Online Class – Attendance

An academic week for online courses is from Monday 12:00 a.m. ET to Sunday at 11:59 p.m. ET (seven calendar days). In rare instances, the academic calendar may stipulate that an academic week for an online course is only six calendar days. Attendance is recorded for the day the action was completed regardless of the day a particular assignment or item was due. Additionally, items submitted prior to the official start date or after the official end date of an academic week do not record attendance for that week; rather, they record attendance for the academic week submitted.

In order to satisfy weekly attendance requirements, online students must complete one or more of the following actions: (1) submit an academic assignment in the Learning Management System (LMS), e.g., Canvas or Blackboard, (2) submit a quiz or an exam in the LMS, or (3) actively participate in a posted online academic discussion in the LMS. Additionally, some courses use labs to supplement a portion of their material. These labs do not count for attendance unless noted in the course guide.

Weekly attendance participation must be within the class-specific online LMS. Logging into the online class without active participation (as described above) does not constitute official weekly attendance. The university reserves sole discretion to determine that attendance will not be awarded for posts that do not constitute active participation in online discussion posts.