Welcome to Year 11

Economics at BrisbaneSDE
Help me… where do I begin?
 Some very important
answers to know
• Do I know my lesson times?
• Can I log into class lessons without help?
• Can I log into the Blackboard course?
• Am I checking my school email account several times per
day?
• Have I printed off my Work Rate Calendar and pinned it up
above my monitor?
• Do I have the name, phone number and email address of my
teacher?
What do I need?

• Notebook
• Textbook- Economics for the Real
World- Book 1 Ed3 BSDE does not supply text
books. School based students may find a copy at their
school, otherwise the text will need to be ordered.

• Work Rate Calendar

• The Blackboard Course
• On-line sessions- microphone
headset
 What are we doing?

Work Rate
What must I send?

Calendar

When?
 ASSESSMENT
TASK
These have to be
sent in to your
teacher- counts
towards your semester
credit

DIAGNOSTIC
TASK- must be sent
to your teacher
counts towards your
engagement, as well
as assessment prep

ASSESSMENT
TASK
These have to be
sent in to your
teacher- counts
towards your semester
credit
Blackboard
Check Blackboard at least weekly, for work
due, revision guides, assessment tasks,
Resources, announcements and MORE

Download a copy of the Work Rate Calendar from

the ‘Course Information’ section.
 Your Compulsory Notebook

You need to set up a file system on your computer,

and/or a physical folder so that you can record (and
find)
• notes from the lessons
• Terminology-glossary
• revision sheets
• Assessment
• Hints and tips from your teacher
It’s best to use a computer file system, make sure you
label your folders clearly and organise them
logically.
 On-line sessions
Scheduled lessons-Collaborate sessions
– There are two each week, plus a tutorial lesson
– Scheduled lesson attendance is mandatory
– Do not cover all of the work that you need to do- you will still need to cover the
course material in the homework that you do EVERY NIGHT!

– If you can’t attend a scheduled lesson, your parent or school based supervisor
must email our absences email to let us know- absences@brisbanesde.eq.edu.au
– you should check the Work Rate Calendar to find and complete the relevant
lesson from Blackboard.
– You should make contact with your teacher weekly if you are exempt from
scheduled lessons. Scheduled lesson exemptions must be applied for to the Head
of School.
 Assessments for the year
S1.1 Short Response Test Prose
S1.2 Research Assessment

S2.1 Research Assessment

S2.2 Short Response Test
S2.3 Stimulus response Essay
At BSDE we have a 100% completion of assessment policy.
 BSDE Assessment Policy
Bb (Assessment tab) has a copy of the full Senior
Assessment Policy. Please familiarise yourself with this
document.
You do NOT want to repeat the semester for a late
submission.
Non-submission & Late Submission- extract
• ‘In cases where students do not submit a response to an assessment item by the due date,
judgments will be made using evidence available on or before the due date’ (A-Z of Senior
Moderation, Section 1.1). In the case where there is no evidence available on or before the
due date (i.e. neither a draft nor a final response has been submitted), students will not be
rated, and will not receive credit towards their QCE/OP for that subject, in that
semester. This aligns with QCAA A-Z of Senior Moderation, Section 1.1 which states ‘...in
cases of non-submission of student responses to assessment instruments, standards are
not awarded when there is no evidence.’ To ensure that schools enact the policy ‘…in a fair
and equitable manner’ (Section 4.2), students may be required to repeat a semester where
work has not been submitted.
 Collaborate Launcher
You will need download a new copy of Collaborate Launcher to access lessons.
If you have already downloaded Collaborate Launcher, complete the following steps.

Updating your Collaborate Launcher

1. On your computer, click on the Start button.
2. Type: “Blackboard”. The first option presented in the search bar should be the “Blackboard
Collaborate Launcher”. Click on this.

3. Click on the “Advanced” tab. Now click on the “Check for updates” button:

4. The software will check for updates, if it finds one – make sure you agree or click yes to all
buttons to have it installed.
 How do I join a class?

To access lesson recordings: Go to the Lesson Links button on Blackboard. Then click on the your teachers session ie
“BSDE Year 11 2018 Mrs Neetha Naidoo” and then select “Join Room”
What do I do if I have missed a class?
I need to watch the recording of the lesson in Blackboard.
To access lesson recordings: Go to the Lesson Links button on Blackboard. Then click on the “Session Recordings”
icon…then select “Recordings” and then select the lesson that you missed. Remember to select the correct date!
 What do I do if I have enrolled after
the beginning of the semester?

1. If you enrol late and have missed a unit or part of a unit, you will have
to cover the assessment of the missed unit. You will be given a
modified Work Rate Calendar so that you have a chance to go over a
summary of the most important section of the work.

2. You will be directed to a limited number of recorded lessons so that

you enough information that you can make an attempt the missed
assessment.

3. Don’t be anxious about catching up, work closely with your teacher
and they will help you. You will be directed to the appropriate lesson
recordings.
Conclusion-
any questions?
When in doubt, email or phone
your teacher. She/he is patient,
caring and will be really happy to
hear from you.
60-second adventures in Economics
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p
layer_embedded&v=ulyVXa-u4wE&x-yt-
cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688