Junior Comp

RNinC · Aug 11, 2013

I only called her once before the semester started (thinking it was important and not that she just wanted to tell me to read everything twice and with my finger under each word). I do not think you need to actually call her, although 10% of your grade is "professionalism and participation" so it might not hurt to at least call once so you look like you're actively participating. Obviously I don't know how I've done on the P&P portion of the grade yet.

Just do your best to figure out when the assignments are due. Open the examples/details AND the rubric and use that as a guide for all of your papers. (I literally open both documents and try to make mine a mirror). For one assignment I only opened the rubric and was dinged for not having something from the details page and vice versa.

Is your textbook online? We had to take a weekly quiz (though she eventually changed it so the due date for all quizzes/connect assignments weren't due until the end) and drag and drop grammar activities that take forever and are only worth a few points. They are not too difficult, though. You can use the book for the quizzes. The book won't really help with the connect assignments but you can do those more than once.

You'll be fine. More than anything you'll just be frustrated by the assignments (since they are not APA and have nothing to really do with furthering any writing skills you would need for nursing) and the layout of blackboard. But it is still doable. Don't be like me and stress yourself out unnecessarily. Most of the grading isn't too tough and, even though ridiculous, the assignments aren't actually difficult.

SmackerNurse · Aug 12, 2013

Thank you RNinC for the wonderful advice. I appreciate your input. This helped me a lot. :-)