CONDITIONS FOR ENTRANCE INTO CGS2064

CGS2060, Computer Literacy, or nearly equivalent knowledge and skills are required of students entering this course.

MATERIALS

• Succeeding with Technology - 2nd Edition, Stair/Baldauf, Course Tech Pub.
  • available in bookstores under CGS2060 and CGS2064, on reserve in Dirac Library, and at popular online bookstores
• A USB flash drive with a minimum of 128MB of storage.
• We will also make use of numerous free resources on the Web

Access to the following software, available in FSU computer labs, is also required:

• A Text Editor such as Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit
• SSH Secure Shell Client for accessing your Unix garnet account
• A current Web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox)
• Macromedia DreamWeaver
• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Fireworks
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop

SSH Secure Shell Client is available free from http://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe

Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks is available to download for a free 30 day trial from http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ - wait until it is needed in class to download.

WHERE TO WORK

On Your Own PC
Students may work on their own Windows or Mac PC using free software and evaluation versions of software.

In the 315 MCH Computer Lab
Students who don't have a computer, will need to do their coursework on a PC in the 315 MCH computer lab which has all the software installed. When working in the lab, students should save all their work on a flash drive.

Students that opt to do their work on their own computer accept the responsibility for their computer's proper functioning. PC problems that inevitably arise will not be accepted as an excuse for late assignment submissions. If PC problems occur at home, students should complete their work on campus. Back up you assignment files to portable storage to avoid the heartbreak of hard drive crashes.

GRADING/EVALUATION  

Activity	Points
Lecture Quiz on CH 1-5	50
Assignment: Lecture Project/Digital Photography	75
Assignment 1: Secure File Transfer Client and Unix	75
Assignment 2: Graphics	100
Assignment 3: HTML	100
Assignment 4: Dreamweaver Web site	100
Assignment 5: Flash	100
Skills Exam 1: Graphics, & HTML	100
Skills Exam 2: Dreamweaver & Web site management	100
Lecture Exam 1: CH 6, 8, 9	100
Lecture Exam 2 : CH 11, 12	100
Total	1,000

Add up your points earned then use the chart below to calculate your letter grade.

900 - 909 A-	910 - 1,000 A
800 - 809 B-	810 - 879 B	880 - 899 B+
700 - 709 C-	710 - 779 C	780 - 799 C+
600 - 609 D-	610 - 679 D	680 - 699 D+
	000 - 599 F

Final Letter Grade: The points you earn over the duration of the semester determine your final letter grade. No additional point earning activities will be provided for students who, at the end of the semester, realize that they have fallen short of their desired grade. Nor will we review and haggle over old assignment and test grades during the last weeks of the semester with students trying to boost their final grade. Issues with assignment grades must be dealt with within two weeks of the posting of the assignment grade, and issues with test grades must be dealt with immediately following the exam. Please don't email the instructors at the end of the semester to haggle over your points or beg for more. What you earn is what you get.

GETTING HELP

Students may get assistance with class work from the lecture and recitation instructors during office hours posted on the class Web site under "Teacher Info".

Instructors will respond to student email within 24 hours Mon - Fri. It is appreciated when students look up answers for themselves on our class Web site prior to emailing a question to the teacher.

POLICIES

We hope this class is a fun and enriching experience for everyone. When working with large groups such as ours, it is important to be clear about what is expected of students and provide some guidelines for behavior so that everyone is assured of the same educational advantages.

Attendance & Behavior

• Attendance is required for lecture and recitation classes.
  • Reasons to attend Lecture
    • keep up-to-date on important class announcements and reminders
    • obtain a deeper understanding of textbook topics
    • learn about important technologies and concepts not presented in the textbook
    • obtain insight into items that will be on the tests
    • students who regularly attend lecture are more likely to meet with success when asking the teacher for favors
    • take lecture exams - students who regularly miss class, may accidentally miss valuable exams
  • Reasons to attend Recitation
    • observe demonstrations of assignment skills
    • obtain hands-on, guided, practice in preparation for assignment work
    • get help with assignment work
    • take skills exams - students who regularly miss class, may accidentally miss valuable exams
• Students may, upon notifying his or her instructor, be excused from class to observe a recognized religious holy day of his or her faith.
• Please arrive on time and stay to the end of class. It is very distracting to have students coming and going during a lesson or lecture.
• Students who arrive more than 10 minutes late to class, without an excuse that the instructor considers valid, will be prohibited from taking exams scheduled for that day and will take a zero as a test grade.
• Students are responsible for any information presented in class, even when absent. It is the student's responsibility to find out what was missed if unable to attend.
• Cell phone use is prohibited in the classroom during class time.
• Students participating in disruptive and/or distracting behavior (conversing with friends, loud snoring) during class time will be asked to leave.

NO INCOMPLETES WILL BE GIVEN FOR THIS COURSE.

Assignments

• Assignments are accessed from our course Web site (click Assignments on the menu).
• Assignment due dates are listed on the Course Agenda located on our course Web site (click Weekly Agenda on the menu).
• Assignments are submitted according to the instructions included in the assignment which may include submitting files using a Web form on our class Web site or publishing to your own Web site.
• Students are responsible for regularly checking their grades on-line to confirm that assignments were received and graded. Contact your Recitation Instructor if a submitted file remains ungraded longer than ten days after submission.
• Students access grader feedback by clicking the assignment score in the grade book.
• Assignments that contain content that anyone would find offensive (including profanity, vulgarity, insults, violence, or sexually explicit language) will receive a zero and the student responsible may be brought up on charges of violating FSU's Conduct Code.

	There will be a 20% point penalty per recitation class for late assignments. In other words an assignment that is submitted between one second late up until the end of the next recitation class day will be penalized 20%, one second past that to the end of the next recitation class day will be 40%, etc.
	Questions, concerns, or complaints regarding graded assignments should be addressed to your Recitation Instructor at recitation time, or during office hours within two weeks of the posting of the assignment grade. After two weeks the score becomes permanent even if the student does not agree with it. Students should keep a copy of their assignment files until final grades for the course are posted and you are satisfied that your score is accurately recorded.
	No assignments will be accepted after the final deadline posted on the Agenda.

Cheating

Always begin your assignments from a new, blank file. We consider it cheating when a student starts an assignment from some other student's assignment file, or copies portion of another student's file. Cheating Penalties : First Offense: ALL students involved are given zeros on the assignment Second Offense: An "F" for the course and formal charges against ALL students involved

• Assignments are designed in a manner that requires every student's files to contain unique and different data. If two or more students submit work with the same, or portions of the same data, and/or if file properties are the same, it is evidence that cheating has taken place.
• Two or more students working together on an assignment is considered cheating. An assignment submission is intended to be a measure of one student's ability.
• Sometimes cheating is not detected until after students have submitted several copied assignments. In such cases the first copied assignment is considered the first offense, the second copied assignment, the second offense, and so on.
• Students caught communicating during exams will be asked to leave and forfeit the exam.

Exams

• Test dates are listed on the Weekly Agenda accessed from our course web site

Makeup Exam Procedure Makeup exams must be scheduled within two weeks of the original exam date. After that time the student will automatically receive a zero for the exam regardless of the excuse for missing the exam. Make-up exams must be approved and scheduled by the recitation (lab) instructor. Make-up exams are taken in recitation class during "help sessions". Only students with official documentation for their absence will be allowed to make-up a missed test. Acceptable documentation includes official letters from a doctor or university administrator, obituary or dated literature from a funeral in the case of the passing of a loved one.

Communication

Students are responsible for class announcements sent to their FSU email accounts, and posted to the class web site, as well as those made in lecture and recitation class. Besides regularly attending class, and visiting the class web site, students are expected to check their email on their FSU account (http://webmail.fsu.edu) at least twice a week.

 

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