Online Attendance Policy
- Success in our course is dependent on your active participation and engagement throughout the course. As such, students are required to complete all assignments by the due date, and to actively participate in class discussions.
- Additionally, students are expected to:
- Logging in at least three times a week – on different days in order to completely weekly assignments, assessments, discussions and/or other weekly deliverables as directed by the instructor and outlined in the syllabus;
- Participate in the weekly threaded discussions, this means that, in addition to posting a response to the thread topic presented, students are expected to respond to each other and comment and questions from the instructor and/or other students;
- If students find that they cannot meet the class’ minimum discussion requirements due to such a circumstance, please contact their instructor as soon as possible.
- Students will not be marked present for the course in a particular week if they have not posted on the discussion forum and/or submit assignment/essay or complete assessment if administered in that week.
- Student attendance in online courses is defined as active participation in the course as described in the individual course syllabus. Online courses will, at a minimum, have weekly mechanisms for student participation no more frequently than daily, which can be documented by any or all of the following methods:
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- Completion of tests or quizzes
- Discussion forums
- Submission/completion of assignments
- Communication with the instructor
- Or other course participation
- Students are required to log in to each online course by the second day during the week in which the course officially begins, or the day enrolled during late registration to complete the initial introductory postings required in the course.
- As a component of attendance student email, course announcements and discussion forums should be checked frequently (daily is recommended).
- The student is solely responsible for checking updates related to the course.
- If a student fails to meet the attendance requirements, he or she may be recommended for withdrawal from the course.