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Course and Program Specific Policies

Attendance and Participation

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It is the policy of the University that students are required to participate every week in either modality (onsite, online, hybrid) by reviewing all the required material posted on Moodle for this course and by submitting or completing the weekly assignments by their due dates. This includes lectures, discussion post, written assignments, and quizzes.

At SSU more than four absences (including excused absences) in a course is considered excessive. Students who have more than four absences in a class will receive a failing grade (“F”).

Absences are counted from the first official meeting of the class regardless of the date of a student’s enrollment.

Discussion Forums

The Discussion Board is designed to create class dialogue. Participation in the Discussion Board is part of your attendance/participation and helps to demonstrate student knowledge of course content. Each Discussion Board post will be assessed using a rubric.

Discussion Board Requirements:

Discussion posts must be completed during the week they are assigned, posts made before or after the week they are due will not be considered.

For each discussion, you must submit an initial response that includes connection to the course content and your research and must include a minimum of one citation and reference used for the post.

Late submission will receive zero points.

For each discussion you must submit a minimum of two responses to your peers or instructor by Sunday.

Include supporting evidence in all your post

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Discussion Forums

For online classes

The initial response is due on Wednesday by 11:59pm each week.

The response posts are due on Sunday by 11:59pm each week.

All posts must be meaningful and demonstrate relevance to the topic, knowledge of the topic, adding interest and dynamics to the discussion forum. Proper grammar, spelling, and source citations are expected in all discussion posts.

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Academic Integrity

Review the Academic Integrity policy in the .

If a student (or all students within a group e.g., a team working on a group project), has been found to commit academic misconduct, the following consequences will occur:

First Offense: An oral or written reprimand to the student and an automatic zero for the assignment.

Second Offense: Automatic zero on the assignment. A filing of an Academic Misconduct Warning reporting the incident to the Chief Academic Officer.

If the student has two Academic Misconduct Warnings, the student may be dismissed from the program.

Use a plagiarism checker. I will use my own for each assignment. Should not be over 20% of cited material.

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Late Assignments

Any assignments other than the discussion board will not be accepted.

There are those extenuating circumstance that I will accept late assignment submission but it is case by case and you will receive a 10% late penalty from the assignment total points.

Extenuating circumstances examples are:

Death in the immediate family, hospitalization, accidents. Situations that are out of the student control

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Written Assignments

All written assignments must be:

Focused on the purpose of the assignment.

Complex in thinking.

Organized and well-evidenced.

Formatted and cited using APA 7th Edition Style. Will deduct points if not properly used.

Grammatically, stylistically, and mechanically correct. (Use Grammarly)

Contain a separate reference page of cited sources .

Contain cover page.

Use citations properly (Follow APA)

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Written Assignments

All written assignments must be:

Each paper must include your name, the course number, and date in the header of each page. Page numbers must be included in the footer of each page.

Font = Times New Roman 12

Use double-line (2.0) spacing

Use 1” margins

Include a references page (not included in minimum page count)

Assignments must be submitted in the appropriate area of Moodle in Word (.doc or .docx) or as a Rich Text File (.rtf).

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Goals for this class