My ACC Home page: http://www.austincc.edu/dws
Email: dws@austincc.edu

Office: Rio Grande Campus Portable Building (between Main Building and Annex)
Office Hours (unless otherwise announced in Blackboard):

       7:15 - 9:15 pm Thursday (August 28 - December 11)

Office Phone (during above hours only): (512) 223-3248

Voice mail: To leave a voice message, dial (512) 223-1790
When the system answers, enter my voice mailbox number 23376 and press # to leave a message.
(I tend to check voice mail on an infrequent basis (once or twice a month during the semester). Use Messages in Blackboard or Email for a much faster reply.)

Campus Mailbox: Rio Grande Room 204

Intercampus Mail: Donald Skrabanek/RGC English

U.S. Mail: send to
Donald Skrabanek
English/Rio Grande Campus
1212 Rio Grande
Austin TX 78701

For more details, see the Contact document.

Your final grade in this course is determined by your successful completion of specified assignments and quizzes and one or more exams at the end of the semester. The term completion means I have graded and accepted your work.

• To gain credit for this course, you must satisfactorily complete Assignments 1-6, three quizzes, and at least the C exam. All the assignments and quizzes have a specific due date.
  
• To begin the C exam process, you must satisfactorily complete core Assignments 1-6 and three quizzes. When you have satisfactorily completed this coursework, I will issue you a C exam permit which you will use to enter an ACC Testing Center (or a pre-approved alternate facility) to write the C exam. This permit will be included in the return of your accepted Assignment 6 work.
  
  
• Each assignment has a specific due date. Any submission of an assignment after its due date is considered a late assignment submission. If you have three or more late assignment submissions during the semester, you are not eligible to progress beyond the C level.

• Any assignment submission except Assignment 4 that is more than 7 days late will not be graded. The end of that 7-day period is called a late submission deadline.
• If you miss one late submission deadline, you will be advised to withdraw from the course. If you miss two late submission deadlines, I will withdraw you from the course without notice. If the withdrawal date has already passed, then you will receive a failing grade in the course.

• IMPORTANT: Any student who does not submit Assignment 4 within 7 days of its specified original due date will not be eligible for a final grade higher than C. If you do not submit Assignment 4 within 14 days of its due date, the assignment will not be graded and you will be dropped from the course without notice. If you do not submit an acceptable revision of Assignment 4 (if required) within 21 days of the Assignment 4 due date, the revision will not be graded and you will be dropped from the course. If the withdrawal date has already passed, you will receive a failing grade in the course.

• Any required assignment revision should be submitted as soon as possible. A revision not submitted within 7 days of my return of the graded assignment will be considered as missing a late submission deadline. See details about late submission deadlines above. See special revision deadline for Assignment 4 above. In addition, I will not grade following assignments until preceding assignments are accepted.

• To begin writing the B exam, you must have satisfactorily completed Assignments 1-6, the three quizzes, and the C exam, and you must have met the late submissions requirements. You may not submit the B exam until you have submitted the C exam.

• To begin writing the A exam, you must have satisfactorily completed Assignments 1-6, the three quizzes, the C exam and B exam, and you must have met the late submissions requirements. You may not submit the A exam until your C exam has been accepted and you have submitted the B exam.

• Be aware that there are penalties for submitting work late. These penalties can prevent you from writing the B exam or A exam or from completing the course.