Course Syllabus Table of Contents PSY 244 - Department of ...

Requests for Changes in Exam (or assignment) Dates
Since this course is completely online, you will need to make sure that you will have consistent access
to the Internet throughout the course. Vacations don’t fit in well with accelerated summer courses, faceto-face
or online. Remember each week of an accelerated session is equivalent to two weeks of a
regular semester! If your internet plans fall through during a vacation then you may miss turning in an
assignment or taking a test. This course is NOT self-paced. There ARE due dates for various
assignments. Students have been able to successfully move around the country (and even between
countries!) during online classes. In order to do this they coordinate their travel with their course
syllabus and they make sure that they have arranged to have a high-speed internet connection
wherever they may be. However, given the number of hours per week that are invested in an online
course this is quite distracting during a vacation. Course assignments and exams are not changed to
accommodate summer activities. Sometimes difficult choices need to be made about taking classes in
the summer or engaging in another worthwhile activity.
Study Abroad programs may or may not fit in with Summer Session courses depending on their
departure dates. MSU has over 250 programs! The Study Abroad faculty cannot take responsibility for
ensuring that students have reliable internet connections in order to take exams and finals for online
classes. Also, the timing of our final exam is not changed to accommodate various departure or return
dates for Study Abroad. Study Abroad is unlikely to allow a change in your schedule to accommodate
the final exam schedule established by the registrar's office. Whether Summer Session courses fit with
a particular Study Abroad program depends on the timing of the program and the availability of high
speed internet to the student at the program site.
Feedback on Course Grading and Grade Appeals
Your submissions
After the answers are released for an exam you will see a box like the one above. If you click on the
hypertext date displaying when you took the exam then a page will open up and you will see all the
exam questions and answers. These answers are available from Friday at 5:00 p.m. until Tuesday at
5:00 p.m. after each exam. You may take notes about individual topics that you want to study but you
cannot recopy the entire question. You may not download or copy the questions themselves. Exam
questions are not available later in the semester.
What do you do if you think that your answer was correct but it was marked wrong
Only exam points appealed in this method will be considered:
1. Send the appeal through ANGEL to Faculty.
2. On the Subject Line write: Psych 244 Question Appeal.
3. Explain why your choice is the BEST answer. Document your explanation. Provide textbook
page numbers, slide numbers from Breeze, etc.
4. Explain why the choice that is marked as the correct answer is either wrong, ambiguous, or in
some way not as good as your choice.
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