Medical Terminology
HLTH 1210 Online:

Basic Medical Terminology

Course Information

Contact information is included in your course site; and in your Lakeland email.

Course Description

Basic Medical Terminology introduces students to the formation of medical terms using anatomy as a building block.  Root words, suffixes, prefixes and body systems will be covered.

Required Materials

Required Textbook: Chabner's Language of Medicine, 7th edition with
Web Tutor Access Code (You will need this to access the course online.)

Both textbook and the code can be purchased from the bookstore. If you buy a used textbook, you will need to purchase the code separately for a small fee. If you buy a new textbook, the code will be shrink-wrapped with the text. Purchasing the text and the code online can be done from the LCC Bookstore site.

Accessing the Course for the First Time

To access Blackboard, go to Blackboard through the Lakeland home page, at http://www.lakelandcc.edu and then select Blackboard from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. Once on the Blackboard page, select Login. You will be prompted to enter a Username and Password. This information is listed on the page. You will need your username and password whenever you want to log on to Blackboard. Do not enter your Access Code here. The Access Code is a different code entirely. This is the code that you either purchased separately or that came bundled with your textbook.

Once you have logged on to Blackboard, the first page you see contains links to any course you are enrolled in that contains an online element. Click on the link for HLTH 1210 Online Course. You will be taken to the home page of Basic Medical Terminology. Click on the course title to enter the class web site. Once on the web site, read the announcements and, when prompted, enter your Access code when you enter an area of the course that includes content provided by the textbook publisher. You will only have to enter this code once.

After you have entered your Access code, you will be able to view the course’s contents. The first page is the Announcements page, and you will read the Publisher's Agreement here.

At this point, you should select Tools from the Navigation Bar, and then select Personal Information. Select edit your Personal Information to ensure that your e-mail address is correct. You must have a viable Lakeland Community College student e-mail address if you are enrolled as a student in this course.

If you forward your Lakeland Community College student email elsewhere, make sure that the filters are set in such a way that they permit group e-mails, especially if you are using a Hotmail or Yahoo account. If you normally use one e-mail address for work and one for personal use, or one for work and one for weekends, choose one and only one to use for this course. Please ensure that your mailbox is functioning throughout the duration of the course.

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Student Support

If you encounter any technical difficulties during the semester, you may either notify your instructor or contact the Lakeland helpdesk for assistance through e-mail (helpdesk@lakelandcc.edu) and phone (440-525-7000, ask for the help desk.)

Email

All communication from your instructor will come to your Lakeland Community College Email account.  By now, you should be very familiar with your email account.  You also MUST use Online Medical Terminology in the subject line.  If you cannot open or access your Lakeland email account, you will not receive the passwords to the quizzes and exams.  No exceptions.

Assignments, Examination, and Grading Information

Grading Scale:

91.00 - 100% = A
83.00 - 91.99% = B
75.00 - 82.99% = C
68 - 74.00% = D

Discussion Boards

At times the instructor may pose questions or give information on increasing your learning. You will be required to post a answer or place a document in the Digital Drop Box.

Quizzes
All grades quizzes and exams will be posted under the Assignment link.

All quizzes and exams for your grade will require a password (sent to your Lakeland email) and will be timed. Going over the time limit more than 1 minute will result in an "F" score. Dates for the quizzes and the chapters they cover are listed in the course schedule. Students may take the quizzes (a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions) only once and as with all work in the course, these are due by Sunday, midnight, of the week in question.

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FULL 16 WEEK SEMESTER

Midterm Examinations

There will be one midterm examination held over the course of the semester. The exam consists of multiple-choice and fill in the blank. By default, these exams are NOT open notes or open book. Do not abuse this privilege by using the textbook or any other source. The first instance of dishonesty is the last: if caught, you will receive an "F" not just for the assignment, but for the course, and turn you name over to the proper authorities. So, use your own words!

Spelling is graded.

Final Examination

The final exam will be multiple choice, fill in the blank and matching. Again, you will have only one chance to take the test. The time restriction will be listed in the instructions.

8 WEEK AND 5 WEEK SESSIONS

One comprehensive exam will be given and it will cover all chapters studied in that course. The multiple choice and Fill-in-the-blank format will be used. You will be timed and must have the accurate password to take the exam.

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Navigating the Site

Announcements

Notices and reminders appear on the announcements page, which also happens to be the home page of the course. To keep up, log on regularly and read all new announcements.

Course Documents

This is by far the most important link on the site. Clicking on this link will bring up yet more links to a glossary of terms and to features related to each chapter reading. Clicking on the chapter links will bring up all the information you need for each chapter reading. There will also be a PowerPoint presentation prepared by your instructor to review relevant terms and combining forms. Quiz and exam questions may be based on the book, the online work and the PowerPoint presentation.

External Links

Takes you to various guides and tip-sheets designed to ease your progress through the course.

Assignments

Your exams will be posted here. A notice will be posted in announcements when the exams and quizzes are available. 

Communication

Allows access to the Discussion boards, e-mail, chat, and the Digital Drop Box.

Course Information

Hot links to the syllabus and other related course information.

General Information

A student in an online course must be prepared to act independently and to encounter technical glitches of all kinds. Prepare yourself by doing all of the following things.

• Keep your syllabus somewhere safe.
• Mark due dates on a calendar that you regularly consult.
• Print items of exceptional importance from the website, such chapter outlines or questions for your Internet activity of the week, and keep them in a specially marked folder. In doing so, you are protecting yourself from Murphy’s Laws of online courses: access to the Internet can be notoriously slow regardless of means of access, servers can and will go down, and the like.
• Back up every written work you compose in this class, either on hard-drive or disk. Computers break down, viruses show up out of nowhere, and e-mails sometimes get lost in virtual space. Make sure you have extra copies of everything you write.
• Familiarize yourself with the website and be prepared to think outside of the box.
• Do not put an assignment off to the last moment.
• Students are expected to be courteous and respectful of all members of the class and the instructor. This is particularly true of the discussion board, as no rude remarks, intentional outbursts, insulting language, innuendos, or intimidation will be tolerated. Any personal problems regarding the course are to be sent to your instructor in a private e-mail, and together we will solve the problem. The Discussion Board is only for class assignments, not public or personal commentary.

Course Schedule

For the purposes of this course, a week is understood to begin on Monday, midnight and end on Sunday, midnight. All assignments will therefore be due by Sunday, midnight.

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