Welcome

Welcome to Inside the Recording Industry. This homepage will be updated periodically with information to help you through the course, but most of the tips and instructions are found on other pages. We will be using D2L for your quizzes, scavenger hunts, personal web pages, chats, message boards and other academic purposes. 

Final Exam

For Summer 2010, your final exam is Thursday, December 16  from 10-12 in room BAS S137E. You must show up that day or make arrangements through the MTSU distance learning office for alternative times and places. Study guides will be available online 5 days before the exam.

 

Getting Started

To get started, click on the course introduction button. Once you've already been oriented, you can go directly to the course modules button to get your assignments. Sometimes the system does not automatically grade your quiz or scavenger hunt and it becomes necessary for the instructor to enter the system and run the grade function. Do not panic if yours happens to be one of those, but it wouldn't hurt to notify the teacher.

 

Miss the orientation session? You can watch the recording by clicking here. Turn up your audio.

Using the system

Pipeline is set to timeout after 30 minutes and that has caused some students to be kicked off the system while they are taking a quiz. To override this, go to the Pipeline page and in the upper left corner, click on "my account." Then change the timeout value from 30 minutes to 90 minutes--or better yet, use this gateway: http://elearn.mtsu.edu.

All quizzes, scavenger hunts and other interactive assignments will be done through D2L. But you should bookmark the Course Modules page for quick reference.

Important notice: The Inside Sessions videos are now available online in the D2L section of this course under the content tab.

Contacting your professor

Tips for sending me email: Do not send email through the internal D2L class . Instead, send it to my regular email address at thutchis@mtsu.edu or hutchtom@aol.com.  The internal mail system does not notify me that I have mail unless I click through a dozen pages to get to it. If you send it directly to my MTSU mailbox, it shows up on my desktop right away. Be sure to put something relevant in the subject line, and if we have a discussion going back and forth, copy the thread of previous emails.

You can also Skype me. Skype is free. All you need is your computer, a cheap webcam, and to download Skype from www.skype.com and set up a username. Find me at hutchtom1@skype.com or search Skype using the hutchtom@aol.com email address.

If you are really in a bind, try this.

 

 

Contact the instructor at thutchis@mtsu.edu