Introduction to Computers Home page

This website is not the website you will be using for the class. You will only be accessing this website for the first week of class. This website is for information only. Most of the SWTJC online or distance learning classes will be held using the SWTJC's Portal or Moodle format. Moodle is Internet based software application that are specifically designed to deliver courseware on the World Wide Web. Our class will be using SWTJC's Moodle. Our class is at http://moodle.swtjc.edu/. You login to your Moodle classroom with your SWTJC WebAdvisor user name for your User Name [such as for John Henery Doe: jhdoe or jhdoe3048], use your birth date as your password [written as mmddyy, such as: 070488 for July 4 1988, the password must be six digits]. To find your Web advisor login name go to the SWTJC Home Page and select Web Advisor on the left menu list. On the Web Advisor welcome page click on Students. On the Current Students page select the What's my User ID link in the User Account section to receive your login name. If you need to help identifying your Web Advisor login name, you can email me or contact the computer help desk at 830-591-7323.

!!!The database manager for SWTJC's Moodle is loading your login information to the database and not everyone will be able to log in to SWTJC's Moodle!!!

1.0 Read the Online Orientation it provides valuable information about time and file management. Please read Topics 1 through 7 (this will take several hours).

2.1 Contact your instructor. E-mail me following the instructions from Topic 1 of the Orientation. You can do this before the class starts or during the first week of class.

2.2 Upload these same answers to the Posting Introduction assignment in our Moodle class. Do this during the first week of class.

2.3 Answer the questions for the Introduction in the Discussion forum. These questions are not the same ones as for 2.1 and 2.2. The answers should not contain any personal information.

3.0 After you are able to login at SWTJC's Moodle, review the class page for assignments and class information.

3.1 During the semester you will be creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, and Power Point presentations.

3.2 You will also read the Discovering Computers part of the textbook and taking your exams from this part of the textbook.

4.0 You may contact me through the following e-mail address and phone number. The normal contact will be using the Moodle's contact forum in the class.

While there will be plenty to do for the class, get ready to have fun!! We will have a great semester!!!!