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Online Student Policies and Procedures
January 2016
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Teacher has discretion to choose to allow student to resubmit a similar assignment or to assign
the student a zero on the assignment or assessment. Final course grade is determined factoring
in the newly assigned grade.
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Teacher will re-distribute information about what constitutes plagiarism and provides resource list
of how to avoid plagiarism to both the student as well as the coach or student mentor. Keeping in
mind that our goal is to teach students how to avoid academic integrity issues as well as use and
document sources appropriately.
Consequences for 2nd offense:
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Teacher is to thoroughly document any supporting evidence behind the academic violation.
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Teacher notifies the student, coach or mentor, subject department Lead Teacher, and the
academicintegrity@apexlearning.com email that a violation of the Academic Integrity Policy has
occurred. (Teacher uses communication template found in Appendix.)
o Student, coach or mentor are again provided information about what constitutes
plagiarism as well as provides resource list of how to avoid plagiarism.
o Notice that further academic integrity violations are subject to the receipt of an “E” for the
final course.
o The student and, coach or mentor are asked to acknowledge the notification.
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Student receives a zero on the assignment or assessment. Final course grade is determined
factoring in the received zero.
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Depending on the gravity of the infraction, an “Accountability Board” may be convened consisting
of the student, coach or mentor, teacher, subject department Lead Teacher, Manager of
Instruction and Director of instruction to determine appropriate consequences for the student’s
actions.
Consequences for 3nd offense:
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Teacher is to thoroughly document any supporting evidence behind the academic violation.
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Teacher notifies the student, coach or mentor, subject department Lead Teacher, and the
academicintegrity@apexlearning.com email that a 3rd violation of the Academic Integrity Policy
has occurred. (Teacher uses communication template found in Appendix.)
o Student, coach or mentor are again provided information about what constitutes
plagiarism as well as provides resource list of how to avoid plagiarism.
o Notice that further academic integrity violations are subject to the receipt of an “E” for the
final course.
o Student, coach or mentor are asked to acknowledge the notification in writing
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Student receives a zero on the assignment or assessment. Final course grade is determined
factoring in the received zero.
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Depending on the gravity of the infraction, the teacher assigns a recommended “E” for the course
at the end of the Course.
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Teacher notifies the student, coach or mentor, subject department Lead Teacher, Manager of
Instruction and Director of Instruction that an “E” has been assigned as the grade for the course
based on the 3rd violation of the Academic Integrity policy.
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Student is allowed to continue through the remainder of the course in order to have access to the
course content if that is the desire of the district, coach, mentor or student. Work will be graded
but the recommended final grade or “E” will be posted at the conclusion of the course.
o Consumer decision makers will receive notification from ALVS guidance Counselor on
how student enrollment will continue.
o District stakeholders will receive notification from ALVs Manager of Implementation.
