GradProSkills policies

GradProSkills services are available to:

• Current Concordia graduate students enrolled in a masters, doctoral, diploma or certificate program

• New students who have accepted their offer of admission to a Concordia graduate program

• Recent graduates up to one year after they have completed their Concordia graduate program

• Current Concordia postdoctoral researchers

• Visiting students enrolled in graduate courses at Concordia

Graduate students who are on a leave of absence are not eligible for GradProSkills services.

Concordia undergraduate students, staff and faculty are not eligible to attend GradProSkills workshops. However, in some cases, a workshop is jointly offered to other members of the Concordia community.  In these cases, an alternative registration process will exist, and you can obtain details by contacting GradProSkills. 

Undergraduate students are encouraged to consult the workshop listing of FutureBound.

GradProSkills sends to all registrants an automatic reminder email upon registration. If for whatever reason you do not receive a reminder email upon registration, please contact GradProSkills directly. 

Registrants receive automated emails 24 hours before the drop deadline, 24 hours before the workshop and few days after the workshops. Registrants can receive additional emails.  

We expect students to be respectful of our trainers and fellow students by participating actively and when necessary, dropping before the drop deadline so a waitlisted student can be given your spot.

If you cannot attend the workshop or complete any mandatory activities, you must drop prior to the drop deadline.

For webinars, attendance is recorded by log-in and log-off times to the zoom meeting.

For in-person workshops, students will be checked in and out by our workshop host. If the instructor sets mandatory activities to be completed outside of the class time, these count towards the attendance requirement. 

IMPORTANT: To be considered "Attended" and to avoid the $25 non-attendance fees, students must be present for at least 85% of the workshop

Students who registered for a workshop and are absent without notice received by the GradProSkills 24h before the drop deadline are subject to a no-show fee of $25. 

The no-show fee will be applied to the student's Concordia account after the end of the semester. 

IMPORTANT: To be considered "Attended" and to avoid the $25 non-attendance fees, students must be present for at least 85% of the workshop

Listed on each workshop description is a registration deadline which is the final date to register or drop that specific workshop. If you can not attend the workshop please drop before the registration deadline so another student will be enrolled from the waitlist. 

Students will not be able to register themselves for a workshop after the registration deadline. If a spot is still available, you can contact us to ask for a late registration. Remember to include your student number.

You are expected to arrive or login prior to the start of the workshop.

Students risk not being admitted into the webinar or classroom if they arrive more than 5 minutes after the scheduled start time of the workshop.

When workshops are full, students may register as waitlisted. Should a space become available, waitlisted students will be automatically registered and notified. If a student no longer wishes to be on a waitlist, they should unenroll themselves from the waitlist by signing into the GradProSkills portal.

In an effort to create a safe classroom where participants are comfortably sharing their experience, and to protect the copyright of our materials, we do not share the recordings of our webinars, unless otherwise stated at the beginning of the webinar. Similarly, participants are not permitted to record in-person workshops or screen-record our webinars. If you have accessibility needs that require you to have a recording, please contact us to discuss how we can accommodate your request. For the majority of our workshops, we do share PowerPoint slides and handouts after the workshop.

Students may be registered for a maximum of 15 GradProSkills workshops per semester. 

GradProSkills reserves the right to cancel any workshop or event due to insufficient registration.