posted 5/24/10
Unfortunately I've had to assign some of you final grades of INC because as of today, the very last day I could hold off until for submitting final grades, you had not completed one or more of the items listed on your CPN 101-301 Requirements Checklist.
If you received an INC, you can still complete the course; just get in touch with me when you've made up all your work and I'll submit the form to clear your incomplete, and if you need to make up any readings quizzes see my guidelines for arranging for that in my post of 5/3/10 below. I'll be here to help you through most of the summer.
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posted 5/4/10
It appears that there's a bug in how WriteSpace reports to me your scores on the various WriteSpace exercises, so it's very possible that some of the exercises that I didn't give you credit for getting a passing score on when I sent you your first Requirements Checklists yesterday (see my post of 5/3/10 below) you actually did take and pass. I swear, it's WriteSpace's error and not mine. I promise I will correct all these incomplete score reports when I do up your final checklists right before I have to turn in final grades, but if you're concerned right now that one or more exercises aren't checked off on yesterday's checklist that you're sure should be, just let me know and I'll check and if indeed you got a passing score on those exercises I'll send you an updated Requirements Checklist. Really sorry for the inconvenience.
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posted 5/3/10
I've now sent all of you by e-mail your personalized current CPN 101-301 Requirements Checklist. Please look it over and make sure that by the end of Monday the 17th you have completed all the requirements on your checklist that are currently NOT checked off. We'll also be talking about the checklist at our next and final class meeting on Wednesday (see my post of 4/23/10 below), and if you didn't receive your checklist please let me know. Regarding your checklist:
- If any Discussion Forum posting title is not checked off, you will have to go into WriteSpace and make a posting for that period. It's perfectly O.K. to do so at this time even so long after all the deadlines for posting to each of the forums have passed, although I will still have to assess you the penalty for posting late to a forum (see item "4. Satisfactory performance in WriteSpace discussion forums" under the "Evaluation of Student Performance" section of the course syllabus, which again you can view online by rolling over the "course" link above and the clicking on one of the "syllabus" links in the pop-up menu).
- If there is any readings quiz your checklist says you haven't taken (and note that as per item "3. Satisfactory performance on readings quizzes" under the "Evaluation of Student Performance" section of the syllabus, you must take ALL of the quizzes on the checklist regardless of how many you've already passed) just let me know specifically which one(s) and also give me the following information:
- One specific time (a.m. or p.m.) on a specific day to start each one, and whenever that is make sure you give me your request at least 24 hours beforehand. And don't say something like "I can take them all any day this week at 9 or after lunch"; I need to know the specific order you want to do them in, plus I want to give you the full five minutes you're allotted for each quiz.
- If you want to make up more than one during the same period on the same day, let me know if you'd like a break in between taking each one or between groups of them and if you do how long you would like those breaks to be; that is, don't just say something like "I'll do them back to back."
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posted 4/28/10
If you still need to do a conference on your first draft of the first multi-draft essay (and see the CPN 101-301 Requirements Checklist at the end of the course syllabus for why that's important--roll over the "course" link above and then click on one of the "syllabus" links), you can do one during the conferences on the first draft of the third multi-draft essay; just sign up for one of the online or in-person times and put something like "(first)" next to your name and your other info. to let me know that it's your first draft of the first multi-draft essay, and not the third multi-draft essay, that you want to discuss at that conference time.
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posted 4/12/10
All the in-class essays that were properly submitted have now been graded. See my post of 2/19/10 below for how to retrieve your graded in-class essay from WriteSpace if that's where you originally submitted it.
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posted 3/11/10
Because we covered in class yesterday how to use Word 2007's grammar checker, I require that henceforth any revisions of the first multi-draft essay must also now be spell- and grammar-checked with those same Grammar Only "Require" settings that I'm asking you to use with your revisions of the second multi-draft essay (see step 3.D.c. of the "submission" section of the second essay assignment page, which you can view by rolling over the "essay assignments" link above and then clicking on the "multi-draft essay #2" link on the pop-up menu).
I should also point out that if you’re using a Mac and you’ve got Word 2008 on it, this latest Mac version of Word will NOT indicate "contextual spelling errors" as Word 2007 does, so you still must spell- and grammar-check your essays in Word 2007 on a computer running a version of Windows, like those in our 119 Bowers classroom lab. For example, in the screen grab below note how Word 2007 flags, with a wavy blue line, the following errors which will not be caught by Word 2008:
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posted 2/19/10
When I finish grading your in-class essay, if you did it on the computer and submitted it through WriteSpace, you'll get it back through WriteSpace also. To know when I've finished with your essay, go to the same place in WriteSpace that you submitted it, i.e., click on the "Submit your in-class essay here." link under the Lessons tab. If at the bottom of the page you see a table like this
this indicates that I haven't graded your essay yet. But if there's anything in the two columns titled "Submission Score" and "Comments" like in the following example
this means that I have graded your essay. Now, the figure under "Submission Score" is not your grade on this essay; to view your real grade and my comments on your essay, you'll have to click the link to your essay file in the "Comments" column. You can then either open or save the file, and when you open it you'll see my comments in the file along with your grading checklist for this essay as given in the "evaluation" section of the in-class essay assignment page (if you have trouble viewing my comments and grade when you open the file in Microsoft Word, you can consult this page).
It may take me quite a while to get all of your essays graded, so just keep checking your WriteSpace "Submit your in-class essay here." folder periodically, and I'll also post an announcement here when I do have them all done.
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