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Quiz Information and Instructions:
Most Quizzes contain 20 multiple choice questions with 4 possible answers each. These questions and the possible answers are taken directly from the Practice Test. After you have used the Practice tests and are ready to take a quiz, Click on the quiz link and follow the instructions below:

Login: Enter Your ID# that was given out in class
 Password: Enter your last name (lower case)
Click on Login  (New page should open)
Full Name: Enter your first and last names (case does not matter)
e-Mail Address: Enter e-Mail address if you have one
Password: Enter your ID# that was given out in class 
     (You will have 10 minutes to take the quiz, the quiz may be taken only once)
Click on Grade Quiz when you are finished.

Unit 1 Web Assignment Ideas

All democracies try to walk a fine line and make policy that does the most good for the most people and hurts the fewest. After reading the first chapter or two, how is this possible. Someone wins, someone loses. someone is better off and  someone has to pay. What about policy that provides for the disabled? What kind of disability? How much disability? How quickly should they be provided for? What if a third grader in a wheelchair wants to go to school across the street with his friends instead of a mile away at a special school? Should the school be remodeled at great cost to accommodate only one? It's his right. What about mainstreaming children with severe learning disabilities into classes with children with no disabilities? What if  80% of the resources are going to be consumed with one child at the expense of the rest of the entire class? Who's rights do you protect? Who's children do you take resources from? Is this going to "dummy down" the whole class? How much can we spend when taxpayers are already screaming? Who's taxes do we raise? What are the right levels of funding? Who decides who should be supported and for what  disabilities? The government can only go to the well so many times before it runs dry. Currently 10% of the population is paying for well over 1/2 of all the country's $4 trillion dollar budget. How long until that source moves offshore as many $100s of billions already have. How top-heavy can the system get before it implodes? The difficulty is: how do you make policy that is defined in a finite, extremely detailed, and legal way and help the most and hurt the fewest. There is no way to make everyone happy all the time. And I haven't even mentioned policy about assisted death, capital punishment, freedom of speech, right to privacy, due process, affirmative action, right of assembly, gun control, equal protection, or a thousand other difficult questions that the government has to deal with everyday. 

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Be sure to check your grades after each quiz and assignment. Also, check even more often during the last week of the course and report any discrepancies to the professor. 

 

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Be sure to check my editorial page often and try to work in current news items to make your points in your Web Assignments, Midterm, and Final. Just click on the link below:

http://garyrutledge.com/News/editorials.htm

 

 

How to configure your new e-mail account:

 

Configuring your student email account is a two step process. By following these instructions your account should be configured quickly and correctly. You can configure your account from any computer with Internet access. Instructions are also included to configure your personal computer to receive email in MS-Outlook Express.  

STEP 1:

Begin by identifying your user ID and password. Your user ID is composed of the first 16 characters of your first and last name. If there are duplicates (another student has your same first name and last name), then your user ID is composed of the first 15 characters of your first and last name immediately followed by a number.  

Example l:  Suzy Day would have an id of suzyday

Example 2: Christopher Jabberwocky would have an id of christopherjabbe

Example 3: If there is more than one person named Suzy Day, then one of them will have an ID of suzyday, another will have ID suzyday2, another will have ID suzyday3,  

Example 4: If there is more than one person named Christopher Jabberwocky, then one of them will have an ID of christopherjabbe, another will have ID christopherjabb2, another will have ID christopherjabb3, etc.

Your initial password is set to your birthday: mmddyy  

STEP 2:

Accessing up your email account using your user ID and password is initiated by accessing the internet from any computer:

 1.        Start your browser and type the following URL in the internet address line of your browser:

http:/ /webmail.student.rsu.edu/

2.        Click the "Login" button

3.        In the box, type in your user ID in the first box and your password in the second box

4.        Do NOT check the "Save this password in your password list" box

5.        Click the "ok" button

6.        To access your email, click on the second icon on the left

7.        Place your mouse cursor on each icon on the left for a brief explanation of the icon

8.        Be sure to change your password the first time you log on

A.      Change your password by going to url: https://www.onenet.net/password

B.       Enter your ID and password

C.       In the next screen, type in your new password in both the text boxes

D.      Click the "Submit" button

E.       It may take up to an hour until the change takes place

9.        Be sure to logout when you are finished

A. You logout by clicking on the top icon on the left (takes you back to the welcome screen)

B. Click on the "Logout" button

C. Be sure to close your browser; otherwise, others will be able to read your email.

  You should now be able to send and receive email via your student.rsu.edu address.

Your email address will be:

User ID@student.rsu.edu

To access your e-mail from any computer, you will type the following URL in the internet address line of the browser you are using:

http ://webmail.student.rsu.edu/  

STEP 3: (OPTIONAL) If you are using your personal computer to access your email, you may desire to configure Outlook Express to read your email. Use the following steps to configure Outlook Express:

1.        Under Tools/Accounts choose the Mail tab.

2.        Choose Add/Mail.

3. Fill in your name/click Next.

4. Your email address is your-user-id@student.rsu.edu (Make sure the top radio button is selected.) Click Next.

5. Your incoming mail server is POP3. (Choose POP3 on the drop-down menu.)

6. In both text boxes, type: mailhost.student.rsu.edu. Click Next.

7. Type in your-user-id and password. Do NOT check the "Log on using Secure Password Authentication" box. Click Next.

8. Click Finish.

  

Individual Computer Accounts for Students

 

How to configure your student account

 

An Individual Computer Account has been created for all students enrolled at RSU.  Each account will remain active as long as the student is enrolled at RSU.  The account will provide the student with space on the student file server (S: drive).  Each student’s account will be automatically mapped to the appropriate drive; no student intervention required.  The space provided to each student will only be accessible by that student.  No one else will have access to a student’s disk area.  The student file server is accessible from HH132, HH139, HH258, HS172, HS164, LH200, SSS Lab, Baird Writing, and Library labs as well as from the residence halls.  Note that the student file server is not accessible from the Pryor and Bartlesville campuses.  

The user id for a student is composed of the characters sd followed by the student’s first name and last name.  If there are duplicates (another student has the same first name and last name), the user id is composed of the characters sd followed by the student’s first name and last name followed by a number.

 Example 1:  Suzy Day would have an id of sdsuzyday

Example 2:  If there is more than one person named Suzy Day, then one of them will have

                an id of sdsuzyday, another will have id suzyday2, another will have id suzyday3, etc.

 Each student’s password is his/her birthday: mmddyyyy  (Note: password must be 8 characters)

 Each student will be required to change his/her password the first time they log on.

 Any problems should be reported to the lab assistant working in HH139.  If the lab assistant is not available, then report problems to HH 114.  The student must present a photo id when reporting problems.