Hello, my name is Steve Ward and I'm your chemistry 2010 instructor for this summer. What I'd like to do in this video is basically two things. Go through the syllabus and then go through how the course is actually set up in D2L. So, let's look at the syllabus first. And to do this, what I'm going to do is I'm going to share my screen with you and then we'll go through the syllabus and there'll be some things in there that you won't really understand where they are until we get to the momentum course. So, let's go ahead and start. Let me see if I can share this screen. All right. So, you should now be able to see the screen. I'm going to pull up the syllabus, and I'll show you where you can find this file in just a minute. But this is the syllabus for the course. My name is Steve Ward. I don't have a doctorate degree, but if you want to call me Mr. Ward, Steve, you know, Professor Ward, whatever you feel comfortable with is fine with me. I have an office in Herman that I'm not going to be in since this is a web course. I have attached my office hours to the syllabus file and I'll show you where that is again in a little bit. There's a phone number here for the school, but since I'm not going to my office, I won't be answering that phone. And there's also an email address here. I would refer you not use this email, but email me inside of the D2L or the momentum shell. They're the same things. I use the two terms interchangeably. Okay, this is a web course. There's no assigned meeting times, but there are assigned test times, and we'll talk about that in a little bit. There's some things that are just basically the topics that we're going to cover here, some of the objectives we're going to cover. If you're going to transfer this course to another school, your your school may want to see the topics that we are covering this semester to show that they're covering the same topics in the school that you're trying to transfer to. Most of the schools within the Tennessee system, there's not a problem. But if you're trying to transfer outside of the Tennessee system, you may want to make sure that this course is going to transfer. Most of the times it does. There's some other information in here about cancelling class and everything which probably won't be a issue since we're again doing this as a web class. There is a textbook for the course but you do not have to buy the textbook when you enrolled in the text in the course. The textbook was included in the cost of the text. It is an eex. So if you'd prefer a hard copy or a paperbound copy, I'll show you where to get that in a little bit. Okay, you do need a model set. Okay, so if you can find a model set, if you don't want to spend the money on the model set, you're going to struggle when we do it to a couple of topics in chapter five. So if you want to hold off on b buying that model set for just a couple oh, excuse me, a couple of days or whatever, we can discuss it in one of our Zoom meetings. All the other material that you're going to need for the lecture part of the course can be found inside of Momentum. You do need some kind of programmable calculator or non-programmable. You're going to have to basically be able to do a little bit of plugging in numbers to do some calculations, but nothing complex. No graphing calculators or anything like that is needed for the lecture part. Now, this is a syllabus only for the lecture portion. Someone else is teaching the lab portion of this course and you should be getting some information from that instructor u either Dr. Alex Bone or Adam Williams on uh the what is required for the lab portion of this course. Here at Ron State, we do incorporate the lab grade into the lecture. You don't get a separate grade. So, what Dr. Bone or Alex will do or or or Dr. Bone or Adam Williams will do is they will send me your lab grade once the course is over. Now, for most of y'all, this is probably the most important page in the syllabus. How's my grade calculated? There will be four tests given a final exam. You must be present to take these test online. Okay? You'll log into Zoom. I will email you the test. You will complete the test and send it back. There may be a a uh online component of the test. I'm not certain yet, but you need to be on Zoom at these times, okay? On Sunday, May the 25th or Tuesday, May the 27th. All tests are on Monday, except for that first one because Monday happens to be Memorial Day, a holiday. The test times, we'll show you where you can find those in just a little bit. But you will have to be online during these days. If that's going to be a problem, you need to let me know as quickly as possible. Each one of the tests is worth 75 points. There's some quizzes that you'll take online, but you do not have to be on Zoom to take those quizzes that are worth a total of 52 points thereabouts. There's a final exam worth 100 points. And then the lab grade is going to be worth 100 points. If you look at this, that's a possible 552 points. Even though there's 552 points there, I only grade out of the course as if it were 500 points. So basically, the quizzes are a built-in bonus system for the course. There may be some other components that we add to this at a later time, but this is what's set up right now. Okay? And if anything's changed, I will post it to the new syllabus. At the end of the semester, Ron State grades on a 90 80 70 60 scale. So notice 448 points is 90 percentile. I do round up if it's 89.6. Excuse me for just one second. Let me get a drink of not Dr. Pepper. Okay. So at the end of the semester, you'll add up your total points. If you have more than 400 448 or more, you get an A and so forth and so on. Okay? So the lab is again is not a separate grade. Your lab instructor will send me a grade and I'll just incorporate it into your course grade. Obviously, uh attendance is something that we're not going to worry about this summer, okay? Because it is a uh a web course. But we'll talk about what I mean by attendance later on. late assignments. Usually there is no makeup on late assignments unless you have a really really good excuse. And again, you know, you'll see where all the assignments are listed for the course. Students oftentimes ask, "What's a good way to study for this course?" So, here's an outline that I've kind of put together. For those of y'all who read textbooks, and a lot of you like to read the textbook, read the textbook prior to what the date you're going to cover this in lecture. Okay? Then you're going to watch the lecture. That means you're going to watch the pre uh the preloaded videos that I have for this course and I'll show you where to find those in momentum. Then there's going to be some problems out of the textbook that are assigned. You're going to work those problems. I'm going to provide you with the solutions to all those problems. So, anything that you miss, you're going to be able to know that you don't understand the concept. Then you're going to get on one of the Zoom help sessions and we'll have many help sessions available to you via Zoom. Okay? I'll do most of them from here in my basement writing on the board behind me. So, you'll say, "Okay, on problem set 12, I don't understand how that structure was drawn." and I will explain it to you. Okay, this is just like the office hours that you would have if you had a live course. Students who do well in the course take advantage of these help sessions. I don't know how many students who you never see in any of the help sessions and then they struggle on the test and wonder why they struggle. So, take advantage of the help sessions and we'll have these scattered throughout the different uh throughout the week at different times for those of y'all who have differing schedules. So, once you've came to the help sessions, got all your questions answered, you're going to take some quizzes, some online quizzes, and again, I'll show you where those are. That's again the although these are points, they're also used to help you to see whether you fully understand the topic or not. Then you're going to be ready to take the test. There's actually a study guide and a sample test provided for you. What you're going to do is sit down and take that sample test under the exact same conditions that you're going to take the real test. Then you're going to see what you missed. Then you're going to come into another help session after you take the sample test. You're going to come in and say, "Okay, on the sample test question number six, I don't understand why the charge was plus one and not negative one." I'll answer those questions for you. And by the time you get to taking the real test, you should have all of your questions answered. You can see that this is going to take quite a large amount of time. In a regular semester, I tell my students that they're going to spend probably between 8 and 10 hours a week studying organic. So that means for y'all that's 25 to 30 hours per week. And that's not unreasonable because remember the course is triply paced. So you need to be able to provide that much time into the course if you plan on doing well. I know some of y'all have got other commitments, jobs, families, so forth and so on. But you're going to have to find the time to put into this course if you want to do well. And just like your general chemistry class, just like your math classes, this course builds upon itself. So a poor foundation at the beginning of the of the semester is really going to hamper you later on when we get to the topics that build upon that. So you've got to keep up. Okay. So what next? Here's some things that you can just read about disabilities, plagiarism, uh, Title N. Uh, you know, since y'all are not going to be coming on campus probably, except some of y'all are going to be doing the live lab, there's the police department information, our counseling center or library. There's all kinds of things there that I'll just let you read. Okay. Now, this brings us to the next part that probably y'all are interested. And this is the syllabus that I put together for this course. I put this syllabus together as if you were going to meet live in class Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Okay? That's the way I put the course together. Now, that does not mean you have to do chapter 1 on May the 20th. But if you do chapter 1 on May the 20th and you kick stick to this guy uh this outline, it's going to keep you from getting behind. Okay. So on May the 19th, what you need to do is have watched this video, looked at the syllabus, found your way around the momentum page, printed off the materials you needed, found where everything is located, and then start the course. If you want to start the course on May the 19th, it'll be open to you. But if again, I've done this course as if it were a a live class. So, this just gives you a guideline. Notice that quizzes 1 through 7 are due on May the 25th by 6:00 p. in. So, you will have logged on to the Rome State Momentum page and that's the same thing as D2L again. And you will have taken these quizzes. Also, notice there's a quiz up here that's due on May the 21st. That's the intro quiz. This is basically a quiz that if you've read the syllabus and watched this video, you will get those two points. This is the quiz that Ron State uses for its LDA, which is used to determine if you're getting financial aid, that you've attended the course and you've accessed material in the course and you've been assessed in the course. So, you must take that quiz. If not, I will have to mark you as non-attending and it may delay your financial aid payments. So, by May 21st, you will have taken that quiz. The other quizzes are due on May the 25th. Now, some students take the quizzes and you can see the topics on the quizzes as they master the material. Other people wait until the, you know, the last, you know, the on May 25th and take them all at once, assuming they've already taken the sample test and everything and then they use the quizzes, you know, as a check to see how they notice, how how much they've learned. Either way is fine with me, but don't fool around and miss the deadlines. And all of these deadlines, by the way, are Eastern Standard Time. Since I'm in the Eastern time zone, all of my times listed in the syllabus are in Eastern time. So, if you're in a different time zone, you know, adapt accordingly. Now, the first test will be on Sunday, May the 25th from 6:00 to 9:00. The tests are 3 hours long. You'll be given three hours to take the test. What you will do is log into a Zoom session with me. Whenever I see you there with your camera on, and I'll show you how to do this in a later email. I will send you the test. You will take the test. You will either scan it in on your phone or you'll take pictures of each individual page and you will send that back to me. and I'll show you how to send attachments once we get to the momentum part of the course. Or you can take the test on Tuesday. I know that some of y'all work during the week, so that's why I provided a time on the weekend. For those of y'all who have family and want to spend Sunday night with your family, you could take the test on Tuesday, but you have to be online at one of these times to take the test. Okay? again. If this is going to be an issue, I need to know it as quickly as possible. Okay, let's see. And this just goes on. There's the test two material. Notice we have a test a week. Okay. And then we have a final exam. Let me scroll on down to the next page. And then the final exam uh will be on June the 20th or on June the 20th at two different times either in the morning or the evening. Okay? And again all these tests you have to be online okay for the entire time you're taking the test. Now, if you look at the last page, it is a copy of the locator. And these are just general. This is just a general locator that I had to put together. What I plan on doing is notice the tests are normally given on Monday mornings and Sunday nights. Okay? I plan on having help sessions at the on Wednesday and Thursday and Sundays and then in the evenings. And what I will ask you to do is if you want to have a help session, you know, please let me know. I'll make certain I'm there at those times. If nobody shows up within the first 10 or 15 minutes of the help sessions, oh, excuse me. I won't sit in front of the computer, for example, for 3 hours waiting for somebody to log on. So, if you say, "Okay, I want to be in the help session on Thursday, but I don't want to get there at 8:00, but I'll be there at 9:00." You need to let me know. So, you'll send me an email, and that way I'll be certain to stay online, but I don't really want to sit and stare at a screen for for 4 hours. Okay? So, I plan on having help sessions during these times. If you need a help session at other times that are not listed here, we can work around that. Also, my goal is for you to get all your questions answered. Now, I will say this. It does you really no good to come into a help session and say, "Well, I haven't worked any of the homework. Could you say could you just work more problems for me?" Y'all been through general chemistry, and you know that that's not the way chemistry works. You need to watch the videos, work the homeworks, make your mistakes, bring those mistakes to me during the help sessions. But if you don't work the problems beforehand, you're not really gaining anything by watching me work more problems. So that's basically how the syllabus is going to work. Okay? So you need to mark on your calendars these test dates and be available at the times listed to take those tests. And again, if this is going to be an issue, I need to know it soon because we'll have to make arrangements for you to take the test somehow else. Okay. So, now we want to go to the actual momentum page that's set up for the course. My momentum page is not like every other momentum page that you've seen before. My momentum page will be different than some and like some of the others. So, we need to go through this so that you know exactly how the momentum course works. So, you log on to the Ronstate web page, ronstate.edu. Click on the momentum tab. It'll bring you up to a screen where you log in. Now, you're going to hit the login button right here to log in. I'm not going to do that because I'm in a fake student account that is not really a student. So, I can't log in the correct way. But, you're going to log in here using your wrong state username and password to get into the course. But once you do that, our fake student's name is Manny Ken. You say it real fast. It's mannequin. The people who came up with the uh fake student have a sense of humor. So this is exactly what your course will look like. You will log in and me just make that just a little bit smaller so that I can get to my scroll bar. Okay. You'll log in and you'll have a list of all the courses that you're enrolled in at Ron State listed here. This course is the chem 10 or 2010 course. Now, once you log into here, this is what will come up. A couple of things. Let's go through all the things that we talked about in the course. We're going to go through these top uh tabs. First, if you click on the class list, this is where you'll find a list of the students in your class as well as me. I'm listed as Steve Ward in here. So, if you wanted to send me an email, you would click here and go send an email. In the subject line, I want you to start the subject line with quim 102010 because I have other things that go on inside of momentum. And this way, I will know that this is an email from a student in this class. And then you just write question about syllabus. Okay. Yeah, if I could spell question, it would help, wouldn't it? Okay, that's close enough. And then you're going to type your message here. Now, suppose this were a message about a homework problem and you wanted to show me your work. You can take a screenshot of your work or a a snapshot with your camera and you can attach it to here. There are two ways to attach an e a document to a momentum message. You can go here and click on the upload button. scroll to wherever it is on your computer and then click on the file and then hit the upload button. On many computers, you can just take and drag over into the box. Okay, this is the way you're going to attach your your test. When you take the test, you will either attach a PDF document where you've scanned it with your phone scanner, and most of y'all are much more literate technology than I am, or you have taken individual pictures of your pages, and you're going to attach seven pages to the to the, you know, seven pictures to the document. There is a maximum of 25 megabytes. So those of y'all with huge cameras or cameras with huge file sizes, you may only be able to attach two or three pictures at a time. So you will say test one part one, test two, one part two, and so forth as you submit your test. And when it gets close to test time, we will review that. And then you just hit the send button. Okay, I'm not going to send this since I don't really want to send the file. If you want to get your emails, you just click on this envelope up here. Click on the email and notice a list of all the emails that have came through momentum will come down here and you can say okay let's click on these. Notice I I have some or mannequin the student has some emails. I sent this email earlier to the class and notice mannequin's in there and everything. So, there's a whole lot of emails and you need to check your email at least once daily. That's the that's the way I will communicate with y'all. I will not use Raideret to communicate. All communications will go through Momentum email, okay? It just enables me to keep things straight. I do not use Dropboxes or anything like that. All files transferred if I have to send you files or I have to receive files from you will be done inside of momentum email. Okay, so that's the class bliss function. As you do grades, notice we can click on the grade column here. Hold on just one second. Okay, there's the grade column. This is Manny. Oh, excuse me. This is Manny's grades so far. So, as you take assignments and the grades are recorded. Some of the grades will be recorded automatically. Some of them I have to handrade and I'll post the grades. But as you get grades, you'll get points. Again, this is the col uh row that you need to be watching the total points. You want that to be more than 448 at the end of the semester. So, as you take test one and I grade it, I'll post a grade here. As you take the online quizzes, they're automatically posted here. So, when you take them, you'll know the points you get. Now, the quizzes are you only get one attempt for them. So, don't take the quizzes until you're ready to take them. But you can watch your grades throughout the semester being careful that you want to get a total 448 points. Okay, so that's the grades. The calendar is just really a duplicate of what's in the syllabus. Some students like the calendar feature, other students do not. There shouldn't be anything in the calendar that's not in the syllabus and vice versa. So notice that quiz zero is due on the n uh is open on the 19th. And now notice down here it closes on the 21st. So this tells you when things have become available and when that availability ends. Notice the test are in there. All the assignments for the course should be in here. Okay? If something if a date's wrong or something, just please bring it to my attention if it doesn't match up with the syllabus. And notice it's just a way for you to keep track. Again, some people like the syllabus function, some people just like reading the uh calendar. They both should have the same information in them. Now, remember me keep talking about these online quizzes. If you click on the quizzes column, this is where they'll show up. You'll just click on here and you'll hit start quiz. Obviously, this quiz is not available at this time, okay? Because the quiz does not open up until I think it's the 19th. Okay? It's available the 19th. And notice it ends on the 21st at a minute toward midnight. So, you will take that quiz. If you miss this deadline, you don't get those points. And again, this quiz is important because that's how we do the financial aid portion of the course. So make sure you take this quiz. Okay. So all the quizzes are there. Notice the test are not there. The testers are the tests at this time are not uh on the on the computer for you to take as you will log into Zoom but you won't be logging into the momentum to uh get to the quizzes under the content at this point in time. The only thing that is available to you is the textbook itself. I may add some more things under here uh as we get closer to the first day of classes. I'm actually going to a meeting tomorrow to talk about this. And if I do, I'll I'll send an email updating y'all or post another video updating y'all on on the material that's available to you. So, if you click on the EEX and hopefully this will work, it takes you off the Ron State site onto the Pearson site. And notice we have the text. Right now, the only thing open to you is this. The study modules are not open yet. That's what the meeting is about tomorrow. So if I click on open the EEX file and y'all are very familiar with EEX and if you're not you know it's just like a textbook over here is the table of contents we can open up. So we can navigate to for example chapter 1. So, I'm going to navigate to chapter one and just scroll down. And this is the same exact pictures that are in the textbook. Now, if you go over to let's go over a few pages. Let that settle down where and everything. And you'll see some practice problems in the text. And I'm just going to scroll down to where these are. we'll get to a practice problem. Okay, so there's problem 13 and it says write the Lewis structures. So we're going to write the Lewis structures for those. So these are your homework problems. Some of them are embedded within the chapter and some of the problems are at the end of the chapters, but they're all under this file here. So what you're going to do is suppose I assigned problem 13. You would work this. And let's suppose you were looking at this problem H nh and you drew the structure with a triple bond between the two ends that happens to be wrong and you will have the solutions manual to go along with these problems. I will email it to you and you can say okay I don't understand why it's not a triple bond. That's whenever you either send me an email or you meet me in a help session and we'll go through it and I'll explain why the triple bond is the incorrect answer. So that's the way the course is going to work. You must do these homeworks to prepare you for the test. I've had students say, "Well, you know, I don't really want to do them all and I'll only do a few of them." And then as the course gets further and further down, you miss a little bit here, you miss a little bit here, you miss a little bit here. And by the time you get over here to this other big topic, you don't have all the pieces that allow you to do it. And then you say, I don't understand why I don't understand this. And the reason is because you miss pieces along the way. Okay? It's sort of like saying, I only learn my multiplication tables up to six instead of 10. And then when you get to a problem where you have to use those multiplication tables, you can't do the problem. Okay? So you've got to do the problems. Okay? So again, at this moment, the only thing that's available under this tab is the textbook. Okay. So we've went through all the tabs at the top of the course. Now, let's go back to the homepage. If you want to get to the home uh the homepage for this course, you just click on the title of the course. And notice I will put notes up here. But since this is a web course, I will also be sending out emails. So I probably won't change this very much. I will be sending out emails. Now, let's talk about where to find the material under here. Here is where the syllabus. You can download the copy of the syllabus. It's a PDF document. Okay. And it's the same one I just showed you. I've got my PDFs to open up and my word documents to download. That's just the way I've got my browser set up. You can download a word version of the syllabus and a word version of the schedule. Okay? If you prefer, it's the same information that is in the PDF document. Here's where I will put the link to this video. Okay? I will send you the link to the video here a little bit. But if you ever want to watch this video again in the middle of the course, you can click there. Okay, let's go over here first. This is the YouTube file and one of them is a PDF and one of them is a word document. Here are the links to the videos. So remember whenever we looked at the syllabus and we had let me just pull up the syllabus real quickly and we had down here chapter 1 part one chapter one part two these are the videos that go along with that so on Tuesday by the end of Tuesday you should have watched both of these videos they're just YouTube link links. Okay? And y'all have all watched things on YouTube. I know it's not the best, but we don't have live lectures for this course. So, these are lectures that I have made and you know that would be the same lecture you would get in the course except there's no interaction with students and some of y'all may actually prefer that. So, here's the lectures all the way through chapter 13, which is where we end this semester. So again, you've got to watch these lectures. And let me say something about watching the lectures. You know, I had one student say you who was struggling in the course and they said, "But I watch all the lectures." And I said, "How do you watch them?" They said, "Well, I turn it on my computer. I hook my computer to my TV screen so that it's a big picture so that I can see it and everything and I sit there and watch it." I said, "You don't take notes or anything?" I said, "If you were in the classroom, what would you be doing?" and they said, "Oh, I would print out the notes. You either have the notes available on my iPad and I would write notes over top of your notes and then I would have those notes to study for the test." And I said, "But the videos are your lecture. So, watching them like you would a an episode of NCIS doesn't help. You've got to be focused, too. You can't be watching the video while you're listening to music or talking on the phone or or doing anything else. Watch the videos just like you would if you were in a classroom taking notes on the pages. So, this means you're going to have to have some way to either print off these notes or either uh you use your a tablet to to write over them and save the files afterwards. However you want to do that, however you would do that if you were in the classroom with me. Okay, so there's where the lectures are. Okay, most of your time is going to be spent here underneath the course content page. You could have a periodic table if you need one. This is not where you're going to spend your time, but I I have to talk about this. Whenever uh my daughter is now 30 years old and whenever she we found out we were pregnant with my daughter, you know how some people do things like build a crib or you know people with some kind of skill set, mothers will will uh crochet a blanket or whatever. I had no skill set and I wanted to have something for my daughter. So, I was driving down the interstate and wrote the ABCs of chemistry. And uh you know, if you read over this, every one of the words in here, you will have either learned during general chemistry or you'll learn in organic chemistry and everything. And we had this calligraphy to put above her crib. Some people would walk in, you know, to her nursery and everything and say, "Oh, that's sweet." And others would say, you know, that's child abuse. So anyway, that has nothing to do with anything other than I just wanted to show it to you. Here's where you're going to have your course material. Okay, so we're going to start in chapter one. Remember those uh lecture notes you're going to watch. I have created lecture notes to go along with it. Now, they're not PowerPoints, but they're they're my version of what a PowerPoint would look like. Okay? So, you're going to have this handy. And as you watch the lecture, you're going to write notes on here. You're going to fill in the answers and everything. So, you need to have these available to where you can write on them. Okay? And here at the very beginning, they are nice and tight, but then they get to be handwritten. So, and you'll see that my handwriting is not the best. So, here's the lecture notes for the first part of chapter 1 and the second part of chapter 1. some handouts that you might need, okay? And everything. Remember me talking about the problem sets? Here's the problem sets for chapter 1, part one. So, after you watch that first lecture, you're going to go here. And what these numbers refer to are the problems within the textbook. So, you're going to do problem 1 through 13. Remember, we looked at 13 a minute ago. Then, you're going to do 15 through 110. And then you're going to do 131 and through 132. And then when you go over here and watch the second video, you've got another set of problems. And these are the problems that are going to prepare you for the test material. Now, obviously, the problems on the test are not going to be the same problem, but they will be of the same caliber and difficulty as these problems. Okay, any questions on that? Now once you've worked all the problems with chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3, you will be ready to go to the sample test page. And here is the sample test page. So for each one of the tests, I have a study guide. So for example, here are the questions types that will be on test one. There will be one question worth two points. Determine the unsaturation number which is a something we learn in the lectures. We're going to draw the le structures. We're going to draw resonance structures. We're going to do empirical and molecular formulas. Okay. We're going to draw all the possible structures. And notice I have the questions in order from chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3. Now, chapter 1 and chapter 2 are a little bit mixed up because the textbook changed additions and I didn't rearrange my test. But if you notice the order of these questions, this is the order that they're going to be on on the sample test. They're going to be on the same order as your real test. I don't see any benefit in scrambling all the questions together on the test. So, they're basically in the order that the material is presented. Now, again, right here at the very beginning, there's a little bit of scrambling versus the order that the pres material was presented. So, here's your study guide for test one. And here's a sample test for test one. Okay? So you can see the types of questions it's going to be. Now, you should not take the sample test until you're actually ready to take the sample test. Use the sample test to see where you need to go back and study. So, here's all the questions on the sample test. Well, how do you know if you got them right or not? Well, I provide you a key so that you can say, "Oh, I missed question number five. Oh, now I see why I missed it. Okay. I have done review sessions in the past with students where I where we we we come in and you know a class logged in and did the review. I've posted those reviews on there for the sample test. Okay? So that you can watch that. We will do our own review sessions in this class, but they may not get posted in in a time manner that's helpful to you. So, you know, whenever we get ready to do a Zoom session for the review for test one, feel free to log on to it. But what if you're finished a little bit early and you want to check yourself? You can watch this video. Now there is no uh sample test for the final and the reason for that is because I found that it was actually detrimental to students. There is a study guide and a review for the final exam but no sample test. I found that students would whatever questions were on there, they just honed in on those questions and because the final is cumulative, you know, you can't really cover it in a help session. So notice there's all of those available for each one of the tests, okay? And for the second semester of the course, okay? Which you know when you get if for those of y'all taking the second semester, you will have ex have access to this same exact thing. So that's everything in the course that we need to cover. Okay, we've talked about uh all the things up here. How to email me, how to look at your grades, check the calendar, take the online quizzes, and find the course material that's available to you in the textbook. And I want to go back to this real quickly. For those of y'all who do not like EEX, you can purchase a loose printed book. This is this is not a hardback textbook, but it's the same textbook and it's threehole punch. So, you put it in a binder. You just click there and you click on here. Let's see what happens. I haven't done this yet. And you can print. You can buy textbook. And Whoops. And this would be for uh I don't want to give them my cookies. Okay. So, you could uh purchase the textbook for $70 and it's good for both semesters. So, it's not a bad deal. You know, a lot of people do not like EEX. I do not like EEX. You know, I'm old school and everything. So, uh, you know, I understand that some people do and other people do not. So, you can purchase that if you prefer. So, this is basically an introduction to the course, how it's going to be ran. The second semester course is going to be exactly the same except new material, same kind of format and everything. You can see where your grades come from. again, you will get another email of some sort from your lab instructor. So, be on the lookout for that. And I don't and I'm not certain how the lab is going to be set up. Uh, you know, although the courses are independent, I know that they're I'm I'm meeting with them tomorrow and we're going to go over to make certain that the that the labs uh line up as much as possible with the lecture material and everything. so that if we're covering, you know, a a topic in the lecture, the lab kind of reinforces that topic. I know that we're going to do that. Other than that, you'll be getting information from the lab instructor on on how that course is going to be set up. If you have any questions after watching this video, uh please email me inside of Momentum with your questions and everything. and I'll be watching for your emails throughout the week. I'll be sending you links or emails with Zoom links in it when the Zoom when the Zoom meetings are going to be set. So, make sure you look for those. Uh we will probably have a introductory uh just meeting for those of y'all who still have questions um sometime before the class starts and everything. I look forward to a great summer. Uh it does the course does require some time. So, for those of y'all who have a lot of responsibilities already planned for your life and everything, you've got to somehow factor in quite a bit of studying time and everything. Remember, you're going to spend, you know, six, six lectures a week, an hour and a half a week. You're going to spend 9 hours in lecture watching the videos and that 25 to 30 hours a above that is actually the time it's going to take you to do the homeworks. Some of y'all will do the homeworks much faster. Some of y'all will be much slower. That's always the case. But you've got to find time to watch the videos, do the homeworks, and attend the help sessions and then be ready to take the test. Again, there's only one attempt on all the graded assignments. Okay? I don't allow multiple attempts on the quizzes nor the tests. Okay? I will say this about the test. Okay? Since we uh since we are talking about the test, the test will be open notes. Okay? But the test is going to be done in such a way that you're going to have to be able to find the material quickly in your note sheets and everything. So, as we go through and you uh every time we finish a chapter, you need to summarize that chapter on one page, maybe two at the most. And then that's the sheet that you will use as you're taking the test. And then you have the other notes that you have, the ones you printed out for me or the textbook, okay, to use while you take the test. You can only use material that you have in front of you, okay? You cannot do internet searches. You can't do phone searches. You can't call a friend. Okay? You'll be on video and it's very obvious when students are doing that. Okay? Please don't make me have to deal with that kind of a situation. Okay? So, you can only use the material you have in front of you. The question has came up in the past. If I have a tablet and I'm taking the notes on the tablet, can I use the tablet as my source of notes or do I have to print it all off? You can use the tablet as your source of notes as long as it's your source of notes. You can't be using the tablet to log out to some website. So for those of y'all who take notes on the tablet, you can use the notes that you have on the tablet. For those of y'all who print out the notes, you can use the notes in front of you, but only the material that you have in front of you for the test. You can use the sample test, okay? You can use the material that you have in front of you to take the test. We'll talk a lot more about test as the test date gets closer and everything. So, feel free to ask me any questions that you have and I look forward to seeing y'all either on Monday or beforehand in some of the Zoom meetings. Okay. Again, remember you do not have to be online to watch the lectures. The only time you have to be online is to take the, you know, online on Zoom to is to take the lectures or take the test on those five dates. I hope y'all have a wonderful week. For those of y'all who are still in classes at other schools, good luck on your finals and please let me know if I can help in any way. See you soon.