Software Development Online Part-Time Attendance Policy

For the Software Development Online Part-Time programs, student attendance is monitored by participation on the Learn Platform by way of posting on discussion forums.

Every week, two discussion questions in the Part-Time Accelerated programs (one discussion question per week in Part-Time Flex) will be posted to the online forum. Students must log in and post to the Online Learning Platform and contribute to the online forum question in order to receive attendance credit for that question.

Questions are open for one (1) week from Monday 1:00am MT through Monday 12:59am MT. Note: In the final week of each program course, discussion questions are open from Monday 1:00am MT through Friday 1:00pm MT, to allow for final attendance processing.

Students are required to maintain attendance or as detailed for each course, as measured by the discussion participation. A student who has not logged on to the Online Learning Platform and posted on their assigned Discussion for more than five (5) consecutive assigned questions, is considered inactive. In this instance, the student will be reviewed for program dismissal.

For courses where the maximum number of discussion questions are fewer than the inactivity threshold mentioned above, a student will be considered inactive if they do not submit any discussion questions for the duration of the course.

Part-Time Accelerated Programs

2 week course⁵ - 2 maximum missed discussions
4 week course - 3 maximum missed discussions
8 week course - 6 maximum missed discussions

Part-Time Flex Program

2 week course⁵ - 1 maximum missed discussions
4 week course - 2 maximum missed discussions
8 week course - 3 maximum missed discussions
16 week course - 6 maximum missed discussions

⁵ In the interest of both learning experience and the reality of force majeure and mitigating circumstances, 2 week courses in the part-time program(s) allow for 2 absences.

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