• Attendance:  Timely participation in discussion groups, chats, and email is the same thing as attendance.
• Evaluation of Attendance:  All attendance scores are worth a max of 20 points.  Each substantive act of participation is worth 5 points apiece.  So to get a possible full 20 points on a round of discussion, you must participate substantively 4 times.  Click here to find out what substantive means.
• Technical Problems:
  • Eller is tolerant -- up to a point -- with the time it takes to work out technical problems when writing and submitting assignments.
  • If you get kicked out of an open-book, Blackboard-posted quiz, Eller will clear your attempt the first few times you have the problem.  However, the farther in the semester we go, the less tolerant and less likely it will become that Eller will do so.
  • If you get kicked out of a major, open-book, Blackboard-posted test, you will have to come to the campus and take the test on-site.
• Time Spent:  The three hours normally spent in a resident classroom become on-line activities.  This means that you will spend approximately the same amount of time attending to this class as you are expected to spend for a resident class.  In other words, you will spend the three hours normally spent sitting in lecture reading and participating in class activities plus the normal expectations of classes -- 2 hours for every hour in class -- a total of 8-9 hours a week spent working on this class.  This is a standard formula for all college classes.
• Communication with Teacher:
  • Students can expect about a 24-48 hour turn return on emails.  Not all emails will be answered especially if the question can easily be answered by reference to previous emails or by looking on the Internet and Blackboard.
  • Teacher is not on email 24/7.  Email received after five o'clock in the evening during the work week and on the weekends will not be immediately answered.  On weekends, teacher will usually spend a period responding to emails.  If teacher takes a short email holiday for conference visits, etc. he will inform the class before hand.
  • Students needing immediate feedback on class-related problems can use Eller's cell phone number between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays.
  • Check Eller's on-line schedule at <http://www.ulm.edu/~eller/eschedule.htm> for hours in which he will be available in his office.
• Email:  
  • Use your Blackboard Email utility to send email to the class.
  • Use your username@tribe.ulm.edu for all class email.  See instructions for accessing tribe email by going to <http:www.ulm.edu/~eller/things/email>. 
• Late Fees:  Writings will always be accepted and papers are not considered late if the written assignment is turned in before Eller finishes evaluating all the previously submitted assignments in that assignment group.  If you have not turned an assignment in by the time Eller has finished evaluating the group already submitted, an arbitrary penalty will be assigned to your work.
• Substantive Discussion:
• Submitting Final Assignments:  All final writing assignments can be emailed to Eller in a readable file format using Blackboard's digital dropbox [Click here for sending and file format requirements].
• All formal writing assignments will be screened by turnitin.com.  Check this website out to see how it works.
• First time plagiarism or cheating of any kind, whether intended or "accidental," will fail a writing assignment or test.  Second time plagiarism will fail you in the course.

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