COURSE INFO. DOCUMENT by: Bob Hassenger Subject: Student and Instructor Roles
The Student’s Role in this Class
You must be an active participant in this course and are expected to attend class on a weekly basis.
You are expected to spend approximately 10-16 hours per week working on each 4 credit course. You will most benefit from the course if you stay disciplined and maintain a regular schedule. If the course has online discussions, you are expected to make frequent and high quality responses. The instructor will check in often to facilitate the discussion and to provide direction, but the discussion is dependent on you. You are asked to respond to both the original discussion items and to each others' responses. If you visit a discussion but do not post a contribution, you will not be counted as present in that discussion.
You are expected to observe proper "Netiquette". Please remember that many areas of the online course are of a public nature. Be courteous and use appropriate forms of communication and interaction over the Internet. This means no personal attacks, no obscene language,and no expressions of intolerance for other views and opinions. All viewpoints should be respected.
You are expected to maintain contact with the instructor and ask questions when needed. Don’t let problems go unresolved!
You are expected to follow the course schedule and work through each module in a timely manner. Each module builds on the previous ones. If you skip a module your foundation will be weak and you will have difficulty with succeeding modules.
You are expected to complete all learning activities in a timely manner. Assume that any assignment submitted late will lose credit, and that very late submissions will not be accepted.
You are expected to contact your instructor immediately if you fall behind. Extensions are not automatic; they must be granted by the course instructor and can be granted only if you meet the requirements: at least 50% of the work completed acceptably by the end of the term.
You are expected to take responsibility for your course work.
The Instructor's Role in this Class
Your instructor's role is to answer questions, moderate discussions, respond to your written work, and address concerns. He or she will check “Your Private Folder”, the “Bulletin Board” and the Question Areas frequently and make it a point to get back to you promptly with the answers to your questions. If he or she does not answer your question promptly or accurately, please communicate the problem to them.
An instructor is expected to monitor the Discussions Area, and to read every comment made by every student. Response to each comment is not possible and indeed would not be desirable. Instructors tend to jump in periodically. Their software allows them to view all your comments and to determine when and how each student has posted a response. Your grade for participation in the Discussions Area is based on the quantity and quality of your responses.
The instructor will evaluate your assignments. He or she is expected to grade your assignments promptly and return them to you in the “Your Evaluations Folder”. Individual instructors do things differently, but most try to return work within 7-14 days after the assignment due date. Typically the instructor waits until after the due date, when all of the assignments have been submitted, before reading any assignments. That way he or she can get an overall view of student submissions before assigning grades.
Instructors are expected to provide Mid-Term progress reports and frequent feedback to let you know where you stand relative to the course expectations.
Instructors monitor class attendance. Remember - if you do not post at least one document each time you log-on, you will not get credit for attendance.
