Participating in Learning Groups during Quarantine or Isolation
If you have been ordered to quarantine or isolate (or feel you should do to symptoms), here is how to maintain your involvement in the course and your learning group.
Keep your instructor informed. If you have tested positive or been told by CSM to quarantine, instructors should get an Email stating so. But if you have symptoms or know you've been exposed and waiting out the three days till optimal COVID testing, you need to let your instructor know. This sort of situation adds up to not more than two missed lecture days, so if it runs into a third or the situation worsens, just keep your instructor informed.
Keep up with the reading specified in the LGAs.1
Stay in contact with your learning group. Unless the virus has seriously knocked you out, most students can continue to manage a couple of questions per lecture and reviewing your group's LGA solutions for correctness and clarity.
It would be beneficial to have an in-lecture group member video-conference you into the learning group time with their phone or computer. At the very least use audio so you can discuss the LGA with your peers. If in the unlikely situation your whole group gets quarantined, then you should arrange an LGT via video conference, and let your instructor know this is happening (a link to the recording would be sufficient). This way some positive participation points can be collected for those in attendance.
Finally, it would be wise to send your instructor a link (or attachments) for the work you do for each LGA. Try to convey this before lecture starts. Most of the time instructors are careful to ask a learning group if absent students have done their questions, but sometimes due to lecture room distractions this can be missed. If you have solutions (and you're excused) your work counts as a "check" in the participation point tallies.
Students are (more or less) randomly chosen for spot-checks during learning group times, but absent students are always checked. So if you are quarantined or isolated, your group work will always be checked.
Huge Caveat: All of the above assumes that COVID for you is an asymptomatic or mild experience.
Students that are sick need to take care of themselves first, there will be time to catch up with your reading, group solutions, and projects.
Just keep your instructor and your learning group "in the loop" and things will work out in the end.
That's pretty much a no-brainer, yes? (1)