Syllabus Highlights Spring 2014

Full syllabus is on myCourses! Exams (3 hourly + 1 final – drop one) : 300 points Attendance 12 points Homework 60 points Recitations 28 points Total available points: 400 points

Full syllabus is on myCourses! Attendance 12 points Homework 60 points Recitations 28 points 100 points So these points are equal to one exam.

Attendance Clickers! Clickers! And only Clickers! Clickers must be registered in your name – hence you cannot share a clicker. Register your clicker at iclicker.com/registration Student ID is your RIT address without the extension: =

You can use the clicker even if it isn’t registered. It’ll still store the points in the system. It just doesn’t know to assign them to you until you actually register. Phone app is useless without an iClicker account.

Full syllabus is on myCourses! Attendance 12 points Homework 60 points Recitations 28 points 100 points Attendance is 12 points…but you can get MORE than 12 points. We click once per class for attendance (not on test days). That’s about 40 clicker points. Those 40 clicker points become 12 points in your grade. BUT, you also get bonus points for right answers. So if you end up with a total of 60 clicker points, that is 18 grade points – 6 bonus points!

Full syllabus is on myCourses! ONLINE HOMEWORK! This is 60 of your 100 non-test points. Again, it is possible to get over 60 points – “pre-class” assignments are strictly BONUS! Instructions for registering for are on myCourses under “Content”

Full syllabus is on myCourses! ONLINE HOMEWORK! Again, your ID should be your RIT address without the extension. Please use your RIT address even if it isn’t your favorite. myCourses doesn’t recognize your other address. The “CourseID” is “RIT2014chemistry141”. My name is Lanzafame!

WT? is a “recitation” The “recitation” is that other hour on your schedule that is NOT on MWF. It is one hour per week of strictly problem solving and writing assignments. NO NEW MATERIAL will be presented there unless relevant to the problem sets. [Except maybe this week.] It is GROUP work, a chance to get some practice with the concepts we learn!

Cheating This is the conversation none of us like to have. What is NOT cheating: Working together on homework assignments Working together on recitation problems Using the internet to work on homework or recitation problems

Cheating This is the conversation none of us like to have. What IS cheating: Looking on other people’s papers during exams Using the internet/cell phone to work on exams Programming answers into your graphing calculator “Clicking” for someone else’s attendance

LAB! LAB! LAB! Lab is a COMPLETELY separate course. Separate grade Separate instructor I can answer content questions about CHEM 145 lab: how to calculate something, why something behaves the way it does. But questions about what goes on in the laboratory (due dates, lab formats, excused absences) should be discussed with your TA.

SI! SI! SI! Meet…. Your SI leader! E