What Do We and You Do on the Introductory Lab Day

1. Reminder:

This is a working lab for a grade and Blackboard will show the work you do.

Being quiet and productive is required for the points and to stay in the lab. Tip: Please do not ask or answer other students’ questions. If you have a question, probably other people do too so raise your hand and ask it.

2. I will show you how to login into Blackboard at the end.

3. If you plan to work on your own computer, these resources are on Help & Resources (upper right on Blackboard login page):

· Help with browsers –They are free. Having 2 browsers is a safer idea.

· Use the Adobe Reader – It’s free.

4. I want to show you what ALL Units look like and how to get to the Self-Tests you need to do before our first class day. There is also a video of information at the top of Learning Quizzes.

To get to that visual example, also show how Self-Tests (measure content in your head and how you do stuff) and Full-Tests work. They are not about taking points from you. This was designed and done after had students who:

· Already knew the vocabulary and map locations

· Did not –They weren’t failing history—1^st they were failing vocabulary.

Self-Tests and Full-Tests are so both groups are OK. BUT try to answer truthfully so you know what you know.

You take a Self-Test
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You are right 80% or more of the questions. Notice what you missed.	You are right 79% or fewer of the questions. Jot down what you missed—not the whole question but brief words. Tip: You can always go back to look at the Self-Test again.
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Blackboard sometimes displays resources, such as dictionary definitions. If you made more than a 0, Blackboard always displays the Full-Test.	Blackboard sometimes displays resources, such as dictionary definitions. If it does, use Ctrl-F (Find) to search the resources for what you missed. (Ask if you need help.) If Blackboard does not display the Full-Test, you made a 0 on the Self-Test. Email bibusc@wcjc.edu with your name, class, and the exact name of the Self-Test.
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If you want to, you may take the Full-Test.	You take its Full-Test until you understand.
When the Unit tests close, your instructor enters Full points for you.	Your highest score counts.
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You have the Full points because you already knew it.	You have the Full points because you taught yourself.

a. How all Units are organized

5. Login to Blackboard: I need a volunteer to login since my student account cannot log in.

· Your Banner IDs
Tip: I have everyone’s Banner IDs.
Caution: I have no way to know your password.

· Your password to Blackboard – if you have a new one from this term
(Unless Blackboard changed, all passwords are cleared at the end of each term.)

What does the screen say you do if you do not have a password?

· Coming into This Course

· And where you should never go.

6. Your Blackboard jobs over this week:

a) Log in successfully.

b) Do the 2 required Self-Test/Full-Test to 80% or higher

Additional Purpose: You start the habit of doing this work. It is not easy but think of it as a reliable paycheck for your work.

· You can pre-earn 200 points out of the 1000 for Learning Quizzes + 40 more for Evidence Quiz -= 240 points out of the 1000.

· You can pre-learn about 1/3 of each Unit 1 Exam, Unit 2 Exam, and Unit 3 Exam.
That’s potentially 30 + 30 +30 =90 points out of the 1000.

· If you do the Learning Quizzes and Evidence Quizzes before the due date in the Announcements in your course, you get 1 point extra credit.

7. Unless you are on your own computer, make sure you Log out.