Next steps if you, your students, or your staff are ill.

• Information for Students
• Information for Faculty
• Information for Staff

Information for Students

Report your illness

Students who miss class due to illness need to inform their instructors as soon as possible. The LSA Illness Reporting Form facilitates initial communication between students and instructors and advisors. To learn more, please visit the Reporting an Illness page.

When a student reports their illness through the site, their instructors and advisors are notified with the date the student began to miss classes. The notification does not constitute an excused absence. Students are expected, as soon as they are able, to contact each of their instructors regarding options for making up missed work and possibly providing documentation of their absence, if required by individual instructors.

Care For Yourself

Stay home if you are sick. Eat at least a little bit regularly and drink as much water or juice as you can.

If your illness is severe, seek medical help from your regular doctor, a clinic, or a hospital.

Communicate with Instructors After You Are Well

When you are well enough to do classwork again, communicate with your instructors about how to make up work you missed.

If You Are Quarantined

If you are not yet ill but quarantined or otherwise unable to attend class, inform your instructors as soon as possible, either directly or through the Illness Reporting Form described above. Follow up with the instructor to ask how you can participate and keep up with the class. If you need technical assistance using any online options you and your instructors decide on, you can call 734-615-0100, prompt 1.

Information for Faculty 

Report your illness

If you are ill, contact your department and follow department procedures for covering your course (if possible) or making other arrangements. 

Care For Yourself

Stay home if you are sick. Eat at least a little bit regularly and drink as much water or juice as you can.

If your illness is severe, seek medical help from your regular doctor, a clinic, or a hospital.

If Your Students are Ill

Individual illness can be handled with individual make-up assignments, but if there is a large outbreak and either mass quarantine or mass absences, you will need to consider altering your course. The Getting Started page has recommendations for this case.

If You are Quarantined

If you are not yet ill but quarantined or otherwise unable to be present, you can still keep your class going by moving it online. The Getting Started page has recommendations for this case. If you need technical assistance using any online options you decide on, you can call 734-615-0100, prompt 1.

Information for Staff

Report your illness

If you are ill, contact your supervisor and follow unit procedures for arranging coverage of your job (if possible).

Care For Yourself

Stay home if you are sick. Eat at least a little bit regularly and drink as much water or juice as you can.

If your illness is severe, seek medical help from your regular doctor, a clinic, or a hospital.

If You are Quarantined

If you are not yet ill but quarantined or otherwise unable to be present, contact your supervisor and see if you can arrange to work remotely. If you need technical assistance while arranging to work remotely, you can call 734-615-0100, prompt 1.