A Guide to Understanding your Class Schedule
The following information will help you interpret your class schedule. Please note that the following examples are snapshots of what you will see in the Visual Schedule Builder system and through UR Self-Service.
ASYNCHRONOUS
A course offering that does not require a student to attend (either virtually or in-person) at a scheduled time.
SYNCHRONOUS
A course offering that requires a student to attend (either virtually or in-person) at a scheduled time.
COURSES TAUGHT IN FRENCH (Attribute Code: FREN)
If a class section is being taught in French, it will be designated with an Attribute of FREN.
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COURSES WITH ZERO COST MATERIALS (Attribute Code: ZCM)
A zero-cost material course is a course offering that exclusively uses teaching materials and resources freely available and easily accessible to students. Zero-cost teaching materials and resources may include open-access books and other open-access educational resources available through various on-line platforms as well as digital books, journal articles, and other types of educational resources that are easily and freely available to students through the Dr. John Archer Library & Archives online services. https://www.uregina.ca/student/registrar/zero-cost.html
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On-site is a course offering scheduled for specific days/times and assigned a classroom by the Registrar’s Office at the University of Regina main campus, the Federated Colleges (Campion and Luther) and First Nations University of Canada (Regina Campus). These courses may also utilize the University’s learning management system called UR Courses for hosting various teaching and learning enhanced activities and materials such as course readings, lecture notes, slides, and discussion boards. The UR Courses-based activities do not replace but supplement in-class teaching and learning.
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Off-campus is a course offering that can be taken in its entirety at a location that is not at the Regina main campus. A class section that is being delivered at an off-campus location will have the delivery and location information noted within the class section.
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A course offering that has a combination of different components and instructional methods (may include both on-campus and off-campus and/or synchronous and asynchronous). Most often, they are scheduled with synchronous face-to-face meeting times with enhanced learning activities in the online environment. Typically, a blended course involves the substitution of between 30-70% of in-class teaching with online teaching. A blended course may also be based on a combination of synchronous virtual class meetings with asynchronous online teaching consecutively; usually, this type of blended courses includes 30-70% asynchronous online teaching.
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A hybrid class facilitates the attendance of a group of students face to face in a classroom and a group of students remotely via video conferencing software concurrently and in real time. Two sections are created to manage enrolment: an on-site face-to-face section, and a remote section.
For courses that are scheduled as HYBON/HYBRM, students register in their preferred mode of delivery. They must attend class through their registered section only. They are not allowed to switch between the sections at will.
Hybrid courses have synchronous meeting days and times. The remote section of the course uses Zoom for connecting off-site students to the on-site instructor and students in real time.
Hybrid-Onsite (HYBON): A course offering where the student attends in-person but other students may be attending remotely at the same time (on-campus or off-campus; synchronous).
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Hyflex classes provide students with the opportunity to attend class sessions on-site or remotely. A student could potentially attend the entire class on-site or remotely; they may attend class remotely one day and on-site another day if they wish. The course instructor teaches in a classroom on-site during the entire term.
Hyflex course sections have synchronous meeting days and times.
Hyflex courses use Zoom for the remote delivery.
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Online courses are formally developed to be delivered in a primarily asynchronous format. They are typically delivered such that students are able to manage them on their own schedule rather than attend class on a specific date/time. However, they may have a limited number of real-time virtual meetings. Limited synchronous elements in an asynchronous course might, for example, include: a class session on clarifying major course concepts or reviewing some more difficult topics; a class meeting to go over course assignment requirements; mandatory quiz and/or required mid-term check-ins with students.
At the University of Regina, online courses are taught through Moodle-based UR Courses, the University’s institutional Learning Management System. UR Courses have a variety of embedded functions. These functions include posting lecture notes, course reading materials, videos, and images; delivering assignments, quizzes and exams; and creating and using discussion boards. Some courses have required meeting days and times for quizzes and exams. If an online course has some real-time class meetings, these meetings are held via Zoom, the University’s approved video-conferencing software.
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Remote classes are synchronous virtual classes. These classes are live; that is, faculty and students gather together virtually to teach and learn in Zoom classrooms. Remote classes allow students to attend from anywhere via internet connection. Unlike online courses, which are primarily asynchronous and allow students to manage the learning activities at their own pace, remote courses are offered on specific days/times as scheduled by the Registrar’s Office.
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Live-streamed classes are delivered via Zoom and are scheduled through the Centre for Continuing Education’s Flexible Learning Division.
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Courses scheduled as video conference are held at a number of off-campus locations equipped with video conferencing equipment. These locations can include but are not limited to Regional Colleges and First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv).
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