Citing challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and a deadlier surge to its academic community, the PUP Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs has issued a memorandum that instructed faculty members to ease academic workload for the second semester.Faculty members were asked to refrain from giving academic tasks such as oral reports, graded recitations, and interactive discussions.
They were instead encouraged to give reasonable graded exercise, set a maximum of two announced quizzes per course, and require only one final examination or project as a major assessment. Meanwhile, students in the synchronous mode who failed to attend classes regularly or did not at all appear in any session shall not be given a grade of 5.0, Dropped, or Withdrawn but instead shall be given an INC in case they failed to submit the requirements stipulated in the instructional materials.