MATERIALS

GRADING/EVALUATION  

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

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 asking for points.

Beginning the 2nd week of the semester, and continuing until the due date of the last assignment, TA Recitation Instructors are available to assist students with their assignment work in the 315 MCH computer lab according to the schedule posted on our Website under "Help Hours".

Instructor contact info is accessed using the "Teacher Info" link on the course Web site

For questions regarding grades, assignments and recitation matters, email your Recitation Instructor. For questions regarding lecture class and issues that your Recitation Instructor is unable to answer contact your Lecture Instructor.

Students learn application skills in recitation class and by working through on-line training. Students will be provided assistance with their assignment only after they have completed the on-line training. Office hours and help hours are not intended to replace the independent work required to learn the skills.

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.

WHERE TO WORK

On Your Own PC
If you have a Windows PC with Office 2007 (Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007, PowerPoint 2007) and an Internet connection, you can do your class work on your own PC. All you'll need to do is install the SAM 2007 software downloaded from the Internet (click SAM on the menu for instructions). Students will be unable to use Mac computers for their coursework. You will be unable to use earlier versions of Microsoft Office to complete your work.

Microsoft Office 2007 vs. Office 2003
In this class we teach the latest and most prevalent software. At this time that software is Office 2007. Office 2007 is very different than Office 2003. The tutorials, assignments and exams for this class will use Office 2007 and will include tasks that are possible only using Office 2007. Students who have Office 2003 on their PC, are encouraged to either upgrade to Office 2007, or work in the 315 MCH computer lab. It is also useful to note that Microsoft offers a free 60-day trial of the software at http://office.microsoft.com. If you plan to download the trial software, make sure to select the "Professional" version - it is the only version that includes all of the software taught in this class. Also make sure to time the download to get the most out of the 60 days. There are roughly 11 weeks from the date that the first assignment is due and the last, so you may need to work ahead and turn in the last assignment early before your 60-day free evaluation period runs out .You can purchase the "Home and Student" version of the software at a special academic discounted price at campus bookstores (even with the discount it is expensive). Unfortunatly, the "Home and Student" version does not include Microsoft Access 2007, which is taught in this class. Students will find all the software necessary for this class installed on computers in the 315 MCH computer lab.

In the 315 MCH Computer Lab
Students who don't have a Windows PC, or Office 2007, or portions of Office 2007, will need to do some or all of their coursework on a PC in the 315 MCH computer lab which has all the software, including SAM installed. When working in the lab, students should save all their work on a flash drive.

Students must have a SAM keycode, provided with the SAM CD, whether working on their own PC or in the lab.

	Submitted homework files that are unable to be opened with the 2007 version of Microsoft Office, due to being created with the wrong software or version of the software, will receive a zero. Make sure you use the correct software and the correct version.
	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 in the 315 MCH computer lab.

• Attendance is required for lecture and recitation classes and counts towards your grade.
  • 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
    • earn attendance points and maybe extra credit
  • Reasons to attend Recitation
    • obtain hands-on, guided, practice in preparation for assignment work
    • take exams --all exams are given in recitation class, missing an exam without an excuse can drop your final grade a full letter
    • earn attendance points
• Lecture attendance points and policy: Lecture attendance will be taken by means of several unannounced pop quizzes. Students who attend class regularly and read the textbook chapters in advance of discussions will have the best chance of earning full credit. Students may miss one quiz due to emergency without penalty. Students need not provide documentation for missing a lecture quiz unless more than one quiz has been missed in which case the student must provided documentation for both missed quizzes in order to earn any missed attendance points. The average percentage of total quiz scores taken will provide the percentage of attendance points earned.
• Recitation attendance points and policy: Students earn recitation attendance points on the days indicated on the agenda. Students must provide a documented excuse for any missed recitation class in order to earn recitation points for that day, or take make-up exams.
• Arrive on time, stay to the end; students must be present and engaged from the beginning to the end of class to be considered "in attendance" and deserving of any attendance points.
• 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.
• Students must attend recitation class at its scheduled time and will not be allowed to sit in any other recitation class. Students may be allowed to attend a different lecture class if approved by lecture instructor.
• 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.

	Students who miss class must present official documentation for the absence to the instructor if they wish to find out what they missed, make up quiz, extra-credit, or attendance points, or have assignment late penalties overlooked - with the exception of lecture where students are allowed one free miss. Acceptable documentation includes official letters from a doctor or university administrator, letters from an athletic advisors or coach for sporting events, obituary or dated literature from a funeral in the case of the passing of a loved one.
	Students may, upon notifying his or her instructor, be excused from class to observe a recognized religious holy day of his or her faith.
	NO INCOMPLETES WILL BE GIVEN FOR THIS COURSE.

Assignments

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.

• 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 electronically using the form provided with the assignments on our web site. Instructions are provided on the Assignments page.
  

  Students are responsible for confirming that an assignment is submitted successfully with the submitted file in working order by following the instructions for submitting assignments provided on the Assignments page. Assignment files will be graded using Office 2007 (Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007, PowerPoint 2007). Students should create homework files using Office 2007. If created with any other software, or version of Office, the student is responsible for making sure the file can be opened and graded in Office 2007. Submitted assignment files found to be corrupt and unopenable, will require re-submission with late penalties. 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.

• Assignments will NOT be graded if submitted to the instructor on disk, printout, or as an email attachment.
• Students may access grader feedback by clicking the assignment score in the gradebook.
  

  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.

• 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.

No assignments will be accepted after the final deadline listed on the course agenda.