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Navigating the Website for English 1301: Composition I Online

 
Getting around our course website is very easy.  Most of you have probably logged in through Navarro College's Blackboard course management program.  There you found the link to this page and to the course website.

This page explains how to maneuver through the website with ease and introduces the various features for each of the sixteen Learning Units.

Accessing the Course Website from the External Site
Click on "English 1301 Navarro College" in the list of course links from the web page, "Distance Learning Associates."

The URL for this remote site is

http://www.distancelearningassociates.com

The purpose of posting materials on this remote site is to add a greater degree of stability for the course materials should the Blackboard course management software experience problems, as it has from time to time.

 
The ENGLISH 1301 Online Home Page
On the Home Page, you will find links to both Navarro College web pages as well as links to course materials and the sixteen Learning Units.

Before you begin the course exercises, familiarize yourself with the following course elements, in this order:

Course Management Documents
The Course Overview
This page contains answers to frequently asked questions about the course and exercises.

The Course Orientation Materials
The "Course Orientation" explains the instructions for naming, saving, and sending your exercises to your instructor (see below).

The Course Syllabus
In a printable PDF format, this document is your official guide through the course.  It contains information for contacting your teacher, important institutional information, calendar dates, and the course outline.

 

 
Supplemental Course Documents
The Supplemental Course Documents include materials that will help you better understand principles of writing and the processes of composing explanatory and informational writing.

One example is the "Internet Resources for Composition" web page.  Links included here will assist you in the various stages of the writing process and introduce you to the broader fields of professional writing.
The Unit Web Pages
The Unit web pages contain the instructions for completing the exercises, reading assignments, and links to additional instructional materials.

Each page is organized the same way and concludes with the "Student Learning Outcomes" that are addressed in the Unit of study.

Note that the Units do not conform necessarily to the Weekly Schedule posted in the syllabus.  This because this course can be taught in various blocks of time, including shorter flex entry formats, summer terms, and the more familiar sixteen-week semesters.
PDF Exercise Pages
The assignments for this course, as well as supporting instructional materials, have been saved as "pdf" files, accessed through Adobe Acrobat Reader.

These pages can be printed easily as regular pages of text.
The Course Orientation Manual
Read this PDF file carefully and follow the directions exactly when emailing messages to your instructor and when sending attached files containing your exercises.

The materials contain examples of email messages (screen captures like these) to help clarify what to place in the subject line, the message window, and in identifying attachments.
This page was last modified on January 16, 2007,
and is maintained by Dr. Geoffrey Grimes.
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