ACC201 Intro to Financial Acccounting Syllabus (In Person, Online and Hybrid)

Course Admin, Tools and Policies, Disabilities

Instructor's Information - See Contact Information

Office Hours and Chat Hours - See Office Hours

MyUH:

MyUH allows a student to:
1) register for courses, check registration status,
2) check e-mail,
and
3) check graduation status, etc.

Your instructor will be using MyUH class list to create class list, grant overrides, etc. to you. You should know your MyUH ID number and login. You can access MyUH portal by using the following web link:

MyUH.

Your MyUH ID should be same as your hawaii.edu address without the "@hawaii.edu" portiom of the email. Your password for MyUH should be the same as your hawaii.edu email address.

 

E-Mail Account:

When you registered with the University of Hawaii system, you were given a University of Hawaii e-mail address: xxxxxxx@hawaii.edu. This is the default e-mail address your instructor will use to communicate with you because this is the official e-mail address associated with MyUH.

You may access your UH e-mail using the web address mail.hawaii.edu (hawaii.edu/google) if you have converted to Google mail for or through MyUH.

Your instructor can use Laulima's Mailtools to send e-mail to the entire class or selected individuals and you can use that to send e-mail to your instructor's e-mail but please follow e-mail policies specified in the contact information area. See below as well.

If you want to use any other e-mail address such as www.yahoo.com or www.hotmail.com, you will need to request registration office to help you change your default e-mail address or setup your hawaii.edu e-mail to forward your e-mail to your other e-mail address(es). Eventually, it may be easier to start using your hawaii.edu e-mail address.

All e-mail accounts have space limits so you may want to clean up your mailbox once in a while so it will not be over the limit. Once a mailbox is full, it will not accept any new e-mail. The UH e-mail account generally gives you more space than Yahoo or Hotmail.

If there is a problem accessing the Internet any time during the semester, please call the instructor as soon as possible for special arrangements for the period when your internet is down. If you have problems sending e-mail attachments or do not know how, please let your instructor know so he can setup an on-line or in person training session with you.

Please access contact information for e-mail policy.

Laulima

Laulima, originally known as Sakai, is an on-line learning tool selected and used by the University of Hawaii system as the standardized software for distance learning courses. When you registered for a course in the University of Hawaii system, such as one at Kap CC, you are automatically setup to access the Laulima for that course provided that the professor/lecturer uses it. Some professors/lecturers may not use Laulima. For us, yes, we will be using Laulima for this course. If you are not able to access Laulima for this course, please contact your professor or administration office ASAP.

Sakai is an off-the-shelf software that can be adopted by different colleges. Each college will administer its own version of Sakai. In Hawaii, Sakai is known as Laulima. Laulima is used by the University of Hawaii system including UH Manoa, UH Hilo, UH West Oahu and all the community colleges. The web address to access the UH Laulima system is laulima.hawaii.edu. Since this system is maintained by UH, if the UH Manoa systems are down, then most likely, Laulima may go down as well.

To access Laulima, your username and password are the same ones you used for MyUH.

For additional information on how to login, trouble-shooting, etc., please click on the link to on how to contact University of Hawaii Help Desk.

Excel 2010

Excel will be used to complete certain homework assignments. There are two different ways you can access MicroSoft Office 2010 on our campus:

1) Physically go to our Kopiko 101 computer lab to use Excel (MS Office) 2010.

2) Purchase and install MS Office, including Excel, Word and Access on your home computer.

For more information about Excel, please click on the picture on the right hand side.

Wiley Plus (formerly known as eGrade Plus) <For ACC 201 and ACC 202 courses only>

Wiley Plus (eGrade Plus) will be used to post chapter homework assignments, quizzes, exam, etc., please see the Homework Assignments section. A Wiley Plus registration code is bundled with each new textbook sold at the KCC bookstore. You may order your text on-line at the KCC bookstore or purchase the text in person as mentioned in the textbook section.

Wiley Plus also has other study tools such as self-study questions, demonstration problems, eBook, etc. available at your disposal.

I will create an icon in your WebCT course area where you can access Wiley Plus with one click. You can also use the address www.wileyplus.com to access Wiley Plus. You should write down this web address because it will come in handy if the UH system is down. Since Wiley Plus is provided by the publisher of our text, Wiley Publishing, it is generally operational even when the UH system is down.

Click on the following links to see instructions (Acrobat documents) on how to log in:

Or watch the following video (you must have a YouTube login to view, if you do not have one, go to www.youtube.com to sign up for one):

Addtitional video (you must have a YouTube login to view, if you do not have one, go to www.youtube.com to sign up for one):

Please report problems encountered in Wiley Plus to your instructor.

 

Computer data backup and Anti-Virus Software

You are responsible for backing up your own work at home and at school. Please be sure to back up your files periodically in case your computer may crash or may catch a virus. Some important files to keep for this course, at a minimal, your answers to Exam problems (Excel format) and your paper/project (Word format).

To protect your computer from virus infection, you can select any anti-virus software you want but it should allow you to update your virus definition file periodically and automatically. As a student of the University of Hawaii, you may download a copy of McAfee anti-virus program to use at home from the UH software website:

http://www.hawaii.edu/help/software/pc/virusscan.html

Once you have the page opened, you can click on "McAfee VirusScan" and follow the instructions given to download and install the software. You are only allowed to download one copy for your home computer.

 

 

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