Bonus points up; CPS due date, Sept. 8

We will start taking regular CPS points "for real" on Monday, Sept. 8, so try to get your clicker registered by then.

For those of you who get registered before that and bring your clicker to class, we will take one bonus point per day. This is my normal practice whilst you all get used to clicking.

AND: I just posted the Friday bonus point for about 34 of you who were clicking away on Friday. SWEEEEEET.

Widget for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard users

I just created a Dashboard widget for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard users. It works like a simple RSS viewer that lets you keep an eye on the top few posting in this Announcements Blogspot. It is very efficient for checking. Clicking one of the

Unzip it and click on it to start it up and install in Dashboard. When you look on your Dashboard, the PSC1121 Announcements widget looks like this



Look for it on the home page in Webcourses. It is a zip file, 191 Kb.

CPS technical support

The eInstruction company that makes our CPS units, they have excellent technical support:

1. http://www.einstruction.com/Support/ for online chat and FAQ
2. Telephone hotline, 888-333-4988

They are on the Texas time zone.

Their tech support is top notch. If there is something hinky with your registration process, they can get it straightened out on the phone or chat.

I was just in chat with them about registration fees, and they answered my question quickly. Your registration fee is $13 per semester no matter how many courses use CPS, and then $13 per semester until you hit $39, at which point you get free service for life. So that is potentially 3 semesters in a row before the fee goes to zero.

Ten in CPS so far

OK, we have ten of youse guys so far in the CPS database. Excellent.

We will give it a go tomorrow in class, a test flight. get your clicker registered up by lecture and you'll be able to participate.

Syllabus and CPS signups are UP

You can now go to Webcourses and

1. snag a syllabus PDF if you did not get one in lecture, and
2. register your blue-and-white CPS clicker.

Note: in the "step 2" of CPS registration, we do not have an enrollment code or anything like that, so skip to the third step.

Semester grades are IN

Semester grades are now IN at the registrar's office.

I will now go and have some non-academic excitement by listening to my William Hung Greatest Hits CD. I know you are all jealous.

Final exam scores are UP.

Excellent. All of your final exam scores are now UP.

Everything is on the books now for almost everybody, so you can get a rough idea of your semester grade by calculating and adding up points as we did in lecture, and then going by the points total on the syllabus for a letter grade.

HOWEVER
I still have to tidy up bonus points like SSG and questions, plus some SMA from midterm 4 for a few people. I also have to decide how to factor in the Chuck Norris HW and the Super Mega Combo-review on CPS last week. So what you calculate will be R-O-U-G-H.

Do not bug me about your semester grade, and do not get Ashton, Gaby or Meg to bug me about your grade. The more you bug me, the slower your semester grades will be.

No HW

Scantrons are now IN at the test scoring service. Might be ready today or Friday.

Time to get some shuteye.

Office hours on Monday

I will have office hours on Monday morning 8 AM until noon, at Starbuck's in the UCF Bookstore, central campus. I will have the exam printouts with me and you can pick them up.

Breakdown sheets are ready at Twin Pines Mall

If you have your exam printouts, then you can now go and check over the breakdown sheets. Each of the four midterms is now fully broken down as to scantron questions. Look for this icon on the home page: the logo of the Twin Pines Mall.