ECON 2220-ITV

Principles of Economics II

Microeconomics

Spring 2008

 

Instructions for on-line enrollment in “MyEconLab in CourseCompass

 

INSTRUCTOR:

Dr. F. Steb Hipple, Professor of Economics
Office -- Room 304, Wilson Hall
Phone/Voicemail -- 423.439.5304
Fax -- 423.439.8583
Email -- hipples@etsu.edu
Website -- http://faculty.etsu.edu/hipples
Office Hours – by appointment.

 

TEXTBOOK:

Robin Bade & Michael Parkin, Foundations of Microeconomics, 3rd ed

Pearson Addison Wesley, 2007, with “MyEconLab in CourseCompass

(“a la carte” loose leaf edition)

 

This course requires you to enroll in MyEconLab (MEL) from Pearson Education. Pearson is the parent firm of Addison Wesley, the textbook publisher. Our version of MEL is included in CourseCompass which is a Blackboard based system. If you purchase the textbook package from the ETSU bookstore, it will include an access kit with the registration information. Or, if you purchase a used textbook, you can enroll in MEL in CourseCompass on the internet (have your credit card handy!).

 

You will need the following information to enroll:

            Course ID: hipple13775

            ETSU Zip Code: 37614

 

1. To enroll in MEL in CourseCompass, go to www.myeconlab.com. Note, this website is used for enrollment registration only, and after you have registered, you will not use this website again.

 

2. In the new user registration box, click “students”.

 

3. You are now on page two, and follow the instructions.

 

            1. Author/Title.           Select “Bade/Parkin

                                                Select “Foundations of Microeconomics, 3e”

                                                Be careful and do not pick “Macroeconomics” or” 2e”.

 

            2. Access Kit.              Click the second icon.

                                                If you do not have an access kit from the bookstore, then use

the “What are my options?” link. You can enroll on-line with

your credit-card. Just follow instructions, and skip to #7 below.

 

            3. Course ID.              Click “yes”.

                                                If you clicked the wrong icon above, you will get an error message.


4. You are now on page three.

            Click “new user”.

            Enter the Access Code from your Access Kit. Be careful!

            The ETSU Zip Code is “37614”.

            ETSU is in the “United States”.

            Click “next”.

 

5. On page four, you will register for our specific course.

Enter our course ID which is “hipple13775”.

 If you picked the wrong textbook on page two, you will get an error message.

            The course name in MEL should be “ECON2220-ITV 08SP”.

 

6. To finish registration, you will have to provide an e-mail address, and pick a username and password for your MEL account. If you pick a name that is already being used by another student somewhere in the world, you will be prompted to pick a username that has not been taken.

 

7. When you have finished your registration, get completely out of the www.myeconlab.com website.

 

8. Now, go to www.coursecompass.com. We want to see if your registration has been successful and if your computer has the appropriate software to run MEL in CourseCompass.

 

“Log in” with your username and password and see if you go to our CourseCompass class webpage. If you are in the class webpage, then all is well.  If you are not, then there may be problems!  Contact me.

 

Click the class link. You will be on a new page and you will be asked to run the “Installation Wizard”. Run the wizard. It will check and see if your computer has all of the “plug-ins” needed to run MEL (like Adobe, etc.). The Wizard will also ask you to modify the Microsoft Explorer “Active X” settings to permit “pop-ups” from the CourseCompass site. To do this, you need to be the system operator. If it is your personal computer, you are the system operator. If it is a lab machine, you do not have the authority to modify the Active X settings. Most ETSU computer lab machines are configured for MEL.

 

Once the “Installation Wizard” installs without any problems, you will never need to run this software again.

 

9. Final step, add www.coursecompass.com to your Microsoft Internet Explorer “Favorites” list.

 

10. Besides our MEL class webpage, you also need to add my regular internet website http://faculty.etsu.edu/hipples to your Favorites list. We will also have a class webpage at this site.