Students
All students are expected to regularly and punctually attend classes in which they are enrolled. Failure to do so may jeopardize a student's scholastic standing and/or financial aid.
Students are responsible for the effect absences have on all forms of evaluating course performance. The student is responsible for arranging the allowed make-up of any missed work.
Faculty
Faculty are required to state, in writing, their expectations regarding class attendance in the syllabus. Faculty are also required to verify attendance each semester upon request from the Registrar's Office for financial aid compliance.
Faculty are expected to work with students to allow for completion of classwork and assignments if the student's absence results from his/her required participation in a University-sponsored activity provided that, prior to the absence, the student makes arrangement to complete all missed work.
Students are usually allowed to make up work and/or tests missed because of serious illness, accident, or death in the immediate family. Faculty are required to make reasonable and appropriate accommodations when specified by an ADA Letter, whether the disability is permanent or temporary. Accommodations do not change the nature of the class or academic expectations.
Online Courses
All distance education courses (i.e. online, hybrid, blended) align with the credit hour policies. Distance education course learning objectives, assignments, and assessments are comparable to in-seat courses and require at least as many hours of study and provide the same rigor and, thus, result in the same credit hours awarded upon completion. NDMU designates online courses through section codes that include OL or section numbers 90 and above (through 99). OL courses are facilitated on our Brightspace learning management platform (LMS). Undergraduate students must confer with their advisors before they register for an online (OL) course, and are limited to no more than four (4) OL enrollments per degree tenure. Section numbers 90-99 are also online or hybrid courses and may be available to undergraduate students per request or following the approval of their advisor.