Bonus points opportunity

Bonus point opportunity:
Post a question in Discussions, that you create, based on you notes, readings or other materials.

Here are the rules

1. Create a multiple choice question with four or five options.
   
2. Indicate the correct option with an * asterisk.
   
3. In the Subject box, type in a short phrase that decries your question.
   
4. Below your question's options, skip a few lines and type in the date of lecture or page in the textbook where another student can study up on the correct concept.
   
5. Dr. B and our TA Chloee' Hanks comment or maybe ask you to revise the question.
   
6. If your question is good enough to use on Exam 2, you will earn one bonus point.

The bonus questions can make a nifty study guide, too.

Open for office hour, 9 PM tonight

OK, I just reset the start and stop time, so drop in for discussion at 9 PM.

Goof up

Sorry, online office hours was supposed to be for 9 PM tonight (not 9 AM). I am going to try to reset and restart it for 9 PM.

New learning module; office hours

Your new learning module C has been up and ready to work on for a few days. Look in the Learning modules folder in Webcourses.

ALSO: We will try out the university's Adobe Connect service for online office hour tonight. This method of online office hours uses Adobe Connect through your web browser. Here are the specs:

1. Meeting Name: Thursday evening, 2/16
2. Summary: Meet Dr. Brueckner and discuss questions about our course work.
3. Invited By: Thomas Brueckner
4. When: 02/16/2012 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
5. Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)
6. 
   To join the meeting, use the link published in Webcourses with the Adobe Connect icon.

"Your Exam 1 score"

Because of the Americans with Disabilities Act, many semesters I must set up several versions of each midterm exam, all of them equivalent, to accommodate special conditions for one or more students in the section. This holds for lecture as well as this online section.

Webcourses allows me to assign the versions to specific students or groups of students, but the My Grades page does not allow me to display one version per student. For one student to see his score on his version, ALL students will see that row in My Grades, even though they have no data in that row.

As a result, on your My Grades page in Webcourses, you will see a few different rows of various versions of the first midterm exam. To resolve the ambiguity for students and to make grading easier for me, I have created one summary row for everyone, "Your Exam 1 score," in which everyone will have their version score displayed. So everyone will have two rows with a score:

1. "Your Exam 1 score" and
   
2. the score on the version of the midterm exam that you took.

Try to remember this when you look at your My Grades page. Confusing at first, but you will get used to it. I will try to make it more streamlined in later exams.