Late Work/ Dropped Grades/ Extra Credit

 

Late Quiz Submissions:

If you miss the deadline for the Exams, you cannot take them for any points.

You have up to 3 days after the respective due dates to take the first five unit Exams. If you take a exam late your grade will be adjusted to reflect a substantial penalty. The penalty will be that you will only receive half of the points you earn. For example, if you score 20 points on a quiz, but missed the deadline, your score will be adjusted to 10 points. Quizzes become unavailable after the late deadlines pass, at which time you can go back and review your answers. After 3 days, you will not be able to take exams for any credit.

Note that for the last exam of the semester, the Unit 6 Exam, the deadline is on Friday 5/23. Sunday 5/23 is also the absolute deadline for the end-of-the-semester extra credit. Since these are end-of-the-semester assignments, no late submissions will be accepted for either the Unit 6 Quiz or the extra credit quiz after the Sunday 5/23 deadline.

No Discussion Posts Will Be Accepted After Sunday:

You cannot make up missed discussions. Discussions are meant to engage you in a back and forth with other students. If you come to that 'party' late, no one will read/respond to your post since, as a class, we've moved on. Thus, no late discussion posts will be accepted. Discussions are one element of the course that cannot be made up/submitted after the Saturday deadlines. You can submit your initial response to the prompt late (if you miss the Wednesday initial post deadline, you will have until the board closes on Saturday to post your initial response). However, once the board is considered closed (after the weekly Saturday deadline), neither late initial posts nor late follow-up posts will be accepted.

 

 

             

Extra Credit:

Keep in mind that just by completing the Course Check-In and the Syllabus Quiz during the first week of the course, you will earn up to 1% on top of the 100%. This is essentially your first extra credit opportunity. There are only two other extra credit opportunities. One will be an end-of-the-semester assignment. It is an extra quiz on the federal bureaucracy (Chapter 15) that can earn you up to another 1% bump in your final average for the course. The deadline for this assignment is 10/23 and no late submissions will be accepted for any credit. The other is an assignment to enroll someone to vote and answer questions about the experience. Keep in mind that 3%, in the grand scheme of things, will NOT help you if you are consistently submitting sub par/late/no work.

Extra credit is a way to help students who are on the cusp on the next letter grade - it is not meant for students who hope to use it to salvage their final grade and/or make up for missed or inadequate work. Thus, any inquiries regarding extra credit opportunities other than what is stated above will not receive a response.