Orientation to how Capella Online System works. It is a complete online school. Each class is broken down into weekly
discussions, which is designed to discuss assignments presented by the instructor of the class.
There are no traditional assessments. Instead, each discussion uses a holisitic rubric. Usually each week questions are
given by the instructor for each student to answer, with research from at least one scholarly journal, book, et al. All discussions
are to be written in APA format. All sources are to be written using APA guidelines.
Each class usually has a research paper or project assessed by the instructor using a holisitic rubric. APA guidelines
for paper or project are mandatory. Plagiarism is highly discouraged and consequences are costly; hence, the encouragement
of the use of APA guidelines to help avoid plagiarism.
