What you are required to do each week

Important Homework information:

  1. Start every week by reading the Insight class homepage and the week's task list and online book.

  2. You must log in to the class at least once a week, but I recommend at least 3 times a week.

  3. You must check your official CCSF student email account at least once a week. You will receive important announcements there.

  4. Calendar icon When is homework due? You can find the due date in the Schedule, or in the top section of the Insight class.  Here's an example:
    Week 1:  January 17 - 27, 2010                    (The due date is the last day of the week)

    Note that each week has its own section, and its date will show the last day of the week as Thursday.  However, homework is due the next day, Friday at 11:55pm PST. Usually there is a 2 day grace period and homework can be turned in through Sunday night, and if there's a holiday, that due date will be at the top of the class home page.  The final exam may not be taken late and there is no grace period.

  5. Weekly Tasks:  Every week you'll find a detailed description of what to do in the week's task list - in Insight, scroll down to find the section for the current week.  It will contain links to everything you need for the week.  Also read the top section, which is also called the class home page.  It changes every week.
    • Insight icon for a document link Read and print the task list for the week:  A detailed description of weekly homework assignments can be found on the weekly task list in the section for each week.  Scroll down below the top section in insight to find the week's section, or use the links at the top right of the Insight screen.
    • Insight icon for a book  Every week you are required to read the online Course Content book.  It contains a summary of the week's material, links to online tutorials, and other useful information.
    • Insight icon for an upload assignment Turning in assignments:  If there's something to turn in (true in most weeks) use the upload assignment tool in the week's section.  The assignments are also under "Assignments" in the Activities block.
    • Email iconImportant: Check your official CCSF student email (@mail.ccsf.edu) every week. There is a link on the Insight login page to your student email account, also at www.ccsf.edu. You'll be receiving important messages from the school and your instructor there.
    • forum icon Participation: You are expected to read all the Forum postings every week.  Pay particular attention to "Instructor Messages" because I leave important announcements there. You also need to be present in our online "classroom" by posting to a forum at least 3 times a month.   Participation is a percentage of your grade.
    • textbook icon  Textbook Tutorials: Each chapter in the book is a tutorial which you will read and follow along at your computer.  You need to do all the hands-on exercises in the tutorial or you won't get the right answers in the homework - don't skip anything unless instructed in the week's task list.  You will learn by doing in this class - you can only learn the commands if you practice.  You will also need student data disks to follow the tutorials (download the .zip files from the class's top section; uncompress them onto USB flash drives or floppy diskettes.)

    • Textbook Appendix:  Since our book was originally written for Windows 2000, the XP commands, information or syntax that are different are in the appendix.  Be sure to look at the appendix for each tutorial.
    • Quiz Icon Tutorial Quizzes:  Every week we cover a textbook chapter, there is a tutorial quiz.  All tutorial quizzes are open book, but timed, so you don't have time to look up all the answers.  Be sure to study for them!  You can take each tutorial's quiz 3 times only, and the highest score counts towards your grade.  (There is also a practice quiz, but its score doesn't count.  This is to help you prepare for the tutorial quiz.)