Unit 3 PLATO Reminders

This should have gone with the previous post about Unit 3, but I didn't want that one to grow any larger.

See PLATO Hints under the Doc Sharing tab for some additional information about how to begin with PLATO. Choose Technical Notes in the drop-down menu, and click the Go button. This is the shorter form.

1. Use the following web address to access PLATOWEB: www.platoweb.com.
2. If the system asks for an account number, it's 51310.
3. Enter your PLATO ID name (first initial last name as jdoe), the group name which is SCC, and your assigned password. To begin with you have no password; you'll need to create a password for yourself once you?re logged in.
4. Click the Send button.

I assume you'll be doing most of this work, if not all, at home. As you first move into PLATO, you'll encounter requests to install plug-ins and other related files. Please do so as asked and then move on. You will also need to allow pop-ups from the PLATO site.

If you use some version of Vista and are still using IE 7 as your browser, you'll need to update to Explorer 8.

Or move over to Firefox or Chrome.

There're five sets of lessons we'll be looking at in PLATO:

• duComp1A
• duComp1B
• duComp1C
• duComp1D
• duComp1W

Begin with duCOMP1A, and we'll see where you need to go from there individually. I can track where you've been in PLATO and how much time you've spent there. Most of all, I am very serious about your being able to manage your writing abilities both from the ideas you generate to the paragraphs you write to the mechanics you use.

You will need to spend at least two hours a week on these exercises, more if I detect repeated problems in your essays?and different if I see that you're successfully blowing through the first few sections on subjects and verbs.

Should you ever be on one of our campuses, you'll be able to work on PLATO in most any of the labs at any of SCC's four centers.