Assignment Submittal Instructions

Version of October 27, 2021

Your assignments might involve entirely-digital documents (e.g., and Excel spreadsheet, a Word document, a PowerPoint document) or a document that you complete by hand and must then convert into a digital document by scanning and saving as a PDF document.

If your responses involve hand work on a paper document...

If your completed assignment involves hand work on a paper document, you will need to convert your original paper document into a digital document by scanning and saving as a PDF document.

1. Scan your work
   
   • You can do this with a fancy-schmancy document scanner (if you are fortunate enough to have one available to you) or simply by using your smartphone.
     
   • If you use your smartphone, BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE NEED TO HOLD THE PHONE STILL WHEN YOU ARE SCANNING . I say this only because my lovely daughter is in the habit of taking pictures with a funny little motion that looks like she is trying to push the camera/smartphone toward the thing she is trying to take the picture of, as if punching the air in front of the camera/smartphone is necessary to take the picture. Drives me nuts!
     
   • For hints about scanning using a smartphone, read the first two pages (only) of the document Submitting PDF Homework in Gradescope that is accessible via http://gradescope-static-assets.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/help/submitting_hw_guide.pdf .
     
   • The Gradescope folks recommend a smartphone app called Scannable by Evernote for iOS users (Apple iPhones). Scannable is available for free in the Apple App Store. For Android smartphone users, Gradescope recommends Genius Scan , which is available in the Google Play Store.
   • Before you submit your scanned work check to be certain that the scanned result is neat, legible, and clear. If it is not legible, neat, and clear when your humble grader receives it on the other end of this process, you might induce bad words to come out of his mouth, possibly in several languages. More importantly, you will be given no credit for work that is not clear, neat, legible, and correct,
   • If it makes sense to do so for a given assignment, scan all of the pages IN ORDER and save them as a single PDF file. If you need to submit multiple files as your responses to an assignment, that is perfectly OK. For example, you might have one or more PDF, Word, Powerpoint, or other electronic files that you submit for a single assignment.
   • Name the PDF file as follows: YourLastName-AssignmentX.pdf, where in place of the X you should put the assignment number. So if your name was Rosa Parks and you were submitting your work on Assignment 12, the file would be named Parks-Assignment12.pdf
     If you have a second part of the assignment to upload, append a "-2" to the end of the filename you used for the first submission. Follow the same strategy for any additional uploads for that assignment.
2. Login to Baylor's Canvas LMS ( https://www.baylor.edu/canvas/ ), navigate to 202130 GEO 3445 01 - Structural Geology, click on the Assignments link along he sidebar, find the appropriate assignment, and upload the PDF file for each completed activity associated with that particular assignment.

If your responses involve electronic documents that don't need to be scanned...

1. Name the electronic file as follows: YourLastName-AssignmentX.yyyy, where in place of the X you should put the assignment number, and you should use the correct file type indicator at the end of the file name in place of the "yyyy". So if your name was Emmett Till and you were submitting your work on Assignment 12 in the form of an Excel file, the file would be named Till-Assignment12.xlsx
   If you have a second part of the assignment to upload, append a "-2" to the end of the filename you used for the first submission. Follow the same strategy for any additional uploads for that assignment.
2. Login to Baylor's Canvas LMS ( https://www.baylor.edu/canvas/ ), navigate to 202130 GEO 3445 01 - Structural Geology, click on the Assignments link along he sidebar, find the appropriate assignment, and upload the electronic file for each completed activity associated with that particular assignment.

You may not provide information about the answers to anyone other than your teacher. So don't use someone else's answers in the work you submit for credit, and do not allow someone else to use your answers in their submitted work. Cheating is beneath your dignity.

Please let Dr. Cronin or your graduate teaching assistant know if you have trouble submitting your work!

If you have any questions or comments about this site or its contents, drop an email to the humble webmaster .
All of the original content of this website is © 2020 by Vincent S. Cronin