Grading Policies
All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the prescribed dates. Late penalty is 10% per day from the due date and time. Late assignments will not be accepted after 3 days.
Course Policy on Group Work:
All submitted work is to be an individual effort with no collaboration or sharing of answers; this includes use of materials from previous years. Laboratory data may be collected as a group, however, analysis and written lab reports are individual efforts.
Course Policy regarding use of electronic devices and recording of lectures
Texting and use of electronic devices, except for laptops, are prohibited in lecture and lab.
Electronic recording of classes is expressly forbidden without consent of the instructor. When recordings are permitted they are solely for the use of the authorized student and may not be reproduced, or transmitted to others, without the express written consent of the instructor.
Communicating with Instructors
- During the course, your instructor will interact with you on various course matters on the course website using the following ways of communication:
- Announcements: The instructors will use Announcements on the Course Home page to provide you with course reminders and updates. Please check this section frequently for course updates from your instructor.
- Ask Your Instructor Discussion: Use this discussion forum to ask questions of your instructor about content or course-related issues with which you are unfamiliar. If you encounter difficulties, the instructor is here to help you. Please post general
- course related questions to the discussion forum so that all students have an opportunity to review the response. To access this discussion forum, select
- Discussions from the Tools dropdown menu.
- Email: If you have a conflict that prevents you from completing course requirements, or have a question concerning a personal matter, you can send your instructor a private message by email. The instructor will attempt to respond to your email within one business day.
- Video Call: If you have a complex question you would like to discuss with your instructor, you may book a video meeting on Teams. Video meetings depend on availability and are booked on a first come first served basis.
Nettiquette Expectations
The course website is considered the classroom and the same protections, expectations, guidelines, and regulations used in face-to-face settings apply. Inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated. Examples of inappropriate online behaviour include:
- Posting inflammatory messages about your instructor or fellow students;
- Using offensive language
- Copying or presenting someone else's work as your own;
- Adapting information from the Internet without using proper citations or references;• Buying or selling term papers or assignments;
- Posting or selling course materials to course notes websites;
- Having someone else complete your quiz or completing a quiz for/with another student;
- Stating false claims about lost quiz answers or other assignment submissions;
- Threatening or harassing a student or instructor;
- Discriminating against fellow students, instructors, and/or TAs;
- Using the course website to promote profit-driven products or services;
- Attempting to compromise the security or functionality of the learning management system; and
- Sharing your username and password.
Dropbox Submissions
Assignments should be submitted electronically via the online Dropbox tool. When submitting your assignments using the Dropbox tool, do not leave the page until your assignment has successfully uploaded. To verify that your submission was complete, you can view the
submission history immediately after the upload to see which files uploaded successfully.
The system will also email you a receipt. Save this email receipt as proof of submission.
Be sure to keep a back-up copy of all of your assignments in the event that they are lost in transition. In order to avoid any last-minute computer problems, your instructors strongly recommend you save your assignments to a cloud-based file storage (e.g., OneDrive), or send to your email account, so that should something happen to your computer, the assignment could still be submitted on time or re-submitted.
It is your responsibility to submit your assignments on time as specified on the Schedule. Be sure to check the technical requirements and make sure you have the proper computer, that you have a supported browser, and that you have reliable Internet access. Remember that technical difficulty is not an excuse not to turn in your assignment on time. Don’t wait until the last minute as you may get behind in your work.
All assignments will be assessed for academic integrity with Turn-It-In.
Late Policy
If you choose to submit assignments to the Dropbox tool late, the full allocated mark will be reduced by 10% per day after the deadline for the submission of the assignment to a limit of three days at which time access to the Dropbox folder will be closed.
Extensions will be considered for medical reasons or other extenuating circumstances. If you require an extension, discuss this with the instructor as soon as possible and well before the due date. Barring exceptional circumstances, extensions will not be granted once the due date has passed. These rules are not designed to be arbitrary, nor are they inflexible. They are designed to keep you organized, to ensure that all students have the same amount of time to work on assignments, and to help to return marked materials to you in the shortest possible time.
