Where your ACE course includes quizzes in Canvas, we build the preparation and you sit them: condensed notes for the covered material, practice questions with answer logic explained, and the target-score math run from your gradebook against the letter bands and your tier's floor, 3.0 graduate, 2.0 undergraduate. Where your course adds a simulation, the graded artifact is the write-up or debrief built from your run, ordinary territory for the assessment desk: send your simulation's actual outputs and the analysis returns grounded in them, Turnitin-true like everything here. The rest of the grade, the assessments, threads, presentations, and every program's Capstone Experience, lives at the standing desks, which at a no-proctor school is nearly the whole grade.
What the no-proctor model actually means
ACE's design concentrates evaluation in applied writing, which changes strategy in two directions at once. There is no exam gauntlet to dread, so hours spent on test anxiety are hours the rubrics never pay for. And there is nowhere to hide from the writing, every week's points sit in deliverables that pass the Turnitin gate, which is why the three-gate method is this site's most-read manual and the assessment desk its busiest lane. Students transferring from exam-heavy schools recalibrate here in about one week, usually the week their first criterion-mapped draft comes back.
Quizzes, where sections carry them
- Prep kits within 24 hours of a gradebook screenshot: notes, practice at pace, the target number
- Quiz weeks get the split, the week's assessments and threads hand off whole, study hours stay protected
- The 5-week term sharpens it: one collision week is a fifth of the course, so readiness is scheduled
- Every sit is yours alone, whatever a section runs, that line never moves
Simulations: your run in, the write-up out
Courses that add simulations grade the thinking you document about them: decisions explained, results interpreted, implications drawn for your real classroom, unit, or organization. Send the run's actual outputs with the instructions and rubric, and the draft builds from that data exactly, committed conclusions, exhibits consistent with the numbers, your professional context woven through, because generic write-ups of specific simulations are the classic point leak, and specificity is a service.
The line, stated once more
Anything sat, timed, or monitored is yours alone; our lane is preparation and the writing around it. ACE built a model where that boundary barely bites, the grade lives in the writable surface, and the writable surface is what an eight-person course team was hired for.
A quiz or simulation week is posted
Send the course, the materials covered, and your gradebook. The prep plan or write-up scope comes back within 24 hours.