Important demo booking information

I've modified the Google calendar showing available times for demos...here are the important points:

1. Time slots that aren't marked are NOT available for demos.
2. I've expanded my available booking times for demos 2 through 4...you can see them marked on the calendar as "Demos 2-4 only"
3. Friday, December 7th is the LAST day for bookings - no exceptions.
   

Demo 4 now up in My Demos

Friday tasks up in My Tasks section

About the tours on November 16 & 19

Just some info on the classes for November 16 & 19:

• We'll be taking a short (~15 minute) tour of some of the facilities in the IT department here at the college - of particular interest is the server room.
• It would be great if you had some questions ready for the person giving us the tour, so if you can think of a college-related IT question you'd like to ask, please email me the question before noon on Thursday, November 15th. Any reasonable question (my discretion) will nab you 10 karma points.
• You must sign up for one of the four available time slots - go to the Discussion Board and look for the IT Tour Sign-up forum for more information.
• Material covered during the tour will be on the final exam.
  

5% Offer + the Grade Estimator

As mentioned in class, you have the option of reducing the weighting on one of your pre-final non-demo assessments (so that means midterm, quizzes, assignments, lab exams, or journal) by 5% and transferring that 5% to your final exam. So, for example, you could do away with your first quiz altogether and have your final weighted at 35%; or you could reduce your midterm weighting to 5% and have your final weighted at 35%.

If you wish to take advantage of this offer, you must email by noon on December 7th, stating in the email which assessment you're reducing. There is no exception to this deadline.

If you want to see how this might effect your marks, use the Grade Estimator - but follow this procedure:

1. Open up the Grade Estimator (it's in the Course Docs section)
2. Enter in your marks on the MAIN worksheet as per usual
3. In the "Reduce by 5%?" column, enter in a "y" for the assessment you want to reduce the weighting on - keep this as "n" otherwise.
   

Quiz reminder

This is just a reminder that there will be a quiz on Wednesday, November 14, in class.

The quiz will consist of 12 questions, 4 from each of the DB, Network, and Internet units. Of these 4 questions, one will be related to vocabulary from the vocabulary lists not covered in class. (This is to simulate the experience you will be having on the not-too-distant final, and to encourage you to be constantly reviewing those vocabulary lists.)

The quiz will be 15 minutes long, and we will go over the results immediately after the quiz is complete.

The quiz will be worth 5% of your final mark.

Friday tasks and journal tasks up