Now, because this class has so much online, there are many instructions to follow.

Once you get used to it will be pretty smooth.

In this video, I'm going to go over the requirements what you need to do.

Now basically to get going.

So, what you need to do now? Well, the first couple classes are going to be in the classroom,

So it would be best if the first class especially you could come to class.

In addition to that what we're going to do is begin online.

And the first thing you need to be able to do is access this document and the address is this address right here

I'm going to put that on the screen nice and big so you can see it

And if you go to that address what you're going to see is this document right here

You're going to see this document that was looking at right now

Right here you're going to see this document that was looking at right now

This is the most important part of all of the online information for this class

Because everything is here that you need everything is centralized all the links for year

So if you ever get confused a loss , come back to this page

Now this is located on google docs

So one of the first things you're going to need to do is make sure you have a google account

How do you get a google account or you can have a gmail address is probably the easiest way

You may be able to use other ways but that's the easiest way

Now when you get your google account or you have your gmail account or whatever

The place you can go to is the google drive

Which is located here at "google.com/drive"

And the idea is you can access documents online 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,079 If you've never used google drive before I strongly suggest you try using it

Now has a lot of free space you can put documents on there

And used a lot of things online such as spreadsheets and writings software

on google drive in the cloud and we're going to be using that for our class

So it's important that you be able to use this

You don't need to do too much just make sure you can log in and give it a try

Ok so once you're inside of Google Drive it looks something like this

On the left side is kind of some general topics and some categories and these are my folders

and then on the right side are the sub directories and folders

I think you're very familiar with this kind of ideas you've seen this before probably

So it's very easy to organize maybe use something like Dropbox

or maybe use something like Microsoft onedrive

It's all the same kind of ideal

The first thing you need to do is make sure you have a google account

and specifically you need to make sure you can access google drive and you know how it works

So you're going to come and get this document here by using this link

which is our class schedule and introduction and outline all of the details about class

Now on here let me go over some of the links first

This is very important so one by one I'm going to go over these links

The first link is of course this document we're looking at right now.

This is the class outline and schedule so that is most important.

The next one is class grades, schedule , updates etc..

So this is going to be the document that is always changing

depending on grades and how you do in the class,

and I'm always going to be keeping that up to date.

So if I click on that and go to that page

what I'm going to end up here is I have a spreadsheet here.

And this spreadsheet is a Google sheet

I need google drive to use it

and you'll need google drive to use it also so compact us a little bit

So you can see here what we have is student's numbers and grades and we can go over and

see all of the great this is the previous semesters class

and we can go all the way to the end seeing what their grades are for all of your assignments

Ok now when you come here it's going to be empty

So there's not going to be anything here

You need to do something real which is you need to put your name in here

So we're going to ask for your English name your Chinese name

and your gmail address or the e-mail you like to use now. Again,

Which email should you use? Well, you should use your gmail just to keep things easy

because your gmail links to your account where you can use google drive so that makes it easy

so if you don't have a gmail go and open up a gmail, I will also be emailing your school address

But the point here is please pay attention you need to come here

First, you need to put your name on this list

English name

Chinese name and then your email address,

and for email the best thing would be your gmail account that's linked to everything you do in google.

So these are the three things we need one two and three

we're also going to need your student number, so put your student number and there's four things

All right so let me just repeat that one more time how do you get there ?

From the schedule and outline of the class

that's just one page where everything we do will be on this page 這只是一個頁面，我們做的一切將在這個頁面上

Everything is linked to this page, this is the one page where is this page as

here is the address for this page.

So this page will tell you everything this is the main class schedule the main class outlines

where we go from here the second link down here is your class grades and schedule

Alright, so how do we do that? Click there and open it

and if you have google docs, that will open and you'll be able to see this is our student list

What do you need to do? You need to come in and fill in the English name

Chinese name, student number and your email. Four things you need to put in

Ok, so I think that's pretty straightforward

If you don't do that I won't know who you are

and i won't be able to open permissions for you to access other documents that are very important

Now you don't need to form groups yet but we will be forming groups eventually

Probably the second week will be forming groups

You can see here we have some group letters or group numbers but I'm going to take that off for the beginning

For now just at the beginning of this class

Just give me those four things: your email address, your English name, your Chinese name and your student number

down at the bottom you can see there's another tab down there

and down at that tab down there

It says buy book so we have a book and software we need for this class

So what I need you to do is after you put your four pieces of information into this tab student list

which is your email address, your English name, your Chinese name, your student number

and I need you to come over to the back buy book section tab

I need you to go ahead and put in your English name, 我需要你填入你的英文名字、

the Chinese name if you have one and again same things for the student list.

You do not have a Chinese name and to leave it empty, your student number

and then I need you to specify 接著我需要你指定

do you want a paper book or an Ebook? If you want paper just write the word "Paper"

If you want to have a Ebook just write "Ebook"

The price is same. Except the Ebook will be a PDF, in the paper book will be paper

So personally I think Ebook as much easier to use

much more portable and easy this also pays for our software so we get a two-in-one deal.

So go ahead and do that. We'll talk more about the details of that in class,

but we do have all of the necessary links on this page again. 而在這個頁面上確實有我們所有必要的連結

So where am I have come back to this page here, which is our main page write our schedule and outline of the class

Ok, where do we just go? we just went over to look at the schedule

and grades page, which means this page over here is going to have our class list,

our student participants are book list, and if I have any schedule changes that will go over there

Ok, the next link on this page is our textbook.

And as I said, you can put your name on the list to get the text book and you specified you want an Ebook or a paper book

and the easiest way would be we collect that money together all at once in the class.

The total amount is going to be 590 NT dollars, so NT dollars 590 that will pay for the book and the software.

That's actually just the price of the book, but I've negotiated so we get the software with the book.

So you won't have to do anything else , so we could do that together. That would save a lot of your trouble I think.

So please go out of your way for the first class and second class

See, if you can remember to bring 590 NT dollars to the class.

Ok, now let's go ahead down list here and see what else we have four links

So those were the important links to start the class out.

Now we're going to go to writing assignment so this is information about the writing assignments.

Remember one third of the class is practicing writing business communications for negotiation

So the software page that we're going to be using for our cloud software, for our cloud

writing assignment is quick business letters or QBL, which is located at this address.

You will not be able to use it until you get your registration number, which is after you pay for the book.

So once you pay will be able to give registration numbers.

You can go ahead and go there though and download the help manual in Chinese or English,

and there's also videos there for help in Chinese and in English.

Next, we have another link here which should think through the quizzes.

Now here's an example I go ahead and I open that up and I scroll down,

and here we have a list of links to quizzes.

And what this is, is a list of eight quizzes that we're going to have.

However, if you click on it now

go ahead and click try to open it. It's not going to open because it's not time yet.

It will only open during the time that the quiz opens, and for us that will be usually a six-day period.

You need to read a chapter and take a quiz. You have about six days to do that for the eight chapters we have.

Okay, I'm going to close some things up here clean up a little bit.

Okay, so here we are back at the outline page and we just solve the link to the quizzes and to the writing assignments.

Ok, so that's all the individual work in this class

Next, what about the lectures

remember the lectures are not going to be in the classroom they're going to be online.

So if lectures are online where is that going to be? what I'm going to be on YouTube

And there are also going to be on our school system, but here we have a very easy link to the youtube links

to. Llet me show you that

online video lectures and you can go ahead and click this link to go to lectures.

Right there, you can see it opens up and it's going to give me a list of all the lectures.

So this is a playlist on YouTube that will help me, 、

help you quickly see all of the lectures and they will be numbered by chapter and topic.

So it depends on the topic and the chapter and you can see all the videos there

You just click on the places like any YouTube video.

We also have a lecture introducing the RPG game and you can go there to watch the RPG games

Click that link if you're curious and you want to get some information beforehand.

And we don't just jump ahead and yes you can see some of the details there.

Ok, so I go over it step by step,

giving you the idea of course we're going to do this in class also,

but it's a great way to do it online, to get up to speed on it.

And if you want to check things out before you decide if you want to take this class,

you can check this out very cool, very fun activities that I think you'll enjoy.

It really does a great thing of learning by doing. That's key.

The key to this plan learning by doing not just talking about, but doing it and it makes it fun and interesting.

Ok next, we're going to go down and we have our upload evaluation sheet

remember I told you in a previous video that we have an evaluation sheet

and this evaluation sheet is on google drive and I can go ahead and upload my groups sheet there

and you can see here is a group from the previous year

and every time they had an RPG game, they uploaded their evaluation sheet

which is one group one evaluation sheet.

How does that work? People who participate

the way you want them to that you're satisfied everyone in the group is happy they get 100.

Everyone in the group and have 100, that means everyone equal.

Tthat's the participation,

and they're going to get that percentage

or less of the grades if you give them 15 they're going to get 15 percent of that activities grades.

It's very serious and a really great way to keep your group organized and working together.

And to be fair, I think

One activity, one RPG game, one evaluation sheet per group and you only evaluate your own group,

and you all agree on it, so just everyone together says: Yes you did a hundred percent

you did one hundred percent. We're all hundred percent, everybody gets one hundred percent. That's normal.

In fact, it's unnormal is unusual, abnormal to have something different,

but maybe you have bad luck in someone lazy. You can punish for that

Ok. Lastly, we have some negotiation information. So if you want to learn more about the negotiation

there's an excel sheet. You can download here, and there is also a RPG PDF sheet for buyers and sellers.

The game is divided clearly between buyers and sellers,

so that's how you would go ahead and take a look at that if you want to get it early

or you want to begin to learn about it now.

OK, so what's left? I think the last thing I want to look at in this video is the schedule for the class.

So let's go ahead, and on this outline schedule page, we have the actual schedule.

And here we go...

Let's take a look at the schedule, and once you see the schedule

I think you'll like it a lot. Remember the goal of this class is

to make it as easy as possible for you to learn to gain information, to gain some know how

and to learn by doing. That doesn't mean we have to be in the classroom.

So on the schedule, you can see this red colors kind of light red that means in the classroom