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· Syllabus
· Assignment
Schedule
· Gradebook
· Elluminate
Product Support Guide
· Student
Data Files
· Textbook
site
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Welcome to the Exploring MS Windows course! This is a combined
classroom/online course; it's taught in a classroom and online,
at the same time: your instructor broadcasts the classroom lectures
live on the web, and later puts recordings of the lectures on the Schedule
page. You can attend either way, or both, including coming to the classroom
one week and attending online the next, either live or recorded.
Getting Started:
- Read the Syllabus.
- Make sure you have checked in to the CATE system, and established
a user name and password. See #1 below for
details.
- The CATE system includes the Windows-80.11
message list. See #2 below for
details.
- Open the Assignments
& Exams Schedule, and begin the first lab exercise.
- Go through the Elluminate
Product Support Guide, to prepare yourself and your computer
for the online lectures, starting Wednesday.
- Attend the Wednesday night
lectures, either in the classroom or online. If you miss a
lecture, check the schedule
page later for a link to the recording.
- Run Windows 7 free, without changing your computer:
- MSDNAA:
Free Microsoft Software for Students (Expires end of
this semester)
- Download a free Windows 7 ISO
installation disc image
- The free, open-source VirtualBox,
from Oracle, works well for installing and running Windows 7 in
a "virtual machine". VirtualBox runs on any version
of Windows, Mac OS X for Intel, many Linux distributions, and OpenSolaris
UNIX.
1. CATE System Check-in
Check in under your section number below to create your CATE
user name and password, which you need to reach lab
exercises, answer forms, exams, gradebook, and message
list.
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Section 6987 |
| Your CATE Student Check-In: Create your
CATE system (Center for Advanced Technology in Education) user
name and CATE password to add yourself
to the electronic class roster. |
CATE
Check-in |
| After your instructor scores your assignnments and
tests, they will appear in your online Gradebook. Log in with
your CATE user name and password. |
Gradebook |
You can change your CATE password and e-mail address,
but not your user name. |
Change
CATE Password or E-mail |
2. Windows-80.11
Message List
In this course, we use a message list, Windows-80.11,
to ask questions about homework and lecture, share information, and discuss
course content. If you would raise your hand in a classroom about
it, post it to this message list. To send messages or read
the message archive, log in with your CATE user name and password.
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