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The policy of E-learning using the University Learning management System (LMSs) is an effort to support eLearning and the course learning outcomes. The goals of the policy are to promote consistency among AFU online courses. This policy shall apply to faculty members and students utilizing the university LMS for instructional and/or learning purposes.
Moreover, Al Falah University (AFU) provides current and prospective students, academic advising that is accurate, consistent, and timely so that students can develop meaningful educational plans compatible with career and life goals. Students are expected to perform at a satisfactory academic level. Students who are not achieving satisfactorily results will receive specifically targeted advice and assistance throughout their studies. An Academic Advising Manual has been established for this purpose in February 2021.
The policy of E-learning using the University Learning management System (LMSs) is an effort to support eLearning and the course learning outcomes. The goals of the policy are to promote consistency among AFU online courses. This policy shall apply to faculty members and students utilizing the university LMS for instructional and/or learning purposes.
Moreover, Al Falah University (AFU) provides current and prospective students, academic advising that is accurate, consistent, and timely so that students can develop meaningful educational plans compatible with career and life goals. Students are expected to perform at a satisfactory academic level. Students who are not achieving satisfactorily results will receive specifically targeted advice and assistance throughout their studies. An Academic Advising Manual has been established for this purpose in February 2021.
A teaching method that uses online learning resources to facilitate learning. In using Moodle, lectures are not required to be online at the time students are online. Therefore, students can work at their convenience. Lectures use technology (e.g. Moodle, forums, wikis, blogs, videos, etc.) to deliver instructional content such as lectures and exams that can be accessed at any time. Students are provided deadlines and specific timeframes to complete their course different assignments.
There are instances where an advisee’s academic performance may not meet the University’s expectation of satisfactory academic progress. This is when an advisee’s CGPA is below the minimal accepted CGPA. In such circumstances, the academic advisor shall advise the student to repeat courses of low performance grades in order to improve the cGPA. At the beginning of each regular semester the College Dean prepares a list of students names whose cGPA has declined or is below minimal accepted CGPA. The following steps shall be followed:
In addition, each academic advisor shall engage in the following actions:
It remains the responsibility of the academic advisor and the department in which the student is registered, to follow up each student case. The department and/or college council shall discuss the progress of students with cGPA less than the minimal accepted performance level.
Academic supervisor will label the cGPA of his allocated students to advise as following:
Group |
Levels | Academic Supervisor Action(s) |
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Undergraduates | Postgraduates | ||
Green | Good standing (no warnings) and no failed courses | Good standing (no warnings) and no failed courses |
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Yellow | 1st warning OR Good standing but with failed courses | Good standing (no warnings) with failed courses |
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Red | 2nd warning | 1st (final) warning |
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Faculty Training is conducted by either the IT Center and/or Professional Development Unit through online workshops throughout the academic year.
Information Technology Center (ITC) supports faculty instructional efforts to utilize Moodle for delivering online activities. ITC staff administers Moodle, provides technical support, offers instructional services, and delivers training to faculty members in best practices of online course. The ITC also intends to improve student success by ensuring optimal performance of the LMS by overseeing system access authorizations, managing account creations, maintaining system operations, training users, and providing technical support.
Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application (Moodle) or web-based technology used to administer, deliver, and assess courses electronically.
Professional Development (PD) Office at Al Falah University offers various sessions after exploring and identifying the professional needs and requirements of the academic members and the administrative staff, and the office aims to implement professional programs in line with the changes in the educational process, and these programs include the most important modern teaching skills, education, recent trends in scientific research, as well as practical and scientific experiences, where the office implements various sessions/courses to meet different needs.
The office also evaluates the offered sessions/courses for the purpose of following up on needs, constantly update the requirements of members of the academic members and the administrative staff, review these, and design the assistance training programs that enhance these requirements. The office also seeks to cooperate with the relevant authorities by nominating external sessions/courses that meet the needs of university employees to enhance the educational process and improve the performance of employees.
Al Falah University (AFU) develops and implements an e-learning strategy that:
AL FALAH UNIVERSITY (AFU):
AL FALAH UNIVERSITY (AFU):
The institution clearly specifies in its budget the financial arrangements relating to e-learning programs and courses, including anticipated revenues and expenditures attributable to its e-learning operations.
The institution:
AFU offers remedial instruction or training programs to enrolled students who lack sufficient information technology skills to succeed in a course.
AFU documents that it has appropriate security measures to protect the integrity and confidentiality of student data and all course data and analytics within the e-learning platform, and of student information maintained within the comprehensive e-learning environment.
As part of its dedication to academic success, AFU is committed to providing high quality academic advising to assist students in the development and pursuit of academic objectives consistent with their life goals. Academic advising is an ongoing process that connects students to the University. AFU is committed to providing appropriate guidance to newly enrolled students and begins the process of orientation where each newly enrolled student is allocated and academic advisor, and is introduced to all departments and units, to services, facilities, and the ways to communicate with the University’s faculty members and staff. Academic advising is as follows:
Academic Advising at AFU is shaped and guided by the following goals:
e-learning academic learning support is an online service and all regularly matriculated AFU students receiving instruction through e-Learning and they are provided equivalent access to the basic student support services offered on this campus. These include admission, course registration services, academic advising and orientation, textbook purchasing, finance, career development and other special program accommodations as applicable. The academic advisor has a particular role and responsibility towards students with learning support needs. It is important to bear in mind the following points when e-learning academic learning support is needed:
The academic advisor remains in contact with students either face-to-face, or remotely to provide academic advising service. The academic advisor creates a group on Microsoft Teams program under the name of Academic Advising. Each student can communicate with the academic advisor through the Microsoft Teams program, whether by requesting a remote meeting with the academic advisor or by sending messages through the program, and it is also important to note that communication with the advisor is to be via official AFU address e-mail for documentation purposes. The academic advisor schedules meetings with students periodically, and these meetings may be individual with each student, and they may be group meeting if students have the same needs considering that when it is group meeting, privacy is considered, and student information is kept confidential and not shared with others. It is the responsibility of the academic advisor to document these meetings and keep records of each student to follow up on his/her academic progress.
Evaluation of e-Learning undergoes both direct and Indirect measures to assess educational outcomes.
LockDown Browser® is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system. Respondus Lockdown browser is available for desktop (Windows and Mac).
Respondus Monitor¨ is - Fully-automated proctoring for online exams and is built upon the power of LockDown Browser, using a studentÕs webcam and industry-leading video analytics to prevent cheating during non-proctored exams. Respondus Monitor is a fully automated proctoring solution that enables students to take online exams at any time of the day or night, without pre-scheduling.
Students use a webcam to record themselves during an exam. A Òstartup sequenceÓ guides them through requirements selected by the instructor, such as showing identification or making a short video of the exam environment. Only the instructor can review video recordings and the results of the proctoring session.
Powerful analytics are used to detect suspicious behaviors during an exam session. Video segments with potential exam violations are flagged for the instructor, with an overall risk level assigned to the exam session.
Review Priority is a patent-pending method for ranking proctoring results according to the risk that exam violations have occurred. In short, it provides instructors with simple, meaningful results that help them know whether an exam session warrants deeper scrutiny. If wanted, instructors can view the data contributing to the Review Priority result on a video timeline, such as flagged events and key milestones. Review Priority is elegant, functional, powerful.
LockDown Browser is the Ògold standardÓ for locking down a studentÕs computer during an online exam. That is why 1500 universities rely on it to prevent cheating on 120 million exams each year. Respondus Monitor builds upon the LockDown Browser technology to ensure the computing device is not used to cheat during a non-proctored exam.
Further details can be found in AFUÕs Appropriate Use of Technology Resources Policy.
The Originality Report is NOT a plagiarism report. An Originality (or Similarity) Report is merely an indication of similarities between a piece of work submitted by a student and a database of previously submitted work, websites, and other sources. If a match between a submitted piece of work and an existing work is found, Turnitin will highlight the matching text and provide a summary in the Originality Report. This means that the accuracy of the Originality Report depends largely on the repository of resources against which the submitted work is compared. The matching text found is not an assessment of whether work has or has not been plagiarized. Originality Reports can help tutors to locate potential sources of plagiarism. The decision to deem any work plagiarized should be made only after careful examination of both the submitted paper and the suspect sources.
The Originality (Similarity) Report produced by Turnitin can be used as a tool for students to improve their academic writing and as a tool for faculty to help them decide on plagiarism.