WebAssign on Blackboard Registration and Login Video
WebAssign on BlackBoard Student Quick Start Guide
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How to Use WebAssign video.
EXPLANATION:
This class has an online textbook with a homework portal which offers students many advantages beyond the old style paper textbooks. These WebAssign website materials are accessed from your course content within BlackBoard. If you have not used WeAssign previously, the first time you access it through BlackBoard it asks you to create an account with the publisher so that you can continue into the WebAssign class. If you already have a Cengage WebAssign account from a previous semester, it asks you to login. New accounts have a 2 week grace period to purchase access for the rest of the semester (starting Monday August 22). Students who already have multisemester use access to WebAssign can simply login.
This registers you for your class where you will find the homework assignments listed for each day of class, which I will post as the semester progresses. The due date is midnight the next class day after the material on which they are based is presented in lecture. This allows students to raise questions in class so they can return to get full credit on all the homework problems before midnight, HOWEVER, this is only to keep most of you regularly doing the homework which is essential for your learning. Students may ask for extensions in the due date or in the number of attempts permitted on a given problem, now set at 5, until success is achieved (with no penalty!). We all occasionally have too many demands on our time at once and must postpone some obligations for a bit. I believe in flexibility with due dates.
WebAssign offers students the opportunity to get help on any problem or do similar problems for practice before returning to any given problem. But the most important tool is the Ask Your Instructor tool which allows each student to interact directly with me when they fail to get the correct answer or are stuck on a problem. Using it, I receive your version of the problem and your inputs, and a text message from you explaining why you are puzzled, as well as the correct answer. Often this is enough for me to give you guidance to fix your error, but you can also email me directly outside of WebAssign with an attached photo of your work via your smart phone for me to see your work if you cannot find your error.
If you are persistent you can get every homework problem correct eventually. I am committed to helping you achieve this goal, but you have to keep up with the assignments. If you get too far behind, it becomes difficult to catch up, especially at the end of the semester.
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