message(s)

· Your groups are now filled in Blackboard with students. You can find them under groups and the HC groups (not WC groups those are the writing classes).

· Please use the send e-mail function for communicating with your group and not through the announcements. You can do this by selecting Course Tools\Send Email\Single Select Groups and choose your group.

· Grading is done as stated below and is the same for all groups (grades are handed in to me with a breakdown)

· Regarding the articles everybody is free to choose their articles and the way to distributed them. The standard way will be to upload them in the designated folder in Blackboard and let the students choose after the first class. They can do this by either sending an e-mail to the teacher or filling in a google-doc.

· In case of a scheduling issue please contact roostering.few@vu.nl.

· If a student is in the wrong group the Education Office can help out, you can send an e-mail toonderwijs.bureau.few@vu.nl and Petra Konijn will pick this up.

· During the first week of the course I will be out of the country (in Turkey to be specific) and in case of problems I am hopefully reachable during the evenings. It’s also possible to contact Jur Massop (jur.massop@vu.nl) he can help as well.