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Newly received email, re: the online course I’m taking this semester, which should have started August 24th.

So far:
Lectures – 0
Emails sent by prof – 1
Emails sent to prof – >10
Homework due – 1

Fail.

Dear AOE 5104 Students:

I have just concluded a meeting with Professor Mook and GTA Chris Rock. In the next couple of hours, I will be establishing a site for the online section at http://scholar.vt.edu. Mr. Rock will work with Professor Mook to send out an email that will provide specifics for which presentations you should be studying and describing the homework assignments as well as other logistics. All materials for the online section will be maintained at the scholar site, and there will be daily communications to you from Dr. Mook and / or Mr. Rock.

Subsequent in-class lectures will be available for you to log into via distance-learning software, for which you will be given download / installation instructions. Furthermore, there will be one hour per week in the evening of on-line log-in opportunity for you to have Q&A with Dr. Mook and Mr. Rock, beginning next week. I am working with the Institute for Distributed and Distance Learning to get this set up.

Please accept my second apology, and my assurance that I will not leave the office today without having personally seen to the establishment of these essential elements of the online delivery of this course.

So, either this will be resolved today or the department head will be spending a lot of time in his office… ;)