CpSc 462/662
Policies and Procedures
Fall 2009

Grading:

Policies and Procedures

• Programs and Homework
  Programs and assignments will be assigned on the course web pages and/or on MessageGrid. Students will be notified in class and/or by email. Please check your email frequently. The due date for each program or assignment will be specified in the assignment. If programs and assignments are to be submitted electronically, they are due by the end (i.e., 11:59 pm) of the specified due date, unless otherwise specified.

• Late Submissions.
  Late programs and assignments will not be accepted.

• Quizzes
  Quizzes will be given frequently, almost daily. As a general rule, a student absent from a quiz will receive a grade of 0 for that quiz, regardless of whether the student's absence is excused or not. There will be two make-up quizzes available, one for PhP and one for MySQL topics. Only in the most serious of situations will a student receive relief from a missed quiz or test. (Click here for the schedule.)

• Class attendance.
  A student absent from class is responsible for all assigned work, tests, or material covered during the class. Attendance will be taken frequently.

• Electronic Device Etiquette
  We welcome the use of electronic devices and the benefits they can bring to the learning experience, but their use has to be tempered by common senese and common courtesy. Please abide by the following rules:
  
  1. Cell phones, pagers, laptops, PDAs, and all other electronic devices should be muted (volume turned off) before class starts.
  2. Unless otherwise instructed, students should bring their laptops every class day.
  3. Laptops should be turned off or shut when the instructor tells students to do so.
  4. Unless otherwise instructed, students may not engage in sending or receiving of email, chat room activity, or Internet surfing during class time.
  5. Students should charge their laptop batteries fully before coming to class. Some quizzes will be taken online; a dead battery results in a grade of "0" for that quiz.
  6. If you laptop breaks, you should inform the instructor immediately by phone, email, or in person at least one hour before class starts so that paper copies of tests or quizzes may be prepared. Failure to do so results in a grade of "0" for that quiz.

• Cheating.
  Unless otherwise stated explicitly in an assignment or lab, each student must do his or her work independently. The University and Departmental policies on academic dishonesty apply. Publicly-available sources for code or other material may be freely used if appropriately attributed. Similarly, code that is obtained from others must be appropriately attributed (but using substantial amounts of code obtained from someone else will not necessarily receive full credit). Each student is responsible for protecting his or her files from access by others. Work that is essentially the same and submitted without proper attribution is considered to be a violation of academic dishonesty policies by all those submitting the work, regardless of who actually did the work.
  

• Sending email to your instructor or teaching asssistant
  When you send email to your professor/instructor/TA asking for his/her help, you should start your email with:

            Dear Prof. ________         or        Prof. ________
         or
            Dear Dr. ________           or        Dr. ________
         or
            Dear Mr./Ms.  ________      or        Mr./Ms. ________
  
         never:              "Hey", "Yo", "Tsup" or "Pargas".
  

• Cancelled class.
  If the university cancels classes on the day of a scheduled quiz, the quiz will be rescheduled.

• Instructor late.
  If the instructor is late for class, students are expected to wait for 30 minutes after the class period starts before leaving .