1. Welcome to our course.

2. I'm Ana Albi and I hope you will find the course as profitable as you anticipate it to be. Before you begin, some instructions on what to do each week.

6. Finally, there are only a few truly mandatory activities, which will help me assess your progress. Every week there will be an assignment you are required to complete. This is an interactive assignment posted on the weekly forum. Every two weeks there will be a quiz, elaborated based on the problems or difficulties students present in the assignments.

7. You will not be graded in these activities, and you may re-do or edit them as often as you wish. It is your participation and improvement that we are interested in.

8. Remember, these activities will be available to you on Friday, so you have time to work with the lessons and exercises before you try them.

9. At the end of the course, the final examination will be made available to you. This test you may take only once. There is no minimum grade necessary for you to receive your certificate of completion, but if you achieve a minimum of 75%, your certificate will state that you have completed the course with honors.

10. If you weren't able to complete all the mandatory tasks within the week, you can still do them during the weeks that follow. However, the deadline for completion of the course is December 14 . This means that you must submit or post all mandatory work until that day. If you encounter any problems with this deadline, please send me an e-mail explaining the problem and we will try to find a solution, if at all possible.

11. I'll be happy to answer any further questions by e-mail, but for now, click on other areas of our course and discover what we have made available for you. Enjoy.