To have a lower grade before the final, you could do every assignment but do the work poorly and repeatedly fail to follow instructions OR miss more assignments after the last time the professor drops students (and you won’t know when that will be). If you miss three or more assignments, you are likely to get DROPPED FROM THE CLASS WITH NO FURTHER WARNING. This is your warning.

Assignments get tallied at midterm and again at the end of the semester. There’s no grade to report along the way because you should already know if you’re doing the work or not and you should notice if you get dropped from the class. Every semester, there are people who get dropped for missing assignments and they do not manage to plead their way back into the class. These are easy assignments. Do them.

Specific MyHenderson discussion forum assignments will guide you through the process of completing your PowerPoint project. Your project gets graded at the end of the semester, after everything else. If you only meet the minimum requirements for the PowerPoint, you become less likely to make an A in the class. Do more.

PERSONAL COMMITMENT

While you enjoy great flexibility in taking this course online, you and you alone are responsible for your success. It requires motivation and devotion. Follow instructions and complete all your work before the deadlines.

CONTACTING YOUR PROFESSOR

For an online course, the easiest way to contact me with questions or comments is by e-mail. Write me at langlet@hsu.edu any time and I will respond after I see the message if a reply is necessary. If you cannot e-mail me, you will need to leave a message on my voicemail at  (870)230-5222. E-mail works best, though. Every time you email me, tell me who you are and which course and assignment you’re talking about at the beginning of your message (not just in your subject line because that doesn’t immediately show in some apps).

I will send messages to the entire class via e-mail at times. The e-mail system is set up to send messages to your HSU student e-mail address. If you prefer to use some other address, you must go into your campus email system and set up your mail options so that it will forward e-mail to you. I do not plan to use Canvas’s mail system after the welcome message.

If I can help you with anything else, always feel free to ask. Some of you have never taken online classes before, so do not be embarrassed when you occasionally goof here or there. That’s part of the learning process, and I’ll endeavor to help you get things running smoothly.

INTERNET ASSIGNMENTS

We will never use chat rooms and you will not have to be online at any specific time of day to do the assignments. Chat room technology for that is still too awkward, not every student’s computer will be able to handle it, and part of the reason for taking an online class is to keep your time flexible.

To do your assignments, check the discussion forum on the MyHenderson page for this class several times each week. You should not go more than two weekdays in a row without checking the forum. You will either do each assignment on that forum or learn from the forum where to go to do each task. Each response you’re required to make counts as one point simply for following the instructions or minus one point (-1, negative credit) if you don’t do it. You will have several assignments every week. The week’s assignments are posted on the MyHenderson discussion forum by the end of each Wednesday, and they often appear earlier in the week. If you see no new assignments by Thursday, ask the professor in case of a MyHenderson error. Because missing an assignment in an online class counts as missing class, anyone who fails to do three or more of the assignments may be dropped from the course without further notice.

Assignment deadlines appear as dates in the assignments’ subject headings.

The deadline is 30 minutes until midnight at the end of each Saturday. You can get half credit for up to three assignments completed Sunday – only three, no more. No later work will be accepted. Meet the deadlines.

If you wait until that last day and something goes wrong that keeps you from doing the assignment, well, you should have done it earlier because you’ll normally have several days to complete each task. If your Internet is out all day, you are responsible for going somewhere with Internet access. If your wifi is out, you can probably able to use your phone to create a hotspot with access. The Internet is all around us, the ways to access it are many, and you have chosen to take an online class. Internet access is your responsibility.

If you are unable to post your assignment because your attachment is too large, do not email it to your professor. If you are unable to post your assignment on time for any reason, do not email it to your professor. Emailing it does not count. So far, the only reason any student’s PowerPoint file has ever been too large to post has been because it included one or more images that were too large. Check each image’s file size before you add it to your PowerPoint. When it comes time to grade your assignments, your professor will only look in the place where the instructions told you to put it. Nobody gets special treatment for failing to follow instructions or extra time for waiting until they did not have enough time left to complete and post by the deadline.

You will complete the course orientation and take a few quizzes online through Canvas. Don’t take any specific quiz until you see the MyHenderson discussion forum tell you to do so (although feel free to retake them later as part of reviewing for the final). Except for those and your first reading assignment (DSM appendix), we will not use Canvas for anything else. Think of this as a MyHenderson class.

Syllabus Part II: Expected Learning Outcomes, Computer Tips, Disability Services
(not covered by syllabus quiz)

Any information in this syllabus may be subject to change, correction, or other revision.