Netiquette Policy
The Netiquette policies attached were sent to all students.
Please read them carefully so you are familiar with our expectations of the students, and can enforce them properly.
Sara Schenirer employs a Netiquette monitor, who will be keeping track of infractions, however we need your help.
If you notice a student who is not adhering to these rules, it would be most helpful if you would kindly email our Netiquette monitor so she can track this. Please include the course name, student name and specific infraction/s that occurred in your class. Her name is Lada Agrunov and her email address is [email protected].
Please be aware the Netiquette monitor will be visiting your classes on a regular basis, usually with her initials. If you have a waiting room feature enabled, please admit her.
After class, the monitor will email any student who was not in compliance with the Netiquette rules, with a warning (for a first infraction) or a grade reduction (second infraction). The teacher will be cc’d on the email if it is a second infraction and a grade reduction is required.
Please do not make exceptions for any student for any reason, meaning there is never a reason for a student to be attending in a car, or a room filled with people, or with the camera off for any class.
If a student very much wants to attend class, even with his/her camera off, with the understanding this will be considered an absence, the student must rename his/her screen to say “Name-ABSENT”. As discussed, you do have the liberty to allow a student to rename their screen this way (and not record it as an absence) when you feel the predicament they are in warrants an excused “camera off session” (ex. Recent surgery…). We are doing this because, without the word “absent” posted on the screen, the Netiquette monitor will assume this is an infraction, and we are looking to avoid confusion and miscommunication for all involved.
Please reach out if you have any questions on these policies.