October/November 2016 Newsletter
Students, parents and Palliser colleagues: Please find the October/November newsletter issue released. This issue includes information about:
- Registration
- Palliser Student Leadership Conference
- choosing completion dates throughout the school year
- antiplagiarism software introduced in the Moodle learning management system
- important dates
- diploma exams
- exam protocol
- the school calendar (which differs from other schools)
- the Blackboard timetable.
Notes from your Palliser Beyond Borders Principal
How are you pacing your learning?
You can choose the dates by which you wish to complete your courses. There are four completion periods in this academic year and you can pace your learning to aim for completion during one of these periods.
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October 24, 2016 |
Diploma courses for those writing diploma exams in November. Deadline to hand in assignments and begin review |
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October 26, 2016 |
Non-diploma courses for November reporting period |
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November 4, 2016. |
Report cards will be mailed out |
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December 21, 2016 |
Diploma courses for those writing diploma exams in January. Deadline to hand in assignments and begin review |
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January 13, 2017 |
Non-diploma courses for January reporting period |
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January 27, 2017 |
Report cards will be mailed out |
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March 22, 2017 |
Diploma courses for those writing diploma exams in April deadline to hand in assignments and begin review |
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March 24, 2017 |
Non-diploma courses for April reporting period |
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April 7, 2017 |
Report cards will be emailed out |
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June 2, 2017 |
Diploma courses for those writing diploma exams in January deadline to hand in assignments and begin review |
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June 9, 2017 |
Non-diploma courses for January reporting period |
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June 23, 2017 |
Report cards will be mailed out |
We will be doing major upgrades to our server this summer. All courses must be completed by June 9 to ensure that student work can be assessed for credit before changes are made to the courses over the summer.
Enhancements to our online learning and assessment
Our teachers work hard to maintain the integrity of the academic process. Please review our assessment policy and plagiarism information at https://goo.gl/SL9G7L
We have introduced two new tools to our courses which preserve the academic integrity of your learning and earning of credit:
Unplag.com: When you submit an assignment in some courses you will be asked to submit using this plagiarism checker. It scans the Internet and previously submitted assignments and provides a report to you and your teacher citing sources of plagiarized materials. If sources in your assignments are properly cited then your work is not reported as plagiarized. Please use this resource at Purdue University as a reference for proper citations: https://goo.gl/idNEnG
Respondus.com: you will begin to see in some courses the requirement for you to download a “lockdown browser.” This prevents surfing the Internet or opening tabs when you are in a test situation. Instructions will be provided by your teacher. A student reference guide is available https://goo.gl/EXQxZW
Please speak to your teacher or drop in to our Blackboard study hall to get help with these tools or with your courses https://goo.gl/gnsmFL
Best regards,
Alison Hancox, MET. Principal, Palliser Beyond Borders
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