>> Orientation Video 1: CPAscott Website, Introduction.
This is an orientation to Online Accounting 1A.
We are going to start out by looking at the CPAscott.com website.
CPAscott.com is my own personal website, and I use it for public information.
Notice on the home page, we have various links to some De Anza webpages.
Of course, we also have links to the various courses that I teach here at De Anza.
I would like to call your attention to the upper right-hand corner of the webpage
where we have the Accounting links.
If you click on this link, you'll go to a list of various other websites that I have compiled
that will help you learn more about accounting.
For instance, in chapter one, we are going to, we are going to be looking
at various websites such as the AICPA and the FASB.
However, most of the time, you'll be going to the Accounting 1A Fall 2019 page online.
I sometimes teach both a face-to-face campus section of Accounting 1A
as well as this Online Accounting 1A.
Make sure you always refer to the information for this online section.
So let's go there.
Click on the tab to go to Accounting 1A Online Fall 2019, and you will find links
to various resources for this course.
Let's start with the course syllabus.
Click on the link for the syllabus.
Syllabus is the basic contract for this course.
Syllabus contains a lot of important information that you should be aware of.
The Accounting 1A online Fall 2019 page also has a link for the schedule.
The schedule is a calendar and contains all important due dates.
Keep in mind that the calendar changes throughout the quarter.
More due dates may be added to the calendar as the quarter progresses.
The link after that is for homework assignments.
The homework assignments link parallels the schedule or the calendar.
All important due dates will be shown on this page as well.
This page contains more detail about the assignments than the calendar does.
We also have a link called Use of Websites in Class.
There are three basic websites that we'll be using throughout the course.
The current website is CPAscott.com, and that's my personal website.
I use this for public information.
The second website is called Canvas.
Canvas is De Anza's own course management system.
I use this website to publish more private information.
I also use this website for various web activities
such as forum discussions, and some kinds of quizzed.
The third website is Cengage NOW.
This website is sponsored by the textbook publisher.
This website contains many important resources such as the eBook.
This is also the place where chapter homework assignments will be completed.
There will be quizzes on this website, and also midterm one for this course,
the Intro Online Midterm in the middle of the quarter.
Remember, the comprehensive on-campus midterm exam must be taken on campus,
in person, at the end of the quarter.
Finally, there is an extra credit link.
You could earn three percentage points of extra credit by completing an assignment
that will be listed here later in the quarter.
A percent point relates to your grade at the end of the quarter.
Three percentage points would increase your final course score
from an 89 to a 92%, for instance.