You can use a homework assignment as a study tool. That is, it can help you study through a part of the textbook. Here is why:
- You usually get 4 attempts at each HW assignment.
- Webcourses is set to record the highest score from your four attempts.
That being the case, you can make a homework assignment into a study tool in this manner:
- Quickly take your first attempt, giving your best educated guess for each question, but quickly.
- Save all your answers and hit the "Finish" button.
- Hit the grey "View Attempt" button, and make a printout if possible or (if on a Mac) print to a PDF file.
- View each question and any General Feedback for the question.
- For each item you got wrong,
- find the section of the chapter that mentions that concept or
- find the part of the iTunes U visual podcast that goes over that concept
- or both!
- Study in the chapter and then slide back over to Webcourses for a second attempt.
- After a bit of study, we hope, your HW score will increase, and Webcourses will record the highest of the four scores.
Many students in past semesters have used this study technique, and I commend it to you all again this semester.
