Start Here
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Taking This Course
Make sure when you enter Desire2Learn (D2L) that
you run the "System Check," which you can begin
by clicking the “Please click here for a System Check
before you login” link.
Pay attention as the System Check runs. Make sure
you address any problems with your browser
version, browser settings, or display settings.
Taking This Course
To take this course, you FIRST need to contact Dr.
xxxx at xxxx@kennesaw.edu.
Some of you have already spoken with Dr. xxxx, but
if you have not given Dr. xxxx your email address,
you need to do so now.
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You
Taking This Course
Your instructor will respond to email at
xxxx@kennesaw.edu within 24 hours during the
week (M-R 9am-5pm). You may also call 678797-xxxx or visit at the KSU campus, Social
Sciences building (22), Room xxxx (5th floor).
You are encouraged to contact your instructor
when you have questions. You are always
welcome to visit. You may wish to call and make
an appointment if you plan a visit--just so that
the amount of time you think you'll need will be
reserved for you.
Taking This Course
Assignments will be graded and returned within
one week of the due date.
If you haven't already done so, buy your books
either at the bookstore or online at various online
textbooks sellers.
Your syllabus is located on the D2L home page.
Your schedule is located on the D2L Home Page.
Pre-Requisites
This section is provided as an example for you as a
location in which you might provide prerequisite
information for your students. Pre-reqs ARE A QM
STANDARD!
If you don’t have any pre-requisites, you might type
in “none” or “There are no pre-requisites for this
course.”
Course Description
This section is provided as an example for you as a
location in which you might provide the course
description (as taken from your syllabus) in the
introduction to your course.
Textbooks And Materials:
Baym, Nina, Ed. The Norton Anthology of American
Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition. NY: W. W.
Norton and Company, 2008.
You will need access to a computer with reliable
internet access and sound and video capabilities.
Textbooks And Materials:
Note: Many of our videos are in Flash and require
a program like iTunes or RealPlayer to view. Both
are available free—iTunes is available at
http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/?cid=OASUS-DOMAINS-itunes.com and RealPlayer is
available at www.RealPlayer.com.
Because many of our videos are in Flash, you will
not be able to rely solely on an iPad or iPhone to
successfully complete this course. You will need a
desktop or laptop computer or a tablet computer
that runs Flash.
ADA Statement:
Kennesaw State University provides program
accessibility and reasonable accommodations for
persons defined as disabled under Section 504 of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans
with Disabilities Act. Kennesaw State University's
Disability Support Services can be accessed at
http://www.kennesaw.edu/stu_dev/dsss/dsss.html
KSU’s Institutional Policies for Student Disability
Services can be accessed here:
http://www.kennesaw.edu/stu_dev/dsss/policies.shtml
Software Accessibility Statements
D2L:
http://www.brightspace.com/about/accessibility/st
andards/
VoiceThread:
http://voicethread.com/about/features/accessibilit
y/
Panopto:
http://support.panopto.com/documentation/viewi
ng/accessibility-features
Software Accessibility Statements
Kaltura:
http://corp.kaltura.com/sites/default/files/Datashe
ets/Kaltura%20Accessibility%20Datasheet.pdf
SoftChalk:
http://softchalk.com/products/softchalk/accessibili
ty
Student Services
KSU provides a variety of services to foster and
support student success. To learn more, use the link
http://www.kennesaw.edu/studentsuccessservices/
Academic Policies
Students are expected to comply with KSU's
academic policies, listed here:
https://web.kennesaw.edu/registrar/students/acad
emic_policy.
Please note that plagiarism detection software is in
place in this course for all assignments. Even if you
do not turn work in to the Dropbox, your work may
be scanned for plagiarism.
Academic Policies
If you are caught plagiarizing, plagiarism penalties
will apply. To learn more about the definition of
academic misconduct at KSU, click here:
https://web.kennesaw.edu/scai/content/ksustudent-code-conduct#2
Software Privacy Statements
D2L:http://www.brightspace.com/legal/privacy/
VoiceThread:https://voicethread.com/support/how
to/Privacy_and_Security/
Panopto:http://panopto.com/privacy/
Kaltura:http://corp.kaltura.com/privacy-policy
SoftChalk:http://softchalk.com/about/privacypolicy
PBWorks:http://www.pbworks.com/privacypolicy.html
Goals (remember, goals must be measurable; they must
use verifiable verbs)
At the end of the course, students should be able
to name in chronological order, delineate, and
provide examples of the major movements in
American literature:
Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, romanticism,
regionalism and realism, Modernism, the Harlem
Renaissance, the Southern Renaissance, and
postmodernism.
Goals
(remember, goals must be measurable; they must
use verifiable verbs)
At the end of the course, students should be able
to define each movement, name authors from
each movement, name works from each
movement by the named authors, and explain how
aspects of each work reflect the movement they
belong to.
Goals (remember, goals must be measurable; they must
use verifiable verbs)
Students should be able to name major themes in
American literature and explain how works from
each movement reflect those themes
In addition, students should be able to name,
provide examples of, and describe major themes
within transition writers and writers who fall
outside the movements.
Goals (remember, goals must be measurable; they must
use verifiable verbs)
Students will demonstrate their abilities to
analyze a literary work using close reading and
paying attention to the context of the work.
Students should be able to explain how events in
American history shape American literature, and
how American literature reflects the multifaceted
core of what it means to be American.
Skills & Other Things You Need
You will need basic computer skills.
Can you find a web site if you are given a web
address?
Can you send and receive an email?
Can you attach files and open attachments?
If you can, then you will probably have few
problems with the technology in this course.
Skills & Other Things You Need
You will also need regular access to a computer
and Internet service. You can use the labs on
campus if you buy a set of headphones. Right now,
write down two backup places that you will go if
your preferred email access point fails.
Skills & Other Things You Need
For example, if you try to get on the internet and
you find your home access won't work, where will
you go? Then, if during the class you have trouble,
you can go to your backup place. Can you go to the
local library? To the local community college? To
your aunt's house?
If you have no backup places, you probably don't
need to take this course. In other words, if your
internet fails, it may severely hinder your progress
in this class.
Skills & Other Things You Need
You will need an email account that you check
every day, and your facilitator needs that account
address.
Email failures, like internet failures, can severely
hinder your progress in this course.
Skills & Other Things You Need
You will turn in all assignments in the D2L Dropbox
unless otherwise assigned. Acceptable formats for
turning materials in to the Dropbox are
 Corel WordPerfect (.wpd)
 Encapsulated PostScript (.eps)
 Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
 plain text (.txt)
Skills & Other Things You Need
 Portable Document Format (.pdf)
 Rich Text Format (.rtf)
 web pages (.htm, .html)
No other formats are accepted. If you turn in
documents in other formats, your work will be
counted late until you turn in the assignment in
the correct format.
How The Course Works
English 2160 is a hybrid course. We will meet
online on Tuesdays (that is, the modules will come
available on Friday and be due on Tuesday at
midnight).
Your schedule will outline the topic for each
module.
How The Course Works
For your online modules, your quizzes, course
content, and assignment(s) will become visible at
midnight on Friday nights. You will have until
midnight on the next Tuesday to access the
materials and complete any activities there. You
choose when you access the content within the
given time frames.
How The Course Works
You will review the materials--this activity should
take about 3 hours, including download/access
time. You should expect to spend about five hours
per week on this course, including reviewing
materials, completing activities, and working on
your own web course.
Face to face meetings will take place in the room
designated on the schedule and will last one hour
and fifteen minutes.
Look in for the Module 1: Online to see your video
introduction to the course.
Bill's Adventures In English 2160
(a concrete sample of how an internet course
might progress--this information is provided for
you as something you might provide for your
students if you teach completely online)
In this course, the class meets online on Tuesdays
and face to face on Fridays.
Before The Class Begins
Bill is a student in our course. He signs in by phone
or email or in person with the professor before the
course begins, and he gives her his email address.
He also takes down the course information.
The First Day Of Classes
The day classes begin, which is a Saturday, he
makes sure English 2160 shows up on his
Desire2Learn (D2L) site. He is ready to begin the
course. Bill knows his information to get started
with the course is available under Module 1:
Online.
The First Day Of Classes
However, Bill works until 5pm on Mondays, so he
waits until 7pm that night and accesses the D2L
course site. He reads the orientation in the Start
Here module (what you're reading right now) on
D2L. He reads it and writes down questions for his
professor, and he emails his professor with his
questions.
The First Day Of Classes
In Module1: Online, Bill finds the goals and
objectives, the netiquette guidelines, the
information on changing his default settings, the
video lecture, and the self-assessment and
discussion board assignment.
Week 1: Thursday
Bill has a busy week, so he accesses the
introductory materials, including the lecture, and
completes the discussion board assignment to
prepare for class on Friday.
He also looks at what to bring for the face to face
section under Module 2: Face to Face.
Week 1: Friday
Bill comes to class on Friday prepared for the day.
He has read and brought homework and handouts
to class, as specified in Module 2: Face to Face.
He takes notes in class, participates, and asks
questions when he has them. He leaves class and
goes to work.
Week 2: Sunday
He reads his assignments from the syllabus on
Sunday. His online module came available Friday at
midnight. From the syllabus, he knows he is
supposed to read Read Markel, chapter 1:
"Understanding the Technical Environment" and
chapter 2: "Understanding Ethical and Legal
Considerations."
Week 2: Sunday
When he completes his reading on Sunday evening,
he takes his quiz on the readings under Module 3:
Online on D2L.
He then completes the additional activities and
listens to a recorded lecture from the professor. He
knows he has until midnight on Tuesday, but he
decides to go ahead and get it done.
Week 2: Wednesday
After work on Tuesday, Bill goes bowling. So, on
Wednesday night he looks in the discussion board
to see what his classmates have said about
themselves, and he asks a classmate named Rita
about her lasagna recipe that she mentioned she
was famous for. It sounds like a great recipe to
have.
Week 2: Wednesday
He then accesses Module 4: Face to Face at 7pm.
He takes note of what he needs to read for the face
to face session, and he reads it. He writes down
questions to ask in class. He finishes this work
about 8:30pm. He goes to bed.
Week 2: Friday
Bill comes to class on Friday prepared for the day.
He has read and brought homework and handouts
to class, as specified in Module 4: Face to Face.
He takes notes in class, participates, and asks
questions when he has them. The professor
assigns a research paper and presents a choice of
assignments.
Week 2: Friday
As Bill thinks about his topic, he decides to look
again at the Class Lounge. A classmate named
Felipe is also a communications major, just as Bill
is, so he asks Felipe via the Lounge if he has
thought of any topics regarding ethics in their
shared major.
And so it goes . . .
Please Note
The important thing to remember is stay on top of
the class so that the activities and expectations
don't crunch you. If you try to do everything an
hour before it is due, you will find that activities,
life, and technology will get in your way.
As your professor, I will try to keep you updated
every other week on your progress during the
course. Always let your professor know if you run
into difficulties.
Course Expectations (example for you)
Students are expected to attend the electronic
lectures and face to face classes in a timely fashion
and to keep up with the course schedule.
Attendance is monitored using D2L.
Late assignments may or may not be accepted. If
accepted, late assignments lose 10 points per day
late.
Day 1 of late begins after the due date and time
Course Expectations (example for you)
View the netiquette guidelines
(http://www.kennesaw.edu/elearning/netiquette/i
ndex.html) for information regarding behavioral
expectations for online students.
Plagiarism
(http://www.kennesaw.edu/elearning/tutorials/68
plagiarism.html) carries with it penalties, including
a failing grade for the course.
Sample Schedules
Sample Schedule 1
Sample Schedules
Sample Schedule 2
Grades/Grade Breakdown
PLEASE NOTE THAT ON ALL ASSIGNMENTS, MORE
THAN NINE GRAMMAR OR MECHANICAL ERRORS
ON ANY ASSIGNMENT WILL RESULT IN AN
AUTOMATIC F.
Instructions 5% (50 points)
Definition and Description=10% (100 points)
Midterm=10% (100 points)
Proposal=15% (150 points)
Technical Report=25% (250 points)
Final=10% (100 points)
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Module Activities and Quizzes=25% (I will take all
of the points you received for your quizzes and
VoiceThreads and job application materials and any
other assignments that are not the instructions, def
and desc., mid term, proposal, tech report, or final,
and divide the points you received by the number
of points possible.
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Then I will multiply the result by 250 so that the
grade you receive for this section is out of 250
points. Feel free to look at your gradebook for
assignments and their points possible. New
assignments in this category may be added as the
course progresses.)
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Those assignments, at this point, are as follows:
CORRECT OR SCOOPED VoiceThreads
Introduce Yourself (10)
Ethics (10)
Audience Analysis (10)
Organization (10)
Argument Games (10)
Description (10)
Writing Review (10)
Design and Graphics (10)
What Do You Think? (10)
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Quizzes
1 and 2: 10
11: 10
3, 4: 10
Informational Reports: 10
5, 6, 13: 10
Formal Reports: 10
Writing Letters:10
8: 10
Module 8: 10 Job Ap Mat: 10
Proposal: 10 Oral Pres: 10
7: 10
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Activities
Ethics Quiz: 10
Research Topic: 10
Grammar and Spelling Self-Inventory: 25
Grant Activity: 25
Formal Report Activity: 45
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Activities
Job Ad: 10
Resume: 25
Cover Letter: 25
Total Points Possible for Module Activities and
Quizzes: 395
Grades/Grade Breakdown
Your gradebook function will automatically
calculate your grade for you throughout the
course, although the weighting on the Homework,
In Class Work, and Quizzes will be off until the end
of class.
How To Calculate Your Grade
Handy Table Of Due Dates
Additional Information
Your professor will respond to email at
xxxxx@kennesaw.edu within 24 hours during the
week (M-R 9am-5pm). You may also call 678-xxxxxx or visit at the KSU campus, Social Sciences
building (22), Room xxx. You may wish to call and
make an appointment if you plan a visit--just so
that the amount of time you think you'll need will
be reserved for you.
Additional Information
Assignments will be graded, and grades will be
posted, within 1 week after the assignment due
date. If the instructor anticipates a delay in
grading, you will be notified as soon as possible.
Technical support is your responsibility. If a
document or lecture does not open for you, let
your instructor know.
Sometimes your instructor can put information in a
different format that you can access more easily.
Additional Information
However, if the problem is on your end (your
computer, your software, your modem), it is your
responsibility to find someone on your end to help
you with the problem.
If you are on KSU campus, contact
service@kennesaw.edu. Your instructor is not
technical support. Again, please let your instructor
know if you have any questions.
What Next?
It’s good to end your “Start Here” presentation by
telling students what to do next.
This presentation was created by Dr. Vanessa SlingerFriedman in 2012 and updated by Ms. Cindy
Chamberlain in 2015.