Spring 2021 Regulations and Drop and Add Period Guide
Dear Students:
On behalf of the entire LAU Family, we would like to welcome you back to LAU and wish you a great Spring 2021 semester. The semester will start on Monday, January 25, and we are doing our best to make sure this start is as smooth as possible. For this purpose, we have enabled a self-enroll feature on Blackboard that will allow you to sample courses that are available on Blackboard during the drop and add period. For courses not already available on Blackboard, you may directly contact the course instructor.
Self-enrollment on available Blackboard courses:
- The self-enroll period starts today Wednesday, January 20 until Monday, January 25, 2021
- Kindly check the attached document for the steps to search for and self-enroll in a course
- Self-enrolling on Blackboard DOES NOT mean that you have registered the course
- If you want to keep being enrolled in the course, make sure to register it on Banner
- All self-enrolled students who did not register the course on Banner will be removed from the Blackboard course on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
- Students who will drop from some courses on Banner during the period of January 20 until January 25, will not be dropped from Blackboard until January 27, 2021
- For any questions regarding the self-enroll feature, kindly contact: COVID19.support@lau.edu.lb
The below are some general rules and regulations:
- During the live online class sessions, faculty members could require you at any time to turn your audio and video camera on for verification and attendance purposes.
- Final exams will normally be in person, unless students are abroad.
- When exams are administered online, they will be proctored using your audio and video camera, and possibly recorded, along with Respondus Browser Lockdown when applicable.
- LAU physical facilities (such as the Library) will reopen when the country-wide lockdown is lifted, with limited seats and prior reservation. The Library will keep you up-to-date in that regard.
- Throughout the semester, the instructors will identify each student and compare his/her faceon camera to the one in the university database.
- During the live online sessions, the attendance policy will be applied according to the policy stated in the course syllabus.
- All the rules and policies stated in the Student Code of Conduct will be applied during the Spring 2021 semester.
For further inquiries, kindly contact: COVID19.support@lau.edu.lb
Best wishes for a safe start to the Spring semester,
Office of the Provost