In compliance with CEA standards, grades must only reflect measurable progress towards student learning outcomes. This means that activities and exercises done for instruction or practice can and should be assigned but may not be counted in the grade — e.g. textbook exercises, vocabulary notecards, online practice (Q, Azar), etc.
However, this does not mean that grades can only include in-class tests, quizzes, writing, and other assessments. Out-of-class work can be included in grades if the task clearly allows student to demonstrate and you to measure learning outcomes. At the intermediate and upper levels in particular, students need the experience of doing longer, out of class assignments in all skills areas, and these can and should be graded. As a level, you can decide how to weight the grades, and obviously we all need to use in-class work as important evidence of learning and proficiency. But it is not the case that all homework must be excluded from grades.
The intent of this policy was to ensure that our grades reflect learning outcomes — that’s why the letter grades are keyed to learning outcomes on the ODM and the new syllabi. It was not put in place to prevent or discourage students from getting assistance outside of class. That is a separate issue, which should be addressed in different ways depending on the level, class, and task.
All these other activities, workbooks, exercises, and online practice can and should be considered as part of a student’s effort, just not the grade.