Important points to remember about attendance: Any message you post in any course newsgroup will count towards the attendance requirement, regardless of its content or quality. If your course is 5-8 weeks long and you miss TWO weeks of attendance-consecutively or non-consecutively-you will automatically be withdrawn and will not be eligible to earn a grade. If your course is 1-4 weeks long and you miss ONE week of attendance, you will automatically be withdrawn and will not be eligible to earn a grade. (2) you must post these messages using your OLS address. Deadlines for attendance are based on Mountain Standard Time (MST) (1) You must post at least one message to any of the class newsgroups on two different days during each week. To be in attendance during a week, you must meet two requirements: Remember that the Online week begins on Tuesday and ends on the following Monday. In addition, please note that attendance is tracked by Online administration, whereas participation is tracked by your instructor.Īttendance Requirements for group study and directed study:Īttendance is taken automatically week-by-week. As explained below, the minimum requirements are different for each. In Online classes, attendance and participation are not the same. I don’t know if this helps you, but I thought I would share my experience. Sometimes I wish my class had the rigor of an on-line program. I no longer teach on-line, only in residence and video-teleconference. (I guess they went back to their on-campus programs?) You can’t hide behind another student in the on-line classroom. Some students dropped the course because the on-line requirement made it too tough. As I stated above, if they did not respond, I would dock their class participation grade. In addition, as the instructor, the on-line capability allowed me the opportunity to ask each student a question and require them to respond or participate in the discussion. Students that were normally quiet and did not speak up in class, for whatever reason, could establish a one-on-one discussion with the instructor, and the class as a whole. I think the on-line posting requirement leveled the playing field for the students, in addition to making the course much more challenging and rigorous. Students that were normally quiet in class (either due to personality or intimidation from other students) were often quite vocal in their on-line posts. I enjoyed the added capability and flexibility from the on-line classroom. If they did not respond, I would dock their class participation grade, it’s that simple. I required students to post comments or participate in a discussion in response to questions I would post on our course website. Keller’s courses are hybrids-a combination of both on-line and on-campus. ![]() I can’t comment on UOP on-line, but I did teach for Keller Grad School of Management (another for-profit school) for a couple of years before moving into my current full time teaching position.
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