Successful online learning requires that a student actively participate in each week’s learning materials which may include:

• Reading course documents, textbooks, articles and web materials
• Submission of homework assignments, projects and papers
• Completion of any available quizzes, exams and laboratories
• Participation in the weekly discussion board forums, team activities and email.

Excessive absences and failure to keep up with the course pace may result in a decreased or failing course grade. Recall that this is not a self-paced course.  Within each week, assignments may be worked on during times convenient to the student.  However, the assignments are to be completed by the end of that academic week (Wednesday at midnight). If you are unable to participate during a particular week, please contact the instructor beforehand.

If a student believes that he/she has a disability that may affect academic performance, that student should notify Pace University’s Counseling Center for assessment and advisement.  If a student tells the instructor that he/she has a disability, the instructor is bound by University policy to notify the appropriate University representative of such disability.

Students must accept the responsibility to be honest and to respect ethical standards in meeting their academic assignments and requirements. Integrity in the academic life requires that students demonstrate intellectual and academic achievement independent of all assistance except that authorized by the instructor. The use of an outside source, including electronic sources, in any paper, report or submission for academic credit without the appropriate acknowledgment is plagiarism. It is unethical to present as one's own work, the ideas, words or representations of another without the proper indication of the source. Therefore, it is the student's responsibility to give credit for any quotation, idea or data borrowed from an outside source.

As a student, you cannot copy work from someone else's disk to your own or print two copies of the same assignment to be handed in by two individuals. Each student must do his/her own work. It is easy for instructors to tell when data has been duplicated between students. All instructors reserve the right to challenge work they feel has not been completed independently.

Students who fail to meet the responsibility for academic integrity subject themselves to sanctions ranging from a reduction in grade or failure in the assignment or course in which the offense occurred to suspension or dismissal from the University.

The first time that a student submits an assignment or an assessment that is not completely his or her own at Pace University, the student will receive a 0 grade for that individual assignment/assessment.

The second time that a student submits an assignment or an assessment that is not completely his or her own at Pace University, the student will receive an F grade for that course.

The third time that a student submits an assignment or an assessment that is not completely his or her own at Pace University, the student will be dismissed from the University.

The process will be monitored by the NACTEL Academic Review Committee. Students penalized for failing to maintain academic integrity who wish to appeal such action may petition the Department Chair to request a hearing on the matter.