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You are required to post an entry to the class forum by Wednesday at 11:55 pm of each week and you must respond to at least 2 of your class mates by Sunday at 11:55 pm of each week. Your grade on discussions and your 2 responses to each forum discussion is based upon the following: - "avoid responses like "me too" or a response that is irrelevant or adds nothing to the discussion, or does not provide support for your position expressed, and shows minimal reflection. Your positions taken in your responses to other students should be articulated with good support and demonstrate reflection. How are you Graded on Your Forum Participation
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Removing "student posts" from forums The purpose of the discussion forums and "Question" Forums in our online classes is to inquire about "content" questions, or clarify primarily content questions about the class such as clarification of assignments, or questions on cases, the law, etc. Students are requested to use the same "etiquette they would use in an on campus classroom. It is not a "forum" or place to complain about how the class is run, or complain about how the website is constructed, or complain about other students. Also we encourage "robust" debate in our forums. Reasonable minds differ, and we ask that you show tolerance to other students' opinions. However, again students should use reasonable and appropriate language in their forum postings, and should show respect to their fellow/sister students. Students are encouraged to read apply the "Six Pillars of Character" when they post their work.
Our online law faculty may, in their discretion, remove "student posts",or even remove the entire forum (with all of the student posts), if in their sole discretion, a student or students are behaving badly, acting inappropriately, failing to show proper respect to other students or the classroom as a whole, and abusing the privilege of expressing their opinions in the forums. Case Briefs
Here is information on "How to Brief a Case" - http://www.delicious.com/abogado/briefing-cases CASE BRIEFGRADING RUBRIC
**above adopted from case grading rubric - AAFPE.org website
Moodle Classroom Work The posting of all of your work, assignments, quizzes is done under our moodle classrooms - located at www.moodle.lamission.edu - You cannot start work for any semester or session until a few days before the session or semester. Please learn more about moodle by reading information at http://1moodle.pbwiki.com
Please note that all weekly assignments during each session are due on Sunday evenings at 11:55 pm (Law 2 may be different - check that class for its due dates). Please no late work. Late work is not pemitted. Word Processing Some students encounter problems when "copying and pasting" from their word processors (MS Word or Word Perfect) into the moodle "submission" of assignments box. The moodle program is not really set up to maintain complicated formatting from a word processor. We focus primarily on "content" in our law classes. if formatting is important or required, you will be notified in the particular assignment. It is recommended that you use a simple word processor, such as "wordpad" which is found under "start/accessories/wordpad" in your windows program. Using this simple word processor will allow a simple "copy and paste" into the moodle posting "boxes" under assignments, under "submit" or "save changes". Computer Crashes In our online classes it is essential that students have a "working computer" to submit their work. From time to time computers "crash", lock-up, or have problems. The moodle program is very solid and most problems are with either the students' computers or their internet connection. It is the sole responsibility of the student to ensure prompt and timely submission of their assignments even when there is a computer crash or bad internet connection. Students should not procrastinate and attempt to submit work five minutes before it is due. Here are three hints to avoid this problem. One, make sure you have a backup computer resource, either a friend, family, or outside source that you can use at the last minute. Two, do a tuneup of your computer. Many of the computer connection problems can be resolved by downloading the new firefox browser, since many of the problems arise with the browser connection to the internet and moodle. Another problem is your computer set up with cookies, your cache, java, etc. so make sure you have set your computer up correctly, including "tuning up" your computer. Finally if none of these work, you can email yourself a copy of your assignments, answer to quizzes, etc. and as long as you do it prior to the expiration of the deadlines, you will preserve a record of your work, and faculty will accept a copy of your saved email as long as it has a date and time "prior to" the duedates. Save Changes Please do not use the "save changes" when submitting an assignment under the moodle program, as if it were a word processor. Every time you click on "save changes" it submits your work to the online instructor. DO NOT DO THIS. Do it only once when you are complete. Instead word process your work in a word processor, you can click to save on your word processor many times, then go ahead and copy and paste your work from your word processor over the the "save changes" posting box under your moodle assignment age and click on "save changes". The other problem is that you can spend a couple of hours working in the posting box in moodle, and when you click "save changes" it times out, and you lose all of your work, because you did not use a word processor, saving your work as you edit your document, you have nothing saved and you have "lost" all of your work, and have to do the assignment again. Improving your grades on Quizzes The quizzes under Law 1, 2, 10, 19 and 13 are taken from the Business Law Textbook (11th ed.). The questions are formulated by the authors of the textbook, and not any of the LAMC law faculty. The quiz questions generally require application of your materials, and "critical thinking". You may find these difficult. If you receive lower scores than you are accustomed to receiving, then look at this information - http://profj.us/26w/law1/improvemc.htm on how to improve your scores. You can also contact your online tutors for suggestions. A few other ideas you can do it to get a "study partner". This is how you do that. You look under the forums, the introductions and postings on the other questions and see who you might like to partner up with. Generally you should be spending a fair amount of time studying. If your scores and grades do not improve after increasing your efforts and time spent studying, then you will need to make changes. Contact your tutors or online instructors for ideas, suggestions and comments.
The quizzes for law 1/2/10/11/19 are timed. You will have 1 hour (60 minutes) to answer 20 multiple choice questions. You may only open and submit the quiz one time. You must complete the quiz in "one sitting", that is once you open the quiz, you must then complete it within "one hour" or 60 minutes. Do not open the quiz until you are ready to take the quiz.
Also note there is an appeals process if you disagree with certain answers - see http://profj.us/appeals - please send your appeals to our Paralegal Tutors - you can only appeal 3-4 questions each quiz, and you must do so within a week following your submission of the quiz (for a regular 16 week semester) or 2 days (in a winter or summer session of 5 or 6 weeks due to the abbreviated format), otherwise the statute of limitations runs. Assignments and Quizzes To submit Assignments and if your class has Quizzes then click on the left side of your moodle class, click on "assignments" - read the instructions carefully, and click on "edit my submission", and "copy and paste" your work in the box, and click on "save changes". You can confirm whether your assignment was submitted by again clicking on the assignment and you will see your submitted work. Important Dates Make sure that you follow the important dates during the session. They are found at the main college website - www.lamission.edu. Our main law page is located at lamission.edu/law Costs, Duration, History, Accreditation, Classes The program consists of 12 law classes. Each class is 3 units, and it costs $26 per unit, or $78 per class, or $936, and you pay for each class as you enroll and take it. The 12 classes normally take 12-18 months to complete. Your first few classes should be Law 1 and Law 10, and your last few classes Law 16, 17, and 34. Otherwise you can take the classes in any order. There are no prerequisites for taking our classes, nor is there an entrance exam. However, you should be an excellent reader and writer since you will undoubtedly do a large amount of reading and writing in our legal program. Upon completion of the 12 classes or 36 units you will Petition for your Paralegal Certificate and then qualify under California State Law to be a paralegal.
For almost 20 years we have been graduating paralegals since, and have graduated more than a 500 paralegals. We have a rich history and tradition.
We are accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Commission on Recognition of Post-Secondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. The Los Angeles Mission College Paralegal Studies Program Certificate has been approved by the Board of Governors of the L.A. Community Colleges (since 1987), and our curriculum is continuously updated to ensure that we are a quality paralegal program. Our program is an institutional member of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAFPE) How to Enroll To enroll in our college you can either go to http://lacolleges.net or use http://cccapply.org . Once you have filled out the Mission College Application, check the student information system - http://www.laccd.edu/student_information/sis_logon.asp within seven (7) days to see if you have been added to the system. Then you can enroll in your law classes. You can find your classes at our main webpage at http://lamission.edu/law. One way you can enroll is to use the phone. (To enroll by phone: Call the STEP system using a touch-tone telephone at the date and time of your enrollment appointment or anytime after your appointment until one day prior to the start of classes. System Hours: Monday through Saturday from 8:00am to 11:00pm STEP telephone numbers: (818) 988-2222 - (213) 689-8888 - (310) 605-0505 or by adding classes through the Student Information System at http://www.laccd.edu/student_information/sis_logon.asp?campus=d.)
If you cannot enroll at the above sites, or have some technical difficulties in doing so, then print out the application at http://lamission.edu/law/collegeapp.pdf - fill it in completely, and fax it back to Prof. J. at his fax - 1-866-371-5519 along with a copy of your California Driver's License or other valid ID, and then email Prof J that you have faxed him. Upon receipt, he will walk it over to Admissions and you should receive your Student ID within 2 weeks. In the meantime, let Prof J. know which classes you need to enroll in for the semester.
Please note that you must first register for a law class, and then you can join the moodle classroom. If you do not register for the class at Mission, then you will be "un-enrolled" from the moodle classroom.
Please note that you must first register for a law class, and then you can join the moodle classroom. If you do not register for the class at Mission, then you will be "un-enrolled" from the moodle classroom. Contact your Online Faculty If you have any questions contact your online faculty. They are excellent instructors and are very helpful - http://lamission.edu/law/faculty.html
We have excellent Law Faculty who are experts in their respective legal fields and who have taught in our program for many years. Your online instructor faculty information, biography, phone and email is located at http://lamission.edu/law/lawfaculty.htm. Our online law faculty will attempt to return emails within 72 hours of receipt. Please be patient, and send a second email if you do not receive a response within that period. If a law faculty does not respond to your second email then please contact Prof. Jordan, the Director of the Program. Your Textbooks You can purchase your textbooks at http://lamission.edu/law/textbooks - Not all classes have textbooks. Law 12, 13, 17 and 34 have all the materials online and no required textbooks. Law 1, 2, 10 and 19 require Business Law 11th ed. login in to duedates - at http://duedates.pbwiki.com/ . If you cannot purchase the textbook at first, and you are waiting to save up the money, you can purchase individual chapters of the textbook, one at a time, while you wait. You can order them at Ichapters- WLB Law Dictionaries I have found that students who use "law dictionaries" do much better in class, and understand difficult legal concepts much easier. I would recommend two, one is "hardbound" and one is online. The "hardbound" is a small pocket law dictionary, very reasonable at $10. It is Gilbert's Pocket Law Dictionary. The second is the online dictionary at Law.com - http://dictionary.law.com Our Tutoring Program Tutoring Program - In the Fall 2005 semester, we piloted a new program - the "tutoring program" - see program guidelines at http://paralegaltutors.pbwiki.com We have an excellent team of tutors who can help you with any questions you might have. Please take advantage of contacting them. They were all excellent students in our program who graduated from our program and who have encountered all of the same problems you will face with our law materials. Broken Links If you find any broken links on this page or in your online classrooms, please contact Prof J. - the webmaster for the program. Please do not contact your online instructors, as Prof J. is the only one who can update the broken links. Also please do not post that a link is broken under "Questions" in your class. Prof J. looks at the questions only once a week. Whereas Prof J. looks at his email on an hourly basis, and notification through this method will result in updating and correcting "broken links" much more quickly.
Also a good way to find, and locate information from "broken links" is the use the WAYBACK Machine. Copy and paste the link which is broken into the wayback machine. There you can find the information saved and many times get access to it. Links outside of moodle classrooms In an effort to provide useful information and resources, we provide links such as classwikis, podcasts, and the like. We do our best to keep these current and up to date. If you find any information out of date or links broken please contact our webmaster, me, Prof J. Disclaimer: if any of the information, links, resources, etc. conflict with any of the assignments, and information, and links that are within our moodle classrooms, the moodle information is what you should follow and not the links outside of the moodle classroom. Any reliance of the links, information and resources outside the moodle classrooms that is in conflict with the moodle classrooms is taken at your own risk. Facebook Social Network (beta) Our program has set up a Facebook page ("Mission Law") and will use this social network to communicate with our paralegal alumni and current students. Joining this network is voluntary, and not required of our students. Paralegal Court Internships Our program has recently developed an excellent Court Internship program with the courts in Burbank, San Fernando, and Van Nuys. Please look at our new program at http://court-interns.pbwiki.com - You must have taken at least Law 11 - Civil Litigation or Law 18 - Family Law before you apply for the internship since the courts want you to have some minimal training on handling court forms both on the civil and family law side. Contact Prof J. for more information. Grades A note on grades: you can check your grades in moodle by clicking on "grades" on the left hand column. Also note that grades will be posted by your professor to show your progress in the class. You can be dropped from the class, without notice, if you are carrying an "F" in the class. It is not the instructor's responsibility to drop you from class. Some students are dropped from the moodle classroom, and think that the instructor has excluded them from the class roster. Being dropped from the moodle class is NOT the same as being dropped from the class. If you do not drop the class yourself, then you may receive an F for your grade in class. If you are not going to continue in the class, do not leave it to the instructor to exclude you. Go to the student information system - http://www.profj.us/student/ and drop yourself. This is the only way to protect yourself from not getting an F for failing to complete the class.
Availabilty and Access to your moodle classroom. (effective end of Fall 2009 semester) Students will have access 24/7 to their respective moodle classrooms during the semester.
Closing of Moodle Class after each semester - At the end of each semester, grades will be posted in your moodle class and filed with the District within two (2) weeks from the last day of class. You should check your grade both in moodle and with the Student Information System within those two weeks. The moodle class will then be closed for access. The reason for this is for security reasons. Faculty teach the same classes each year, and are in the process of updating their class materials for future semesters.
Accessibility to your student work - Students are required to save all of their moodle class work on their own computers, or "flash drives" and cannot use their moodle classroom to act as a repository for their classwork. Requests to "reopen" moodle will only be granted under "extraordinary circumstances", and not because a student forgot to "back up" their own classwork on their computer. Incomplete Students may request an Incomplete in class from their instructor with the following conditions: 1. No more than 75% of the class has been completed by the student 2. The student is passing the class (70 or above) at the time of the request 3. The student contacts the instructor at the earliest time to request the Incomplete 4. The Incomplete is not based on the inability to complete the assignments but upon circumstances beyond the control of the student (i.e. death in the family, hospitalization, etc.) 5. Incompletes are rarely granted, and are not favored except in rare circumstances that justify and Incomplete grade. 6. The student must complete all assignments within a year from the entering of the Incomplete
Resources Please read the following links, print out any useful information, and set up a 3 ring binder to have "at hand" - Learn about the "moodle" online classroom at http://moodle-network.pbwiki.com.
1. read study skills at http://profj.us/studyskills/ 2. read information on moodle at http://missionmoodle.pbwiki.com 3. check out these resources - http://del.icio.us/abogado 4. Read typical day in the life of an online student - http://profj.us/day/typical.htm 5. look at Profj's blog at - http://profjordan.blogspot.com/ 6. look at Paralegal Jobs blog at - http://paralegaljobs.blogspot.com/ 7. look at Paralegal Jobs at - http://paralegaljobs.pbwiki.com/ 8. read about legal research at - http://www.profj.us/legalresearch/ 9. read about legal citations - http://del.icio.us/abogado/citations 10. read how to brief a case - http://profj.us/briefingcases.htm 11. read how to study law - http://profj.us/studylaw 12. read "Good Legal Writing" - http://profj.us/glw/ 13. read "How to read a Case like a Lawyer" - http://profj.us/reading.htm 14. read the Description of your classes - http://profj.us/descriptions.htm 15. read paralegal program objectives - http://www.profj.us/objectives/ 16. read "No Late Work" - http://profj.us/late 17. read how to improve your quiz scores - http://profj.us/improve/ 18. read the syllabus for your class - http://profj.us/syllabus/syllabuslist.htm 19. check out your textbooks - http://lamission.edu/law/textbooks/ 20. Read Grading Rubric for law classes - http://profj.us/24sp/rubric.htm 21. read lecture outlines for West Bus. Law - http://www.profj.us/outlines/ 22. look at powerpoint for West Bus. Law - http://profj.us/powerpoint look at summary of law for law 1, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 19 - http://www.profj.us/summary/ 23. look at law dictionary - http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp 24. read our plagiarism policy - http://missionparalegal.com/plagiarism.htm 25. look at the paralegal certificate - http://profj.us/certificate.htm 26. look at the online paralegal certificate - http://lamission.edu/law/online/ 27. look at the College webpage - http://lamission.edu 28. look at important dates - http://lamission.edu/important_dates.html 29. read Standards of Conduct for Students - http://profj.us/conduct.htm 30. Please be respectful to your instructor and other students. Please do not abuse the classroom message system when you are using it in your online class.It is a privilege and not a right. Learn about our program Welcome message - http://lamission.edu/law/welcome.htm Duedates - these will be updated soon - http://duedates.pbwiki.com where to login to your class - http://moodle.lamission.edu 1st day of class = http://profj.us/1stday our home page - http://lamission.edu/law where are we located: Sylmar, California - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylmar we are part of the LACCD - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Community_College_District Mission College home page - http://www.lamission.edu our site index - http://lamission.edu/law/siteindex.html why you should choose our program - http://missionparalegal.com/whyus.htm history - http://profj.us/audio.htm faq's - http://www.lamission.edu/law/faq.html how to enroll in the program - http://www.lamission.edu/application.html about Mission College - http://www.lamission.edu/about_mission.html about our Director - http://lamission.edu/law/jordan/bio.htm about our accreditation -http://profj.us/accreditation.htm about our faculty - http://lamission.edu/law/faculty.html about our program objectives - http://www.profj.us/objectives/ about our Paralegal Program - http://del.icio.us/abogado/about-our-program about our students - http://del.icio.us/abogado/graduates
Again welcome aboard, and nice having you as students. Email Prof. J at abogado@pacbell.net or call him on his cell phone 818-415-2015 if you have any questions.
Prof. J. updated: 6/29/11
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