Trigonometry Online 2nd 5-weeks Summer II 2016

Mary Jane Ferguson

Mathematics Department
HCC Central College
Welcome to my Trigonometry online class (Math 1316-08, section 12962)! This class is from
July 11, 2016 to August 14, 2016.
You are in an online class where almost all of the communication will be done by READING. Please READ the
remainder of this document CAREFULLY because YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFORMATION IN IT.

DO NOT TRY TO ENTER THIS CLASS THROUGH EAGLE,

MOODLE, OR CANVAS.
WHEN YOU LOG INTO MYMATHLAB (the computer program used
for this class) YOU MUST USE THE EXACT SAME

NAME IN THE GRADEBOOK IN MYMATHLAB THAT

YOU USED WHEN YOU REGISTERED FOR THE
COURSE WITH HCC. YOU CANNOT BE REGISTERED WITH THE
COLLEGE UNDER ONE NAME AND REGISTERED IN MYMATHLAB
WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER THE NAME YOU
USED TO REGISTER WITH THE COLLEGE, LOOK IT UP BEFORE
REGISTERING IN MYMATHLAB. I will have a gradesheet from HCC on which I must enter your
grades at the end of the course and a gradesheet from MyMathLab with your Test and Homework grades on
which your semester grade will be computed. If your name is different on these two gradesheets then I will have
no way of knowing that the two names are the same person. If this happens, you will have to open a new account
in MyMathLab and you will lose credit for any work you have done in the first account.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. It would be a good idea for
you to print this document and put it in your Math 1316 folder for future reference.

Information About the Class

The class site in MyMathLab is loaded with all the materials you will need for the course an electronic version of
the textbook, video clips and PowerPoint presentations that support the course, help screens, a gradebook to
track your progress, and access to live tutoring over the phone. As you use these materials to learn the concepts
of the course, you will work Homework assignments online. Each Homework assignment is instantly graded but
may be repeated as many times as you wish until its deadline. The average of the Homework grades is equal to
a Test grade.
There will be four major UNPROCTORED Tests in the course plus a PROCTORED comprehensive Final Exam.
Homework and Tests (except for the Final Exam) are online and can be done anywhere that you have an internet
connection. The MANDATORY Final Exam is the only exam which must be taken in an approved college
testing center.

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The textbook for the course is Trigonometry, 10 Edition, by Lial, Hornsby, Schneider, and Daniels published
by Pearson Publishing. The computer program through which the course will be run is called MyMathLab and is
published by Pearson Publishing. You must have an access code for MyMathLab but you do not have to
purchase the paper textbook if you dont mind reading online because the entire text is contained in MyMathLab.

YOU MUST BUY THE ACCESS CODE FOR MYMATHLAB FROM THE HCC
BOOKSTORE ON CAMPUS OR FROM PEARSON PUBLISHING THE FIRST
TIME THAT YOU LOG INTO MYMATHLAB. YOU CANNOT BUY THE ACCESS
CODE ANY OTHER WAY BECAUSE HCC HAS SPECIAL ISBNS USED ONLY BY
HCC. This is a new thing last semester which was decided on by the Math Discipline Committee.
The ISBN for Math 1316 is ISBN-13: 9780321671776.
You will need to have the MyMathLab access code and log into. MyMathLab by the first day of class, Monday,
July 11, because graded homework assignments will be due at the end of the second day (Tuesday, July 12) of

If you do not log into MyMathLab by the end of the third class day
(Wednesday, July 13), you may be dropped by the college for nonattendance
and you will not be reinstated later. This is due to the state of Texas date for funding HCC.
class.

DO NOT TRY TO ENTER THIS CLASS THROUGH EAGLE,

MOODLE, OR CANVAS.
Read on to find out how to enter the class.

How to Get Started in the Class

To participate in this class you MUST BE A REGISTERED HCC STUDENT and you will have to have a
MyMathLab access code, a valid email address, and access to a computer with the necessary system
requirements. MyMathLab may need to download some plug-ins to your computer, so, if you are using a shared
computer, you will need to have authorization to add software.

DO NOT TRY TO ENTER THE CLASS THROUGH EAGLE, MOODLE,

OR CANVAS.
DO NOT TRY TO ENTER THE CLASS UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH.
USE EXACTLY the
same name in the gradebook in MyMathLab as you used when you registered for the
course with HCC. When I check attendance for the state records at the end of the third of class, I will have
When you first set up your account for this course in MyMathLab, you MUST

the list of students from HCC using the name under which you registered with HCC. If this is not the same name
as is in the gradebook in MyMathLab, then you will be reported as never having attended the class and the

Remember, I have no way of knowing that two

different names are the same person!! If you set up your account in MyMathLab using a
different name than the one that you used when you registered with HCC then you may be dropped by the
college at the end of the first week of class for non attendance AND I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE YOU
REINSTATED IN THE CLASS; i.e. you will not receive credit for the course.
college may drop you from the class.

Be sure you get into the correct course section number

and class in MyMathLab. You should check your section number before entering
MyMathLab.

(DO NOT TRY TO

ENTER THE CLASS THROUGH EAGLE, MOODLE, OR CANVAS) and select the link to
To enter the MyMathLab site you will need to go directly to www.mymathlab.com
register as a student.
You will also be asked for the following two numbers:
HCCs zip code: 77004 and
the Course ID for my class is: ferguson52632

Go directly to www.mymathlab.com to enter the class.

You must log into MyMathLab by the end of the third day of class,
(Wednesday,July 13) of class or you may be dropped by the college for
nonattendance.
Once you are in the class in MyMathLab, look for a button on the right hand side of the main page entitled

READ THE FIRST SIX

DOCUMENTS, beginning with the document READ ME FIRST. READ THESE
SIX DOCUMENTS THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS! These documents will
COURSE MATERIALS. When you enter COURSE MATERIALS,

give you necessary information about the course. Failure to read these documents can easily result in failure in
the course. Since this is an online course, reading is the main form of communication and it
is very important that you read all communications.

The policies for this course may be very different from other courses that
you have had, SO BE SURE TO READ THE FIRST SIX DOCUMENTS IN THE
COURSE MATERIALS SECTION OF MYMATHLAB.

DO NOT SKIP READING THESE

DOCUMENTS IN THE COURSE

MATERIALS SECTION OF
MYMATHLAB - YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN

THEM AND IT IS PROBABLY SIGNIFICANTLY

DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS ONLINE

CLASSES THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN.
Again, welcome to the class I hope you have a fun and enriching semester!