STA 261 Navigating Our Canvas Site

(female narrator)
Hello!

Welcome to Stat 261:
Introductory Statistics.

You are either taking the fully
online version of the class,

or you're taking a hybrid
version of the class.

My name is Barbara Caudill, and I'm
the course author for this class.

You might be taking this class
with me as your instructor,

but it is a good chance that you're
taking it with someone else

as the instructor. There are several
other people who teach

the Stat 261 online and hybrid version.

Let's take a look around our canvas site
to see how we're going to navigate

this course this semester.

You should plan on taking some notes

during this navigation syllabus
video of our course.

There will be a quiz over this
information in the first module,

and also I will be giving you some
code words during this video

that will also be a part of the quiz, so
you'll want to write those down

along with notes as I suggested
as you watch this video.

Right now, we're on our canvas home
page. If you scroll down a little ways,

you will see links to the
getting started page.

The getting started page
is actually the same

as the syllabus link
over here on the left.

You'll see a link to the online essentials

which has some helpful information
for online learning.

A link to instructor contact,

where you can find your individual
instructor's contact information.

A link to some resources for the course,
and then you'll also find links

to the 13 Modules in the class.

So if you scroll back up here, you should
start out by clicking on the syllabus link

on the left or the getting started
square in the middle there.

You should thoroughly read
through all of this.

Here's a statement of how the grades
are weighted in the class,

a little bit about me, the course author.

This will be filled in by whoever
your course instructor is,

about the class, there will be a link to
a paper syllabus for the class

that you should pull up and
read, print out if you'd like,

save it to your computer if you'd like.

The grading scale.

Some student and instructor expectations,
a little bit of information,

additional information about the
class and how to get started,

and also you'll see a course summary
of all of the assignments

and their due date in the class.

In order to complete assignments, there's
a couple of things that you can do.

You can click directly on the link from
the syllabus page at the bottom.

That's probably not the link that is most
often used to complete assignments.

When you're on the home page, there will
also be a list of things coming up,

so you could click directly on those
links to go to the assignments,

but what I suggest you do is to
click on the modules page.

The modules page is a nice
overview of everything in the class.

This top module is called the
MyStatLab module.

This is a module you will use every
chapter that we cover in the book.

It has links to your e-textbook,
which is free to you.

It was included in your course fee
that you paid for the class.

This is a link to all of your assignments
that are in MyStatLab.

MyStatLab is a Pearson product.
We use the Pearson book,

along with the online component
of that called MyStatLab.

So again, there's your e-textbook.

There's a link to where you can access
your MyStatLab assignments.

There's a link to StatCrunch, which is a
very important software that we use

in this class. There's a link to your
MyStatLab gradebook,

not to be confused with your Canvas
grade book over here on the left.

The MyStatLab grade book is only going to
contain your grades for any homework,

chapter homework and chapter quizzes
that are done in MyStatLab.

If you click on the link for grades
over here on the left,

that will contain all of your grades for
everything in the course.

It will have your MyStatLab homework,
your MyStatLab quizzes,

it will also have your lecture quizzes,
your discussions, your exams.

Everything will be in the
canvas grade book.

The MyStatLab grade book is useful to make
sure that you have done your assignments

in MyStatLab.

There's a study plan. This has
some extra study problems

if you would like to do those.
This is not required.

There's also some extra resources
in the tools for success.

Again, that's not required. These
last two are not required,

they're just extra materials if you're
having trouble in the class.

Down from there, you will see
the module zero,

which is just a getting started
information, specifically about the class.

This is that course navigation quiz
that I talked to you about,

and we'll also have an
introduction discussion,

and then we start into the Modules for
the actual statistics learning

that we'll do in the class.

Before you start any homework assignment
or anything, for any chapter in the class,

you should start out on the very first
thing listed in the module.

That's called the module page. It has all
of your learning information on it.

Before I click on this, I'm
going to pause here,

and I'm going to give you
your first code word,

and your first code word is Miami.
Miami is your first code word.

M-I-A-M-I, Miami.

Okay, so back to the video, before
you ever start doing anything,

you should always click on, this is where
your learning material is,

the first thing underneath each
module is the module page,

then it's followed by assignments, so you
always click on the module page.

This is module one. You will find learning
videos under the presentations

and demonstrations. I have made
these, you can click on this.

It will bring up a presentation.

Also on that page, right under
the presentations,

is a notes outline. Each chapter has
one or two or maybe three

or four or five videos with it
that you should watch,

and also a notes outline page. As
you go through the video,

you'll see a lot of blanks in this
notes outline that you will fill in

from the video. It's very easy to fill
them in from the video,

and that is also what you will use to
complete your homework.

It's one place to keep track of all
of your notes for the chapter.

Now, do not limit yourself by
what is on this note page,

especially when we get to the chapters
where we use some form of technology,

whether it be StatCrunch or some
applets that we use on the internet.

You will want to take extra
notes outside of this page,

or maybe on the back of this page if you
print it out or something like that

about how to use StatCrunch
and those applets.

Write down specifically, step by step,

what did I click on to find the standard
deviation of this set of numbers,

what specifically did I click on to run
that significance test in chapter nine,

so you will want to specifically
write down step by step

on how to complete each procedure that
we do, each calculation that we do

using technology, on a piece of
paper, on a notes paper,

write down specifically step by step.

This is not a math class, you should not
be doing a lot of hand calculations

at all in this class. This is a
critical thinking class,

we use technology to find those answers,

and you're going to find that you are very
frustrated if you skip these lecture

presentations. At the end of the semester
when I get my course evaluations,

that is the one thing that is
most often said,

"Don't skip the lecture presentations.
The lecture presentations

explained everything, told me how to do
all of the calculations in StatCrunch,

or on the applets". It's not a time saver,
if you think you're going to save time

by not spending an hour or 45 minutes
watching videos for the chapter

and go straight to your homework,

your homework is going to take
three or four or six hours.

I've seen some people take nine
hours on the homework assignment.

I said, "Did you use StatCrunch?", and
they're like, "What's StatCrunch?"

so don't skip the lecture presentations.

Then down here, a little further at the
bottom of each module page,

you'll see a list of the assignments that
have to be done for that chapter.

When you click on next at the bottom,
it will bring you to that first assignment

that you have to complete. It's a lecture
quiz. A lecture quiz is a very short quiz.

Using your notes outline that you
just filled in, you should be able

to find all of your answers
in the notes outline.

That's a very quick way to make
sure that you've watched the lecture

presentation and filled in
your notes outline.

When you click on next, you'll see
a link to go to your homework,

and then when you click on next, you'll
see a link to go to your quiz.

Both of the homework and
that quiz are in MyStatLab.

Okay, we're back here on
the modules page,

I'm going to click on the Module
two learning page,

the very first link under Module two,
and when I scroll down,

I will see that there is two lecture
presentations for Chapter two,

and a notes outline, again every module
page will have that information,

and then a list of the assignments that
we have due for that chapter.

So if I click on the lecture
presentation part two,

This is one of the slides in
the lecture presentation,

and it's an example problem, and you will
see throughout all of the chapters,

which use some kind of technology,
which is basically all of the chapters

in the entire semester except
for three of the chapters.

Except for three chapters, we will be
using either StatCrunch most often,

or there's two other applets that we use
on the internet in chapters six and seven,

so every other chapter besides one, four,
five, six, and seven, use StatCrunch,

so you need to become very
familiar with it, and I have linked

in video demonstrations that I have made
in YouTube, I linked them directly

into these presentations so it all
stays in one nice neat place,

so for instance when I click on this link
to the video demonstration,

It comes directly to-

(female narrator)
Here's our data

from the Google spreadsheet.

(Barbara Caudill)
-to a video,

so it shows the data, there's also a
link to the data in the presentation,

here's a link to the data for chapter two,
and then a link to the video demonstration

and when I get to the video demonstration,
it's going to walk me through

copying this data into StatCrunch, and
then all of the things I have to click on

when I'm in StatCrunch, and these
are the things I'm talking about

you should write down. I clicked on stat,
I clicked on summary stats,

and then what did I click on next, and
then what did I get in the output,

here's the output. What information
was given to me in the output,

so you, as an online learner, need
to become very proficient

at taking very explicit detailed
notes as you watch the videos.

That is your way to be the most
successful in this class.

So again, as you go through
the presentations,

whenever there's a video demonstration,
you need to click on those links

and watch those videos.

I'm going to pause here for
the second code word,

and the second code word is
pizza, P-I-Z-Z-A, pizza.

One other tab that you'll find
helpful on this left hand side,

is the WebEx conferences tab.
When you click on that tab,

It will look like this, and if you've made
arrangements with your instructor

to do a WebEx meeting, then as the time
approaches, you will see the meeting time

show up here and you will see a link,
a button, an orange button,

that says join, and you can
click on that to join it,

so sometimes instructors will set up
individual meetings with their students,

or maybe they'll have an online
office hour each week,

or a group help session for the class,
so those would all be under the WebEx

conferences tab.

There's also additional information about
how to use the WebEx in Canvas,

you will find that in your
instructor contact tab there

if you click on that box on the
home page and scroll down,

you'll see a using WebEx conferences in
Canvas video that you can watch,

and also if you click on the
modules and go to module zero,

module zero has some basic
information for the class,

and click on, in module zero,
the resources page.

If you scroll down a little bit you'll
see some information about StatCrunch,

and then again you'll also see a video
about using WebEx in Canvas.

I'm going to give you your third code
word, and that third code word

is median. M-E-D-I-A-N, median.

This concludes our first video.

There is a second video about
using MyStatLab in our class.