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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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