Members of the ASCC Senate got their first look at TalonNet with the help of reading instructor M.L. Bettino during the ASCC Senate meeting last Wednesday.
In addition, ASCC President Joe Cobarrubio displayed flyers that will be posted in restrooms to remind students of the “Show Pride in Your Campus” campaign that will begin Oct. 19 at 2 p.m.
TalonNet is a course material program that can now be accessed through the Cerritos website and also helps students who are currently taking classes online, according to Bettino.
He first introduced TalonNet last year to faculty during the program’s pilot run where the faculty had the opportunity to familiarize itself with it.
The first phase of the program was in progress last spring and summer and Bettino hopes that every student who will be attending Cerritos will have full use of the program by fall 2007.
During the sample version of TalonNet, Bettino showed how the program worked.
“As students log on to it, they will be able to find course materials,” he said, “and as well as the syllabus for the course or courses a student is taking.”
He added that if a student runs into a problem or has a question about a particular homework assignment, that person will be able to receive help from the instructors or have questions answered by the instructor as well as a fellow classmate.
Most importantly for students however, is that through TalonNet students will now be able to see their final grades, not someone else’s, because instructors are no longer permitted to post grades outside of classrooms.
After hearing about TalonNet, senators said that they were unaware that it was being used, but did have positive things to say about it.
Majority Leader Waleed Nueirat and Senator Jaime Sandoval both said that they hope students will take advantage of the program’s service.
In addition, Nueirat commented that it was nice to look at.
However, Senator Victor Nuñez explained that he is currently using the program for a business-managing course and said that using TalonNet has been beneficial for him and hopes it will be to other students as well.
One of the things he finds most helpful is that any questions he has about homework assignments will be responsed to as swift as possible and also accessing any particular assignment is also easy “because everything I am looking for is there.”
Afterwards the Senate turned its attention from matters of the World Wide Web to matters of the campus world.
Cobarrubio reminded Senators to sign-up to participate in the “Show Pride in Your Campus” event and hoped that they would promote and encourage students to show up during the time in which the Student Center and Social Science building’s restrooms will be cleaned up.
Vice President Alex Armendariz agreed and added that he hopes that now that there is a phone number to contact on the flyers that students will take advantage of reporting restrooms that need attention.
Both hope that there will be a good turnout during the event to show that keeping the campus clean matters.
