Cluster Attendance Policy
Instructors may accommodate a single absence per quarter without a grade reduction by assigning additional work at their discretion. Two absences will result in a grade drop in a single course or in one, two, or all three of the courses in a cluster, depending on the instructor’s judgment. A student who has missed three cluster meetings and does not request to withdraw from the course or cluster before the Withdrawal deadline will receive failing grades in the course or cluster (see Attendance Failure and Failure Grades). The first class and the thirteenth class meetings (arranged by the instructor) are both considered part of the scheduled coursework and attendance will be counted accordingly. Any tardy arrival or early departure from class will be calculated as a partial absence with multiple instances calculated as a combined total.
Attendance in an online course is based on submission of one or more academic activities, such as discussion board participation, quiz, exam, paper, or other graded assignment. First week attendance in online courses is based on submission of a graded assignment. Neither logging into a course in Canvas nor the submission of the required Authentication Video is counted as attendance.