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New Students 1) Create your OSU username 2) Login to your email account 3) Send Lee an email 4) Email the Hotline 5) Read the Student Manual 6) Check your email OSU WebMail CMS E-Mail Director Lee Wayand: lee@socrates.math.ohio-state.edu Hotline: hotline@socrates.math.ohio-state.edu FAX FAX: 1-866-809-3521 PHONE: (614) 688-3920 AOL IM crosu1     crosu2 crosu3     crosu4 crosuinfinity Expectations... ...of Students ...of Mentors ...of Administrators ...of Coordinators Help! C&M FAQ Communication Tools Mathematica Math 151 Math 152 Parametrization Hotline Hours CMS OSU WebMail Example Solutions Math Solutions Example Solutions:   Line through Points   Limiting Values   Temperature Student/Mentor Exchange:   Global Scale Official Notices: Things you have agreed to. Groups: Working with others. Mathematica: Home license. Directions: Visit Us. Transcripts: transfering credit. New Students 1) Create your OSU username 2) Login to your email account 3) Send Lee an email 4) Email the Hotline 5) Read the Student Manual 6) Check your email OSU WebMail CMS E-Mail Director Lee Wayand: lee@socrates.math.ohio-state.edu Hotline: hotline@socrates.math.ohio-state.edu FAX FAX: 1-866-809-3521 PHONE: (614) 688-3920 AOL IM crosu1     crosu2 crosu3     crosu4 crosuinfinity Expectations... ...of Students ...of Mentors ...of Administrators ...of Coordinators Help! C&M FAQ Communication Tools Mathematica Math 151 Math 152 Parametrization Hotline Hours CMS OSU WebMail Example Solutions Math Solutions Example Solutions:   Line through Points   Limiting Values   Temperature Student/Mentor Exchange:   Global Scale Official Notices: Things you have agreed to. Groups: Working with others. Mathematica: Home license. Directions: Visit Us. Transcripts: transfering credit.

What to do FIRST The first thing you need to do is contact us via email. That means you need to activate your OSU email account. Do that right now. Since you are in CROSU you are also an OSU student, which means you have an OSU username and email address. However, you need to activate them. You have to do it. We cannot. Go to the OSU Account Management page. Click on the OSU Internet Username tab. New Page. Click on Activate Account. New Page. Fill in your SSN Fill in your Birth Month and Day. Supply a password. You can use OSU's webmail to collect your email or you can supply another email address to forward your email to. Click on the Activate Account button. You can access your email account via OSU's WebMail webpage. Send Lee an email! Lee@socrates.math.ohio-state.edu We need your OSU username to create your CROSU account. Once we have your OSU username then we can create your CROSU/CMS account on our homework server. This is where you will exchange homework with us, talk to students, get help, etc. First, we need a way to communicate. So, activate your email account. If you are experiencing difficulty activating your OSU email account (there could be lots of reasons), then use another email account to contact us. If you do not have an email account then go to Yahoo or Hotmail and create yourself an account and then email us from there. Course Management Site The Course Management System holds just about everything you need. Hand-In Homework GetBack Homework Assignments Grades Getting Starteed Information Help Notebooks Getting Started Our distance classroom is unlike anything you have experienced before. It is going to take some time to get comfortable...we know that. To begin with, there are several new tools that you will learn to use. We will help you learn these tools and we will take quite a bit of time to do it. The most important activity here is Communication. Talk to us EVERYDAY!. You will panic during this time...we know that. We will take a loooong time to get familiar with Communication, Mathematica, and the Course Management System (CMS). The whole first math lesson is really about these. Then it is going to take you a while (weeks!) to find your own personal approach to this class, because you are used to face-to-face classrooms. We know this. Once we are up and running, you have relaxed, and you have a set schedule with the math lessons then the pace picks up considerably. The Student Manual fills in all of the details. When in doubt, ask! What to do SECOND Can you juggle? While still emailing Lee and the hotline everyday, you are going to study, learn, and become familiar with two things: our distance environment and Mathematica. Each of these activities that will take you many days. So, just slow down and get comfortable. To start, go read the student manual. Read through the student website Work through the BIG Checklist Keep communicating with us. Learning about Mathematica involves a lot of playing and we have it. There are two sets of notebooks to read through, Getting Started with Mathematica and Common Mathematica Frustrations. Click on the Mathematica link to the left under Help! There will be A LOT of email coming your way. Daily Routine It may seem implausible at the beginning, but eventally, you will be comfortable with the environment and learning math. Once you are busy with math then you'll be cycling through the same activities each day. - Read the textbook (Basics and Tutorials) and ask questions. - Work on homework questions (GiveItaTry). - Hand in notebooks via the CMS. These notebooks may be completed or not. They may contain questions you have rather than solutions. - Receive returning notbeooks. These contain feedback to whatever you submitted. - Respond to feedback questions from the mentors. - Taking quizzes. There's one after each lesson. This list may seem familiar, but in the distance classroom they take on a strange interpretation. You will struggle to retain the linear cadence you have grown accustomed to and we will insist that you lose that linear approach and develop a swirling parallel strategy. We revisit this all during the year. Don't worry, we won't let you forget. The Student Manual fills in all of the details. When in doubt, ask! ...Communication...Communication...Communication... Our distance classroom works because we transfer a lot of the learning responsibility onto your shoulders. We work as equal learning partners around here and that requires a healthy and continuous line of communication. It is your job to keep that communication flowing. The secret to success in math has nothing to do with math. The secret to learning math is communication. Our courses are designed as learning environments, not evaluation environments. We will not judge you here. We will help you teach yourself math. That only comes from a partnership. Do not isolate yourself. Isolation only leads to frustration. Nothing else. Year after year after year after year after year after year the best math students are not the people able to do all of the problems. The successful students are the ones that decide to join us as partners and place equal value on math and communication. Keep the goal in mind. Personal Version of Mathematica As an OSU student you can purchase a site license for Mathematica for your own home use. Pretty cheap too! (like $35) That way you can work on math late at night. More Information.