Incompletes and Completions

Remember: Each student can ask for extensions--no explanation needed--on two assignments or participation items, moving the due date as far back as the last session. Beyond the 2 extensions, when you miss the due date for a submission by more than 4 days, it is ok to submit it late, but only the eventual OK/RNR, not the submission, count, so focus on doing the best you can with the remaining assignments and participation items.

1. Final date on submissions for which you have requested an extension = Last session.

2. Final grade will be based on work submitted and work completed by the date for submission of grades.

3. Exceptions to the 1 & 2 require a serious health or family situation and submission of a proposed completion contract plus the official form, then reviewed and approved by the instructor by the last session and signed by both parties. For the proposed contract, use your assignment checklist to indicate what you think you have completed and your proposed contract dates for completion of specific assignments.

• Note: No participation items can be made up after the end of classes. (Reason: It does not contribute to the class interactions for you to make up these items.)

4. Please don't expect instructors to work with you over the summer and winter breaks to complete your assignments. (We need you to respect that we have professional "incompletes" that we need to try to make up during these periods!) In other words, do what you can by the day when grades are due and then take a break from "dialogue around written work" until the new semester starts. Please write your completion contracts with this in mind. Even in the new semester, be patient because instructors have to give higher priority to responding to students from the current semester.

5. Please note that the desired learning rarely takes place during standard on-your-own incompletes, despite the best intentions of student and instructor. There is no substitute for the development of teaching/learning interactions that happens with peers and regular week-by-week sessions. Expect that comments made on work for incompletes will be brief.

6. If you don't have a signed completion contract, the course must be taken again when it is next offered to get you a passing grade or improve your grade if it is lower than you wanted.

7. An incomplete grade automatically becomes an F if it is not completed within a year.