UTH Florida University uses a webpage as its global portal or access point to the online educational system. The University has developed an easy-access, dynamic e-learning portal that will enable students to receive their classes in a secure and professional environment. UTH Florida University provides all learning resources and materials to students and faculty via this e-learning platform, in a sense, consolidated into an easy-to-navigate virtual campus. All learning resources (including information provided by third parties) are accessed through our centralized platform.

All users may interact with the platform in both synchronous and asynchronous manners. There are asynchronous activities in which all participants need not be present or connected at the same time such as the interaction in forums, post office, wikis, etc. Synchronous activities, on the other hand, are interactions in real time and include chat and video conferencing among others.

The UTH Florida University learning platform is designed to work with any personal computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone running a web browser with access to an internet connection.

The minimum requirements for access to online courses are:

Hardware:

• Personal Computer, Laptop Computer or Tablet
• Processor Type: Dual Core
• Memory: Depending on the Operating System
• 512 Kbps Internet access
• Internet browser:

– Preferably: Google Chrome

– Other Acceptable:

– Mozilla Firefox

– Microsoft Explorer 11

– Apple Opera o Safari

Recommended Software:

• Word processor: Microsoft Word or similar
• Electronic Sheet: Microsoft Excel or similar
• Virus Detection Program: installed and kept up to date
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: installed and kept up to date
• Adobe Flash: installed and kept up to date

Attendance is mandatory on all distance education courses. All courses are taught in asynchronous learning formats. Synchronous activities are real-time or live interactions, and include, among others, conferences via chat or video. Asynchronous activities are those that students can connect to at any time to complete tasks.

Students with ten percent (10%) or more unexcused absences in half or more of their registered courses will be placed on probation. A student who does not attend the classes for which he/she is registered in a term will be withdrawn from those courses by the faculty. A student who has been absent due to mitigating circumstances should contact the corresponding faculty members and inform them of the reasons behind the absences and the expected return date. Excused absences will be granted only for acceptable mitigating circumstances. The course instructor shall have exclusive authority to decide on the acceptability of an excused absence.

Faculty will consider and give weight to every student’s participation in forums, chats, assignments, learning activities, and live discussions to determine students’ attendance or lack thereof. To make this determination, faculty will consider direct observations and records, reports provided by course monitoring staff, and reports generated by the automated learning platform.