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 A student who does not attend the classes for which he/she is registered in a term will be withdrawn from those courses by the faculty.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.