Students taking a distance learning course with us for the first time, please be aware that our Office of Online Learning has injected something into the Blackboard virtual classroom environment where it knows if you’re just beginning with us, in which case it then forces you to take a 20-ish minute tutorial to make sure you’re versed in the tools and procedures of navigating the online class. I’m mostly pointing this out so that you’ll all know that you only have to do this ONCE, not each semester, and to also make it clear that I have nothing to do with forcing you to undergo this tutorial. -CL