Syllabus

Schedule

Student Resources

Policies

Late Assignments and Re-submitting assignments

For each day an assignment is late, five points (5) will be deducted from the final score. There are times, however, when a late assignment may be accepted by a professor without a deduction but only if this has been cleared with the instructor before the assignment is due. Also, instructors reserve the authority to make this decision about accepting late assignments on a case by case basis. In addition, every assignment must be completed. If an assignment is not turned in it will lose points until it is submitted.

Also under some circumstances a student may be able to redo an assignment given the instructor’s discretion. However, when an assignment is redone it cannot receive full points and must be completed within one week of receipt of initial grade.

Grading Expectations A= Exemplary Work

Maintaining a high quality graduate program is a commitment of UNE. In doing so the university believes that the grade of an A should be reserved for exceptionally strong academic performance. Students who provide exactly what a rubric requires are different from those who do the same but go beyond the basic requirements in writing, expression of ideas, and integrated information; the exemplary students.  In this course an A will be only given to students who exhibit exemplary work.  Each assignment will have a rubric that establishes what an exemplary performance would look like for each task. Instructors will be looking for this exemplary work and will not be handing out A’s for those who just merely meet the expectation.

Teaching Methodology to Be Used

This is an online course and therefore will be using technology to deliver instruction. Each week there will be a guiding question that will drive the readings, the response, and the activities. There will be a number of ways that you will participate through this course as well as a number of ways that you will be assessed. When new technology is introduced there will be a tutorial provided to help you understand how to access this tool. We do have the expectation that you will have access to high speed internet that will allow you to download and view audios, videos, and web tools.

Instructors’ Responsibilities

As a team we are committed to your learning and providing quick and thoughtful feedback.

Students’ Responsibilities

Learning is a two way street and while the instructors have responsibilities in this class to deliver quality instruction, grade your assignments in a timely fashion, answer questions and support when needed; you as a student also has responsibilities. First, this is your learning experience and you need to be a proactive learner, however, there will be times when you have questions.

There are a few ways for you to receive assistance when you need help.

• First, you can use the Course Mail function to email the instructor. This is an email between you and the instructor.
• Each instructor also has used the discussion board as a virtual office if there is a question that you think others might find useful.
• And finally, there is a Help menu for questions of a technical nature that will inevitably come up in the course.

Assignments/Evaluation

The assessments in this course were designed to meet a number of objectives. First, some of the assignments are created to gauge your active participation in the course. Unlike face-to-face courses where we can visibly monitor your engagement- in this course we need to use things like discussion boards points to make sure that you are an active participant with this material. There are also some assignments that are created to give you an opportunity to synthesize what you are learning and create a new product to demonstrate this learning. The assignments in the class have been carefully constructed to match the content in the course and to grow your learning as a literacy professional.