This is week minus 1 of the module according to the Study Calendar. I did two more 'preparing for' sessions last week. Level 2 on Monday, and Level 3 on Wednesday. The level 2 variant was the session I was specifically invited to. I found 'Preparing for Level 1' a bit of a box ticker, concentrating mostly on student services, employability and careers advice. The 'how to navigate the website' component was more useful for students new to the OU than myself, but as I was gate-crashing an event aimed at level 1 punters, I can't complain too much. The level 2 event on Monday was slightly better. Not quite so much of the employability stuff and a bit more on student support. I did learn that some students on other modules have been allocated their tutors though, and that a particularly good quality member of the full-time OU staff is also a personal tutor on S283.
Also, in addition to the above, I made a tentative start to question 1 of TMA01. It was based on the first two chapters of the textbook An Introduction to the Solar System. The first part involved calculating planet densities and the second part was about the abundance of elements found in those planets. I particularly enjoyed the graph plotting used to visualise the main planet types.
At the time of typing, I still haven't received any tutor details but I have an introductory letter to this mystery person written and all ready to go. I will probably include it as part of TMA00, the dummy TMA that tests the eTMA submission system.