2.3 Attendance and Engagement

General

Students have to attend and engage regularly and this is set down in the General Regulations for Students and the Taught Student Attendance Procedure. We keep an eye on attendance, engagement and assessment submissions. We will contact individual students if we have any concerns to ensure their welfare and wellbeing, and to support their academic success. International students who hold Tier 4 visa must attend regularly as a condition of their visa.

The General Regulations for students require all students to be in attendance (whether on-campus or via approved remote study) from the first day of term until the last day of term. Students must engage with their studies throughout the programme. If for any reason this is not possible (for example, students may need to leave campus early to undertake work experience etc) you must contact your Hub Info Point with your request and to provide evidence. 

For some classes you will be asked to use our Student Check In system and guidance and a video about this can be found online.

Swapping seminar/tutorial groups

You should not swap seminar or tutorial groups without the agreement of your module tutor. Unless you confirm the change with your Hub Info Point, (in order for their timetable to be amended), this will be classed as a missed session.

Sickness reporting

Students who are not able to attend a teaching session through sickness or other reasons should report this via iExeter through the 'teaching and learning tools' tile. You should also speak to your tutor for advice on how to catch up on any missed classes.

The student illness procedure provides more guidance. If you are absent for more than 7 successive days due to illness you will need to obtain a doctor’s certificate. Permission for absence can be granted for the following reasons:

• Medical reasons
• Short absences on compassionate grounds
• Bunacamp attendance (in line with the conditions)
• Approved University visits, courses and exchanges
• Jury service

Seminar participation and ILPs

Seminar participation marks for students whose ILP indicates that their attendance may be disrupted by a physical or mental health condition will be handled as follows:

• Tutors will give a seminar participation mark that they deem to be appropriate in light of the student's attendance, participation and / or engagement
• Should a student wish to have this mark excluded from the module calculation they must submit a mitigation request in the normal way (see section 7.9)
• Hubs will approve this request with no further evidence required aside from the ILP, but please note that this will only apply where the ILP has a statement relevant to the particular seminar participation acitivity
• For this kind of request the normal mitigation timeframes do not apply and students will have until the end of the term in which the relevant module is runing to request mitigation for the seminar participation mark