 Greetings, students. Welcome to this tour of your course, American Literature 1. This is just going to show you how to get around in the course and where all the important things are so that, you know, as you're going through the course, you can always refer back to this video to remember to find a certain thing that you're looking for. So the course is loaded with lots of content. This is because, of course, it's running in a hybrid format. So some students will take the course online, some students will take it face-to-face, some will go back and forth, and there needs to be, I think, just a lot of information for a student whether they're in the face-to-face or online course. So this is the landing page, or also known as the home page, and what you'll find out is as the semester goes along, these things will be filled up with different information that's relevant to you, alerts about things that are past due, or things that are coming up, any changes in the course, very important, any announcements, those will be populated right here, and of course, you can always go over to the announcements tab here on the left to see the full listing of announcements available, and that's really important because that's going to be one of the main ways that I communicate with you through the course. The calendar is another great feature if I click on it and I want to look at what is due in our class. It's going to, if you see here down on the left, it's going to show up in red, and so every time I see red, that is something that is due in the class, and so I can go into January and you can look up, look here, all the different things that are due within this class. One thing to note is that if you use Google Calendar or you use your iPhone calendar and you want to bring this material into your calendar, that is, you have the, you can have these due dates show up in your calendar on your phone. This is that external eye link that you can use to sync that. So this calendar will sync with your personal calendar so long as it's digital and bring that information in. It's a really great tool. So then we have course materials and these are all the preparatory materials for the course. So obviously things like the syllabus, information about the course structure, plagiarism guide, all the assignments and their guidelines, and then one really useful piece down here is the course readings. So as you know, all of the course readings are available online. All you have to do is click on this link and it brings you to a Google Drive folder that will have all of that material there. So as you can see, here are all the readings and you can download one or more of them as you see fit and you can also change how they look. So maybe you just want them in list view so that you can see all of them. So if we go back into the course, the other big area of course is the learning modules and here are the modules broken down week by week. And when you go into any given module, you will have up here just a clear listing of what's due and when. You will have the learning guide. You'll have the learning materials, which will be not just the readings, right, the particular readings that you're doing that week, but also any videos, any instructional mini lecture videos that are there for the course. You also have any assignments such as the discussion, the open forum. Here's the link to open or to select next week's readings. And one thing to remember is that you must be signed into your North Shore Gmail account. So if you notice in this browser, I am up here in the left up in here in the corner. I am in my North Shore Gmail account. So if I click on that, it will bring me right into the actual form. But if I'm not logged into my North Shore Gmail account in another browser, I'm not going to be able to get access to that. So please keep that in mind. And that's true for these other items as well. So that we have that discussion obviously is where you go for all of the discussions in the course about the instructor. If you want to learn a little bit about me, the questions form as you run into questions. And please, please, please ask questions if you have them. It can be found here on the left side, but it can also be found in the discussion board area. My grades is where you'll go to get all of get any in all updates of your grades. And just notice the tabs up here, you can get all grades graded upcoming submitted. And you can also order this page around over here on the right. And then finally, let me just identify additional resources. There's to there's a there's a folder filled with documentaries that you can access and watch that are about American literature in some way, shape or form. But you do need your North Shore library ID in order to access those. Those are all on EBR, I'm sorry, on films on demand, which is a film database through the library. And then you have this list of audio narrations. And I use I use a site LibreVox. And what you can do is you can look and see which of the readings from which of the modules are available in MP3 narration for you to take a look at. So that's a basic rundown of the course and where things are. I hope this has been useful. And please let me know if you have questions. Thank you.