- Lateness
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Late lab submissions will not be accepted.
- Illness
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Accommodations such as due date extensions and re-weighting of deliverables will be considered in accordance with existing department-level, faculty-level, and university-level policies. Missed deliverables due to prolonged illness will normally be replaced with the final exam grade.
Students with chronic health problems that affect their ability to complete coursework should register with AccessAbility Services.
- Collaboration and group work
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Assignments will be completed individually, and labs in groups as specified in the lab manual. Lightweight discussions between individuals and lab groups are permitted, but solutions should be developed independently.
Copying material from other groups, from other courses, or from online sources is forbidden except for materials authorized explicitly by the teaching team.
Code should never be shared electronically with classmates except among members of the same lab group, or with the instructor's permission.
Unauthorized collaboration and copying of material constitute academic offences under Policy 71.
Your code may be checked for plagiarism using MOSS or Turnitin.
- Piazza
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Please be respectful and polite when posting in Piazza. Feel free to ask for clarification regarding the requirements for a coursework deliverable, or ask general technical questions, but do not post information (e.g., code fragments) that gives away a substantial part of the solution.
- Re-marking
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If you believe that your grade on an assignment is incorrect, you may ask that it be re-marked. To request that a question be re-marked, you will need to submit your request in writing via e-mail to the instructor. Requests for re-marking may be submitted any time before the final exam. When you submit your request, it should include the following: (1) Your name and student ID number; (2) a clear indication of which question or part of the deliverable is to be re-marked; and (3) an explanation of why you believe the grade assigned was incorrect. Be forewarned, when a deliverable is being re-marked, your grade could go up, it could stay the same, or it could go down. You will be notified in writing of the outcome.
- Academic integrity
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In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. Check the Office of Academic Integrity for more information.
- Grievance
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A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4. When in doubt, please be certain to contact the department's administrative assistant who will provide further assistance.
- Discipline
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A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offense, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. Check the Office of Academic Integrity for more information.
A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offense, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offenses (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about "rules" for group work/collaboration should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate associate dean.
For information on categories of offenses and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71, Student Discipline. For typical penalties, check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties.
- Appeals
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A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances (other than a petition) or Policy 71, Student Discipline may be appealed if there is a ground. A student who believes he/she has a ground for an appeal should refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals.
- Automatic system to detect plagiarism
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Moss (Measure Of Software Similarity) or Turnitin may be used to screen each project in this course. Students' submissions are stored on a U.S. server, therefore students will be given an alternative if they are concerned about their privacy and/or security. It is the responsibility of the student to notify the instructor in the first week of the term if they wish to submit an alternative assignment. Students will be given due notice about arrangements and alternatives for the use of Moss or Turnitin in this course.
