Getting Started
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Getting starting in Field Methods in Vegetation Science also means coordinating gear, schedules, concepts, resources. Before you get too far in the online textbook — and definitely before you submit your first assignment — save yourself some wasted effort by attending to each item in this checklist.
- Explore the hints in Course Information
- About the Course
- Structure & workload
- Schedule
- Getting Started
- Downloading course files
- Finding full-text articles
- Using spreadsheets (include the spreadsheet example)
- Hints for succeeding
- Assignments
- Submitting & formatting reports
- ‘Showing your work'
- Resources
- Discussion board
- Journals & Library
- Primers in statistics
- Writing guides
- Technical assistance
- Examine the Flow of Assignments
- Make sure you have the right software in working order
- Browser
- Word processing program
- Spreadsheet program
- Reader for PDF files
- Media player (for rm format)
- Respond to my e-mail message about computer equipment and software
You will need the field equipment by in about a month. So within the next few weeks
- Order the field equipment