The UMC High School Eglinton Campus makes considerable effort to provide and maintain a safe environment in which learning can occur. Protection of a person’s dignity and self-esteem is critical. The following processes have been put into place to create a safe school environment for the student:

The school reserves the right to inspect the Moodle course page when and where the welfare of the school is involved.

All students are expected to treat other students, teachers and admin staff with respect, courtesy and consideration. Profanity will not be acceptable in any of the communication tools provided within the online courses.

All students will accept the authority of the teachers and all teachers will demonstrate respect for all students.

Threats, distasteful remarks, abuse of any kind, or harassment by any individual which impairs the health and welfare of any student or staff member is not permitted and is to be reported to the Principal immediately. The Principal will meter out the consequence according to the situation.

Never reveal your password to your course to any individual except your parent.

• Always report to your Principal any email or chat message which causes you concern or any message which requests inappropriate personal information from you.
• Never attempt to access unauthorized material or to impersonate another user. Any attempt to vandalize, harm or destroy data of another user is prohibited. Any attempt to vandalize the data of the course or school is also prohibited.

The school reserves the right to monitor all material in user accounts on the file server in order to determine the appropriateness of computer use when a challenge has arisen. The following processes have been put into place:

The Moodle Integrated Learning Platform at the UMC High School Eglinton Campus is intended for educational purposes only. Any use of any tool within course for any other purpose other than the intended educational purpose is prohibited. The inappropriate uses include, but are not limited to, criminal, obscene, commercial, or illegal purposes.

Student access into the Moodle platform is provided as long as the student follows the guidelines set by the school Principal, provincial, and federal laws.

If the platform is used inappropriately or in a prohibited manner, the Principal reserves the right to terminate the registration or suspend the user. There is the possibility of further disciplinary action including legal prosecution, if the appropriate laws, regulations, or contracts deem it necessary.

Malicious platform damage, interference or mischief will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

It is important to be aware that activities in an online environment are not private. The school reserves the right to monitor all material that is placed in a user’s account and to remove it if deemed necessary.

Regular attendance in any learning environment is vital to school success. Courses content and learning activities have been designed to be 110 hours for all full credit courses or 55 hours for all half credit courses. Log in and log out times will be recorded through the online platform. Completion of activities found on the platform will be checked by the instructor. Students who do not participate in their online course regularly will diminish their learning experience. The following processes have been put into place to encourage regular attendance by the student:

Students Attendance Tracking: According to the UMC High School Online Courses Policy, students must stay up to date with their daily work and attendance unless excused for a legitimate reason. Attendance is tracked daily via submissions of AFL, AAL or AOL assignments on Moodle. Weekly Learning logs are checked to confirm the student’s active engagement in the class.

ATTENDANCE/LOGINS 

Students should log in regularly depending on their completion plans. Students are expected to log into their course(s) 

Attendance expectations for all students enrolled in Online courses are as follows:

• A minimum of 2 system logins per week in each of the students enrolled course(s) is required for every student. The teacher will check all online learning logs against the time tracker imbedded in the online learning platform.
• An absence will be recorded if the teacher finds that the student failed to keep the minimum number of system logins for any week combined with the lack of submission of either:

1. Unit learning logs at the end of each unit. Or
2. Submissions of work/assignments for 2 consecutive weeks

HOURS SPENT ON ACTIVITIES 

All credit courses, except for half credits (planned instruction time of 55 hours,) are designed to be 110 hours of planned instruction. Students are expected to come close to the planned hours of instruction timing within reason.

STUDENT LEARNING LOGS 

To help students self-monitor progress, they are required to submit their learning logs on Moodle. Students should complete the learning logs regularly, relative to their desired time to be spent in the course. Attendance for all courses will be tracked and reported by submitting unit study logs and by the system login. Please make sure to record each day you study and upload this to the appropriate area/folder required by your teacher at the end of each unit.

Please note that there are no refunds through UMC High School Eglinton Campus Online Courses. In Grades 11 and 12, all attempts, withdrawals, and repeats of courses are recorded on the Ontario Student Transcript (OST). For these students, withdrawals will be recorded on the OST if they occur after 5 instructional days following the issuing of the midterm report card. Withdrawal from Grade 9 or 10 courses is not recorded on the OST.

Plagiarism and cheating are strictly prohibited at UMC High School. Plagiarism means using someone else’s words or ideas without proper citations or having someone else do your work for you. This includes using just one un-cited sentence from a book, from publication notes, from undisclosed Internet sources, from a friend, or having someone independently correct your punctuation, spelling, or sentence fragments. If students or parents are unsure about the rules of plagiarism, feel free to check with the teacher before the work is handed in. 

A mark of zero is automatic where plagiarism is proven. The proper publishing guidelines will be taught and/or reviewed before the research essay due dates. It should be noted that UMC High School fully complies with “the Recommendations for Ministry Guidelines dealing with the Cheating and Plagiarism.” Cheating can include copying from someone else’s work, using a dictionary or Internet search when it is not permitted, and so on.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when a student presents another person’s work as the student’s own. This is not acceptable at UMC High School Eglinton Campus. The School’s Plagiarism Policy is designed to teach the student to identify plagiarism, to distinguish between the two types of plagiarism, to identify strategies to avoid plagiarism, to practice proper paraphrasing and to explain the consequences of plagiarism by the student. UMC HIGH SCHOOL Eglinton Campus teachers have access to software which detects plagiarism. Commercial search engines are often very good at detecting work copied from material available online. Teachers have experience and can often spot when writing does not come from the student.

Negligent Plagiarism means presenting someone’s work as your own in an accidental, naïve, careless or reckless way. This often happens when a student paraphrases incorrectly or when a student borrows words or phrases from another source and forgets to cite the source.

Dishonest Plagiarism means that the student has knowingly presenting a person’s work as their own. All instances of plagiarism that are not considered to be negligent plagiarism will be assumed to be dishonest plagiarism.

This means you must not cheat or try to cheat in any way. It hopefully means that you will come to value your achievement when it is honestly, fairly and respectfully won through hard work.

Plagiarism occurs when a student presents another person’s work as the student’s own. This is not acceptable at UMC High School Eglinton Campus. The School’s Plagiarism Policy is designed to teach the student to identify plagiarism, to distinguish between the two types of plagiarism, to identify strategies to avoid plagiarism, to practice proper paraphrasing and to explain the consequences of plagiarism by the student. UMC HIGH SCHOOL Eglinton Campus teachers have access to software which detects plagiarism. Commercial search engines are often very good at detecting work copied from material available online. Teachers have experience and can often spot when writing does not come from the student.

Negligent Plagiarism means presenting someone’s work as your own in an accidental, naïve, careless or reckless way. This often happens when a student paraphrases incorrectly or when a student borrows words or phrases from another source and forgets to cite the source.

Dishonest Plagiarism means that the student has knowingly presenting a person’s work as their own. All instances of plagiarism that are not considered to be negligent plagiarism will be assumed to be dishonest plagiarism. Examples of dishonest plagiarism are:

• Borrowing facts or information that are not common knowledge and not citing the source. Common knowledge includes things that are commonly known, such as: Toronto is the capital of Ontario. Charles Darwin proposed a theory of evolution, HIVAids can kill you, etc. Common knowledge facts do not have to be cited;
• cutting and pasting text from websites with no intention to cite the source;
• handing in an on-line essay or portions of one as though it were your own work;
• copying another person’s work and presenting it as your own;
• using another person’s ‘lab’ findings from an activity or experiment;
• having another person write a portion or all of your final exam;

This means you must not cheat or try to cheat in any way. It hopefully means that you will come to value your achievement when it is honestly, fairly and respectfully won through hard work.

Every student in Ontario is required to remain in secondary school until they reach the age of eighteen or obtain an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). UMC High School Eglinton Campus aims to provide each student with the opportunity to achieve success according to the student’s own interests, abilities and goals. By providing a quality online education within the student’s greater educational community, the School can offer the student more choice. While we may have changed the form of the traditional physical school in which this mission is carried out, we have not changed the provision of providing quality education to the student. UMC High School Eglinton Campus extends into the actual home of the student, where we provide all of the essential components necessary for a quality education Online.

Student – Teacher Interaction

The student can interact in meaningful ways with his or her UMC HIGH SCHOOL teacher from anywhere in the world as long as they have an internet connection. A host of communication tools and procedures have been developed by Moodle  in order to facilitate this essential communication component of a quality education. These include email, threaded discussions, ePortfolio, assignment DropBox feedback, and testing feedback. A UMC HIGH SCHOOL student has many ways of communicating with the teacher and the teacher has many ways of communicating information and ideas back to the student.

Additionally, all teachers provide a weekly Zoom Q & A session for all courses of study.

Student – Student Interaction

A host of communication tools and procedures have been developed by Moodle to facilitate the essential component of student – student of a quality education, student – student interaction. A student has many ways of communicating with other students in his or her course. These include email, chat, instant messaging, sharing ePortfolio files and threaded discussions. Students may also conveniently interact with active students back through time.

Student – Administration Interaction

With multiple tools at their disposal, the UMC High School Principal and his administration may intervene early in managing attendance, proper conduct, and other problems within the various courses. The goal is to ensure that the technology does not become a deterrent to effective learning. Prompt and early intervention solves small problems before they become impediments to the learning process. The student has quick and easy access to the UMC High School Principal and other staff via email, phone and instant messaging.

Student – Resources Interaction

The student has access to quality online courses and can easily view resources provided by the teacher to enhance their learning experience. The student will also have access to both career information, which is being built into every course to meet the  Ministry expectations of the curriculum, as well as more general career information provided on an ‘as-needed’ basis.

Parents – School Interaction

The parents or guardians of students under 18 and the parents of an adult student, with the permission of adult students, may have access to the student’s online course including assessment and evaluation items. If the student does not share the access directly with the parent, the parent can contact the school Principal for information or access. This allows the parents to become more involved with the education of their son or daughter. An online, transparent electronic grade books, electronic report cards, online conferencing and direct phone contact with the UMC High School – Eglinton Campus Principal, also promotes parental involvement. Moreover, the parents are provided with ‘Parent Access Codes’ on Moodle. Parents can see the progress of the students’ learning including student’s grades.

Periodic news items are posted online at the UMC High School Eglinton Campus website on occasion by the school to an area viewable by parents and the broader community. (www.umcvhs.com ).

At UMC High School Eglinton Campus, parents have the responsibility and opportunity to work with their son or daughter in the planning of their secondary school education. The final decision of the course selection of students under the age of 18 rests with the parents. All students and their parents should consider seriously the advice and recommendation of the school. The consequences of course selection can be extremely important whether students plan to work, or attend college or university. Detailed courses of study are available at the school website for perusal. (online school website course section

At UMC High School – Eglinton Campus, we take exceptional pride in our staff. To that end,

• Our faculty is composed of Bachelor of Education graduates, ESL accredited teachers and specialized instructors who have experience teaching at all levels;
• Our teaching practices are based on a student-centered approach and phenomenal teacher to student ratio;
• Our teachers revise the subject and program objectives, define and evaluate learning outcomes, develop appropriate teaching and learning environments, and develop/select the appropriate learning materials in a technologically advanced setting;
• Our teachers exude self-confidence and infuse our students with the same;
• Our teachers practice firm, focused and interactive approach, thus disciplining students in their efforts and guiding them in their resolve.
• Last but not least, our teachers offer a learning environment that is positive, supportive, and respectful to all students from a diverse range of backgrounds.

In order to uphold the above listed principles, the school administration has developed an intensive two-hour orientation for new teachers which cover the following topics:

1. Curriculum Planning: Long-Range Planning (Creating Course Outlines) and Short-Term Planning (Developing Daily Lesson Plans)
2. Learning Goals and Success Criteria
3. Integrating AFL and AAL into your Teaching Practices
4. AOL Evaluation Practices: Building a Proper Rubric, Assigning Learning Strands to Test Questions, Incorporating Conversations and Observations

These evaluation principles are constantly reinforced through the school’s monitoring of tests and assignment delivery. Additionally, teachers keep their skills up-to-date and their courses relevant to students with PD Days throughout the school year.

Intervention Strategies, Supports and Programs for Student Success
Our guidance Counselors provide individual student counseling for course selection and post-secondary planning. Students also learn through the guidance and career education program outlined in Ontario’s “Creating Pathways to Success: AN Education and Career / Life Planning Program for Ontario Schools 2013”.

UMC Guidance Counselors – Supporting Students at Risk:

• Provide individual assistance and counseling to students when requested
• Provide the most update college / university admission information
• Help those students’ marks are at risk of not graduating through study tips, test preparation strategies in the collaboration of teachers