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Babson College
F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business "DIRECT MARKETING and E-Commerce"
The use of e-campus in the DMEC Course

In this course we will make extensive use of the Web as a teaching/learning tool -- as it represents a good example of an "on-line transaction system". One of the ways we will do this is through extensive use of e-campus. The course website URL -- from which you can reach e-campus -- is:

http://faculty.babson.edu/isaacson/ then click on the course or its e-campus

The course syllabus is available on the website and it will be updated frequently to reflect new developments as the semester proceeds. So please look at it often. (To save you money -- and to save the forests -- we have also posted a number of readings on the web-site. You can read them there or print them on demand.)

For each class session there will be an assignment in e-campus and there will usually be related "Readings" and "Resources" as well as "Discussion" questions and "Voting" questions in e-campus. Please be sure to look for them. They too will be frequently updated.

The e-campus web-site is designed to make it easy to:

Post information ("Announcements"),
Make changes to the syllabus ("Syllabus"),
Provide more information as part of the class-by-class assignments provided a week or two before each class (Assignments),
Provide the means to submit "homework" -- including .xls or .ppt or URL's -- ("Assignments" -- click on the specific assignment and paste in or attach each them by submitting one-at-a-time.)
Carry on a discussion -- "threaded" by topic -- to explore various case or topic issues. I will post questions for most classes. You may also post questions you wish to discuss. (Ask me how to do so)
Create private "Team Workspaces" in which you can discuss ideas privately and exchange documents. I will set up such workspaces for your teams.
Vote on issues. I will post "voting questions" for many classes. Please be sure to vote!
Contact me and each other: The web-site includes information on each student -- including your Babson photo -- and your e-mail address. I will use these addresses to mail to you -- so please be sure they are correct.

All course announcements will be made in e-campus and all homework will be submitted through icampus. There will also be group workspaces within e-campus. So please let me know right away if you are having any trouble accessing this web-site.

To use the course website effectively you will need to have access to a "modern" version of Netscape or Internet Explorer -- preferably version 4.0 or later. Version 2.0 and some early version 3.0 browsers will not work effectively -- so please update before the course starts to avoid missing some messages or assignments.

We will also make heavy use of Babson e-mail. So please make sure you are reading it and that your mailbox is not already overflowing.

The course casepacket will be available at the Babson bookstore. There is an assignment for the first class -- so if you do not plan to get the material in time to prepare, please call Marcia Cole at 781-239-6103 or cal me at x4254 and we will send you a copy of the case for the first class.

If you have any other questions about this, please call me at x4254.

Thanks.

Larry