Once you are ready to start your homework exercises in the Online Lab and Workbook, please keep these facts in mind:
- In the Laboratory there are several listening exercises in which you click on numbers or images, listen to a phrase and then repeat the phrase or vocabulary word aloud. Once you have listened to all of the cues, click on "I have completed this activity." You will receive a grade for these exercises based on the amount of time that you log. I will review these to determine that you have the minimum amount of time necessary to complete the exercise.
- When doing your exercises, you are able to repeat any exercise five times prior to the cut-off date to achieve your final grade for that exercise. After the fifth attempt and/or after the cut-off date, you may practice the exercise indefinitely. The grade which counts is the highest grade you achieve. Once you have achieved a 100%, any further practice with this activity will not affect your grade: you have already achieved a 100% as a final grade on this activity. You can continue to redo this activity to practice for tests without affecting your 100%.
- Accents and Spanish characters & letters count. Use the floating keyboard provided on your screen. An accented vowel makes a word completely different: e.g. sí ("yes") vs. si ("if").
- The due dates (terminal END dates for access - NOT start dates) are enforced by the settings in the software. Think of them as "Expiration Dates."
- Once the due (expiration) date is past, your work will not be submitted for a grade, although you still can complete it and get the feedback for practice as well as log the hours necessary for the time requirement. However, once the test has been given for any chapter, no work done on that chapter's homework will be acepted for time or grade credit.
- On the lists of assignments, only exercises marked with a circle (bull's eye) on the left are assigned for grading. The other assignments are available to help you to meet the 1 hour per week lab hour requirement.
- You can see your online homework grades by clicking on "MyResults" at your Quia Books Student Homepage.
- You must
use the computers on Ohlone campus
if you are unable to complete the online exercises from home or work. Computer problems do not excuse you from any work (unless the entire planet has turned into a ball of flame, in which case I won't be grading it anyway.)
- You can check out headphones for listening and oral practice on the second floor of Hyman Hall at the Information Desk and at the Cranium Café at the Newark Campus.
- If you are unable to do the online exercises at home, you must do them elsewhere (like, Ohlone.) Do not wait until 11:00pm the night the end dates are terminating to start them: that is a bad time to discover your home computer is not working. Computer failure is never an excuse for late or incomplete work.
- When working on the WileyPlus E-Text, be sure you are using a hard-wired ethernet connection and NOT a wireless connection. Be sure your power supply is stable (plug it in!)
- The online homework functions best when you use Firefox or Safari. IE (Internet Explorer) is buggy with these applications.