Tuesday March 17 2020
Students in ACCT 4311 5308 5327 BUAD 3192
Professor Dennis Elam
Dennis.elam@tamusa.edu
I am writing this one message to all classes so as to not omit anything to anyone. First read the Monday March 16 2020 announcement from Provost O’Brien. To wit, we will have on line classes the rest of the semester. Please take a look at the information on the provost page on how to use Webex. Patience, I am learning along with you
As resident Matson said in her e mail, let’s bee patient with one another. No doubt there will be unforeseen problems. We will take them one at a time.
It is more important than ever to check BB announcements as we will not be seeing one another except on line.
Hi, everyone:
As I said I would, I’m sending you a link to a help page for delivering on-line classes: https://www.tamusa.edu/provost/face-to-face-classes-remotely.html.
Jim Meyer in IT Services created it, and he kept it as simple as possible. You might note that it’s the second link on the home page for academic affairs. It has four clickable boxes—two for WebEx, one for installing a VPN connection, and one to a faculty-guides page created by the Center for Academic Innovation. It also contains two phone numbers—one for the CAI and one for the ITS help desk. The CAI will help you with questions such as, “How do I make this program work?” whereas the help desk can work with you on access issues. Again, it’s entirely up to you which course-delivery system(s) you use.
As you probably have heard, President Matson and I made the decision early this afternoon to cancel face-to-face classes for the remainder of the semester. It got to the point where it seemed unfair not to do so, given how things have evolved and where we’re inevitably headed. The less uncertainty we all have to deal with, the better.
Provost Mike O/Brien
A few semesters back we as a department experimented with Hy Flex Classes via Adobe Connect. One could come to class, watch on line at the same time or watch later. I have not seen any on line attendance requirements. I am attending the webex seminar this morning at 9 00 AM on line. More on all of this as we get details.
ACCT 4311
We had scheduled an exam over chapter 1-4 for the first class after Spring Break. The printed test was prepared of necessity on a program called Test Gen, it cannot be imported into MH Connect. While there are supposedly options to put it on BB, I think it best to rely on something we are all familiar with and know will work.
Hence I will be creating another test on M H Connect, again 27 m/c questions. I will attempt to find questions along the same lines, and yes there will be a new review. Keep checking her for announcements.
I have set up on line quizzes via Gleim for practice. One students reports difficulties accessing them, more to follow.
ACCT 5308
We will continue to have on line quizzes and exams, your wishes have been granted! IN the meantime I would like to see a lot more on your blogs in terms of outlines and papers. Some of you have yet to post anything.
And there are some other writing assignments, which believe it or not are quite interesting. See class BB and the Discussion Board for this.
Grades from the exam are posted in BB.
I did hand out Elliott Wave Financial Forecast at our last class. It has been quite accurate on the market break down. Understand that their view is the virus is a white noise news event. The larger picture is that a fundamental shift in markets is occurring.
ACCT 5327
Again grades on the exam are posted. If you took an exam at the testing center I have not been back to campus to pick that up yet.
It will be necessary for you to pay close attention to when quizzes and exams must be taken. A
I have set up on line quizzes in Gleim but one student reports difficulty accessing the exams. More to follow, watch for announcements in BB.
BUAD 3192
My original idea was to have students make a class presentation on a topic in their major. This worked well last semester. However that an in class presentation is not possible. I will be exploring how you can post a power point in for example the discussion board or on a blog I create for you in BB. Stay tuned to announcements on BB.
All Classes
I have been posting updates at
http://www.themarketperspective.com on the market changes. My newspaper columns this year are also there. This is surely one of the most interesting times in market history to observe what is happening. I have not however seen a single comment from anyone on the weblog.
All the so-called experts failed to see the market sell off about to happen. That was not the case for Elliott Wave and Socionomics.
For another view of this take a read on Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His book the Black Swan has sold three million copies. He seems to think random events cannot be predicted.. Socionomic theory is that such events can be seen coming by studying changes in social mood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Again in the mean time let’s be patient with one another. If you have difficulty accessing content no one has a desire to penalize you. However that is not excuse for not following announcements and keeping up on your own. In Conquer Accounting I suggested hitching up with a study partner. Pick one with strengths you do not have. Al 12 suggestions in Conquer are particularly appropriate for a situation like this.
Professor Dennis Elam
Dennis.elam@tamusa.edu
