1. Week 1: What’s Expected of an
Online Student
STANBRIDGE COLLEGE
ORIENTATION TO ONLINE LEARNING

2. Responsibilities of Student
 The Student is expected to know what is on the
syllabus.
 What are the course outcomes?
 What is the correct text and supplementary material to the text
(text website, workbooks, CDs, etc.).
 A 4 unit course will require 12 hours per week of work.
 You should plan your schedule to accommodate 12 hours of
working at the website, reading your text, making postings to the
Discussion Forum, and doing homework assignments.
 What are key topics and themes of the course?

3. More on Syllabus
 Important: Minimum of 2-6 postings per week
(based on course).
 Discussion Forum postings determine attendance.
 No postings over 14 consecutive days results in
dismissal from program.

4. What Student Can Expect from Instructor
 Instructor must respond to student query (from either or
discussion forums) within 48 hours of submission date.
 Instructor must grade and comment on the right answers
to an assignment within 5 days of the submission date.
 An Instructor must be available for two hours per week
for office hours.
 Your Instructor is not expected to serve as a private tutor
for students having exceptional difficulties.
 However , instructor must refer students who are falling behind due
to exceptional difficulties to the Dean of Instruction, who will obtain
an external private tutor.
 An instructor may volunteer to be a tutor but as the class instructor,
cannot charge a fee for private tutoring.

5.  To Be Continued