing.

3.    If you are replying to another person’s post, click on his or her message and then click Reply. (Think of it this way: keep related stuff in the same pile.)

·        If you are answering the page where the student can find something in the textbook, be sure to do what is in 1 d).

·        If you found the information by using specific words with the index, it can help other students if you briefly say how you found it.
Example: If someone had copied in the question for Quiz A Question 26 on Grant’s peace policy,” you’d write something like this:
I went to the link for Quiz A with the Tips. It said “Tip: The textbook does not list the term peace policy in the index with the 4th edition paperback. Look up Grant. In the entries for Grant, you will see Native Americans and. Use the pages listed there.”
I did what the Tip said.  It’s on page 414 if you have the 4th edition paperback. (If you have other editions, try Chapter 16 under “Indian Policies.”)

 

4.    If you are starting a question, click Create Thread and write in the Subject line something that will let the other students know if what they need is in your post.

If you have a question about…

You write in the Subject line….

Example of a Subject Line

You place in the Message box…

a quiz question

its quiz letter and number in the Subject line.

Need help with Quiz A 24.

Click on the Tips link for the quiz. Then copy the quiz question’s number, its question, and its possible answers into the Message box.

The meaning of something you read

those words in the Subject line

Need help with the meaning of “gold standard”

You just repeat the subject line unless there is some detail you need to add.

Where something is about history in the course

what you are looking for in the Subject line

I can’t find the Turnitin Assignment for the Introductory Comparison

You just repeat the subject line unless there is some detail you need to add.

 

 

 

 

 

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2014

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