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

You are now ready for Part II of your orientation. This part is to be done ONLY by those students actually enrolled in the class.

To complete this step, you will need to be logged in to your MyMathLab materials. You log in by following the directions below.

  • Go to the Course Compass web site. It should open in a new window so that you can read the directions here while you perform them in that window.
  • Bookmark that page on your computer (or make a desktop shortcut)
  • Under 'Students', click on the 'Log In' button
  • Enter your Login Name and Password then hit the 'Enter' key on your keyboard or click on the 'Log In' button
  • Click on the class link to access the class materials. The class link will look something like "Online College Algebra Summer 2009 - J. Apalatea"

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

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

    You need to be intimately familiar with where everything in the class is located (Homework, Quizzes, Discussion Board, eBook, Tracked Tutorial Exercises (Practice Problems), Lecture Videos, Power Point Presentations, Solution Manuals, etc.).

    It may take an hour or more just to poke around and find out where everything is. You need to locate at least the:

  • Homework
  • Quizzes
  • Discussion Boards
  • Messages
  • eBook for each section/objective
  • Tracked Tutorial Exercises (Practice Problems)
  • Lecture Videos
  • Power Point Presentations

    Once you have poked around enough and are familiar with where everything is go to the 'Orientation II' link in the class menu.

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

After you satisfactorily complete all of the activities in the 'Orientation II' link, you are done with your online orientation and are ready to begin working on class material. Please feel free to begin working right away. You don't have to wait until the semester begins to complete homework assignments or take quizzes.

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


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