Get Ready

• Read the FAQs and Course Outline if you haven't already done so.

• Buy Your Textbook Kit and Online Registration Card (comes inside the textbook kit) and bring them to the Orientation Meeting. You should be ready to begin your lessons immediately after the Orientation Meeting.

• Check Your Email Daily (the account you registered with Admissions) and Log On to Etudes-NG Regularly: Check for emails especially during the first two weeks of the semester.  After the Orientation Meeting, you should log on to Etudes-NG at least three times a week (every other day) to read class announcements from your instructor, check your weekly assignment in MODULES, look for discussion posting assignments, attend "chat" sessions with your instructor, and read private messages regarding your work, your grades, and your progress.

• Go to http://lacitycollege.gdp11.com everyday to do your keyboarding lessons.  Read your Assignment Sheet (available for download in RESOURCES in the LACC GDP 11 course site as well a in Etudes-NG) to keep on schedule.

Attend the Mandatory On-Campus Orientation 

• You must attend the mandatory on-campus orientation. Bring your textbook and online registration card with you.  Click here for details.

• Etudes-NG will be used as our online course site; its use will be demonstrated during the orientation meeting. (Please note that only students who have registered for the class or who have added by Add Permit by Friday of Week 1 will be able to logon to our Etudes-NG course site the evening of the orientation.)

• We will log on to the LACC GDP 11 Web site using your online registration card.  The correct procedure for completing each lesson will be demonstrated, and each student will have the opportunity to begin Lesson 1.

• Don't miss the orientation meeting for essential information on how to get the best results possible from this course!

Print and Read Your Assignment Sheets

• Print your class Assignment Sheet; it is available for downloading/printing on the Assignments page in this Web site, in Resources in Etudes-NG, and in Resources at the LACC GDP 11 Course Site. You cannot succeed in an online class unless you read your assignment sheets carefully and follow the directions exactly.
• In Etudes-NG, go to Modules, click on the Week 1 link, print the directions for the first week, and READ them!  All the information you would normally get from your instructor in a traditional face-to-face course are found there . 

How to Register Your GDP Online Account

Before beginning to use GDP11, you must activate your account with the registration code (see the back side of the Registration Card in your textbook kit).

• Go to http://lacitycollege.gdp11.com. Notice that your school name is listed in the upper right corner of the page. Before registering, please verify that your school name is shown as "Los Angeles City College" and that you are on the correct GDP11 Web site.
• Cick on "I have a Registration Code" in the lower right corner and follow the instructions.  You will need the Online Registration Card that comes inside your textbook kit to register.  Be sure to register yourself in the "Morimoto 1013 Online" class.  (If you are not prompted to select a class/section, that means your instructor has already done so for you.)
• You will self-register just this one time.  Thereafter, you must enter your username and password in the Log In box, and then click the Sign In button.
• Once you are logged in, click on Part 1, Lesson 1, to begin your lessons.
• Check your Assignment Sheet for lesson due dates and keep on schedule!