hello and welcome to CIS 112 integrated computer applications competency-based
education online course this video is designed to introduce you to how this
course is set up in blackboard on the left hand side of the screen you can see
a bunch of links that will bring you to different areas of course the top
courses announcements make sure that you look at this link as I will post
announcements regarding the course regularly throughout the semester but
the first place we should go ahead and take a look at is the readme first under
the readme first link you're going to find important information about the course
being a competency-based education course you should review many of the
documents here because it explains how this is course is set up in relation to
shift to competency-based education you're going to see that the major
material that you are required to complete will be is listed under the
first item and those are the skills checks assessments which are found in
the workbook and the visual benchmarks also found in the workbook as then as
well as for benchmark projects and a two-part data tracking project so in
course you can link you can see how the course is structured the syllabus and
pacing chart course progress requirements and deadlines and what
exactly competency-based education is you should be familiar with this idea
from the online orientation and from that orientation you know that this
course type of course does not have weekly due dates but it does have course
progress requirements and deadlines in order to help with those requirements
and deadlines I have created course progress awards and you can see a link
to them on the left-hand side of the screen when when when you complete these
awards you will see badges pop up at the start of the semester you won't have any
but as you complete them you will see them the very first one is the week one
and done and you will have completed one assignment and a discussion post and
that makes you an official member of CIS 112
after that and it tells you that next up you need to have 30 percent
the coursework completed by November 3rd at 11:30 and then you'll get the badge
week 8 and doing great so you can read through you'll see those progress awards
pop up as you complete the work ok so now let's take a look at the materials
that you need to complete to earn those awards under course content you're
going to click on course materials and activities and you can see right at the
top of the screen it talks about two paths you can take in this course if you
are familiar so the very first thing you should do is click on each one of the
topics and outline what material is being taught if you find the fact that
you're familiar with the material you can move on to the benchmark projects
and the data tracking lab so for example let's go see what is covered in chapters
1 & 2 advanced formatting formulas and functions in this chapter folder you
will have a checklist the checklist references the page numbers that you
would find in the workbook and the textbook it also has a list to the
competency based lab project assignment as you can see noted here if you choose
to go the project one route you have to earn 80% or better if you do not earn
80% or better you will be asked to go back and complete the chapter
assignments and again the chapter assignments are the skills check and the
visual benchmarks so you go in to review chapter one and click on the folder and
you see what you're learning and then in the alert itself you have the assignment
links as well as the student resources so you can click on the student
resources and you've got a our point as well as quick steps and
hints that's very useful I recommend that you look at it let's go back to the
actual assignments you find that you want to go through the chapter because
you're not familiar with it you can see right here on the screen the
skills check has two data files associated with it you're going to
download those data files simply by clicking on them you'll go to the proper
pages in the workbook which is listed here and you will go through the
step-by-step directions in order to complete the assignment once you've done
that once you've completed all of the files you're going to click on skills
check to be able to submit them you can see the points that are possible and as
you scroll down you could write me a note in the comments if you want but
most importantly you're going to attach the completed files that have your name
on it by browsing the computer and then finding at the excel file that you want
and then attach it you can attach multiple files at once just by repeating
those steps if you accidentally fought attach a file you don't want you click
to not attach and then you go back and you would do it again so once you have
all the assignment attached as those files you're going to go ahead and click
Submit when I click Submit my screen will not look like yours because I am
the teacher view not in the student view
okay so let's move on to the competency-based labs and capstone
assignments if you feel that you are proficient in any one area of the course
you can simply look through the chapters decide what's being taught if you find
that you're familiar with the material you would go to the next either project
or data tracking project and you would complete those being confident that you
can earn an 80% or more so we have the competency lab projects and they are
listed here in that folder and you can see the data files that are so-so
with it you can also see all the instructions that are listed in this
screen if you click on it it will bring you to this mission but it will also
bring you to the where you can submit the assignment and again just like in
the previous screen you browse your computer once it's attached alright
let's take a look at the competency-based lab capstone assignment
so you move through the course you're going to have to complete those smaller
projects but you're also going to have to complete a capstone data tracking
project and that's this folder the data tracking pipe project is a two-part
project and here it clearly outlines exactly what I want you to do you're
going to be creating a spreadsheet from scratch and it will be one that will
analyze some sort of question we have in our life and by taking data on that
topic we wonder about oh why are we always broke or why do we always
overtired so you're going to read through the first part of this
assignment and decide which data you want to track and store in Excel once
you've done that first part of the project and we'll look at the rubric in
a minute you're going to at the end of the semester complete the second part of
the project and those requirements are listed there as well each part of these
data tracking projects will assess the skills you've learned throughout the
semester all right so we're going to go ahead and click on that
all right and in here you can see there's a rubric associated with it and
in the rubric you're going to see that you will have either completed it or not
completed it if you complete it you get your points if it's not complete it's 0
points in the completion of the project it has what specifically needs to be in
there so you'll need to have four weeks of data you need to have conditional
formatting named ranges use logical functions double-check the rubrics as
they may be updated throughout the course so those are the information
under the course content added to that I want to draw your attention to a couple
other links you have information for you that student support services under
communication tools we have both black word mail and discussions you will be
asked to submit some discussion board posts and you may also use that for your
own questions blackboard mail is for me to have a one-on-one conversation with
you and I prefer for our communication to be kept within the blackboard so the
communication blackboard tool is pretty easy to use you click on the inbox to
see what emails you may have you could create message to send a message you go
to to send who you want to send the message to all right so that is
blackboard mail a couple other things about blackboard that would draw your
attention to there's the calendar tool and again we
don't have weekly due dates but I have posted the course milestone due dates on
there you have atomic learning which is going to give you areas that you can put
for help on all sorts of different subjects
my grades are for you make sure you stay on top of them I prefer that you send me
information great assignments in sooner than later and then I like to get them
back to you to help you know how you're doing and then finally help if you feel
uncomfortable working with blackboard there's lots of information there
I hope this explains the course for you please if you have any
questions feel free to email me and I look forward to a great semester