The information on this page reflects campus policies and procedures for Spring Quarter 2022 and will be updated if the situation warrants it.
Background
This document contains standard language that can be included in your syllabus. Most of the document focuses specifically on COVID related conditions, and may change as the pandemic evolves. Where possible, the wording has been kept broad. In addition to the sections below that are designed to be copied directly into your syllabus, please include a policy on how short-term absences due to illness (or other events) will be handled. This is critical even post-pandemic, as a key strategy to ensuring campus health and safety will be for students to stay home when sick.
As you develop your own policies that allow for absences in the case of short-term illness, a good model to keep in mind is the equivalent of “sick-days” for employment. Policies include dropping a certain number of assignments, having recordings of lectures available (even if under specific conditions), having a limited number of alternative assignments, etc. The exact policies will be instructor and course dependent, so it is important to develop specific policies for your course and clarify them in your syllabus . For cases specifically related to COVID that require isolation and quarantining, Disability Services will be helping students with specific accommodations. If you need help providing recorded lectures, DTEI (dtei@uci.edu) is available to support instructors.
Incorporating in course syllabus
The text below is a comprehensive summary of COVID related policies that should be communicated to students. They can be edited as needed for your course and copied into the Canvas course as a separate page and linked to from the course syllabus, or you can point students to the LearnAnywhere COVID information page. Also, a brief summary of the key points is available in this Microsoft Word document and can be used in the Syllabus itself with appropriate links.
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