Module II Class Attendance

Hey everyone,

I hope you all had a restful reading break!

Something that has come to our attention is that a few people have been unable to make it to class lately. This happens sometimes and while there are definitely valid reasons for this, we wanted to address this issue in terms of how it affects participation and peer evaluation. Because regular attendance is an important part of class participation, we wanted to make sure this was treated fairly – for example, if someone has a valid reason for being unable to attend class and has emailed Bee and me ahead of time to let us know, we want to make sure the class knows that this is what happened, as opposed to the person simply missing class without reason. Because of this, Bee and I wanted to find a place to share this information in a simple way and decided to create a page with class attendance information (accessible through the blog’s main menu or  at https://blogs.ubc.ca/fnh490/attendance/)

In particular, since regular class attendance is a part of everyone’s participation mark (which is peer evaluated), we wanted to make sure that everyone has the correct information about attendance/absences, including reasons for absences, whenever available. This will ensure that attendance is evaluated in as fair a manner as possible through the peer participation evaluations.

Thanks! See you all tomorrow!

Chelsea and Bee