Welcome to the Class Websites! (If available, use

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Welcome to the Class Websites!(If available, use
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Introduction

• Do you need a required class that conflicts with
  the other classes on your schedule or conflicts
  with your work schedule?
• Or are you simply curious about online classes?
• Or do you think you have good reading and writing
  skills and that you might be able to do well in
  an online class?
• Or do you like technology or computers? (The
  online mode is new, its stimulating, its
  interactive.)
• If any of these people sound like you, or you
  would simply like to explore the online learning
  option some more, let me give you a tour and let
  you decide!
• Or if you are already enrolled, please proceed to
  find out more.
• My goal is to demystify online classes and make
  you feel right at home.

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• You have probably found yourself as a typical
  student . . .

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• . . . in a typical classroom, with other
  students, facing a teacher who is guiding the
  class with a lecture in front of a chalkboard . .
  .

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• . . . and taking notes, discussing topics, and
  completing assignments . . .

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• An online class has the same components, only you
  are a student before a computer, whether its a
• personal laptop or home computer
• or computer in the Writing Center
• or library
• or other computer lab on campus
• . . .At any time of the day or night if at home
• (or during lab hours if on campus)

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• . . . as long as the computer has internet access
  . . .

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Traditional Classes and Online ClassesA Compare
and Contrast

• . . . because your instructor communicates with
  you and your classmates through the computer . . .

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Objectives

• After viewing the next slides, you will be able
  to successfully use the sites for an English
  class
• Your free college email address at
  www.compton.edu
• Etudes class website at http//myetudes.org
• Required plagiarism scan site at www.turnitin.com
• The free tutorials at www.dianahacker.com/writersr
  ef

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Step One

• This brings us to our first site. It is first
  important to be familiar with college email
  because it contains college communication, even
  from instructors, and the same username as for
  Etudesthe class website. You should check this
  email account at least once or twice each week.
  Go to
• www.compton.edu
• by typing this address at the top of the
  Internet Explorer screen.

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1. Free College Email Address
At www.compton.edu, click on MyECC on the top
left corner of the screen.
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Free College Email Continued
If you came here before, enter your Username and
Password and hit the enter key on your keyboard.
Go to Im a First Time User, what do I do if
its your first time. If you forgot your
Username, then select Whats My Username or
forgot your Password select Reset My Password.
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Free College Email Continued
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After you have taken the steps to set-up your
account with your Credentials the first time
you enter (see 1 Looking for Email?), then,
click on the highlighted link in top center to
see messages sent to you.
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Step Two

• The website most important for an online course
  is the class websitethe classroom. It is like
  your home, hence the name homepage.
• Many instructors will send a welcome message to
  your free college email address with the class
  website link. If you are in my class and did not
  see the message I sent to your college email
  address, which contains a link to the class
  website, then go to
• http//myetudes.org
• by typing this address. Note There is no www
  in this address, as you might expect!

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Class Website
The password is birth month and day as mmdd.
Example January 29 as 0129
Use free college email username as user id
(first name_last namesometimes also a number)
Examples Maureen_Jackson or Maureen_Jackson1125
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Class Website Continued
You are here.
Select class tab
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Class Website Continued
Now, you are on the Class Homepage if the tab is
highlighted as white.
You can also select these quick links on the
Homepage for updates.
You can select any of the major class links here
on the left side of the screen, which appear
burgundy when highlighted. Here we are on Home
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Class Website Continued
Modules is most important. That tab (5th tab on
left side) contains the lectures, which appear to
the right.
Click on the first Module here to begin the
course, and later click on the topic where you
last studied.
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Class Website Continued
Once in Modules, click on next at the top of
the screen to go step-by-step through the course.
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Class Website Continued
The next screen has a mini-lecture on PowerPoint
slides. (PowerPoint mini-lectures are spread
throughout the course modules.) The screen may
look like a blank screen at first.
However, click on the yellow or beige banner here
about security that emerges at the top of the
screen.
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Class Website Continued
After clicking on the yellow/beige banner, then,
accept the download.
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Class Website Continued
Last, open the file.
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Class Website Continued
Youll also spend much time in Tasks, Tests, and
Surveys (6th option on left side of screen) to
submit class assignments for grading.
Click to Begin, and attach files like email
attachments with Browse desktop or flash drive
for saved document and upload to attach.
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Class Website Continued
1.
2.
You also need to post your online reactions in
Class Discussions.
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Class Website Continued
See left tabs for Quick Links to A Writers
Reference (for free online tutorials) and
www.turnitin.com (required plagiarism website).
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3. Required Plagiarism Website
Here is a preview of www.TurnItIn.com (required
plagiarism scan site).
Click on (1) New User, (2) then select create
new user profile (3rd option), and finally (3)
enter class code when asked. (See top of 1st page
of syllabus for code.)
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Required Plagiarism Website
To send paper assignment, click on the submit
button (gray upward arrow) to browse computer or
flash drive and upload paper.
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4. Free Online Tutorials
Free video tutorials at www.dianahacker.com/writer
sref
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Welcome Home to Class Website!
Finally, welcome back home to Modules of the
class homepage at http//myetudes.org to begin,
and use next to go step-by-step through the
course!
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How much do you remember?

• Q Where is the free college email address?
• A www.compton.edu
• Q Where is the class website?
• A http//myetudes.org
• Q Where is the plagiarism website?
• A www.TurnItIn.com
• Q Where are free online tutorials available?
• A www.dianahacker.com/writersref

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Bonus

• Q Where can you download free software that will
  read your papers aloud to you in a natural voice
  so you can check your spelling and other aspects
  of your paper?
• A www.naturalreaders.com

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Are you ready to join your classmates . . .
ONLINE???