Attendance
LUGC courses offer multiple ways of engaging with the course material, the faculty, and classmates. To succeed in any course, students should expect to be actively engaged by completing assignments on time and participating in any discussion boards, seminars, and other features designed to enrich your learning. The expectation is that students will be active in online course(s) each week.
Weekly activity includes, but is not limited to, submitting coursework, an assignment, a discussion board post, a quiz, or other graded activity in Canvas - Learning Management System (LMS).
If students travel to or relocate outside of the U.S. to countries or regions subject to economic and/or trade sanctions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or other authorities, students may be unable to access services and courses.
Note: Persons receiving benefits from the Veterans Administration are governed by special regulations concerning class attendance See Veterans’ Benefits, appearing earlier in this catalog.
Excused Absence Policy for Students Engaged in Military Duties
Lindenwood University allows students participating in required military duties to be excused from class. Military duties covered under this policy include, but are not limited to, military deployment, required annual military training, ROTC activities, and civilian deployments in support of federal operations. For service members holding Reserve and National Guard status, weekend duty (drill) requirements should not interfere with normal school schedules. However, if a situation arises that requires absence from class due to duty/drill requirements, this absence can also be excused if the required absence is verified by the commanding officer or other affiliated Guard leader.
Students should notify instructors of all absences for military duty prior to the absence. Instructors may request documentation/verification of the military duty and require that the absence be verified by the Office of Veteran Affairs. If an exigent circumstance arises, where notification is not possible prior to the absence, the student should contact the instructor and/or university as soon as possible to present documentation of the reason for the absence as well as the reason for late notification. When make-up work is pertinent, students who have provided their professors with notice should be afforded the opportunity to complete assigned work. Alternatively, students can be assigned an educationally equivalent substitutable activity at a time and place mutually agreed upon by the student and the instructor.
No adverse or prejudicial effects shall result to any student with excused absences for official university activities or military duties.
Note: Students enrolled in classes with extremely compressed meeting schedules will not be excused from class attendance if participation in the activity would cause the student to miss a significant portion of the course. Students who enroll in such a class and find that they must be absent will be advised to withdraw from the class.
Expectation of Student Work and Time on Task
Instruction is provided differently in online courses than in classroom-based courses. Time on task is the total learning time spent in a college course, including instructional time as well as time spent studying and completing course assignments (e.g., reading, research, writing, individual and group projects). All LUGC students are expected to engage in course activities each week.
Catalog of Entry
Students are required to satisfy the degree requirements of the catalog in effect at the time of matriculation. A continuing student who desires to pursue a course of study added to the curriculum in a subsequent catalog year or who wishes to fulfill degree requirements that have changed since the student’s matriculation must submit a catalog change request to the Office of Academic Services. If the request is granted, the student will be bound by all policies and requirements in the new catalog. Students who discontinue study at Lindenwood University may be required to adopt the requirements of the catalog in effect at the time of readmission depending upon the length of the absence. See the Academic Policies and Procedures/Academic Renewal section of this catalog for further information regarding catalog requirements after a leave of absence from the university.
Note: The university reserves the right to modify its policies (other than degree requirements) at any time. Students must adhere to all university policies that are in effect during each pay period of enrollment.