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Class Expectation for the Fall semester
The following class guidelines are intended to help classes be run in a fashion that is fun for both teacher and student, and also to ensure that classes don't take up all of a student's playing time.
As an out of character tool, classes are intended to keep track of a character's activity in the game, to avoid people holding onto characters that they don't play at all, and to provide a chance for a structured activity to encourage player interaction. As an in character tool, they are intended to keep the students entertained, the teachers employed and give everyone something to do other than tanning themselves on the beach.
Expectations for Teachers
Teachers are expected to post their class once a week on their allocated day on the weekly class schedule. The class must be posted by 12pm PST (3pm EST). Teachers can post their class the night before if their availability will make posting in the morning difficult.
Teachers are required to provide students with one class every week that allows them to sign their name (so the players can prove their presence in the game) and, if they choose to, participate in an activity. All activities can be handwaved by the student if they want, but the option should be there for those who want to play out the activity.
Homework can be assigned, but again, the option must be there for it to be handwaved by the student.
Teachers are required to continue their class for the entire term and should plan to have 14 class sessions to fill the semester.
Teachers are allowed to have up to 2 teacher aides, but it's not compulsory. A teacher aide is a student who assists with in character paperwork, can be approached by other students and can cover classes on occasion if the teacher is unable to be present. Out of character, your teacher aide is your back-up to post your class in the event that you can't.
Teachers should keep an attendance roll. This is easily done by using a 'Sign In' thread at the top of each class post's comments. Teachers should inform the OOC administration team if someone has missed more than 3 classes.
Teachers are allowed to give detention to students. Please arrange this OOCly with the student's player first. Other punishments are available through the administration if detention isn't plausible for OOC reasons.
Teachers are expected to provide student-teacher interaction in your classes when possible.
Teachers should post an office hours post once a week to allow students to see the teachers out of the class environment.
NOTE: Classes should not take a lot of time to prepare once you get the hang of it. We don't want classes to suck up everyone's playing time. You don't need to spend time writing up a huge lecture. Linking to Wikipedia is fine. The key to classes is setting up a scenario where the teacher and the students can interact and have fun.
Expectations for Students
Students are expected to enroll in and attend at least 2 classes but no more than 4 classes per semester.
Students are expected to at least sign in to each class. Participation beyond that is optional, but encouraged.
Students should inform their teachers if they are going to be absent. This applies to both OOC and IC (ie: if you know OOCly that you're going away from the class but the character doesn't know yet, let the teacher's player know).
Students can get detention for doing something wrong, not attending a class regularly or not completing homework consistently. If you - the player - are unable to participate in detention on Saturdays (US time), please let your teacher know OOCly so a different punishment can be arranged. Punishments are meant to be an IC consequence of actions, not a punishment on the player. Even detention is arranged to be fun for players.
As an out of character tool, classes are intended to keep track of a character's activity in the game, to avoid people holding onto characters that they don't play at all, and to provide a chance for a structured activity to encourage player interaction. As an in character tool, they are intended to keep the students entertained, the teachers employed and give everyone something to do other than tanning themselves on the beach.
Expectations for Teachers
Teachers are expected to post their class once a week on their allocated day on the weekly class schedule. The class must be posted by 12pm PST (3pm EST). Teachers can post their class the night before if their availability will make posting in the morning difficult.
Teachers are required to provide students with one class every week that allows them to sign their name (so the players can prove their presence in the game) and, if they choose to, participate in an activity. All activities can be handwaved by the student if they want, but the option should be there for those who want to play out the activity.
Homework can be assigned, but again, the option must be there for it to be handwaved by the student.
Teachers are required to continue their class for the entire term and should plan to have 14 class sessions to fill the semester.
Teachers are allowed to have up to 2 teacher aides, but it's not compulsory. A teacher aide is a student who assists with in character paperwork, can be approached by other students and can cover classes on occasion if the teacher is unable to be present. Out of character, your teacher aide is your back-up to post your class in the event that you can't.
Teachers should keep an attendance roll. This is easily done by using a 'Sign In' thread at the top of each class post's comments. Teachers should inform the OOC administration team if someone has missed more than 3 classes.
Teachers are allowed to give detention to students. Please arrange this OOCly with the student's player first. Other punishments are available through the administration if detention isn't plausible for OOC reasons.
Teachers are expected to provide student-teacher interaction in your classes when possible.
Teachers should post an office hours post once a week to allow students to see the teachers out of the class environment.
NOTE: Classes should not take a lot of time to prepare once you get the hang of it. We don't want classes to suck up everyone's playing time. You don't need to spend time writing up a huge lecture. Linking to Wikipedia is fine. The key to classes is setting up a scenario where the teacher and the students can interact and have fun.
Expectations for Students
Students are expected to enroll in and attend at least 2 classes but no more than 4 classes per semester.
Students are expected to at least sign in to each class. Participation beyond that is optional, but encouraged.
Students should inform their teachers if they are going to be absent. This applies to both OOC and IC (ie: if you know OOCly that you're going away from the class but the character doesn't know yet, let the teacher's player know).
Students can get detention for doing something wrong, not attending a class regularly or not completing homework consistently. If you - the player - are unable to participate in detention on Saturdays (US time), please let your teacher know OOCly so a different punishment can be arranged. Punishments are meant to be an IC consequence of actions, not a punishment on the player. Even detention is arranged to be fun for players.