TurnitIn.com first week bonus points are IN

So far, fifty students have signed up and enrolled in my course area at TurnItIn.com, as requested in our First Week To-Do List. These students bagged a bonus point. It should now show up in your My Grades page in Webcourses.

If you have not signed up yet for TurnItIn.com, please do so now. Although you do not get a bonus point, you will need it to work on 50 of your points this semester, in writing assignments.

Add/Drop closes tonight; switch back to lecture section.

Some of you have switched from lecture sections on campus to this online section.

Time to reconsider that strategy.

I highly recommend that you switch back in to the regular lecture section. You will find that face-to-face lecture offers significant advantages that we cannot translate to an online course. Each lecture section has plenty of open spots. Better switch back to lecture by midnight.

Get textbook!

TEXTBOOK PURCHASING

1. I-chapters     This web site allows you to order the entire book as a hard copy, ebook and even individual chapters. Problem solving manual is there, too. I think they have some discount codes, so read carefully. Search the author name or ISBN.


2. Do not buy the CengageNOW subscription. We will not be using it this semester.

 

REQUIRED MATERIALS:
For our course, the textbook (ISBN-13: 978-0-495-49027-2) and the problem solving manual (ISBN-13: 978-0-495-01093-7) are required.

FAIR WARNING:
You can also purchase from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, but some of my students last semester got hornswoggled by significant delays at Amazon.com. That is when we started using the i-Chapters, one chapter at a time.

First day of classes

Head over to Webcourses now for the "First Week To-Do List" of easy online tasks for the first week, due by Friday night, and with a few bonus points. The main physics learning modules will be released on Monday, Jan. 14. You can start reading ahead and scanning diagrams on your own in chapters 2-8, if you like.

DONE

Ok, everybody got their final exam in. Your score is viewable in your My Grades page.

Grades out by Thursday, latest.
Hopefully sooner ←if nobody bugs me about it!

FINAL EXAM now running

I set up the final exam to run a little longer for you, 170 minutes, which is just the same as the in-class students taking a final exam on campus.