The Grammar Resources Course, developed by the MacEwan Department of English and shared freely with all MacEwan faculty and staff, is a collection of 17 grammar units each with quizzes ready for student to challenge.
Students self-enroll into this course; please see the instructions on how to do so below.
The topics covered are:
Commas
Comma Splices
Colons and Semicolons
Verb Forms and Tenses
The Passive Voice
Subject-verb Agreement
Fused Sentences and Sentence Fragmentation
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Faulty Parallelism
Pronoun Agreement
Pronoun Case
Pronoun Reference
Mixed Constructions
Quotations, Quotation Marks, and Italics
Apostrophes
Numbers and Capitalization
Commonly Confused Words
For Students: How to Self-Enroll in the Course
Log in to Blackboard by first logging to the MyMacEwan portal (MyPortal.macewan.ca) and then clicking on the "Blackboard" button in the left "LaunchPad" menu.
On the "MyBlackboard" landing page, look for the "Course Catalog" section in the right column under your "My Courses" list.
Click on the "Self-Enroll Courses" folder.
Find "Grammar_Resources_Course_V1" in the leftmost "Course ID" column and hover your pointer over it to reveal a "down arrow" icon to the right of it.
Click Enroll in the menu that appears.
Click Submit.
Click OK at the bottom right hand corner of the screen and you will be taken to the course.
You only need to self-enroll in a course once. After you've enrolled, the course will display on your "My Courses" list each time to you log into Blackboard.
If MacEwan faculty want to assign marks for the completion of the course, the Blackboard Achievements tool will make a completion certificate available to students for printing if 80% or more is scored on all 17 of the courses unit quizzes. Students should be instructed to print the certificate and present it to the course instructor to confirm the successful completion of the course.