The electronic classroom serving this course resides in a World Wide Web site that is accessible anywhere a student can enter the web.
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The course schedule is posted there.
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The chapter notes will be available through the schedule.
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The Practice Problems are listed and some are answered.
A tutorial specific to Blackboard Vista is online. Please review the notes in the Blackboard overview provided here.
Access to Blackboard is through PALS, a secure Web site with many resources. These are some of the services available to students through PALS:
- Online registration for courses
- Transcripts
- Grades
- Free email address (This is a permanent email address that students may continue using even after you finish their studies at SAC. A student must use it often, however, or the account will expire. The PALS email system is NOT available between 3 and 4 a.m.)
- College news & current events
- Access to all Blackboard courses on a student's schedule
Getting
into the Blackboard Classroom
Read ALL the directions below before
attempting to login.
This section outlines how to get into the electronic classroom. If you have trouble with this or anything on the web, make at least three attempts, then try again later.
If you took a WebCT class some time ago,
you will notice the procedure is different now.
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Open an Internet browser to access the World Wide Web. Internet Explorer works best.
- Click on the PALS link here.
- Notice the instructions just to the right of the log in boxes
and follow each of the steps, which are as follows:
- Click to obtain your PALS user name.
- When the system asks, type in the Social Security number.
- Make a record of the PALS user name you are given in a secure
location.
- Use this password to get in the first time. The password is the first two characters of your last name in UPPER CASE followed by the last six digits of your Social Security number. For example:
John Doe
SSN = 123987654
John Doe's Password = DO987654Once you enter PALS successfully, you should see this menu:
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- Click on the "My Courses" tab, as shown above, to see our class listed under "Courses I'm Attending." Click on INTRO CHEM LEC I to get into Blackboard. It will open in a new window and you will still be logged into the PALS in the other window.
| If you experience difficulty logging into PALS, call ACCD Information Technologies Support Central Help Desk at (210) 485-0555. |
- After logging in for the first time and before you log out, change the password to something you can remember, but others will not be able to guess.
- Do not record it where
it can be found by someone else.
- DO NOT tell
ANYONE the password.
- Follow these steps to change the password:
- While in PALS find the "My account" button, as seen above at the top left of the screen.
- Click "My account".
- Enter your "Current password" and your new password twice ("New password" and "Confirm password").
- Click "Save Changes".
- Set a schedule for changing the password again to increase
security. On that day, follow the above steps.
- The PALS e-mail button is on the right side of the menu. This is a regular e-mail program that you can use with fellow students and/or friends.
| When you finish, be sure to log out of BOTH Blackboard and the PALS before leaving the computer. If you don't, others can access your personal records. Close all related browser windows. |
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If you follow a link and the Back key becomes disabled, it's probably because the page has opened in a new browser window. Close it by clicking on the X-box in the top right corner, and your last page should show up.
(Adapted by permission
and with special thanks
from work by Dr. Charlotte Wolf and Maria
Garcia.)
Page maintained by James A. Petrich-- jpetrich@mail.accd.edu