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Updated 1/13/11: CHM 110-03 – Winter weather

[This post will remain at the top of the page until CHM 110-03 meets for the first time.  If you’re in CHM 110 01 or 02 or in CHM 111, please scroll down to get your daily notes.]

The rest of this post is for CHM 110 section 3 only!

The first meeting of CHM 110 section 3 will be Wednesday 1/19, since Monday 1/17  is a holiday..

Before our first class meeting, please get a copy of the syllabus from the course web site and read it.  Also, read the first chapter in your textbook if you’re purchased it already. (If you don’t have a book yet, read the “Introductory Material” from the [supplemental notes for CHM 110]).

Your first CHM 110–03 lab meeting will be Tuesday 1/25.  Get the full lab schedule [here].

Any questions?  Leave a comment below.

-CT

CHM 110 and 111: Snow days

Snow!

What a way to start the semester!

FDTC is closed for all students on both Monday 1/10 and Tuesday 1/11.

CHM 110 and CHM 111 don’t usually have laboratory meetings the first week of classes, so our laboratory schedule will not change.

For lecture, we will meet:

  • CHM 110-03 – Wednesday 1/12
  • CHM 110-01/02 and CHM 111 01/02 – Thursday 1/13

Leave a comment below if you have any questions.

Enjoy the snow!

Grades posted!

I have posted final grades for CHM 100 and CHM 110 (all sections).

You may get your grades from these places:

  1. [Desire2Learn].  You can see individual test grades and your final exam grade on Desire2Learn, as well as your latter grade.  Print a copy of your grades for future reference, because you will not be able to access the complete gradebook when next semester starts!
  2. [WebAdvisor].  Webadvisor is your link to official FDTC data.  The grade shown on WebAdvisor will be the one on your official transcript.  It is a single letter grade, not a numeric average or a listing of all your grades on class assignments.  Grades on WebAdvisor will be available on Monday, December 13.

If you have any questions about your grade or if you wish to view your final (you don’t get to keep a copy of the final, sorry!), you may come by the office before Christmas break or after the spring semester starts.  Please don’t call to ask about your grades, because I’m not allowed to discuss grades over the telephone!  You may e-mail me in Desire2Learn to ask about your grades, since Desire2Learn’s e-mail is a private messaging system which requires a password to log in.

A note on “extra credit”:  Most of your regular tests this semester had more than 100 points on them.  These points were “extra credit”, as was the fact that your final exam could replace your lowest test score.  In lab, your lowest report grade was also dropped.  In other words, your reported grade in D2L already includes all the “extra credit” you will receive in this course.  Any requests for additional “extra credit” will be ignored.

That said …

Enjoy your winter break!

I hope you enjoyed chemistry this term, and I hope you now have some time to relax and enjoy your holiday.