Part II Step 5: Do the Following within Your MyMathLab Materials

You are now ready for Part II of your orientation.

To complete this step, you will need to be logged in to your MyMathLab materials. You log in by following the directions below (if you're not already logged in).

  • Go to the MyMathLab web site. It should open in a new window so you can read the directions here while you perform the steps in the new window.
  • Bookmark that page on your computer (or make a desktop shortcut)
  • Click on the 'Sign In' button
  • Enter your Login Name and Password you chose then hit the 'Enter' key on your keyboard or click on the 'Log In' button
  • Notice the Publisher's Announcements on the top/right of the page. When MML is going to be unavailable (and it's a planned outage), they will post an announcement here. Use those announcements to plan your times when you will work in the class materials.
  • Now, click on the class link to access the class materials. The class link will look something like: "Online Math 126 #2627 Fall 2015"
    or "Online Math 115 #2963 Fall 2015 "
  • The class materials also contain class announcements posted by me. Read these (and the publisher's announcements) every day.

Once you have entered the class materials, please do the following:

  1. Click on each link in the class menu (on the left)

Begin by expanding the menu link titled *Class Main*. This is done by clicking on the gray arrow next to the words, *Class Main*.

You need to be intimately familiar with where everything in the class is located. Where is the Practice Homework (also called the 'Study Plan')? The graded Homework? Where are the Practice Quizzes? The graded Quizzes? Where are the Review Sessions for the on-site paper Tests? Where are the required Discussion Boards? The optional Discussion Boards? Where is the eBook, the Lecture Videos, the eBook Solution Manual, the class announcements?, etc.? Are Homework assignments due at the end of each week, or does each Homework have a different due date?

It may take an hour or two just to poke around and find out where everything is. Now is the time to locate everything. Once we're submitting homework on an almost daily basis, you probably won't have the time to leisurely look around.

Once you have poked around enough and are familiar with where everything is (i.e. you've at least located the Orientation link/folder, at least one link for each of the following : Homework, Quiz, Discussion Board, eBook, Practice (Study Plan) Homework, Review Session for paper Test, and Lecture Videos) then open up the folder/link labeled 'Orientation'.


  1. Do ALL of the activities listed in the 'Orientation' link

After you satisfactorily complete all of the activities (generally, it will be items A-E) in the orientation link, you are done with your online orientation and are ready to begin working on class material. Your last orientation item is completing a Syllabus Quiz. Once you do that with a minimum score of 80%, your entire first set of homework assignments will open and you can begin working in the class.

You will know when your orientation is complete because your entire first set of homework (non-orientation homework) will open up and you can start working on those homeworks. If you see a flag on any homework assignment in the first set of graded (non-orientation homework), you aren't done with your orientation.

Please feel free to begin working right away. Note: you do have a graded (non-orientation) homework assignment covering pre-requisite material due by the end of the 1st day of classes.

You do not have to wait until the semester begins to complete homework assignments and other assessments which don't require you to be on-campus.
You may begin taking your on-site assessments the first day of the semester (see Syllabus).

There is no limit to how quickly you can move through this class (see Syllabus). Just don't go slower than the deadlines!

Welcome to the class. I look forward to a wonderful semester with you!

 

  1. Open up the first week of content (the class is organized by weeks) and get started working in the actual class material.

Once you're done with the orientation, it's time to start doing the math for this class.

Please open up the first week of content and start working on the first homework assignment. This first homework assignment is due by the end of the day on the first day of classes and covers material from the prerequisite class(es).