Course Syllabus

Davis Connect Syllabus

Successful Student Expectations

• Complete work on time, make a schedule for each day and stick to it.
• Read assignment instructions and lesson content thoroughly before asking questions. Ask questions of your teacher through your Canvas Inbox. 
• Create a learning environment at your home.  Remove distractions, organize your learning space, and find a spot that works for you.
• Track your progress.  Use the tools in Canvas to monitor your learning.  Read the feedback and suggestions given by your teachers.  Be motivated to fix your mistakes to improve your grade, and increase your knowledge.
• Check into your courses every day.

Policies & Procedures

• If a student is inactive for a period of two (2) weeks, the student may be dropped from Davis Connect online courses. To be considered active in a course, a student must be: logging in and spending time in the course, submitting assignments, and communicating with the instructor. NOTE: If a student is auditing a course, this needs to be communicated directly with the instructor and Davis Connect office, so the student will not be dropped for inactivity. 
•  Plagiarism: If you directly copy work form the Internet or another source, you will be given a "0" on the assignment and another chance to redo and fix your mistake.  NOTE: If the behavior continues, you risk receiving an administrative U in Citizenship, being locked out of your classes until you complete an online course on Academic Honesty and/or attend a parent/student/administrator behavior contract meeting, and being removed from the program altogether. See Academic Honesty for more information. 
• Teachers are part time and have 24 hours or 1 business day to respond to your messages.  Please be aware that if you message them later on in the day, in the evening, or over a weekend it is very unlikely to receive a response that day.  Please be courteous and respectful when messaging them.
• Late Work Policy: Complete the course activities by the suggested due date if at all possible or as soon as possible, if a due date has been missed. Your teacher will mark your assignment as a "0" if the due date has passed.  You will still have the opportunity to complete your assignments up until the end deadline. We grade based on the quality of the submission not when it is submitted.

Course Activities

• Instruction: Each module has reading material, videos or other instruction.  Make sure to view all of this information before starting an assignment.
• Assignments: There are assignments in each module designed to help you have a better understanding of the course concepts.
• Discussions: Replies must be 2-3 sentences minimum. Politeness and grammatical conventions must be followed.

• Quizzes:  It is possible that your courses has one or more quizzes/tests to check your mastery of concepts being taught. All assessments are to be completed without help (others, the Internet, or materials) unless specifically stated that it is open book. 

Grading Scale