Using Mycomplab in Comp. 1 and 2

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Using Mycomplab in Comp. 1 and 2

• Training, Communications Department, September 1,
  2004
• Cherie Dargan
• Updated by Dan Gizzi, September 2, 2004

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Overview

• We will get you registered as instructors and
  show you some materials that will help you learn
  more about how to use the materials
• Well take a quick tour and see the resources
  available
• To begin, you need an access code card they come
  in both instructor and student versions.

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Access code cards packaged with Comp. textbooks
(RED card for students)
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The mycomplab log in screen.

• http//www.mycomplab.com
• This screen also has a lot of valuable
  information at the bottom, including
• Take a tour, Getting Started, Learn more, and
  User resources
• Tech Support contact information.
• Available M-F, from 8AM to 8PM.
• Call 1-800-677-6337 (M-F, 7AM-7PM CST)

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Helpful links from that page

• Links to training materials
• http//mycomplab.com/training.html
• It is also available in Blackboard
• http//mycomplab.com/usingbb.html
• http//mycomplab.com/orientation/
• Orientation video to show students
• You can download an instructor manual.

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http//wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/1096/11
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Registering for Mycomplab

• Go to http//www.mycomplab.com
• Normally you would use the access code in the
  Instructor access code card however, the wrong
  cards were packaged with student books, so we are
  using the CourseCompass side (Red cards for
  students) not the regular website side (Blue
  cards).
• Course Compass is their version of Blackboard so
  some extra features will be available to us, but
  we do not have to use them.

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Registering for Mycomplab, cont.

• Choose Register for CourseCompass
• Use this generic teacher code if you have not yet
  signed up
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• Fill out the registration form. Later, you will
  get a confirmation email.
• Once you log in, you will see Mycomplab, with
  three main areas across the top of the screen.

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Mycomplabs components

• Writing
• Grammar
• Research
• Now, look at the icons at the bottom of the
  screen.
• Instructor Resources (can download an
  instructors manual)
• Exchange
• The Tutor Center

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Writing Resources

• Features three things
• Exchange (teacher sets up classes, assignments
  and students upload papers and do peer review)
• Longman Writers Warehouse
• Student Bookshelf
• Notice the middle box on the page, by the way.
  When you click on a resource, the box contains an
  explanation of the resource being selected.

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Exchange

• Provides you with a place to create a class, add
  assignments, and set up peer review.
• Students upload papers and then review each
  others work.
• May be something you will want to play with this
  semester and put into practice in the Spring.
• There is an instructors manual you can download
  with details.

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Example of a class I set up
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Writing Resources

• Incorporates the Longmans Writers Warehouse web
  site.
• Includes activities and worksheets and writing
  assignments using images and videos.
• Includes several e-books in the student bookshelf.

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Longmans Writers Warehouse(Use the same logon
info as before)
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Writers Warehousehome page
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http//www.longmanwriterswarehousecomp.com/help/
Help for Writers
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Student bookshelf
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The Literacy Series

• This series offers students guidelines for
  effective communicating and writing in public,
  social, academic, and workplace forums.
• Public Literacy, Second Edition
• Workplace Literacy, Second Edition
• Research Navigator Guide for English

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Books are pdf files
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Grammar Resources

• Grammar resources in MyCompLab are done through
  the Exercise Zone (pictured on the next slide)
• More than 2,500 practice tests and exercises
  cover all major topics of grammar, style, and
  usage.
• A diagnostic test allows instructors and students
  to identify individual weaknesses.

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ExerciseZone
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Research resources

• Research resources in MyCompLab
• Research Navigator web site.
• EBSCO's ContentSelect database of more than
  25,000 articles from academic journals
• The New York Times and Financial Times
  Search-by-Subject Archives
• Link Library, which provides access to thousands
  of links for discipline-specific key terms

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Notice the steps/tabs across the top
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Research resources, cont.

• Step-by-step assistance with every stage of the
  research process in Research Navigator.
• Citation style guides, including MLA, APA, and
  more in Research Navigator.
• Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorials self-paced and
  self-scoring tests, exercises, and tutorials on
  how to recognize and avoid plagiarism.

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Ties into discussions of using the library
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Avoiding plagiarism tutorial
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Tutor Center
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Now what?

• Get signed up for Mycomplab
• Download the instructors manual and resources
• Spend some time exploring the site
• Choose a couple of things to incorporate this
  semester and get some feedback the plagiarism
  tutorial and research navigator, for example, and
  then get your students signed up. You can add
  more next semester.