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If you received a BRIGHT YELLOW postcard in the mail, you've arrived at the right place! This letter of information is for students who are taking courses from South Bend, Elkhart or Warsaw. Your schedule should indicate a course section number of 11B, 12B, 13B, 11R or 12R.

Your course will become available online no earlier than Monday, August 20th by going to http://cc.ivytech.edu. You are able to log into Campus Connect at any time but you WILL NOT see your course in Blackboard until Monday, August 20th.. Only contact us if it is after Monday, August 20th.

If you registered on August 15th or later, you may not see your courses on eLearning immediately. Allow up to 48 hours after you're in the registration system for your courses to show on eLearning.

Look for contact instructions from your instructor as soon as you login to your course in eLearning. They may require you to email them or post on a message board during the first week of class. If you fail to follow their instructions by the end of the second week of the semester, you may be dropped from the course.

Please consider the following requirements of the course, and be sure you want to continue.

Distance education courses require more work and attention rather than less from its students. You have no live campus classroom with other students, but your instructor will be asking you to contact him/her via email and other Internet functions such as discussion boards and chat rooms, or by phone to answer questions. We strongly suggest that you have a home computer before enrolling in an Internet course, but if you do not have a home computer, you may use the computers in the Ivy Tech library.

1. Book ordering information is found here: ORDER YOUR BOOKS. Your financial aid information or credit card will be accepted.

2. Many Internet courses require use of word processing programs or special software in addition to Blackboard in order to complete the class. Check on those requirements EARLY so that you know what to expect. This link has all the information you'll need.

3.We recommend that you orient yourself to the Blackboard/eLearning system if you've not used it before. For more information on the system or for TECHNICAL assistance on any of the systems look at the SOS Helpdesk.

Attention AOL users: DO NOT USE AOL to access Campus Connect/ eLearning. Connect to the Internet the way you normally do, minimize the AOL window, and use Explorer, Mozilla or Netscape.

If you have questions or concerns about this course, please call one of the following:

* Ivy Tech Distance Learning Coordinator Laurie Kirkner at 574-289-7001, ext. 5414 lkirkner@ivytech.edu

* Internet Technician Jetta Cruse, ext. 2107 jcruse@ivytech.edu,

We are your campus support team to help you succeed!

TESTING INFORMATION
Sometimes an instructor may have you come to a campus or learning center to take a test. Testing procedures, contact information and hours are available here: Testing Information

We want to help you hang in there with the course, but if you feel you cannot go on, be sure to drop while you can get some money back. We encourage you to persist and you will succeed, but if you can't, read on. Please keep this refund schedule.

REFUND SCHEDULE :

Fall 2007 -
All fees must be arranged or your enrollment will be cancelled.

August 20th - August 31st - 100% refund
No refund after this date.

Voluntary Drop Deadline: Saturday, November 10th, 2007

We hope you will do well, and get into your course easily. Please call us if we can help-have a great semester!