GTECH 709 Course web site How to navigate the course BlackBoard site Announcements Course materials (videos vs. transcripts) Lab assignments

BlackBoard The whole course is BlackBoard-based It is here that you will find All lecture materials Instructions for assignments, quizzes, exams Everything related to your project However, you will sometimes be sent via URLs to external web sites for data or software services

Announcements Check the course announcements at least once a day Every lecture or assignment is prone to be updated at any time The announcement pages is where you will be alerted to these changes

Course Materials This is the most important tab Here you find links to the Lecture materials Assignment instructions and data Quizzes Midterm and final exam Cartographic studio (aka project) All organized by week

Organized by Week This is an example of the organization of the first week of lectures

Working through the Materials The videos are speech-annotated PowerPoint presentations (lectures) Alternatively, you can work through the PowerPoints themselves together with the transcripts of the lectures PowerPoints are bullet-points only; you need either the transcripts or the videos to get all the content Other materials are useful but not necessary

Assignments Assignment instructions are very detailed The videos show you step-by-step how the instructor moves through examples Alternatively, you can read detailed instructions provided as pdf files In either case, the assignments end with you performing similar work and uploading the results to BlackBoard