Submitting Your Work

The task activities assigned for the course require that registered students submit written compositions or messages. Normally, you will submit your work by going to Desire2Learn (D2L), logging in, and then clicking on the Discussions (for group activities) or Dropbox (for individual activities) links.

It is best to compose your work in a word processing program first and then use the copy and paste method of transferring your work for submission. (You also can submit your work in an attached file.) This suggested procedure has three major advantages:

1. By working in a word processing program first, you will be able to revise and make additions to your composition over time rather than having to submit immediately whatever you compose directly on a submission form; and
2. By working with both the Desire2Learn program and the word processing program running at the same time, you will have a much easier time referring to relevant background information that you may well need in composing your work.
3. You can save your work in a word processing file as a backup, in case some problem arises in the submission process. 

Instructions for Following the Copy and Paste Procedure:

1. Preliminaries: If you do not know how to use a word processing program or to set up two programs running at the same time or to switch back and forth between two programs running at the same time, then find out how from someone who does know. (People who know about these things, including your instructors, usually are quite willing to help on this.)
2. Once you have both the internet business ethics and the wordprocessing programs running, establish a file to save your work in the word processing program on your hard drive or on a disk.
3. Create your composition--making revisions, spellchecking, switching back and forth between the two running programs, working on it at different times perhaps--and save the file (so that you have a copy of the composition in case of a mishap).
4. Select your composition as a single block of text by dragging the cursor over the entire composition while holding down the left mouse button and then release the button.
5. Click on Copy.
6. Return to D2L and click on the appropriate Discussion or Dropbox links. Click on Add Message. To paste your submission in the form provided, click on the Pencil and Paper icon and then click on the Paste (clipboard) icon. Be sure to click on Submit to transmit your message. (Instead of pasting in your work, you can submit it as an attached file in the box provided.) If you have any problems submitting your work, check with me as soon as possible at yezzi@mnsu.edu.

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP COPY OF ANY MATERIAL YOU WANT TO TURN IN FOR THE COURSE!!! The system may foul up; you may foul up; the instructor may foul up. It's not a perfect world.