Faculty Availability

To facilitate student learning, faculty will need to:

Maintain regular and substantive interaction with students. See this section below.
Based on the schedule of classroom assignments, recommend maintaining regular office hours for students.
Check on a near-daily basis for student assignment submissions, student questions, student discussions, student requests, new student enrollments in their classes, and any other student activity for which they are expected to monitor.

Provide scholarly feedback, guidance, supportive interactions and genuine performance assessments (grades) within 3-7 days from the end of the module deadline.
Respond to any student questions that are received via email or any other student initiated request as quickly as possible, but certainly within 48 hours of receiving the request. If additional time is needed to research the request, faculty should acknowledge receipt of request and notify the student as to when a complete response can be expected.
Direct students to resources such as the Student Resource Center and Library.
Proactively and regularly initiate and post meaningful contributions to all appropriate course discussion threads for the purpose of stimulating the students’ academic experience and keeping the discussions on topic.
Submit Final Grades within 7 days of the course end date.