Attendance Policy

Attend, participate in class, and submit homework on a regular basis. Students must participate fully during each class session. Attendance is also measured in terms of turning in homework in a timely fashion. In every case, students must answer weekly assigned questions and post their responses to all questions before class commences weekly. Students failing to log on to the course lesson board and successfully submit their homework on a weekly basis will be dropped from the course.  

From time to time students may be required to attend one or more personal conferences with the instructor. Whenever feasible, the consultation should happen in person at FGCU. However, if distance proves to be an obstacle then students may be required to meet at an off-campus location or to schedule and attend a telephone conference with the instructor. These conferences contribute toward the student's attendance and participation grade. Students do not have the option of not attending conferences when the instructor so instructs them to. Students failing to attend conferences can expect to experience a significant reduction in credit for their participation and attendance portion of the grade, or may be awarded an incomplete grade that can revert to an F if the student continues to refuse participating in a student/faculty conference.

Finally, it is important for all students to remain cognizant that all of their interactions with the instructor must maintain a civil, respectful and cordial tone. Incivility, rudeness and disrespect directed toward the instructor will not be tolerated. Students may be asked to withdraw from the class if they cannot honor this expectation, and can expect to see significant deductions to the attendance and participation portion of their grade.

Consequently, attendance and participation consists of (1) regular online and weekly classroom attendance in the class (2) regular online and classroom participation in the class as demonstrated by the regular and timely submission of complete homework / exams and the demonstrated capacity to convince the instructor that one has read all text and web assignments and is prepared to discuss them in class, (3) regular and appropriate posting of homework on the ANGEL website in the appropriate format, (4) meeting all criteria for homework submission, such as use of APA citations and references, (4) prompt attention to email and telephone messages from the instructor, (5) attendance and civil participation in all scheduled consultation meetings. Failure to comply with any of these factors will result in a reduction in credit for this portion of the course at the discretion of the instructor.

Academic Integrity

Communications & Consultation:

The instructor is available for either face-to-face or telephone consultation during office hours (Thursday 1-4). E-mail should be utilized only for the purpose of informing the instructor of difficulties in accessing information, notification of class absences, problems students are encountering in completing assignments, and other issues related to the management of the course.  All homework  and study questions responses should be directed to the instructor via the bulletin board.. The only exception to this is when the instructor contacts a student relative to a particular learning or teaching issue, or comment. Otherwise, when students have questions regarding the assignment or wish to make a comment for the benefit of the class, they will be expected to use the bulletin board designed for the class. Use the telephone for personal communications, such as notification about missing the class, or needing a specific appointment to discuss the class. It is important for all students to adhere to this policy for communication and consultation. Excessive direct communication with the instructor alone (via telephone or e-mail) can tend to undercut useful class interaction, and can overload the instructor with answering the same or common questions repetitively. The instructor will also use the Lesson board to post class information.

Weekly Lesson Board

Instead of using a Lesson board, this course makes use of the Angel software at FGCU to create a set of discussion forums linked to each weekly course session. These discussion forums  are found under the "Lessons" tab on the Angel web site. A tutorial for using the Weekly Lesson Board in Angel is found below. Understand however that these weekly Lesson discussion forums are designed to house the majority of your course work.

Using the Lesson Board

In using the course "Lesson Board" which is found in the university's ANGEL distance learning software, notice that the Lesson Board consists of a series of "Drop Box" folders. The "Session" folders are for the exclusive use of the professor while the "Drop" box folders are for the use of students. Any student work placed in the wrong drop box folder will not be graded. Use the "Drop" box that matches the week that the homework is assigned or use the "Drop" box that is designated for an examination to be turned in to.

Weekly Lesson Submission Overview

Each week you will be required to post your work under the Lessons section of Angel.  You will have to go to the above site and log in using your student username and ID. Thereafter you will be directed to a page that lists all of the Angel courses you are enrolled in. Click on the appropriate course and you will be taken to the course's "Welcome" page. To the left you will see a vertical table with the following options in it: (The links below are all non-functional and are used only for illustration).

Click on the Lessons folder and you will see the following:

From here, click on the class session drop box where you are going to leave your homework or other class assignments. Once in a class session drop box folder you will see the following (see illustration below). Simply put in the title of your message (such as Discussion Question Set 1), type a message and make an attachment (Word document or Rich Text Format Document Only). Directions for attaching a document are found below. Once your document is attached, hit submit. Only the instructor will be able to read your message and read your attachment.

Drop 1

Instructions: Enter or paste your written work and/or click "Attachments" to upload your files.

When you on the attachment button and come to the following screen:

To upload a file, you click on the "Browse" button and go into your computer to the directory and file you want to upload. Remember, all of your work must be either in Word or Rich Text Format, and you should only use numbers and letters in the titles of your files. Moreover, your file titles should be short and you should never use the # sign in the title to a file.

Once the file is uploaded it will appear in the "Uploaded Files" box. Thereafter, all you do is click on the "Finished" button to complete posting of your work to the weekly lesson. If there is a problem with the file you have uploaded (for instance you may have uploaded the wrong file) then you can hit the delete button to delete the file and start the process again.