Web Enhanced – Credit Hours

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Welcome!

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Step 1: Update Your Profile and Contact Your Professor

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In this first step, you will update your profile information, so your professor can contact you in case of an emergency. 

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

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

Available at https://vimeo.com/74243735

Your instructor will post important information and reminders in the Announcements section of your course homepage. If you need to contact your professor, use the Inbox link at any time to send him a message.

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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. Your professor will discuss the syllabus during the first day of class.

To access the online version and PDF format of your course syllabus, 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 for success as both students and professionals. 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 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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FTC credit courses are divided into four weeks. The clock hour program courses range from four to twelve weeks. Courses contain assignments, labs, quizzes, a midterm, and a final. Depending on the nature and topic of your course, you may also have additional projects or tasks. Here are examples of evaluation criteria tables you will find according to your course.

        Evaluation Criteria Table for Credit Courses

Groups % of Total Activity # Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 TOTAL
Professionalism 10%  
Attendance and Participation 16%  
Out-of-Class Work 17%  
Lab and Quizzes 17%  
Midterm Assessment 20%  
Final Assessment 20%            
Final Grade 100%

The first group of activities is the Professionalism category – your performance in this category will be evaluated throughout the entire course.

Professionalism refers to your compliance in contacting your instructor for any absences, with updates regarding the reason for the absence, a return date, and makeup work requests, keeping cell phones on vibrate while in live class sessions and using them only in urgent/emergency situations, maintaining respectful communication in the classroom and on campus, and observing the college dress code while on-campus, camera-operated, or videotaped classroom sessions. It also includes regularly participating online via the Canvas platform, completing assignments, maintaining respectful and clear communication with your professor and classmates at appropriate times, playing an active role in collaborative assignments, and exercising intellectual honesty, as well as other related forms of professionalism.

Professionalism is key to your academic success and career preparation, and we are committed to help you develop or enhance the proper aptitude of a professional. Click here to examine the rubric used to evaluate professionalism in FTC courses.

The Attendance and Participation category will be evaluated both through your assignments submissions online and your attendance to all on-campus sessions. As stated in the course, the professor will take attendance in all on-campus sessions and register it for a cumulative grade. The other evaluation criteria categories will be evaluated through specific rubrics for graded activities throughout the course weeks.

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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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