P. Hamilton, Instructor

Getting Started with OWL (Online Web-Based Learning) Class: CHEM 107 Section: WE1 Instructor: Pauline Hamilton

Registering for the online homework: 1. Go to http://academic.cengage.com/owl 2. Click Intro/Prep 3. Click Introductory Chemistry: An Active Learning Approach, 3rd Edition, Cracolice & Peters 4. Click Community College of Baltimore-Essex Campus, Baltimore, Maryland 5. Click Student Registration 6. Click course section (WE1) 7. Complete the Self-registration Form and then click Continue -Your access information comes with your textbook.

Using OWL:

Please note that some assignments are required and some are optional. Required assignments are graded and optional assignments are not graded. Note also that the assignments have due dates. In order to get a grade for a required assignment, it must be completed by the due date.

1. Log into your section of CHEM 107 2. Click the Assignments link that is on the left navigation bar (The first column of the assignment table shows which assignments are required and which are optional. Once the list appears, you can scroll down to see all the required assignments.) 3. Click on a specific assignment to get to it. It is important that you do the OWL tutorial first. Click Start Here to get stated on it.

Note: You can see the questions in a unit by clicking Unit Menu. When you start an end-of- chapter unit, the number of questions in the unit will also show as numbers with question signs. When you are ready to begin a question, just click on the question sign.

Required Assignments Points To be Completed by Ch 1.1a,b,c Intro to OWL (not included in points value) Math Help2 Significant Figures Math Help 3 Exponential Notation 6/11/08 32 Ch 2 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 3 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 5 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 6 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 7 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized 37 Ch 8 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized 6/18/08 Ch 9 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 10 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Ch 11 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized 31 Ch 12 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized 6/25/08 Ch 13 End of Chapter Questions, Exercises, and Problems Parameterized Note: You can repeat an assignment as many times as you choose before the due date.

If you are repeating this course and you already have a 12-month access code, simply go to the URL above and use the Add/Switch link to put yourself into the correct section.

If you do not have the OWL access code, you can go to http://academic.cengage.com/owl/partners/thomson/epinThomson.html and click the Purchase Access Code link for 1-semester to purchase the access code.