English 2327 Due Dates and Deadlines
Fall 2011
Online
Orientation: Orientation Quiz must be emailed to andreac@austincc.edu by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 30. Students who miss this deadline will be
automatically withdrawn from class by the instructor.
Prerequisite
Proof: Your instructor must receive
your proof of having completed the course prerequisite by Monday, September 19.
Students who miss this deadline will be automatically withdrawn from
class, and you will not be eligible to receive a refund. No prerequisite
proofs will be accepted via fax. Please scan and email your prerequisite proof
to andreac@austincc.edu or mail a
copy to the following address:
Professor Andrea Clark
If
you send your prerequisite proof via regular mail rather than email, please
email me when you mail it so that I can make certain I that I receive it. ACC has a very large faculty and staff and
many, many mailboxes in the mail room at each campus. I sometimes find items in my mailbox that
were addressed to other employees, so I suspect that sometimes my own mail is
inadvertently placed in the wrong mailbox.
Therefore, I want to make certain I receive all your prerequisite proofs..
Reading
Assignments and Course Calendar
Deadlines
for completing the two exams in the course are given in the table below; please
note that these deadlines will be strictly enforced. There are no deadlines for completing the
reading assignments,
but I have provided a recommended schedule for
their completion. It would be wise to
complete each reading assignment in about one week to give yourself plenty of time
to review for and take the exams.
It
would also be smart not to put off taking the exams until the last possible
minute on the testing deadline. Every
semester I get calls from students who do this, and disaster strikes in their
lives at the most
inopportune time imaginable. Their cars break down, they lost their jobs, their
elderly relatives pass away, their children become seriously ill, their pets have to be rushed to the emergency vet hospital,
and their spouses unexpectedly file for
divorce. I do not doubt that these
misfortunes invariably occur on precisely the day I set as the deadline for
taking an exam. However, I do not give
students extensions because I have given them plenty of time in which to
complete the exam BEFORE the final deadline.
Don’t take a risk and put off taking the tests until the last possible
moment. You never know but what a
catastrophe will strike you at precisely that time!
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Tuesday, August 30 |
Online
orientation deadline |
|
August
22--September 2 |
Reading
Assignment 1 |
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September
3--14 |
Reading
Assignment 2 |
|
September
15-26 |
Reading
Assignment 3 |
|
Monday, September 19 |
Course
prerequisite proof deadline |
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Friday,
September 23 |
Essay
questions for midterm exam will be posted on Blackboard assignments link,
just below reading assignments. |
|
September
27—October 2 |
Review
for objective part of midterm exam and work on answers to essay part of
midterm exam. |
|
Monday, October 3 |
Deadline
for taking objective part of midterm exam in one of the ACC Testing Centers.
You do not need a permit to take it. Exams
may NOT be taken in Fredericksburg or San Marcos testing centers; they may be taken
in the testing center of any other ACC campus.* |
|
Wednesday, October 5 |
Deadline
for emailing the essay part of midterm exam to andreac@austincc.edu by 11:00 p.m. I will not accept your essays via
fax; you must email them. Any
student who does not meet the deadline for completing both parts of the
mid-term exam will be withdrawn from the class. |
|
October
6--17 |
Reading
Assignment 4 |
|
October
18--29 |
Reading
Assignment 5 |
|
October
30—November 11 |
Reading
Assignment 6 |
|
Friday,
November 11 |
Essay
questions for final exam will be posted on Blackboard assignments link, just
below reading assignments. |
|
November
12--29 |
Review
for objective part of final exam and work on answers to essay part of final
exam. |
|
Tuesday, November 29 |
Deadline
for taking objective part of final exam in one of the ACC Testing Centers.
You do not need a permit to take it. Exams
may NOT be taken in Fredericksburg or San Marcos testing centers; they may be taken
in the testing center of any other ACC campus.* All ACC
campuses will be closed for the Thanksgiving holidays Thursday, November 24 -
Sunday, November 27. You may not
take exams on these four days. |
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Thursday, December 1 |
Deadline
for emailing answers to essay part of final exam to andreac@austincc.edu by 11:00 p.m. I
will not accept your essays via fax; you must email them. Any
student who does not meet the deadline for completing both parts of the final
exam will earn a final grade of “F” in the class. |
*I
do not put my exam in the Fredericksburg or San Marcos testing centers because
these campuses are so far out that they do not have ACC intercampus mail
delivery. Employees at these campuses
must go to the U.S. Post Office in these towns
and send exams to us via regular mail.
This is a hassle for the employees, and it can take weeks for us to
receive the exams. Once I actually
received a
student’s exam from one of these testing centers after
the semester was over. The student
was unable to drive to my campus before I had to turn in my grades, so I had to
give her an “incomplete” in the course and turn her grade in the next
semester. I will never allow this to happen
to one of my students again!
Some
students may ask why the deadlines come so early. I am setting the deadlines early in order to
give myself plenty of time to grade your tests.
All the classes I teach require a great deal of grading time at the end
of the semester, and I want to have plenty of time to do justice to your papers
and post your grades on ACConline by the last day of the semester. It can take as long as a full week for me to
receive tests from some testing centers.
Sometimes the testing centers even misfile or misplace tests, and when I
have to track these down, it takes even longer.
The testing center
will give you a receipt that shows your score on each objective test you take
there. Make certain you keep this
receipt! On a few occasions, I
have had to ask students to fax me that receipt as evidence of their test
scores when the testing centers misplaced their tests and were unable to find
them by the end of the semester.
ACC
Testing Centers’ Policies, Locations, and Hours
All
ACC students except those registered with the Office of Students with Disabilities
must take the midterm and final exams in the testing centers of any ACC campus
except Fredericksburg and San Marcos. I
do not send exams or allow anyone except OSD students to test at any other
locations. For hours and locations of all ACC testing centers, please click this
link: ACC Academic Testing Center Website. Although their hours
are posted their web site, I highly recommend that you telephone the center at
which you intend to take the test early on the day you wish to take it to
verify that its posted hours are correct.
Testing centers sometimes have to modify their hours due to
emergencies.
Testing
Arrangements for OSD Students
OSD students must also complete
their exams by these same deadlines. If
you are registered with the ACC Office of Students with Disabilities, please
contact the OSD office at the campus where you wish to take the objective part
of these exams before the end of the second week of the semester to schedule
the mid-term and final exams for this course and to find out who will
administer them. You must email me the name and phone number of that person and
the campus at which he or she works two weeks before the testing deadline
so that I can send him or her your test.
If you know the email address of that person, please address a CC copy
of the same message you send me to that person so I will have his or her email
address. You
may fax your accommodations letter to me at 512-223-2046 or ask your OSD
counselor to send it to me at CYP via campus mail. I cannot send the OSD Office your exams if
you have not sent me your accommodations letter.
All
students except OSD students must take the objective part of both exams in an
ACC Testing Center. I will not send exams or allow anyone except
OSD students to test anywhere else. In
the past, I have attempted to accommodate students by sending tests to other
colleges and