Open Entry/Open Exit

Orientation Transcription

Welcome to Schoolcraft College and the Open Entry/Open Exit Program. I am Cheri Holman the Program Coordinator and Director of Operations for Instruction. I’d like to spend a few minutes to give you a brief overview of the OE/OE program and its requirements.

OE/OE classes provide an alternative to traditional classroom learning giving you greater control over your learning schedule. These self-paced courses can be completed in several weeks, a month or a semester as you do not attend regular classes or lectures.

The OE/OE program is designed for the self-motivated student who possesses strong time management skills. Procrastinators do not do well in OE/OE classes.

OE/OE courses can be completed at home, in the college’s computer labs or library, or in the OE/OE lab where instructors are available to help you during their posted lab hours. OE/OE courses are not online courses. Every OE/OE class requires at least one on-campus assessment that will be taken in the OE/OE Testing Center located just inside the OE/OE Lab (Room 160) of the Applied Science Building. This assessment may be your final exam, a speech, a presentation, or demonstration of hands-on skills.

Your OE/OE instructor will give you a course syllabus outlining all the requirements for your course. This syllabus will include suggested homework and testing due dates to help you keep on target to complete the course before semester end.

All OE/OE courses will be using the College’s course management system, Blackboard. The level of which courses use Blackboard will vary among courses and instructors. Some courses may be using blackboard for all course work, some testing and perhaps homework submission while others for posting documents for student access.

The best learning environment will be experienced by those who are turning in work on a regular basis allowing their instructor to provide valuable feedback on progress. Many instructors may provide opportunities for resubmission of homework for additional credit if that work is turned in regularly throughout the semester.

Homework or testing bundled or completed at the very end of the semester will not allow the instructor to provide feedback negating any opportunity to improve scores received.

Your instructor will give you the specifics of how your homework is to be turned in. You may be using the OE/OE homework mailbox located just outside the OE/OE Lab, or turning in work via email or through Blackboard.

Homework submitted will be returned to you in approximately one week from the date it is received by your instructor not from the date you may have submitted the work. It is expected that your instructor will return your homework, tests, emails and calls in a timely fashion. However, it is important to understand that your instructor does not live on the computer answering email or on the phone.

Your instructor will share some very important deadline dates with you for this semester. It is vital to your success that you build these dates into your planning process and log them on your calendar.

Should a serious life event cause problems in course completion, it is your responsibility to contact your instructor immediately. Failure to do so will not serve as an excuse at semester end when your work is not complete. It is the College’s policy that incompletes are offered only when two criteria have been met: (1) existence of documented extenuating circumstances and (2) the majority of the course work has already been successfully completed.

The end of the semester deadline date for homework submission and for testing is final, no excuses/no exceptions. A deadline is a deadline.

All of the deadline dates given to you today by your instructor may also be found in the OE/OE handbook distributed during orientation or by going to the OE/OE homepage at www.schoolcraft.edu/oeoe. The OE/OE web page contains up-to-date information on instructor contact, lab hours, and testing hours for the semester.

I hope you find your experience with your OE/OE class to be challenging and rewarding.

Welcome to OE/OE!