Estimating Your Current Letter Grade after Getting Started, Unit 1-3, 3-Part Writing, and Final
This is also an announcement.

	Assignment (The 1st 6 assignments are those listed on the last page of Course Tour, Tasks & Tips.)	Points	
	Reply to the WCJC email about the actions you must do before you start the class. For your safety, actually do those things. (If you did not respond previously, you still can.)	10	
	Take Syllabus Acknowledgement Quiz. (Caution: You must do it to stay in the course.)	1	
	Post your Introduction in the Discussion available from Getting Started.	4	
	Reply in the Syllabus & Success discussion in Getting Started. Read all postings but reply to all those for points.	15	
	Complete Your Course Plan for Your Grade and submit it in its Blackboard Assignment. 	20	
	Follow the instructions exactly to do the Sample Respondus Exam so you know how to take any exam and you do not lose points. There are 5 points for the 5 questions on the exam itself and 5 points for my confirming that you followed the rules correctly. (That second grade determines whether you can see the Final Exam—the only exam where you must use Respondus Monitor. 	10	
	Take all Learning Quizzes in Unit 1. 	70	
	In Evidence Requirements, take Evidence Quizzes 1-2 @10 each. 	20	
	Post and reply in Unit 1 Learning Discussion (Tip: If you post as its rubric explains and earn over 14 points and if you make over 60 on the Unit 1 Exam, you earn 10 extra credit incentive points. 	20	
	Take Unit 1 Exam. 	100	
	Take all Learning Quizzes in Unit 2. (Tip: The same extra credit incentive as Unit 1.)	50	
	In Evidence Requirements, take Evidence Quizzes 3-4 @10 each. (Tip: The same incentive as Unit 1.)	20	
	Post and reply in Unit 2 Learning Discussion (Tip: The same incentive as Unit 1.)	20	
	Take Unit 2 Exam. (Tip: The same opportunities for success in learning as in Unit 1.)	100	
	In Required Writing, post your paper in the 3-Part Writing @ 100 points (50 points for content and 50 for Good Habits for Evidence).
One of you still has a 1.11 because you have not responded to the feedback I emailed you in Blackboard Messages. That reply, when done accurately, is worth 50 points for the Good Habits for Evidence and whatever grade I wrote on the feedback for the content/analysis. Act now!	100	
	In Required Writing, when the 3-Part Writing reopens, post 2 peer reviews @ 50 points each (25 points for content and 25 for following all 5 Good Habits for Evidence for each one).	100	
	In Required Writing, when the 3-Part Writing reopens again, reply to the 2 peer reviews of your paper @ 40 points (10 points for content and 10 for following all 5 Good Habits for Evidence for each one; if only 1 student peer reviewed your paper, 20 points for content and 20 for following all 5 Good Habits).
I will grade on the date they are due.	40	
	Take all Learning Quizzes in Unit 3. (Tip: The same extra credit incentive as Unit 1.)	80	
	Post and reply in Unit 3 Learning Discussion (Tip: The same incentive as Unit 1.)
I will grade on the day after the Unit 3 Exam ends.	20	
	Take Unit 3 Exam (Tip: The same opportunities for success in learning as in Unit 1.)
If you think any grade is incorrect, send an email before 2 PM on the day after the Unit Exam ends. Provide the exact name of the grade from My Grades and state briefly any evidence or forward any email to me if it is a prior email in Blackboard Messages	100	
	Take the Final Exam (100) Caution: last day is in the Course Schedule.
I will enter the Letter Grades:
•	in Blackboard the morning after the Final Exam
•	in WCJC’s official record that afternoon. (Changing after then requires a VP’s signature.)
	100	
	Total	1000	
Use the Total at the Bottom of My Grades to Determine Your Current Letter Grade
Reminder from the syllabus and course plan: 
•	If you have a 5 at the end of the first 3 digits (such as 895), the grade is an A.
•	If you have a 4 at the end of the first 3 digits (such as 894), the grade is a B.

If you have these points	You Have This Current Letter Grade	
895 or more	A     (1000 points X .9)	
795 or more	B     (1000 points X .8)	
695 or more	C     (1000 points X .7)	
595 or more 	D     (1000 points X .6)