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Welcome!

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Step 1: Update Your Profile and Contact Your Instructor

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In this first step, you will update your profile with your information and email your instructor to set up an appointment by phone. This appointment request must include your contact information, such as your personal email and a current phone number, so the instructor will be able to contact you. This will provide an opportunity to clear up any questions you may have about the course.

Watch this video on how to update your profile, contact information, and user settings:

Instructure Canvas Community. (2019).101 – User settings & profile picture [Video]. 

Available at https://vimeo.com/74243735

In addition to contacting your instructor by these means, you will also be required to attend a live virtual session with your other classmates, where you can address any other questions and discuss key concepts to help strengthen the knowledge you have gained. Your instructor will specify the time and date of the sessions under Announcements on your course homepage.

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Step 2: Study and Discuss the Syllabus

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The syllabus contains important information that is vital to your successful completion of this course. To view your course syllabus, go to the Syllabus link in the main course menu, where you will also find the course calendar and activities. Read it over carefully and refer to the Announcements section or the Conference button, where your instructor will schedule a live virtual session to discuss the syllabus. If you are unable to participate in this conference, you can access the recording of the session to obtain the information your instructor discussed.

To access your course syllabus (online & PDF format), go to the course menu and press the Syllabus link.

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Step 3: Academic Integrity and APA Style

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At Florida Technical College (FTC), we seek to equip our students both for academic as well as professional success. Maintaining academic integrity is an essential component to achieve this goal. In this step, you will review best practices for academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism, as well as applying the correct format for citing sources, providing references, and writing papers according to the APA Style Manual.

For examples of how to reference different types of sources in APA format, you can use the following APA Style Quick Guide, APA Style Quick Guides, which will provide you with a quick and easy reference to the basic standards of APA writing style for our institutions, regarding the structure and organization of written works, the different types of citations, and the reference list.

  1. Format
  2. Quotes
  3. References

For more detailed information and tutorials on APA style, you can visit the following APA Style websites.

APA Style. (n.d.). Style and grammar guidelines. https://apastyle.apa.org.

APA Style. (n.d.). APA style blog. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). (n.d.). APA style introduction. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/

You can also visit our Virtual Library: https://libguides.crev.edukgroup.com/c.php?g=881226&p=6354834

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Step 4: Course Content Overview

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Each FTC course is divided into four weeks and contains  discussion forums, out-of-class work, a midterm, and a final. Depending on the nature and topic of your course, you may also have additional quizzes, labs, and projects. Here is an example of an evaluation criteria table similar to the one you will find in your course.

% of Total Activity # Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 TOTAL
Out-of-Class Work 20 %  
Labs/Quizzes 15 %  

Discussion Forums
25 %  
Assessment Tasks 10 %  
Midterm Exam 10 %  
Final Exam/Portfolio/
Project
20 %            
Final Grade 100%
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Summary:

Now that you have completed these initial steps, you are more familiar with the platform and have a good idea of what to expect in the course. At this point, you can move on to the specific subject matter activities with a clear understanding of your responsibilities, the grading system, and the ground rules for this online course. You are now ready to begin Week 1.

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