Title: Course Policies
Course: Template 3 > Section: Course Overview

Course Policies

Participation Policies:

Make-Up Policy:

Academic Integrity Policy

The University Rules, including the Student Code of Conduct, and other policies of the department, college, and university related to academic integrity will be enforced. Any violation of these regulations, including acts of plagiarism, cheating, or falsifying fieldwork will be dealt with according to the severity of the misconduct. Dishonesty in any form may result in a failing grade in a course and/or suspension or dismissal from a program (e.g., graduate or undergraduate). Please see the Student Code of Conduct at http://www.uc.edu/conduct/Code_of_Conduct.html for additional details.

Some assignments in this class may be analyzed with SafeAssign; SafeAssign is an anti-plagiarism tool that checks submitted assignments against a database of papers to identify similarities between works of writing. SafeAssign uses an algorithm that detects similarities between a paper and other sources. Assignments are compared against several different databases, other submitted student papers and web sources.

Electronic Communication / Email Policy

Students are required to use a University of Cincinnati email address for all program activity. The primary reasons for the policy relate to issues of confidentiality, security and the receipt of information from the University of Cincinnati and the Educational Leadership Program.

The University of Cincinnati sends many official notices, announcements and important information to students via email. For example, student bills are sent by email and are no longer mailed through the U.S. Postal Service. To ensure this type of confidential information is sent to the correct individual, items are only sent to student UC email accounts. A UC email address is clearly identified with the student’s name and only a student can register for her/his own email account. Therefore, there is a high level of confidence by the University the student will receive the email.

Instructors/ facilitators can be reached via email and will try respond to all emails within 48 hours.   If something is an emergency, you can call the instructor at the numbers listed; email is ALWAYS preferred as a primary means of contact.

Again, students are required to use a University of Cincinnati email address for all academic activity. The purpose of this policy relates to issues of confidentiality and security and to ensure receipt of information from the University of Cincinnati. Failure to check your UC email will not constitute a failure of communication on the part of the university, this college, or this program. Email communication from students that originate from non-UC accounts may be ignored.

When posting on the discussion boards and using other communication tools such as chat it is important to understand how to interact with one another online, sometimes called netiquette. A good rule of thumb is to write nothing online that you wouldn’t be willing to say in person. You can read more about the rules of netiquette here.