Course Organization
Course Organization
Your course is broken up into four basic sections, called Modules. Within each of these Modules (ways of organizing course parts) are different Assignments. For this class, your Assignments (things you do for points) fall under two basic categories: Discussions and Quizzes.
Discussions: For each discussion, you will be asked to post twice. Your first post, worth five points, will almost always be a summary of the readings for that week, along with answering any questions that might lurk in the Discussion prompt. These first post should be around 100 words at a minimum. Your second post, within the same Discussion and also worth five points, will be a response to the Instructor or another Student's post within that Discussion thread. These responses should be at least 50 points, and more substantive that "Neat" or "Yes." Fifty "yes"s in a row may meet the length requirement, but does not add a lot to the flow of discourse. These Discussions can be accessed along the left hand menu under Assignments, Discussions, or Modules, or by following these quick links: Week One: Telling Our Stories, Week Two: Discussion, Week Three: Discussion, and Week Four: Discussion.
Quizzes: There are three Quizzes, each with a slightly different format. Week One: Quiz is a traditional True/False Quiz. Week Three: Quiz and Week Four: Quiz have essay questions. I would highly suggest writing up your answers in a word processor (Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Notepad, etc.), then copying and pasting your answers in to the response area once you are ready to submit your Quiz. This allows you to sort out your thoughts and use the spell check and grammar check features (which are both in the native Canvas editor now), but more importantly you can save your work and come back to it. If there are network connectivity issues, you do not want to lose a well thought out response that took you an hour to organize and write.
Readings: As you know, there is not a textbook for this class. Instead, there are resources called Files within Canvas that will take the place of a regular book. These Files range from URIs to a movie, to PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, images, and PDFs. Each Week's Discussion is based on these Files, and I have included them in the header information on each Discussion. You can also access these Files by heading to the Module for each week (Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four), or to the File link on the left hand side, where you will find the Files organized into subfolders for each week.
Schedule: Each Week's Module starts on a Wednesday at 12:00 am, and ends on a Tuesday at 11:59 pm. These dates are available any time you look at a Discussion, Assignment, or Module. You can also look at the class Calendar along the top of this page in the Crimson bar, and a list of Assignment due dates can be found at the end of the Syllabus to the left.
People
Rae Sovereign is your Instructor, 574 904-3799 or please contact her (nsoverei@iusb.edu) with questions about the course, content, grading, etc., as she is the content expert.
If you have any questions or concerns about this course, please contact our Department Chair, Irene Querio-Tajalli (itka100@iupui.edu). If you contact Dr. Querio-Tajalli about a specific class, please include the class you would like to discuss for a faster response.
If you have any questions about Canvas, please do not hesitate to contact me (Karen Sweeny - ksweeny@indiana.edu). It would help if you wrote to me directly, through the Canvas inbox or regular email. I am listed on every section taught in Canvas at the moment, and as such your comments in a discussion or announcement will get buried.
This might also be a good time to note if you have any issues with the technology itself - your computer is acting up, the network is odd, or you need immediate help 24 hours a day, please contact UITS' Support Center (https://kb.iu.edu/d/apgt Links to an external site.) in Bloomington. They are open 24/7/363 days a year.