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What Should I Know About Submitting Course Assignments To The Instructor?

You will be expected to submit all of your course assignments according to the course schedule defined by your instructor. Most courses require that you submit your work to the instructor by email or via the Blackboard systems digital drop box. In some cases your homework may be submitted in a standard email message or you may wish to include longer assignments as a word processing file via an email attachment.

Make a plan for preparing your course assignments and the format you will submit them in. Check with your instructor to determine the compatibility of homework files you may be submitting. Most instructors at WCTC are using either MS Word or WordPerfect. Think of it as a step-by-step process. The process might look something like the following:

• Open up your word processor application and begin to make notes on your readings and assignments for the current chapter.
• Word process your answers in a narrative format when asked to provide an "essay" or "short answer" or "short paragraph".
• Check your work by "proofing" it. This means, review over your draft to see that what you have typed is what you want to submit. Continue to "proof" by checking the spelling and grammar. Use a "spell-check" function on your word processor if you have one.
• Always make sure that you identify each submitted assignment with the "Chapter Number" in the "Subject:" of the email screen. It is very important to identify all correspondence by filling in the "subject line" on the face of the email screen
• Always make sure that you help out the reader by identifying the specific parts of the assignments (as shown on the Web page) on the page that you submit for credit. For example, make sure that Question 3a. on the Web page is identified and matches Question 3.a on your submitted paper. This is an important point to follow.

After preparing your completed assignments send them to your instructor in the agreed upon file format standard as an email attachment. If your instructor is having trouble reading your files, you may wish to send your documents in a standard text file format ".txt".

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