My Policies and Some Advice
for Doing Well in this Course
Activity and Attendance
Policies
1. You must be in class to get credit for an
activity.
2. I do not accept late activities.
3. I do not accept late activities even if you
are sick or …
…even if something bad happens in your
life.
4. But to make up for the things that might go
wrong this quarter …
… I will drop your two lowest activities.
5. You will spend the majority of your time in
this class working in a group. Your group
will depend on your presence in class.
Also, there is no text for this class. The
learning happens in class through hands
on activities. If you are not in class you
are not learning the material. If
attendance becomes a problem either for
an individual or for the entire class, I may
institute a strict attendance policy.
Why is this my policy?
I want you to do well, and doing well
means …
•
Keeping up with the material.
•
Coming to class to hear the
lectures and do the in-class
activities.
BUT, what if …
I fell off a
building and was
in a full body
cast for a month
…
I have pictures
and doctors’
excuses to
prove it …
a student
comes to me and says …
But I am feeling a
bit better now and
want to catch up.
Can we work
something out?
Yes, in extreme and excused
circumstances I would, of course, be
willing to work something out with
you.
What you should you do if you miss class?
Don’t send
an email,
until
you …
1. Check the Week-By-Week
on the course website
http://qrc.depaul.edu.
2. Read the notes on the
website and attempt to do
the activities so you can
learn the material.
3. Contact a classmate to get
help or …
4. … come to tutoring hours to
get help from Charlotte, the
tutor.
5. If you still feel the need,
contact me to set up a time
to meet so that I can answer
the questions you might still
have after you have
completed steps 1 through 4.
I am always more than happy to help
students who are putting time into the class!
But wait a minute … let’s take another look at that email.
What is
wrong
with … ?
We can be on a first name
basis, but this is going a
little too far.
No need to announce it.
Oh, no, of course not. We
never do anything important
in class.
And by the way, who
are you?
If you miss class you
don’t need to tell me
about it.
But then again at this
point I can see why you
wouldn’t want me to
know who you are.
I know you are a
good person.
And as long as you
follow the advice on
the previous slide
you’ll be fine.
Exam Policies
There are no make-up exams or quizzes in this course.
If you cannot take an exam or quiz due to illness or family emergency, you
must inform me in advance by phone or email.
An unexcused missed examination will count as a 0.
An excused missed midterm exam is dropped, and the remaining forms of
evaluation, especially the final exam, are more heavily weighted in the final
grade.
DePaul Unversity Policy on Incomplete Grades:
The same goes for the final
Grades of Incomplete are given only in cases of
exam:
medical emergency or other highly unusual
If you cannot take the final
emergency situations.
due to illness or family
You must be earning a passing grade at the time
emergency, you must
you request an incomplete grade.
inform me in advance by
phone or email.
You should have completed most of course, with
at most one or two major forms of evaluation
In the case of an excused
missing.
absence, you will likely be
granted an incomplete,
Incompletes revert to an F if they are not
but …
resolved within one quarter.
Scenario: The day after the midterm. No prior
correspondence between student and the teacher.
I missed the
midterm.
When can I
make it up?
Scenario: Student is failing
the course.
Can I do
extra credit
to pass?
If there is any extra credit it will be
No, you didn’t let me know in
offered to the whole class. It will only
advance,
so you
getbit
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forwould
the
help
your grade
a little
and
midterm.
never
help you pass if you are
failing.
A few tips for doing well:
1. Come to class.
2. Do your homework.
3. Study the online materials before the midterm and
the final exam.
4. Honor the course policies!
Have a great
quarter!
The End!