College of the Canyons

Fall 2009

Orientation Letter for HRMGT 101, 150, 210, 225

 Hello and welcome to the Hotel/Restaurant program internet classes.   

In order to successfully complete one of the Hotel/Restaurant courses, you must have a ready and reliable access to the internet. 

You must log onto our class’s site several times a week on several different days to retrieve and submit assignments and to participate in message board activities with classmates and me.   If you are going to be unable to participate in this manner, this is not the course for you.  However, just as in traditional “brick room” class formats, if you know in advance that you are going to miss one or more “class periods,” accommodations can be made with me that will lesson the negative impact of your “absence” on your grade. 

This class will allow you the opportunity to meet deadlines in a manner most convenient to your schedule.  For instance, you will never be required to logon to the website at a specific time, say . . . 2:15 pm on September 23rd.   If you fall a week or more behind please contact so that I can see if we can restructure your work.

If you have never worked a computer or have not taken an internet class, the start-up is relatively simple (OOPS—I know that is the wrong thing to say) but if you have patience and are not afraid to ask questions you will pick up this format in a relatively short time and do just fine. I have never received a stupid question well—there was one question I do remember it was some years ago when a student asked if the tray you placed the CD into was a coffee holder.  

All of our work occurs online except the essay tests which are scheduled during the midterm and final.  Internet students may take these exams in the TLC lab during that testing period either in the evening or morning.

I will evaluate your performance on discussion board projects, online quizzes, online tests, and other related writing assignments. 

The comprehensive midterm and final essay portions of our exams will be completed at an official testing center.  (COC’s testing center is in the TLC Lab; all California colleges provide testing services, and students in this class may choose to utilize these and other testing centers convenient to their location.  (Complete information will be provided when appropriate at our class website.)

If you are enrolled in the course, you need to complete the Blackboard Tutorial at COC’s Distance Learning page.  Here’s a link to that page:

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/distance_learning/OnlineOrientation/

Once you’ve completed the orientation, you may login to our class website starting on August 24 for the Fall 09 session. If you do not login to our course by midnight, within the first three days of the start of the session, you will be dropped from the course.  Please note that completing the tutorial does not mean you have logged into our website.  The tutorial will explain “how” to login to our class website. 

Once again, welcome to the course. 

Sincerely,

Kevin Anthony