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Hello, I'm glad you're here. My name is David Krug, and I'm a full-time instructor of Accounting
here at JCCC, and if you are watching this program then you are enrolled in my Accounting
1 class. You can think of it as a telecourse which it's traditionally been thought of,
because students mainly used to watch it on TV, but now it's more and more being thought
of as a media class or an online class, because most of my students watch this online on YouTube,
but what I want to do today there's no students here. You see normally there will be students
here, but I wanted to have a separate class where I just talk with you, the person who's
taking it at home, about the class policies and procedures. Now the students who you'll
see in lecture two and beyond, now their policies and procedures are slightly different for
them than for you; so I don't want to confuse them I don't want to confuse you. So I kind
of do the syllabus and the class policies sessions separately from each other. So if
you're watching this, and you're thinking I could just skip this and go to the next
lecture please don't. You're going to need to watch this entire lecture on class policies
to succeed in the class, and if people email and ask me questions and I can tell they haven't
watched it, I'm going to say you need to go back and watch that lecture number one, because
I'm going to go through the questions I get every semester about this so please watch
this entire lecture. I'll assume you are enrolled, and I will email you or have on ANGEL your
exact syllabus, but we're going to kind of walk through the syllabus in a way it's going
to be a little generic, because I'm going to use this lecture for six different semesters
in the future when I teach this class. I'm not going to have test deadlines, and dates
and stuff, because that changes every semester, but the syllabus that you have will have those
dates on them. Let's go ahead, and take a look at what your syllabus is going to look
like. There you see my name, and my phone number this is called a telecourse, however,
this is more and more being thought of as a media course or an online course. So don't
be thrown if it wasn't listed in the class schedule as a telecourse when you enrolled.
One of the main things I want you to know is I want you to email me through the ANGEL
website, and I'll show you how to get on that and how to do that most of you are pretty
adept at ANGEL, but I don't list my email address, because I really prefer that all
our communications be through the ANGEL shell. Now my office hours even though you are taking
this as a telecourse, or an online course I'm still here on campus to help you if you
want to come in. I'll email each semester specifically what my office hours are, and
of course you can contact me through the ANGEL shell and email me. I'm here to help you,
you're not on your own. Just contact me and we'll set up a time. Let me talk to you about
the textbook, and the materials that you're going to need for this course. The textbook
you're going to use is called Fundamental of Accounting Principles, and it's the twentieth
edition it's by McGraw Hill Publisher, and it's by Wildsha and Chiapeta. This is the
book that you definitely need now. This textbook has kind of two different covers if you are
in JCCC or in the local area, and you buy it through our bookstore it's going to look
like this the front cover is going to look like this, however, it also may have this
as a cover you can see I scribbled my name on it. The main thing you want to make sure
of is that it's called Fundamental of Accounting Principles by Wildsha and Chiapeta, and that
it is the twentieth edition, but you definitely need this textbook whether you're here face
to face, or you're at home. The other thing that we highly encourage you to buy are what
is called the Work Papers, and it looks a little bit like this if you buy them through
the JCCC bookstore those will help you tremendously in the first five chapters by kind of giving
you templates on which you can do your homework. One other thing and we'll talk about this
here in a few minutes, but if you look at your textbook and you open the first page
there is something that looks like this. There's to types of homework in this class there is
the traditional homework that I assign at the end of the class period, and that you
will do using your textbook, using your Work Paper, using an old fashion pencil and paper,
but there's also Connect homework right here, and I will have an access code that's right
here in your book you scratch that off with a coin, and this is a separate type of homework.
This is called the Connect homework, and for those of you taking this as a telecourse,
or an online course there are points awarded for this. We'll talk about that, but there's
really two types of homework. Going back to the screen let's take a look back there again,
and that's what I say here I talk about the Connect homework right there, alright, for
this Accounting 01 telecourse. I'm going to be emailing you the information, or more than
likely it's going to be on the ANGEL website by clicking on the lessons tab, and I am going
to show you how to do that actually I'll just go through that right now. Let's go to the
web if you go to the JCCC.edu web page you're going to log in to ANGEL. Now you should know
how to do this, but if you don't call the JCCC help line, and that number is 913-469-8500
ext. 4357, but log in to ANGEL as I'm doing now I don't want to do auto-complete, and
it will take you to a page like this go to the appropriate semester. Now this is fall
of 2011, but of course that may not be the semester for which you're taking this course,
but find this course and you're going to get a screen that looks kind of like this. It's
going to say Accounting 01 the right section the right CRN number. Here is where you access
this course syllabus if you go to the lessons tab that is primarily where you are going
to find all of your information that you need for this course. Let's walk through this a
little bit, and say what each one of these are. Number one this says David click here
to see your course grade to date well, I'm the instructor it doesn't know that, but for
you it will say your name that is how you get your grades for the tests. You click that
link and it will walk you through getting that report so you can see how you preformed
on the test and how you're performing in the course. Next, is all the hand-outs you will
need for this telecourse, if you jump down here a little bit at the very last I have
hand-outs distributed in this class, and for each chapter one through eleven, we do not
go through chapter seven in this course. If you go there it will have content there that
you'll need for the lectures in regards to that chapter. Now for those of you taking
this in the fall of 2011 you can't take advantage of what I'm going to show you here, but for
those taking spring of 2012 and after going back to the screen if you don't want to go
into each chapter and pull out the hand-outs that you'll need you can click on here, and
this will have all the hand-outs for the entire class it's probably going to be 40 plus pages.
If you're taking this in the spring of 2012 you can get all of your handouts by going
here. For fall of 2011 you're going to have to go to each chapter, and that's because
I'm kind of creating these as I go along so sorry about that fall of 2011 folks. What
else is on here? The checklist for telecourse lectures now if you click that you're going
to get something that looks kind of like this and I'm going to show it to you on the ELMO.
It's going to look somewhat like this, now it's not going to look exactly like this,
but it is going to have each program or lecture, and what it's about and this is a nice checklist
as you watch these you can check them off. Once you've watched them you check them off
so you can keep track of which ones you've watched and which ones you haven't. Going
back to the screen, if you go to this little item here, that's the checklist that you'll
need. The next thing is info on the McGraw Hill Connect online homework tool, now that's
what I was talking about as far as the separate homework. If I go to that what you're going
to see, and I'll open that up now this will look again a little different for your specific
semester, but this is kind of a generic version of it, alright, let's take a look let me blow
that up so you can see it a little bit better. This is going to walk you through how to get
on McGraw Hill's Connect website. This is for points in your class so you want to make
sure you do this, and I'm not going to walk through the specifics I think it's pretty
self-explanatory. The main things that you'll want is right here in this big section is
going to be the specific URL for your class now I exit it out, because it's going to be
different for each semester, but you'll want to copy that URL paste it into your URL spot
on Microsoft Explorer go to that website, and then bookmark it so you don't have to
type that in anymore. And then it will walk you through how to register for that, alright,
if you don't own it will even tell you how to buy it online. So coming back to me this
is the access code, or registration code that you'll need but if for some reason this is
not available to you maybe you bought a used book, and this is scratched off and you know
that access code is no longer valid then you can either specifically buy direct from the
JCCC bookstore for your use, or going back to the screen again it will walk you through
how to purchase it online, but you do need to have this for this course, alright, so
that's the main thing you need is this URL, and that access or registration code. If you
have problems with this here's who you contact - there's an 800 number, or there's a website.
I really try to limit how many of these question I'm going to field so please contact them
not me if you contact me chances are what I'm going to tell you is I don't know why
it's doing that, I don't know why it's having problems, but you need to contact this number,
so I'm just going to send you back to this number, because they can much better help
you than how I can help you. The last thing you'll see on this second page of this document
is when these assignments are due for each chapter. Now I have chapter one due by 11:45
pm on blank I did not put a date there, because again it depends on what semester you're taking
this course, however, when you're enrolled, and when you go to ANGEL it will have the
appropriate dates for you in this section, alright, again we don't do chapter seven,
but this will be the schedule of when your Connect homework assignments are due. Now
let's go back to the lessons tab on ANGEL we talked about. This is general class information
I usually have the syllabus in there as well here are the PowerPoint presentations. Now
I only have the first four in here right now, but here in a week or so I'm going to have
all eleven chapters except for chapter seven which we don't cover. Coming back to me live
- here are these PowerPoint's I'm going to show you in a sample on the ELMO. This is
simply a way that you can print out on what I'm going to lecture on, and I like to do
it three to a page so that you have this section and you can take notes, but I highly, highly,
highly recommend that you go on the lessons tab to that PowerPoint tab and print these
off. It's going to be much easier for you as you take this course to not have to copy
what's on the screen, or maybe the screen you're watching it on is kind of little. So
going back to this is where you get these PowerPoints on the PowerPoints tab you can
just go get each one. The final thing I want to show you, or the second to last final thing
is the practice test answers. If you click on that I have Practice tests and answers
for each section this is very helpful for you to know the kind of test that you'll probably
be taking, and it will give you a great way of kind of practicing extra problems, kind
of testing yourself for some of the multiple-choice. When people say what are your tests like Dave
I say go take a look at the practice tests those are actual test questions that I used
in the past. The last thing on this lessons tab is the hand-outs distributed in class,
and if you don't or you're not able just to get them all-at-once up here then you just
go here and click each chapter, and those will be populated with content as we move
throughout this course. So that is extremely important that is the materials that you need
for this course. Let's go back to the syllabus I'll let you read through the course objectives,
and I'll let you read through the overview, but let's talk a little bit about this. So
coming off the screen accounting is a building block Course some of you have taken it in
high school some of you have taken it in college maybe you didn't do so well and so you're
back for another try. It builds on itself if you don't understand chapter one, chapter
two is going to be nearly impossible, and if you flunk the first tests over chapters
one and two, chapters three and four are going to be a lot more difficult. This class builds
on itself you have to do a little bit every day it's kind of like getting a sun tan for
the summer don't get your sun tan in one eight hour session what you need to do is get a
little bit every day. Now for you who are taking this as an online course or a telecourse
you have to be disciplined. I am not going to be there, I don't know what you look like,
I'm not going to come to your apartment or home and make sure you're watching these lectures
and make sure you're doing the homework. You can throw it on the floor behind the couch,
and nobody is going to be there to nag you, but if you put it all off and then it comes
time to take the test you're not going to do well. It's a strange phenomenon here in
this class there's a lot of A's and high B's in this course, but there's also a lot of
F's and when I say an F I don't mean like a fifty-eight percent I meaning that there's
people who take this course online or telecourse, and they get like a twenty-eight percent on
the test and I know why they did not have the discipline to watch the lectures, they
did not have the discipline to do the homework I was asking them to do they just completely
blew it off, because no one was there to nag them you've got to be disciplined folks. This
can be a great way for you to learn accounting, but you've got to be disciplined. You've paid
for this course you might as well do well in it. Going back I want you to do your homework
before you watch the lecture now this is not the Connect homework, but the regular homework.
When I give these students their homework assignment at the end of each class; doing
that homework make your best efforts before you watch the next lecture, and before we
go over the answers. You learn Accounting by doing it yourself not by watching me do
it. If you make mistakes that's great that's fine that's expected that's how you learn,
but you have to do the homework. How are we going to communicate? Going to the syllabus
well I'm here to help you out I want you to communicate with me you have a JCCC email
account, and I access that actually not through my JCCC, but through ANGEL so we're going
to communicate to each other through email mainly through the ANGEL shell so please don't
access me through email outside of an ANGEL shell let's remain in the ANGEL shell all
your communications will be kept there together should we need to go back and look at it,
or should I if I need to find out what previous question you were referring to or whatever.
So the way you email me let's go to that ANGEL shell again if you're on this course you can
just send me a quick message right there this is how you email me. Send me a quick message
chose my name go ahead and send away, and this is how this is your inbox for this course
so when I reply back this is where you'll check it, but I want all of our email communications
to originate from this little box right here. When you email me you obviously need to tell
me who you are and tell me what course it is that sort of thing even though that might
be apparent through the ANGEL information, but go ahead tell me who you are so I can
kind-of know where you're coming from and I will email you back if I do not email you
back I want you assume I didn't get the communication. Every now and then I have a student say "I
emailed you, did you get it?" and I say "no" now what I say is if I don't email you back
assume I did not get the communication. I'll always email you back within twenty-four hours,
but if I don't shoot me an email it must have not gotten through, or I forgot something,
but I will always email you back so that there's no vagueness on whether or not I got your
communication, alright, back to the syllabus. How do I view this telecourse? Well you can
chose to view these online, and that is what most students do. Most students even though
this is called a telecourse, and it recalls the days of people watching them on the cable
channel that JCCC has. Most people watch them via YouTube, or they can check out the DVDs
from the JCCC Library. How do you get to those videos? Let me show you here - let's open
up a new tab, and go to the JCCC website. Now you can click on the URL that was posted
in the syllabus, or what you can do this is the JCCC dot website you can go to YouTube,
and then you click on YouTube again, and it takes you to the college YouTube channel then
in this search box right here just put accounting hit search and all those lectures are there.
There's about thirty-seven to thirty-nine of them I'm not sure how many we're going
to be having this semester, but they're all there. That is how the vast majority of students
watch this. The good thing about watching it that way you can watch it according to
your schedule. You're not a slave to whenever the cable channel decides to run it. Now if
you don't have internet access, or you don't like to watch it online you can check out
the DVDs from the library, but that is how you view these. Going back to the syllabus,
and there's the URL if you just want to click on that to get to them. How many do you need
to watch? Well if you're taking this in a spring or fall semester. You need to average
about three or four a week you're probably ok with three, but just to be safe you might
want to say every seven days I need to have watched four of these lectures. If you're
taking this in a summer semester you need to watch five lectures a week, because there's
only eight weeks in the summer session. I think you're good with three to four for spring
and fall, and for summer you need to watch five a week. Now if you're ever watching a
lecture and the audio and the video get off track, and I look like a Japanese Godzilla
movie, or something please email me and tell me exactly the lecture number for which that
occurred, and we'll get that straightened out. What should you have while you're watching
your lecture? You should have your textbook, a calculator, your completed homework, and
you want certainly paper to take notes on. You really need to have the exact same thing
that you would have if you were taking one of my face to face courses. Tests or exams
- we have four exams in this class that are worth a hundred points each, and there's also
on top of that a comprehensive final that's worth hundred points. Now you are allowed
to drop your lowest test score of the first four tests now you can't drop or not take
your final you got to take that, and it's going to count, but of the first four exams
you get to drop your lowest score. It's not replaced with anything it's just dropped as
if you would have never taken it. Isn't that a real nice thing; because there's a test
that you don't do real well on, it's a nice way to act as if that never happened. Going
back to this you take the tests in the JCCC Campus Testing Center that is on the third
floor of the Student Center. Now you can call them, and there's their phone number for their
specific hours, or you can go to the JCCC website, and in the search box put testing
center hours, and you can get there specific hours. But you need to be aware of the dates
they're open and the times they're open I'm not telling you this, because sometimes it
changes depending on what semester you're taking this class, but I highly encourage
you before you go in there to take your exam to call and make sure they're open and see
when they close that day. When you go you need to have your JCCC ID, so bring that with
you. And they'll give you other guidelines as far as taking that exam. Now every semester
I have students who wait to the very last day to take the exam, and then they go and
they say "it's closed I can't take the exam what do I do". Please don't do this I give
you a seven day window for you to take that exam. Pick any day that works for you, but
I always have students who procrastinate to the very last day, and then something happens
and they can't take the test that day "it was closed" or whatever "I had to work, or
my baby got sick" or whatever. You guys have to be disciplined, don't procrastinate, if
you procrastinate to the very last day then you've got no margin for error. Now going
back to the screen on your syllabus that you have for you specifically I have the dates
you need to take these tests by, alright, and I say test one chapter one and two must
be taken by the end of the day on whatever. Obviously I didn't put in dates, because it's
going to change for each semester. But these need to be dates you're aware of. Now you
don't have to take it on that day I have them in there at least seven days before, but you
have to take it by the end of the day so you need to be aware of when the test center is
closing, their hours, their schedule, everything. Going back for each day past the deadline
stated above that you take your test if you miss the deadline, and you take it the next
day you're going to have fifteen extra points deducted from your score, if it's two days
past the deadline it's going to be thirty extra points deducted from your score. So
I don't need to tell you if you're three days late you might as well not even take the test,
and there's no exceptions on this. It may be a very legitimate reason, but again I have
students by the nature of this course who procrastinate every semester they wait to
the very last day and they come beg me for more time, no you've got a whole week to work
there you need to be responsible as far as finding a time that you can take it. It's
not fair to give some students a bunch of extra time to study for an exam so that may
be the most important thing from this whole syllabus the dates that you have to take these
tests by this is not a self-pace course, where you can just take the test whenever you want
to. There are deadlines for which you need to take that test by. I can't be clearer than
that. What is the point's breakdown for this class? Well let's take a look at that well
you get a hundred points for each that you take, you will drop the lowest one of the
first four tests. You also have a hundred points from the Connect homework assignments
that I will assign you, and we went over that tab on the lessons tab on ANGEL so that is
worth a hundred points, and I could tell who's doing that, and who's not doing that, that's
one of the main reasons I have this as part of the class. Even before the tests I can
see who's done their chapter one assignment on ANGEL, who's done their chapter two, so
Connect is worth one hundred points. And then going back to the screen the comprehensive
final is worth a hundred points. So, since you drop one of these tests the whole class
is worth five hundred points. Here's the grading scale, people say "how do I find out how I
did on the test", you look on ANGEL, your test grade will be posted on ANGEL, and I
think I showed you on the lessons tab the very first thing that you click, and that
gives you your grade, and you have to understand to it's going to take me a little while to
grade your tests. If you take it real early before the deadline I don't go over to the
testing center until the next day after the deadline, and then I grade them. So, I will
get them graded for you, but if you take it a week and a half early I don't go every day
and go pick up the tests to grade them, unless if it's a special unique situation. Back to
the syllabus, students with disabilities if you have a disability, and you need accommodations,
or access at all, please contact our Student Access Center, their contact information on
your syllabus, and I want to be whatever help I can just communicate with me. One other
thing I want to note JCCC offers free tutoring for Accounting this is for all students now,
they usually offer this about five or six days a week here on campus I'm not telling
you right now what the specific hours and location are, because it changes every semester,
but on your syllabus or in a separate email I will give you those free accounting tutoring
times, and dates, and location. You don't have to make an appointment you can come and
go as you want, you don't pay anything. They're just people who can help you do your homework
even if you're taking this as an online or telecourse. Required stuff on my syllabus
I won't read through all this. I'll sum this up; please don't cheat on your exam. Even
in the Testing Center I know they have cameras everywhere, my goodness sake they're very
strict up there so, I think that should answer most of your questions in regards, to this
class as far as policies and procedures. Just to summarize a couple of things I want to
make sure I reiterate these points. Let me look at my notes a little bit to see if there's
anything else I forgot. I think I've gone through just about everything I wanted to,
but the main thing you need to know are the deadlines, the dates for which you need to
take your tests by, and you need to know that you take it in the JCCC Testing Center. Now
there maybe a few people every now and then who take this class who live out of state,
or even out of country. Contact me with a separate email, and we can arrange a way for
you to take a test sometimes. You end up taking it at a testing center at a different college,
or at a different university or for some military personnel you take it on a military base and
you have a proctor or something like that so it is possible in these days of email and
all that to take this class, and have it be a great vehicle for learning Accounting even
though you don't live in the Greater Kansas City area where JCCC is located. The next
thing I want to reiterate you've got to be disciplined with this class, you've got to
watch these lectures three or four a week for spring and fall, or five for summer, and
when I give you the homework assignment and give these fine people their homework assignment.
That's the regular homework you need to do it before you watch the next lecture, because
the next lecture we'll go over it. Be aware aside from the regular homework be aware of
that Connect homework assignment that is online, we do not go over the Connect homework in
class. It's usually very similar homework that we've done for regular homework except
its different numbers. So, it's just a little different way of extra practice for you, and
you could use your book, you can use past homework that you've done, you can use whatever
you want when you're doing that and it is worth points, but it will give you feedback
too which I think will be very helpful for you - other students have really enjoyed that.
Please be disciplined in this class. I think this should have answered most of your questions
as far as class policies and procedures. If not, through ANGEL email me, and there will
be other things we talk about throughout the semester so, as I think of them, or as students
here ask questions, this should cover most of it. This was lecture number one, next time
you watch lecture number two there will be nice shiny faces here, real people, and it
will feel like a real class. And then we'll start going through the content of Accounting.
There's no real homework before you watch that lecture number two the only thing you
might want to do is get on that Connect the website for Connect, and register for that
even though there may or may not be an assignment out there for you, but that's all you need
to do, and I hope to see you in lecture number two thank you for watching this whole program.
Thanks.