Completing the Honor Code and the FERPA Policies are course requirements.
Completing the Honor Code and the FERPA Policies are course requirements.
1. HONOR CODE: psychology students will use only legitimate sources of information in completing their exams and assignments, and will honestly report all sources of work submitted and will not assist or be assisted by unauthorized persons or references. In addition to the Psychology Honor Code, please see LCCC's Code of Student Conduct, available in the College Catalogue. See specifically: A. Academic Issues.
I assume that students enrolled in my psychology classes are honest and will abide by this code. To accept this agreement, please affix your "signature" in the space below and then press the submit button.
Type in your name and class I.E. - PSYC151:
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act provides student access to information about themselves, permits students to challenge such information about themselves, and limits the release of such information about students without the students, explicit written consent. Procedural guidelines are available in appropriate College publications, and copies of procedures may be obtained from the Admissions or Records Office.
Since this course requires communication on academic matters via e-mail, and because there may be opportunities for parents or others to access or view a student's e-mail account, the Federal Government, Lorain County Community College and Dr. Mark B. McKinley require your signature and date in order to communicate to you your academic progress, as associated with your enrollment in this Psychology class. "Academic progress" is taken to be the results of course assessments, i.e., test scores/grades, assignments, etc.
So that I may send a copy of a Class Progress Report to all enrolled students, I will use the last 4-digits of your Student ID-Number as your class-ID. The ID's will be randomized on the Progress Report so as to fulfill the basic requirements for compliance with the Act.
To validate your consent, please type your legal name (signature), today's date and your course number in the spaces below and then press the submit button.
4. COPYRIGHT: TESTS/EXAMS are for personal use only. Students enrolled in Lorain County Community College's Psychology Internet classes are subject to the following conditions: 1) The test documents may be used solely for personal and informational course related needs, 2) The test documents may not be modified, 3) Copying, printing, or redistribution of tests is strictly prohibited, 4) Any infringements of these conditions will be investigated and the offending party/student will be subject to both legal liability and the College's Disciplinary Policy.
5. Conditions under which an INCOMPLETE may be issued: The student was unable to complete each course due to circumstances and conditions beyond the control of the student AND there is a reasonable possibility that the student will be able to complete the course requirements within the required time. Conditions under which the work must be complete: A contract between the faculty and student must be negotiated and signed prior to final exams and issuing an "I."
(a.) In such cases, the student and faculty will sign a contract stating materials and activities the student must successfully complete and the date by which the student must complete those; (b.) Faculty will set the date to complete the course requirements considering the work to be done, his/her personal schedule and the schedule of the student.; (c.) If the student does not complete the course requirements within the allotted time, an "F" will be recorded for the course on the permanent record of the student.
6. WITHDRAWAL from courses begins on the eighth calendar day of the Semester and proceeds through 4:00 pm on Friday of the eighth week of the Semester. Students wishing to withdraw from a course must complete a withdrawal form obtained at the Records Office (1-800-995-5222 ext. 4067).
7. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: In accordance with College policy, if you have a documented disability and require accommodation to obtain equal access in this course, please contact me at the beginning of the semester/term or when given an assignment for which accommodation is required. Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Special Needs Services located in the Learning Resources Center, Room 115 (phone extension---4058). These privileges are not retroactive.
8. LITERACY AND DECORUM POLICY
Having taught nearly a hundred courses on the Internet, it has become increasingly the case that some students forget that even though there are no walls to the “Internet Classroom” it is still an academic environment with the associated standards of literate and decorous communications.
I receive e-mails that are darn near impossible to decipher given the poorly spelled words, lack of appropriate word capitalizations, no sentence ending periods, incorrect tenses, an inability to render properly the differences in the words “to,” “two,” “too,” "their," "there," and the list goes on adnauseam. While this is not an English class per se, and recognizing that we all make some inadvertent mistakes (including those in this Syllabus) in the employment of the written language, I will, however, take into account slovenly wrought communications in factoring your grades.
Relatedly, Internet classes seem to have a tendency to bring out negative characteristics in some students which I have not found in land-based classes. In all of my many years of teaching “live” classes on campus I have not encountered the kind of aggressive, demanding, and irrational comments from students (just some) as I have teaching via the Internet. I suspect that the egalitarian atmosphere and anonymity of the “Internet Classroom” is partially the blame, but then too, it may be partially attributable to the general decline of civility in the outer world beyond the Ivory-Tower.
And finally, I am mindful of the fact that the above policy will pertain only to a small minority that cause such a “policy” to exist in the first place. Very much like the fact that most of society’s laws are existent because of only about 4-7 percent of the population, alas.
And so, let us not undermine the learning experience afforded by Web-instruction with negativisms, but instead we all shall use “spell check” and “make nice.”
9. POST DEADLINE "LATE"
POLICY
Given the wide
latitude/flexibilities per assignment
submissions for this course and still having persons abuse time-frame
deadlines
(it is always and only just a few who are recalcitrant), I am
instituting
a “LATE POLICY.” I am not wise enough to judge
“excuses”
so please note that assignments that are submitted after the due
date/time
(the end of a Module) will suffer a penalty (unless prior communication
with me has extended a deadline). Clearly, it is not fair nor
just to excuse “late” when others are “on time.”
Note: If you are recognized by the Office of Special Needs as requiring additional time, there is no penalty for the appropriate extension of time beyond the stated test-minutes)
Penalty per WRITTEN
ASSIGNMENT(S): One to 24 hours past the end-time of a MODULE will
result in a 25% point reduction. Twenty four to 48 hours past the
end-time of a MODULE will result in a 50% point reduction.
Beyond 48 hours, the penalty is the loss of a finger.
STUFF HAPPENS CLAUSE
You step in the stream, but the water has moved on, and so it is that
this Syllabus does not constitute a binding contract. To maintain
the integrity of the learning experience, the professor reserves the
opportunity and right therein to alter/change this Syllabus.
Should such changes/alterations occur, the professor will notify
students by verbal or written addendum(s). Relatedly, this Syllabus
contains forward-looking statements such as “will,” “should,” “intend,”
“expect,” as well as similar terms. The professor is under no
obligation to be held to any of these forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or natural
catastrophes.
Oh yes, and one more thing: Yesterday was the deadline for all course related complaints, laments, grievances, annoyances, injustices, tribulations, gripes, and/or dissatisfactions.
Comments? Please contact Dr. McKinley
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