Hello. Welcome to Chem 11620. So, this is a little new if you've taken uh Gen Cam at Purdue before. We've split off the lectures from the labs. Hopefully, you've figured that out. I'm Dr. Conklin. Welcome to the lab course. Little bit about who I am just so you can make me out to be a person. I'm originally from New York, which is why you probably won't understand most of my jokes. Uh I went to Penn State, got a chemistry degree there. Then I went to UCLA um and got a PhD there. Did a posttock at the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. We invented radar, not me. That was way before I got there. Um, but that's why there's a radar tower there. Then I went to work in industry at PBG and I worked on transitions lenses while I was there. And since then, I've been doing uh academia. So, here we are. Um, you should also get to know that your supervisors who are um going to be wandering around the halls and checking in on you as well. And they are also resources available for you. Um, the little picture of Jake in the corner. Sorry, he didn't get me a fun picture. Um, and yes, you do see me again. Um, I will be one of the supervisors for one of the days. I'll just let you figure out which one that is. All right. So, I'll see you around the halls, too. Okay. So, I'm going to make weekly videos um so that you can uh be prepared for lab when you're coming up in this week. This week, I'm not going to do one in the lab itself, but most weeks I probably will just to get you familiar with the equipment and whatnot. Um, so my purpose is to make these very useful to you. Uh, for this particular one, you're going to get a little u bonus quiz for actually watching this video. So hopefully you stick around to the end and I can show you where that is. So I've already introduced myself and the supervisors. I will also also give you a weekly outline for what we're doing so that you can jump ahead to the parts you really need to know or however you want to watch this, but that way you know what's coming up. Um I'm going to go through the key parts of the syllabus since we won't meet all in one place as one one group so that you can see all the important things that you need to know. Um obviously there's more to it, but this these are the highlights. Uh, and then I'll make sure that you can find Brightpace and Lab Flow, but by now you probably should be able to. Although for some of you, you might still be freshman taking this course for the first time. And as I said, I'll get to the bonus quiz. So, um, if you're not familiar with how to get to the syllabus on Brightpace, first of all, you want to make sure that you when you go to Brightpace that you're in the correct course and, um, check the announcements. I will be posting announcements periodically. I'll be sending emails. For example, you'll get one after this video is completed. Um, and I want you to go to content. in content. Um along the left side, there's a a a bunch of different things that you can go to. Um a nice little menu for you along the left side. Uh the first one is syllabus. And check to make sure that the one you're on, the screen you're on is actually syllabus. It does match. Don't ask me why it's called a course packet andor syllabus. I can't answer that one. But that's what we call it. It is 18 pages long. It's probably longer than it needs to be, but it has a lot of very useful information. Hence my little summary here. I strongly suggest you download it so that you can then do a little command find your way through it for the things that you really need. But in any case, so I'm going to walk you through some of the more important things. Uh one, given the split of the lectures from the lab starting this semester, you must take the lab course um with the lecture course. It cannot be taken by itself. So you can take the lecture without the lab, but you can't take the lab without the lecture. Mostly because we rely on you actually knowing chemistry when you're in our lab. So, you need to make sure you're taking the lecture course. You can drop the lecture. Um, but if you do, you must drop the lab. You can, however, drop the lab and keep the lecture because again, you can take the lab later if you want to. Um, it's a little trickier to do that, but we we do design them to be taken together. So, I want to make sure that you're aware of these things. The registar should also stop you from being able to do that, but I just want to make sure that you're aware of how this all works. Um, another strange name for me as a course coordinator. I am also your instructor. So, depends on how you want to look at it. You can just call me Dr. Conklin. It's all good. Uh general chemistry office is a great resource for you. If you don't know how to find Brown uh 1144, um now you can go in there and anything non-chemistry related, those those uh those in that office are perfectly willing and able to help you at all at all times um during regular business hours. Yeah, we have an email set up for the course which is chem [email protected] edu cuz if you're not sure if you have a chemistry related question or a course related or grade related or something like that, you're not sure who to ask, please just use that one email address rather than trying to email all of us all at once. Um, give us a little bit of time to get back to you. Certainly, if it's uh specific about a deadline that's coming up that day, you're probably not going to get an answer that day. So, um, please plan ahead. Further on in the syllabus, um, you should already know how to get to Brightpace. Um, I'll show you a little bit about how to get there. Uh, we have weekly assignments in this course. Most of them are prelab quizzes and the postlab report. Prelab quizzes are due the day before your lab and the report is due the day of your lab. All of these assignments will be in lab flow. So you want to be able to get to lab flow, go through Brightpace um so that you can get to those. There's a module in Brightpace called Labflow. Um the attendance obviously this is an experiential course so we want you to be here and actually experience it. Um we have excused absences through the office of the data students. those are eligible to have lab makeup assignments provided for them. Um unexcused absences which are not ODOS excused. Um you can get one lab makeup assignment per student per semester. You just have to go into the absences module before the start time of your lab and make a request for it. So you can have one free makeup assignment um that is an unexcused absence. All of this goes to the absence module. We even give you the link to the office of the data students through the absence module. So all that is all in one place. Um, if you wake up too late, that's an example of one. Um, if you wake up after your start time, that means you can't get the freebie makeup. That means, oh well, you're going to miss it, but you get one drop at the end of the semester. That takes care of that. We really do want to just encourage your attendance. I think it's easier to write the lab up and complete it if you've actually done it and not just being given data because I think that's actually very challenging. So, please do come. Um, there's a lot of ways that you can uh get a zero in this course. I'm not going to go through each one of those. I do want to say that if you a failure to complete is when you do not write a report or submit a report on time. Um so you are required to complete nine out of the 10 uh experiments in the labs. So uh if you go past that we have a step down. You'll lose a letter grade for one more and then you will not have credit for the course because again it's an experiential course. You need to be here to take to do the experiments. Okay. So a little bit more detail about the prelab quizzes. They're intended to make sure that you're adequately adequately prepared for the lab. So, please do review the manuals, the procedure, the concepts in your textbooks and calculations that you want to be able to do for the labs. So, please take the quiz after you've done that, after you've read and prepared, so that you know you're really ready to take the quizzes. Uh the quizzes are meant to be individual assignments because we want you to know what you should know coming out of this class. Again, they're due the day before your lab at 11:59 p.m. There are no makeups, no extensions, but we do drop the lowest lab quiz, prelab quiz, um at the end of semester. So, you are allowed to mess up once and then, you know, it won't hurt you in any way. Rolled into the prelab quizzes this semester are um procedures. So, I'm going to have an instruction for you on what I want you to write for a procedure. Um and specifically, I want you to know the equipment, the reagents, how to put it all together, make a diagram, what's going where. um how you need to be safe while you're doing the lab and then where your waste is going afterwards. So, uh all these different components including a citation, a proper citation for things that are not yours. Um I want you to know and there will be two questions added to the prelab quiz about these procedures each week. So, I do want you to know how to do that. Then, in the reports, you get two points just for attendance. That's awesome. Free points. That's 10% of your grade. Um, the key is we want you to stay until the end of the lab or your lab is submitted. One of those two. Either if you complete your lab report and you have time left um, but you've completed it and submitted it, you may leave and you'll get those two points. If you get to the end of the time period and you haven't submitted it yet, that's okay. You have until 11:59 p.m. that night to get it done, but you're going to um you're going to get those two points again because you stayed until the very end. The purpose of this is we want you to get it done. That's nice. Then you're just done. You don't have to finish it later. Um, but two, you have the help available to you from the instructor in the room. So, you can get the help you need. Um, the other way that we help you is you have two attempts for each lab report. So, if you get a grade, you realize, oh, I really messed up that calculation. Well, now you still have a TA available in the room to help you with that calculation and get it done right. So, um, you get two attempts and you stay to the end and you should really do well in this course. um refer to any of the lab materials, any of the um data that you collected um and any notes that you've taken. You can also discuss obviously the uh the experiment that you have with your lab partners at the table, but we don't want you to actually copy and paste any information from each other. Don't just give away answers. We're here to learn things. Okay? So, remember, it's due by 11:59 p.m. that night if you don't finish it by the end of the lab period, but there are no late submissions accepted. So the required materials are the same as the lecture course. It's the textbook. Um achieve this is actually should all say 115 116 instead of 115. Sorry about that. Um you should have Office 365 that we'll be doing a lot. In fact, we'll be using Excel in the very first week. So I want you to know that we don't really have a calculator requirement. Um you we you will need a calculator, but we don't limit your abilities on a calculator. If you don't want to in the lab, you can even use the one on the iPads. That's totally fine with me. Um but for your course you want to definitely uh search your uh exam material so you know lots of resources available for your success. As I said I think staying until the end of the lab period will help you do better on the lab reports. But I would also say that if you can if you need to search somebody out try to find your TA's office hours. If you can't get to your TA's office hours go to any TA's office hours. We have um plenty of office hours spread out throughout the week. Please do go talk to your TAs. It's not that these other things aren't very useful. are they're very helpful. Um I just don't think you need to go through the expense and especially since um these people are actually the ones grading you, you might want to actually talk to them. So that's my advice. Please come to the office hours. Um determining your grade. Well, as I said, we will drop the lowest prelab quiz and the lowest report quiz report grade. So that's 10 out of 11 labs um for a total of 375 points. 15 of those points come from the assignments from weeks one and two. So you want to make sure you do attend week one and two and make sure that you are uh getting the points on those assignments. Um that's again should have said 116. Sorry about that. Your syllabus overflow uh over overview uh continues on with the absence module. Um very important. This is a nice little flowchart to show you exactly what you do when if you're going to be absent. Right now you're like never going to be absent, which I hope is true, but things come up. Sometimes things happen. Um everything is in the absence module. We give the link on how to get to Odto's um so that you can get the excused absence and get the makeup work. If you aren't an excused absence and it's an unexcused absence, but you reach us in time, you can have the one free absence. Um and then if you don't reach us in time and it's an unexcused absence, like you overslept and you slept right through the start of of the lab, don't worry, you still have one drop. So there's a whole whole mechanism of how we can we can help you out there. So I talked a lot about independent and individual assignments. Your report is an individual assignment. Your prelabs are individual assignments. And um and I want to remind you of what Purdue's honor pledge is. You know, as a boilermaker pursuing academic excellence, which we definitely approve of at Purdue. Pledge to be honest and true in all that I do, accountable together, we are Purdue. I think that's a great motto. Um and I I love that thing and I think um I think we should all live by that one. And just point out that academic integrity means doing your own work when you should be doing your own work. Um again we have um a summary at the end of the syllabus which is just basically if you have questions what your question is and who you should report as kind of an FAQ. Um I will say as much as we may know about chemistry and be able to help you and give you links. We can't actually help it stuff it related computer related internet related those are not our areas of expertise nor can we help you or fix you with those things. We can however give you information which is again in the syllabus to help you find the proper places to go for those. Uh so please do use those. So I'm going to talk to you a little bit about uh Brightpace and Labflow. So I'm going to start off here. Um as I said before I went to the content area and then I went to syllabus. And so you can see the syllabus. You can also see that it's 18 pages long. Sorry about that. But there's a lot of good information in there which is why I recommend downloading it so you can command find your way through it. Here's the absences module. Um so there's my little flowchart again. And you notice we have um how to get to excused absences, how to get to ODOS exactly and um what to do with the uh excused absence for any any reason, which is all going to our form so that you can uh can figure that out. Um there's a safety certification quiz. If you took 115 here, you should be familiar with this. Uh so there's safety information posted for you as well as the quiz. You need to take the quiz or you won't be allowed to do uh do lab experiments and that's not good. So, you need to get at least 20 out of 25 on that. That's what's up here. Um, you should be able to do that relatively easily. So, please make sure you get that done. We don't want to hunt you down. Um, Lab Flow, as I said, is connected here. We want you to go through Brightpace in order to get to it, as well as your instructions on how to how to acquire Lab Flow. Um, I'm going to jump ahead before I switch over to Labflow. So, here's the required materials, the resources for help that I showed earlier. Here's your schedule. also everything that we're going to be doing in lab, which breaks we have, when we're doing what, um, as well as some other information for you. So, in lab flow, I can't do lab flow through a student view, but I can I can just show you a couple things. There's resources for you um that show you how to use certain pieces of equipment or um explain to you how to go through um different techniques. And then in week one, you will find this syllabus quiz right here, which is for you. five points for free. Well, you have to get the questions right. Um, but that's where the syllabus quiz is based on this video. Um, I will, as I said, have things um, every week. I'll have videos that I'm making every week to go over the week, what we're doing so that you are properly prepared for the week. So, I not only hope they're useful, I also hope that they end up getting you better points. Um, so I'm going to end with talking about what we're doing this week. We do definitely have lab this week. Um, I want you to come in, meet your TA, meet your lab partners, make some friends. That'd be good. Take the lab safety quiz, make sure that's done. Um, there'll be a safety assignment in the lab and we're also going to review Excel to make sure that your skills are sharp there because um, we're going to be doing that a lot. So, please bring in your laptop, smartphone, uh, tablet, whatever you need to work in the lab. Um, this will hopefully also be up in your lecture. So, we want you to make sure you're arriving on time for lab. Dress appropriately for lab. Um, so there's a diagram. basically be covered from your clavicle to your toes. Um, and especially be able to make sure that your ankles are covered. Um, so all of that. So complete the lab safety quiz. Um, and you don't have to bring a chief, so you're good on that one. Um, it's probably good if you have it because you're going to do your homework there. Otherwise, have a great week.