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Navigation2. There are six chapters that include the content of this course (introduction, physical ocean, marine ecology, bottom dwellers, water dwellers, and oceans' future). These are always listed across the top 'chapter bar' on every page. You can click on any of these to go directly to that chapter and see what is available there. Once in a chapter, the title name becomes highlighted until you leave that chapter. 3. The sea star, at the top of each page, will always return you to the course home page (www.marinebio.net/marinescience). 4. There are forward, back, and up buttons, at the bottom of each page, to help you navigate through the course. 'Getting Started' Hints for Enrolled Students:a. Read all the course information pages before you begin the course (preface, navigation, table of contents, contacts/copyright) if you are an enrolled student. If you are just enjoying the course the only course information pages of use are this page, the table of contents page and the contacts/copyright page.b. Purchase your Marine Science booklet from the SBCC bookstore within the first few days of the semester (or summer session). This booklet has your schedule, assignments and the sample questions that will be assigned for the online quizzes. You must purchase this booklet to remain enrolled in the course - each booklet has a student code that will match up to your enrollment. The booklet fee covers the cost for developing and maintaining the online course. c. Focus on the printed Schedule and Assignments pages in your Marine Science booklet. Put important dates on your calendar so you are sure to be on time with your assignments. As you read the assignments understand each assignment and how much it will contribute to your grade. If you have any questions email the course instructor at ocean@sbcc.edu so you have a thorough understanding of where the course is going and how fast for your semester. d. If you will not be able to come to SBCC for the three proctored exams find yourself a willing proctor at a college or university near you as soon as possible and definitely within two weeks for fall and spring semesters and within the first week of summer session. Email ocean@sbcc.edu with your proctor's name, email address (and phone if possible) so the approval process can begin. The Marine Science instructor initiates the approval process and will contact both you and your proctor when it has finished. If you live close enough to SBCC plan to come to campus during one of the three exam days listed on the schedule for each of the three exams. e. Begin the course from the beginning and focus on each chapter as it is presented. Feel free to surf around through the online materials but always focus on the material that is the material for that particular week (see the course schedule). There are weekly quizes (two to three times weekly in summer) and exams after every two chapters. The content focus of this course is the information in the Internet lessons - this covers what would be lecture as well as printed textbook information. f. Promise yourself never to get behind. In fact, try to get ahead, if possible. This is one of the hardest things about being an online student. Once you have fallen behind it is extremely difficult to catch up. g. Scale the web pages to 90% if you print them and have trouble. Some of the web pages may get the last 10% cut off of the right margin. If you print a page and want the entire page you can usually do this by scaling your printer to print the page at 90%. For those of you with PCs you may find this option by getting the PRINT command from the FILE drop down menu, then click the LAYOUT tab, then click the ADVANCED button, then select (drag across) the SCALING box and change it from 100% to 90% ... finally click PRINT. Each computer and printer is a little different so this may or may not help you. Many of you may have not trouble at all with printing the entire web page. |
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