Llaves, Duolingo, and Online Assignments
In Spanish 111, 112, 211, and 212 we will be using the Llaves learning program and Duolingo a lot for the online meetings in our course. You will need to have access to this RIGHT AWAY, so don’t hesitate in gaining access to this valuable tool. If you purchased your Llaves text at the NMSU Bookstore, this is the book key code that you purchased. DO NOT THROW THIS AWAY! If you purchased your access code from another place, you will have to buy access at grlcontent.com
Some Great Recommendations for Completing Online Assignments in your electronic text book and other apps.
There are several activities assigned for each chapter. You are required to complete ONLY the assignments that are assigned (this will appear on the date that they are due (please see the Calendar in Canvas). There are additional exercises as well that will be great for extra practice, but you will not receive points for them.
As you may already know, completing online assignments requires a great deal of self discipline. There is not an instructor over your shoulder making sure that everything is done. So, we recommend completing a few of the online assignments at a time, rather than waiting until the last minute.
Here are some VERY WISE words on what to do and what not to do. Please feel free to try whichever suits your style.
NOT GOOD: Complete the online exercises the night before they are due. Plan on a long night!! ☺
GOOD: Complete all the activities within a day or two of them being due. Plan on a couple of longish nights!!
BETTER: Work on the online activities on the days we are scheduled for online meetings – that means doing a little over 10 activities on each of those online days. This is very doable, but may take a little more than an hour to complete.
BEST: Work on a few activities every day – and if you do this – only on weekdays (feel free to work on weekends as well, that would only reduce the number of activities per day) – you will only need to do about 5-6 activities per day. These can easily be completed in 30 minutes to an hour depending on the activity. Then, the last few days before the test, you can review the ones that may have given you some trouble.
Please remember that your class will not wait for students to catch up, you need to be responsible enough to do your part. Your instructor will be monitoring the activities online, if they see that the majority of the class is waiting until just before the due date to complete all the activities, they will shorten the time available on future assignments.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: You do not need to get 100% on all the activities in order to receive full credit, though I recommend that you repeat the activity as many times as you would like until you achieve 100% (this would be the best practice). You actually receive full credit for obtaining 80% or above.
ONE REALLY COOL WAY TO DO THIS WORK. Come to the NMSU Spanish Lab to complete your online work work. That way, as we say en español, “matas dos pájaros con un solo tiro.” You’ll kill two birds with one stone. You get credit for doing the online activities AND you’ll get credit for being in the Spanish Lab!!!
Some Great Recommendations for Completing Online Assignments in your electronic text book and other apps.
There are several activities assigned for each chapter. You are required to complete ONLY the assignments that are assigned (this will appear on the date that they are due (please see the Calendar in Canvas). There are additional exercises as well that will be great for extra practice, but you will not receive points for them.
As you may already know, completing online assignments requires a great deal of self discipline. There is not an instructor over your shoulder making sure that everything is done. So, we recommend completing a few of the online assignments at a time, rather than waiting until the last minute.
Here are some VERY WISE words on what to do and what not to do. Please feel free to try whichever suits your style.
NOT GOOD: Complete the online exercises the night before they are due. Plan on a long night!! ☺
GOOD: Complete all the activities within a day or two of them being due. Plan on a couple of longish nights!!
BETTER: Work on the online activities on the days we are scheduled for online meetings – that means doing a little over 10 activities on each of those online days. This is very doable, but may take a little more than an hour to complete.
BEST: Work on a few activities every day – and if you do this – only on weekdays (feel free to work on weekends as well, that would only reduce the number of activities per day) – you will only need to do about 5-6 activities per day. These can easily be completed in 30 minutes to an hour depending on the activity. Then, the last few days before the test, you can review the ones that may have given you some trouble.
Please remember that your class will not wait for students to catch up, you need to be responsible enough to do your part. Your instructor will be monitoring the activities online, if they see that the majority of the class is waiting until just before the due date to complete all the activities, they will shorten the time available on future assignments.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: You do not need to get 100% on all the activities in order to receive full credit, though I recommend that you repeat the activity as many times as you would like until you achieve 100% (this would be the best practice). You actually receive full credit for obtaining 80% or above.
ONE REALLY COOL WAY TO DO THIS WORK. Come to the NMSU Spanish Lab to complete your online work work. That way, as we say en español, “matas dos pájaros con un solo tiro.” You’ll kill two birds with one stone. You get credit for doing the online activities AND you’ll get credit for being in the Spanish Lab!!!
