Finally after more than 10 years, Blackboard has gained enough features to enable it as the starting point of this course.  The general features as described below are still in effect, but they can all be accessed from Blackboard from the Weekly Assignment button.  From the Weekly Assignment button, you will select an appropriate folder for the current week.  In that folder are all of the components to be looked at or worked on for the week.

Start with Blackboard  “Weekly Assignment” button.  But please read on as the site map and everything which follows is still valid.

OR from Blackboard there is a link to the Alternate Home Page, which is the link below.
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/CHM110/CHM110.html

1.  The organization of the course consists of two parts - there are pages outside of Blackboard with all assignment links and then inside Blackboard is where you post Discussions from Topics, lab reports, exam answers, email, and to check grades.

2.  Site Map Graphic - a visual way to see how the components of the course are related.

Green - From the Blackboard Weekly assignments tabs, find out what to do for each week, and do your research for the Topics and Labs.  These pages are on the open internet and outside of the Blackboard content.

Light Purple - Blackboard - post discussions for Topics. This is also the place to post lab reports and exam results, and to check grades. Think of Blackboard where you complete your assignments and come back 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 forums postings already completed by your classmates.     

3.  Course Schedule: Next we will look at the Course Schedule Page. This is a week by week listing of assignments. The dates are only given in the “Weekly Assignment” menu of Blackboard.  The DUE DATE is the last date given for a week and is always a Wednesday.

4.  News and Notes:  Every week starts News and Notes 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.

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.  Do the research for Topic 1, write your answers in a word processor.
Then come back to Blackboard to post you answers into the appropriate places in the Discussion Board.

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.

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.

It is not necessary to look at this now but, here is the link in How to do Exams.