Online and On Campus Classes
updated: 5/12/03

Welcome to the Online and On Campus Paralegal Studies Progrram

This may be your first online class. Don't worry. It will be fun.

Here are the things you should do:

1. Read the Home page and Syllabus for each class you are taking. This may be your first online class. Read Student Policies and Procedures FAQ'sMeet our Online FacultyOrientationGetting Started Accreditation and Statutory Compliance Statement Learn to navigate the Student Information SystemOrder your textbooks (online) Read Grading Rubric for Postings and Essays

If this is your first online class, and you are a little nervous, Take this online learning orientation from Foothill Community College (it is not exactly like ours, but it does give some principles and guidelines you can use in doing our online program.)

2. The Schedule, and Grades are what you will check most frequently in your onlne classes so become familiary with these links. Notice that the schedule is numbered, has dates, and then work for you to do under each date, such as discussions, quizzes, and written assignments. Please do not work far ahead. Even though there are no "in person" classroom meetings, you are part of an online classroom, and your postings are your participation, so please keep up, not behind or ahead of the rest of the class.

3. You may order your books online. See the Syllabus for each class to find the links to order your books.

4. Each Class starts off with Posting your introduction. Please include your name and your email address in the posting. Without this information your online instructor cannot notify you of your progress in the class (i.e. your grades). This is then followed by posting to "How to Study Law", and then "Spotting Falacies". These are a type of warm up exercises to get everyone on board, used to posting, and ready to learn the content of the course. If you take more than one online class, you must do this for each online class. It will not hurt re-reading the article, and posting. You will learn something new about these articles each time you read them. This is a promise.

5. Read the Article on How to Study Law, and then post your response. This exercise is given to all classes, so you may end up posting it more than once if you are taking more than one oneline class. The purpose of this exercise is to study, and re-study the basic elements in how to study law. Even the experts go back to the basics to become "more expert".

6. Once you finish a quiz, please send an email to your instructor. Do Not send an attachment with your email giving the answers to the quiz, instead, just put the answers in your email message, and put it on two lines, eg. 1a, 2b, 3d, .....15d , then a second line 16c, 17a, etc.

8. Read the Article on Fallacies. Then post an analysis of the Exercises #1-16. Try to first guess which fallacy each one represents, then check your knowledge with the answer key provided at the bottom of the page. Then post under each class, an analysis of each example and why it represents a particular "fallacy". This exercise helps the law student/paralegal to notice "weak legal arguments", and will assist the student to better "post" their answers to each discussion under each class.

7. Start reading your assignments, and you can begin your work. Please when you send any work, identify the exact exercise, quiz, assignment, and put your name on the email so your professor can recognize you. an email "little red riding hood @ aol.com" does not help the professor to post your grades, or answer your question, so please put your name at the bottom or top of each email message to your online professor to inform him/her who you are.

8. You need to learn how to "cut or copy and paste". Here is the information on how to do that. here is how to "cut and paste". Please remember to save all of your work before you send it to your professor since sometimes email's are lost, or misplaced, and then you will not have to do your work again if the online professor did not receive your work.

9. Good luck, this semester, and email Prof. J. at abogado@pacbell.net, or page him at 818-546-7060 if you have any questions about your class or program.

Prof. Jordan
Director