1.  The CHM 110 Menu Page, the page you just came from, should be the starting point of all assignments and activities in the course is:

http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/CHM110/CHM110.html

The organization of the course consists of two parts - the CHM 110 menu page with all assignment links and Blackboard to post lab reports, exam answers, email, and to check grades.

Green - Main Home Page menu - main access point to the course - Find out what to do, do your research. You should always start your work from the main Home page. Check the home page for weekly announcements on the week ahead. START your work on the CHM 110 online home page menu.

Light Purple - Blackboard - post discussions for Topics and Issues. This is also the place to post lab reports and exam results, and to check grades. Think of Blackboard as where you complete your assignments, NOT to start them.  Only come to Blackboard at the END of your work to do the final posting of your work.   For the beginning of a Topic, you may come to Blackboard to check the discussion postings already completed by your classmates.     

3.  Course Schedule: Next we will look at the Course Schedule Page. Dates given are DUE DATES.

4.  Weekly News and Assignments:  Every week starting on a Tuesday or Wednesday of each week I will post a News, Announcements, and Helpful Hints for the week. This will contain the weekly schedule in written commentary form with introductions, insights, past assignments due, and a look ahead to future assignments. You can access all of the weekly activities from links on this page.

Here is the link for:  News Week # 1 with audio.

5.  Topics:  During the first week, you will need to work on Topic 1 - Introduction to Environmental Issues. The first stop is a general introduction of How to do a Topic Discussion with audio.

6. Blackboard  for the Discussion Board:
This will bring you to the Elmhurst Blackboard Log-on page. Click on User Login. Log in using your Elmhurst ID and password. Next you should see the page with your name, a mid section with announcements, and on the right side a list of My courses - a list of all of your Blackboard courses. Then Click on Chemistry: CHM 110. This brings you to the CHM 110 course page for Blackboard. THIS IS NOT THE MAIN STARTING POINT FOR THE COURSE. This is the REPORTING place for your work after you have completed your work and research.
Then click on DISCUSSION BOARD, then the Topic or Issue desired, and finally select the appropriate questions in the topic or issue.

7.  Laboratories: In the second week, Topic 2 and Laboratory # 1 will be due. If you have time in the first week you can start to work on the prelab for Lab # 1. Here is a general page on How to do Laboratories.

You could look at Lab # 1 at this time, although it is not necessary.

8.  Exams:  Finally the fourth and last part of the course are exams. Exams are given as "take-home" and thus you have plenty of time to work on them - most people spend 4-8 hours working on an exam. All of the answers to the exam can be found in the textbook. The questions pretty well follow the order of material in the chapters. Sometimes I will give you specific pages to look at so that I know the content is present for you to use in answering the questions. Eventually all of your work is to be uploaded into Blackboard where you will find the same questions numbers and order of questions.

Here is the link in How to do Exams.