Messages concerning the course Medical Neuroscience
On this bulletin board important messages concerning the course can be found.
Message 1: Recommended readings from Neuroscience, 5th ed.
In the learning objectives from each tutorial on the course website you will find the recommended readings from Neuroscience, 6th edition. Here you find a link to the pages in the 5th edition.
Message 2: Place of Tutorial Notes
The Tutorial Notes are very important in this course. It is a good idea to start learning by reading the Notes that come with a video before you watch the video (see Study Strategy)
Tutorial notes in web browser
Tutorial Notes in the Coursera app.
Message 3: You can retake a quiz indefinitely
You can take a quiz 3 times every 8 hours. That means that you have an unlimited number of quiz attempts but may only retake a quiz 3 times in an 8-hour timeframe. After that, you can retake it 3 times in 8 hours. Your grade is not penalized on this format for retakes, and you may continue attempts up until the end of your session.
Message 4: Reset your course deadlines
If you miss two assignment deadlines in a row or miss an assignment deadline by two weeks, you’ll see a Reset deadlines option on the Grades and Overview pages. Click it to switch to a new schedule for the course with updated deadlines. You can use this option as many times as you need.
This won’t remove any progress you’ve already made in the course, but you may see new course content if the instructor updated the course after you started.
If you cancel a subscription and then reactivate it, your deadlines will automatically reset
Here is a link to Coursera’s information on resetting your deadlines.
Message 5: The Coursera app does provide Tutorial Notes
The image of the first message shows that the course provides several downloads. The Coursera app looks different from the browser, see for the place of the Tutorial Notes and Transcripts in the app Message 2 of this page.
Message 6: Total number of hours of the course (Important if your University gives you Academic Credit for Medical Neuroscience)
There are nearly 46 hours of videos in the course at 1x playback speed. Then, one should consider time in the discussion forums and time spent studying on your own. Prof. White’s recommendation has been to plan to spend 16-20 hours per week on the course across the 13 weeks, which would be somewhere between 200 and 260 hours of total time.
Prof. White recommends at least 200 hours in the course to achieve success.