Video of How to be an Online Student

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  Welcome to the How to be an online student, asynchronous workshop.

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  We're gonna be going over different things in terms of

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  resources, tools, things that could be really helpful for you.

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  Perhaps if this is your first or second semester in college or if maybe

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  perhaps this is your first semester where you might be taking an online class.

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  So online tips, some good things to keep in mind when you're taking an online class

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  are to communicate with a professor.

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  It's really easy to get off track and forget things,

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  miss assignments if you don't have good communication,

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  so you wanna be able to communicate,

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  your professor might have office hours

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  perhaps an hour a week. They might have a discussion board for general questions,

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  they might say email me between this time and this time.

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  So it's a good idea to make sure, you know,

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  um how to contact your professor

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  also. You want to plan out your weeks.

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  So

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  for a lot of online classes,

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  there will be regularly

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  um

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  paced out assignments.

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  So you might have like assignments that are

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  due Tuesday and Thursday or assignments that are

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  um given out those days, but they're due on the weekend.

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  So depending on how that works,

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  make sure that you plan out when it's gonna work for. You

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  also know that not all online classes are the same.

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  You might have an online class that meets

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  online sometimes, but it meets also in person.

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  That would be generally a hybrid class.

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  You might have a class

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  where you have all

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  synchronous online zoom meetings.

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  So you need to be there for the exact time that those meetings start online.

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  But you,

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  they'd be in a Zoom link classroom setting and then

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  you would turn in all your homework on campus.

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  So it's just good to know how your class is set up.

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  So you wanna make sure your computer is updated

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  so that

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  if you have to do anything like pull up canvas, pull up zoom

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  that you're able to do that

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  and you do, it doesn't tell you, hey,

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  Zoom needs to update before you go into this meeting.

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  And you're like,

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  I just entered this meeting

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  and it's starting right now. So you want to make sure you do that beforehand.

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  Also, you might wanna consider a physical calendar, a notebook

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  or a digital one, whatever works for. You

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  just make sure that you have a plan and you

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  approach the

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  um

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  in a way that you're able to

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  get everything done and get it done on time.

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  So if it's an online class, your class is most likely on campus.

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  So to go to campus, you go to

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  crafts

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  dot E D U,

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  you go to

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  online classes slash canvas, which is at the logins at the top of the home page.

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  So then to log in to canvas,

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  you will put in your user name and password. This is your same login for web advisor.

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  You should

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  have this login available somehow somewhere

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  because you needed it in order to sign up for your classes in the first place.

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  If you forgot it, you can pick, forgot password.

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  Um You can also reach out to tech services

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  if you have a lot of trouble with it.

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  So for campus courses, when you log in to canvas,

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  you'll see least list of all your courses under courses.

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  When you click on courses, you'll be able to go through each one

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  and generally a course will have an assignment tab

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  with most homework assignments.

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  You might have a discussion tab

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  for discussion board posts,

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  files will have any files that your professor attached to the course that you need.

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  And you might have a syllabus tab that you can

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  you the syllabus on.

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  So it's just good to know how to navigate your course. And it's good to know.

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  For example, if your professor organizes everything by modules,

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  a lot of times modules be

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  organized by week. So if the courses,

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  let's say 16 weeks, there might be 16 modules.

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  Um not necessarily that that will always be the case, but that is fairly common

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  you also have campus calendar built into your campus course.

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  Um On the sidebar here, you can click calendar and add things to

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  the calendar to kind of remind you

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  that's helpful if you want everything digital and everything all

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  in one place so that you can log into canvas,

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  check out your calendar, then go to your course.

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  If you have any issues with canvas, there's a little help tab in campus as well.

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  So this is if you have any issues um in terms of

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  technical campus support issues.

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  So a lot of online courses and hybrid courses

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  may use com

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  for zoom.

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  So com for Zoom is a program

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  that you know, allows you to video chat.

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  Uh A lot of classes will use this for

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  online lectures.

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  A lot of courses will use it if your professor has online office hours.

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  Um Your professor might also use

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  a cranium cafe which is

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  similar to com forum,

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  but it's not exactly the same.

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  So here's how your Zoom controls look like

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  when you open a zoom room.

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  So when you start a Zoom

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  chat, if you're in a big lecture with a lot of other students, it's a good idea to mute.

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  Uh As soon as you open, come for Zoom.

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  So you can have a mute

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  button here next to the stop video button.

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  So once you

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  uh I'm gonna go back, let me see.

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  Once you mute your video

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  that makes sure that you're not gonna be interrupting

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  your other students or your professor as you're going through the presentation.

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  So

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  if, uh, you're trying not to talk over anyone,

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  you can use your chat function to type out any chat in the window.

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  You can also click the video button

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  to turn on and turn off your video feed.

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  Uh,

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  you can also invite people,

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  um, for the most part,

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  you're not gonna really be inviting people through comfort Zoom

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  unless maybe perhaps, you know, one of your classmates

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  is late and they're supposed to be here and you know, they're supposed to be here

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  and maybe you email them the link to the zoom room so that they can

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  enter the lecture.

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  But for the most part, you're not gonna be inviting people.

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  Um You're mostly gonna be attending meetings, attending your

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  professor's office hours or online lectures.

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  You can also share a screen to pull up anything.

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  Maybe, perhaps if you're supposed to present something

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  in a Zoom meeting, then your professor

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  might have you share your screen.

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  So cranium cafe looks a lot like Zoom.

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  Um

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  It's also a system that you can log into from Crafton Hills dot E D U.

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  You go to log ins and then you go to

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  uh cranium.

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  So you log in the same info as you normally do for web advisor and for campus.

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  Um once you log in,

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  you'll see that there's different ways to navigate.

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  You have your cranium cafe, which is meant to

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  be able to view upcoming appointments or schedule online meetings,

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  scheduling classrooms are like event meetings usually for larger groups.

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  So that's all gonna depend on

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  if your professor

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  has. You used that or not.

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  A lot of professors are still using Comfort Zoom, they might use connected

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  as well.

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  Um But they will let you know

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  uh Comfort Zoom is also how you do

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  things like gain access to different departments like

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  um emissions records, the tutoring center, D SPS, the care center. And more

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  so you're able to navigate that and see what applies to you.

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  So you might use creating cafe, it's just good to

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  maybe log in at least once

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  so that you're in the system, same login as web A visor.

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  And then if you need it

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  kind of

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  play around in it and see what applies to you,

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  students support directory is where you will view all the departments.

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  So when you're in a cranium cafe meeting, it looks kind of like this,

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  you're allowed to share your screen, you can upload documents or Google Docs,

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  you can view if anyone is in the cafe lobby.

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  Um You can invite others by a link, you can send a chat message,

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  you can also mess around with the audio and webcam features.

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  If you have any issues with any of that,

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  it will also automatically generate captions for the meeting.

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  So it's just

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  very similar to Zoom in terms of its feature set

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  it just takes a little bit of getting used to. So as I said,

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  figure out if your class needs it

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  and if it does need it,

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  maybe review some of those things.

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  Also, Microsoft Office 3 65 is free to students to use.

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  You can go to um

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  this link here

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  H T P P S

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  um the portal office dot com as we have it listed on this page

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  and you go from there and then if you provide your craft and ID,

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  it'll allow you to get a free version of Microsoft Office 365.

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  You may end up choosing to use Google Docs or something instead.

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  But this is available to you

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  as far as library resources go.

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  The library is available

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  to all students.

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  It's in the L R C building,

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  second level computers are available to use and there's also printing,

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  you can rent out chromebooks and there's a variety of

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  uh books for you to use.

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  They offer research assistance

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  and a variety of digital resources. Here we have library hours listed.

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  Please note that library hours will vary based on the semester.

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  This is just our current hours for spring 2023.

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  So library digital resources,

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  you have things like article databases that you can search up,

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  things like Epsco, things like films on demand us, major newspapers

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  gel, opposing viewpoints.

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  So lots and lots of different sites,

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  sites and resources that you can pull up articles,

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  newspapers, journals from.

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  So

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  you just need to know what kind of resources you need for your class and then you can

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  use the find the appropriate sources.

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  So

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  the tutoring center has various resources available to you.

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  We have in person tutoring online tutoring.

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  Um You can use our books and our computers and we also offer free printing

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  note that these hours. This information,

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  um

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  this is generally what the information is in terms of contact info and hours,

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  but this is for spring 2023.

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  So this is subject to change depending on the semester.

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  And here we have our campus directory.

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  Uh a lot of different resources that are available to you

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  if you need

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  uh help with things like food security,

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  uh career services. If you need uh things about

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  uh child care. If you need counseling,

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  if you have issues with uh your courses, you can see admissions and records.

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  If you need certain services,

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  then we have other um

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  resources for you as well on campus.

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  So

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  outside resources that are really helpful.

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  Uh Khan Academy, pretty

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  grammar girl and punctuation guide. Those all have great resources for writing

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  uh for format

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  and those are all very effective.

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  Also, here's our work cited for the presentation.

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  Uh You might prefer to this

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  so that you can find a lot of these sources.

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  Many of them are links to the website

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  all in all that's how to be an online student.

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  We went through a lot of resources here in this presentation.

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  If you'd like to know anything else about any specifics,

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  like find your resources about how to format papers, about how to write an essay,

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  how to do research,

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  then check out

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  our other ro um workshops that we plan

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  every month and our other asynchronous workshops.

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  With that being said, uh Thank you for attending the How to be an online student.