Electronic time entry note

I strongly recommend that you enter your time before the due date. If you enter your time on the last possible day for entry and if there is an error or a question, your time card will be rejected, and there won’t be time for you to make the correction electronically. You will need to complete a paper time card; if you turn in the paper card more than one day after the electronic deadline, you won’t be able to be paid for the time until the next pay period.

Entering time through CougarWeb

If you need to submit your time electronically through CougarWeb, please review these instructions.

From the main CSCC web page, choose CougarWeb from the Student QuickLinks drop-down menu.

Select CougarWeb for Employees.

Log in at the prompt using your Novell username and password.

Click on Time Entry.

Enter your time in and time out each day for the Basic English course(s) you teach.
Be sure to include AM or PM, as appropriate.

DO NOT include any time for courses funded by grants or contracts; hours for these courses must be submitted on a paper time card.

You may do this each day or once at the end of the time period. The time will not be reported until you click the box at the bottom indicating your electronic signature.
NOTE: Once you click this box and then click “Submit”, you will not be able to make any more changes to your time entry.

Electronic time entry is due by the day after the last day of the time period. For example, for time recorded between October 1 and October 15, time reporting is due by October 16.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Winter weather notes

• If the College has any delay or cancellation, it will be announced on the main CSCC web page (www.cscc.edu) as well as on local radio and TV stations (and some of their websites as well).
• Those without TV, radio or Internet access can call CSCC Public Safety (287-2525) and ask if the College is open.
• Please be sure your students are aware of this information.
• Be sure to adjust your travel time so you will be able to arrive at class on time. Drive carefully!
• Some of your students may be experiencing winter weather for the first time. Please talk to them about the importance of keeping their heads and hands covered, and their feet warm and dry.
  

English for Success - On campus program

Summary from Anna-Marie:

I want to offer you some insight on the English for Success program.  I am so delighted with the progress that we have made with the program.  It is tremendous and exciting to say the least.

 

When the program first started it was a hard road to hoe.  The student body was not receptive to our venue.  They fought us tooth and nail and did not show much academic or social progress.  Their attendance was spotty and their negative attitudes could be measured with a stick.

 

Now the program is rocking.  It is so incredible to see the meshing of cultures and learning.  We recently took a classroom expedition to a restaurant.  It was to expose the students to assimilation and language immersion in action.  They had a wonderful time.  To see the growth was tremendous.  When we first started working on assimilation, the resistance was overwhelming.  The students did not want to embrace the American customs of interaction and etiquette, timeliness, or work ethics.  Well, let me tell you all were embraced at our outing.  The students mixed well with one another and were communicating cross-culturally with ease.  The rule was spoken English only.  The Somali, Chinese and the Arabic students were speaking and laughing like lifelong friends.  No pressures, no apprehensions – just plain table talk and fun.  Table manners, timeliness – start and end by the agreed upon time – and respect for the employees of the establishment – how business works, etc. were discussed and viewed.

 

It was so gratifying to see the hard work of each student put into action.  We went to the Global Mall after lunch and the intermingling continued with complete success.  The students put their work and marketing skills to use.  They were introducing non-African shoppers to the merchandise and the customs of the merchants.  To see them explain, embrace and challenge one another was really great.

Gone were the petty arguments over supremacy by one or the other.  Just simple explanation, question and answer amongst classmates.  Eureka! we did it!!!!! 

Evaluations - Autumn 2009 (Part 2)

2. What did you like most about the textbook?
(2) It was just the right textbook for me.
(3) I like every lesson insid the textbook.
(4) The interactive part
(5) Practices
(6) It’s not difficult. It is friendly.
(7) I like to english. I’m understand question.
(8) It help me many thing about how to use the word and tense
(9) I like review Test

3. What did you not like about the textbook?
(1) it does not have the irregalar verb at the end of the book.
(2) The anwer key was too confusing to understand.
(3) I need more information and exercise about present and present progressive
(4) The verbal communications are not sometimes clear.
(5) It should be a help book. If I Read it. I cant undrestand or learn
(7) I’m hard english. I sometimes hard english.
(8) I need more grammar in textbook. This textbook didn’t have much grammar that I want
(9) I didn’t like listening


Comments about teachers:
(1) The teacher is good but, for learn english, I think you need to have native American people to teaching english.
(2) I don’t like any American tearcher but I just like this teacher she is really really good more than you think.


6. Was the course useful to you?
(1) Because our teacher explain things very well. I understand better the grammar than last level.
(2) yes, I learn different things, English Grammer rule, and How to use for spoke. It was very helpful for me.
(3) Because this course helps me with my job. that is what I need.
(4) I Learn how to read and writing and how to says if you speak. so, how to write is the past participle or past pe?? tense. how to write is you compartive and supertlative.
(5) The profecor teach thins that we need for. ecpecialy things the we use every day and tell us how and when we can use
it
(6) We could do a lot of work on the workbook. The teacher explained clearly
(7) Becuase I learned a lot and the teacher was the best. She really knows to explain everything so good and she enjoys teaching.
(8) It did not explain the Hard things as well.
(9) Understand and made friends. I would like to take another course if I could past this level.
(10) The teacher was very helpful old time and we love her
(11) I can talk to classmates or people.
(12) I wass st learning to write and spoken
(13) I want to learn English very wall and I had a good Teacher and I was happy with her.
(14) My teacher Ghada she is the best teacheer i have because she is friendly and helpful everyone of us Fairly


Did you like your teacher?
(1)He has teached business in an interesting way. He has improved our communication skills.


Did you like your books?
(1) It’s very complete and full of good information about business

Evaluations - Autumn 2009 (Part 1)

2. What did you like most about the textbook?
(1) I like the textbook. it could explain all things
(2) textbook AzaR? good explain about gramaR
(3) I Like the SELF-TEST
(4) I love very much to Learn Health care!!
(6) we use computers, but I pefer books
(8) Its complete and easy
(9) The most think I like the textbook is grammar. Because I nevver new befor how was different. That is the resen like.


3. What did you not like about the textbook?
(2) difficult to log in
(3) I like every Think
(4) Nothig
(5) it was not enough to last the whole duration of the quarter but the teacher brought in extra work
(7) I didn’t like electronics books
(8) It has some mistake on the software when I did exercises
(9) The most think I didn’t like is Past Tense. Because I didn’t understad well.


6. Was the course useful to you? Why or why not?
(1) Yes. Thanks CSCC for helping people.
(2) Because, it was very profesyonal. I felt very great this course. The course helped me a lot of.
(3) The methed of teaching Level by Level, That is good to me and I get the wonderful teacher.
(4) because my grammer is good Konw Thanks To Teacher andmy Teher was good and understanding. She h?? me L?? all time, she V?? She helpful if she we?? her I
didn’t Learn Grammar
(5) I like this course Because the teacher help me lot. She Explain everything about this class I understand what ever she say. She is nice teatcher I Never have in my life.
(6) I like gramer because alot word I know my teacher too She Explane good that way I know evry thing but I need know more gramer and she nice teacher She explane evry thing so she nice teacher I like her
(7) becoues I Laeren to much crammer and I star take with bank and. I have more power to make me take with people and mike meunderatand ever thing. and the teacher was varey nase with us and she was like (mam) with me and I Like to see all the techer Like thit and I Like to say thinks for every think you give us think you vere much and I hope to see you agen.
(8) I always learned something new
(9) The teacher was very nice we learned a lof in this class, Thank you very much for all your help it was very nice of you.
(10) Because There wee too many students. I didn’t like the e-book. I liked very much the teacher.
(11) I lang a lot of think in this class. Also like the student they was nice people.

Preparing for BE6

BE5 instructors, please let your students know the following information about BE6 so they will be prepared for this important course:

˜   Basic English 6 uses computers as well as an instructor to teach English. Students will need to have access to a computer with an Internet connection outside class in order to do homework. For those students who do not have a computer at home, the public library and the CSCC Computer Commons are available for their use.

˜   The material to be purchased for Basic English 6 is not a textbook; instead, it is a small packet that contains an individual access code. Each student will need to purchase his own access code. It is available at the campus bookstore just as the books for other Basic English courses. This access code will let students access the program anywhere there is a computer with an Internet connection.

˜   Students will use their CSCC usernames and passwords to log on to the computers in the computer lab. These are already available to them, through the following procedure:

„    Go to the main page of the CSCC website:  www.cscc.edu

„    Under the Student QuickLinks menu, choose Usernames/Passwords.

„    Click on “Discover my Login Name & Password”.

„    Enter the Social Security number (just the numbers – no spaces or hyphens) and the last name in the spaces indicated and click Search.

Note: Students without a Social Security number should enter their CougarID number, preceded by either two or three 8s – enough to create a nine-digit number. 

For example:

„    If the CougarID number is 987654, the student should enter 888987654.

„    If the CougarID number is 1000234, the student should enter 881000234.

Student CougarID numbers can be found on the last rosters that were distributed.

Thank you for your help in improving student success. If you have any questions, please let me know.

If students are aware of this information, and if they will look up their usernames and passwords before classes begin in January, the first week of Basic English 6 will run much more smoothly.