Fall Course Enrolment Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)*

INPER courses are courses that have some element of the teaching activity taking place in-person. Students taking an INPER course can expect that there will be, to the extent possible, in-person lectures, tutorials, and exams.

SYNC courses take place completely online. These courses will not have any in-person activity including exams, even if health conditions improve.

SYNIF courses, like SYNC courses, will take place fully online EXCEPT for final exams. To the extent possible, final exams in SYNIF courses will be in-person. If you take a SYNIF course, you should be prepared to take the final exam in-person.

We hope they will be, but we will be guided by provincial and city health authorities regarding what in-person class activity can take place. Much will depend on the capacity limit of the classroom assigned to the class. It is our expectation that we may need to adjust how students access INPER courses and are building robust responses to the uncertainty.

Many INPER course sections are listed as Dual Delivery. For these courses we are putting in place supports so that class meetings can be simultaneously accessed by students in-person and online. If capacity limits imply that there is not enough space in a classroom, a class section may be divided into subsections. Students in each subsection will be scheduled to attend class meetings in-person on some rotational basis. For example, one group of students would attend class in-person one week and the other group of students would take part synchronously through Zoom or similar platform. The following week the groups will switch who is in-person and who is online.

Your course calendar will indicate what days you are online and what days you are in-person.

Yes. It is the default expectation that you will attend class in-person on days you are scheduled, although the professor may decide to set a different rule.

INPER class sections not listed as Dual Delivery will only take place in-person, health authorities permitting. If the course cannot take place in-person, the course will take place wholly online.

Yes, subject to health authority regulations. Students taking INPER classes (Dual Delivery or otherwise) that have a final exam should expect to take the final exam in-person.

Yes. SYNC courses are online only. There may be in-person team meetings that you arrange, but the scheduled parts of the course are only online.

Yes. Subject to health authority constraints, courses listed as SYNIF will have an in-person final exam. You will be expected to attend the exam. Missing the exam will require an academic accommodation. You should not assume that your absence from Toronto will be sufficient grounds for an accommodation.

Yes, although you should be prepared to take any final exam in person. Students who opt into the fully online section of the class will be removed from any scheduled in-person rotations. More information on how to select this option will be provided after students’ course allocations are released later this summer. We strongly encourage all students who would need or want online delivery to select this option for any dual delivery courses in which they are enrolled.

There are 45 different elective courses being offered this fall and 29 of them have in-person sections. This volume of in-person courses is in line with the expected building capacity for next term. Several of the courses that do not have in-person sections will be offered in the winter term. Also several of the courses listed as SYNC have experimental components and, provincial guidelines permitting, students will take part in the experimental components in-person. Finally, for several courses listed as SYNC, there are multiple external speakers. Given travel and access restrictions, it would not be prudent to schedule these courses as being in-person. If public health guidelines allow for additional capacity in the fall, we expect to correspondingly increase the number of seats available in our in-person sections.