Course Syllabus

Introduction

This course is non-facilitated, meaning there is no instructor assigned to this course.  If you have any questions about the course or require assistance in completing the course, please contact your Department Chair.

Course Objectives

After the successful completion of this course, prospective candidates will be able to:

• Define the characteristics of the Moodle LMS
• Learn how to set up a course using the Course Preparation Checklist
• Identify the types of revisions to be made to a course
• Identify how to submit a support ticket
• Find GMC Library information and list the GMC Library password
• Grade a discussion forum using the universal grading rubric
• Identify the Discussion forum guidelines
• List in order the steps required to grade the different types of assessments used in the GMC Global Online College
• List items included in the GMC Global Online College timeline
• List the GMC Honor Code
• Describe the importance of ADA compliance and copyright compliance
• Identify how to submit an honor council referral for academic dishonesty
• Calculate the day a student should be withdrawn from class
• Determine the final grade for a student who has withdrawn from a course
• Identify and fix overridden grades
• Identify how to submit withdrawal requests (non-attendance/student-initiated)
• Identify how to submit a grade change
• Describe instructions for handling an academic grade appeal

Course Schedule

Performance Criteria

Grading will be based on the following categories:

Prospective candidates are allowed 3 attempts to earn 90% or better on each unit assessment in order to release the materials for the next learning unit and continue with the course.  If at any point a prospective candidate earns less than 90% after the 3 attempts, the course is concluded.  At this point the prospective candidate will need to notify his/her Department Chair regarding the situation.

Grade percentages:

Expectations

During the course, prospective candidates are expected to...

• be responsible for their own attendance. Although the course is self-paced, prospective candidates have a maximum of four weeks to complete the course.
• communicate with the Department Chair regarding accommodations. Any prospective candidate who feels he/she may need an accommodation or assistance based on the impact of a disability should contact the Department Chair.
• adhere to the GMC Honor Code which states "I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do." Please become familiar with the GMC Honor Code as outlined in the GMC Student Handbook (http://www.gmc.edu/current-students/student-handbook.cms).
• maintain the highest degree of academic integrity. For more information, please see the Ethics section of the syllabus.

Ethics

Georgia Military College Honor Code: "I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do."

Georgia Military College acknowledges the need to preserve an orderly process with regard to teaching, learning, research, and public service, as well as the need to preserve and monitor students' academic rights and responsibilities. Since the primary goal of education is to increase one's own knowledge, academic dishonesty will not be tolerated at Georgia Military College.  Academic dishonesty includes the following examples, as well as similar conduct aimed at making false representation with respect to academic performance:

A. Cheating on an examination;

B. Collaborating with others on work to be presented, contrary to the stated rules of the course;

C. Plagiarizing, including the submission of others' ideas or papers (whether purchased, borrowed, or otherwise obtained) as one's own. When direct quotations are used in themes, essays, term papers, tests, book reviews, and other similar work, they must be indicated; and when ideas of another are incorporated in any paper, they must be acknowledged, according to a style of documentation appropriate to the discipline;

D. Stealing examination or course materials;

E. Falsifying records, laboratory results, or other data;

F. Submitting, if contrary to the rules of a course, work previously presented in another course;

G. Knowingly and intentionally assisting another student in any of the above, including assistance in an arrangement whereby any work, classroom performance, examination, or other activity is submitted or performed by a person other than the student under whose name the work is submitted or performed.